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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Januaky 15, 1903. 



the carload, finding it much cheaper to 

 buy here and pay the freight than to 

 buy from their local dealers. 



Trade is good, but .stock is scarce. 

 A great many wedding decorations and 

 receptions used up a large quantity. 

 There was also a great deal of funeral 

 work, so white stock is especially scarce. 

 The few good days of sunshine with 

 which we were blessed during the past 

 week have already made themselves felt 

 in the quality of stock, roses especially 

 showing a big improvement. Tlie supply, 

 however, is very short, especially in 

 Brides, and many orders had to be 

 turned down. Maids are in somewhat 

 better .supply than Brides, but there are 

 not enough of them. A good many Me.- 

 teors are being cut. but they so often 

 come bull headed, and in other ways 

 are so inferior to Liberty, that they 

 move slow!}'. Liberties are in very short 

 supply, most growers being off crop, 

 (lolden Gates are doing fine. Some extra 

 good stock is to be had and it is quii'k- 

 ly cleaned out. American Beauties, es- 

 pecially long-stemmed ones, are in fairly 

 good sujiply and sell well. Alodium 

 length stems, say from 18 to 24 inches, 

 are the I>est sellers. Short-stciiiined 

 ones sell well also. 



Carnations in all grades are \:\ rniuli 

 better supply, and the quality is good. 

 The only shortage is in red ones. I.jiw- 

 son is beginning to split badly. Apollo 

 is doing tlie same. Most other varieties 

 seem to be standing the dark weather of 



Notes. 



There was quite a stir in wholesale 

 circles this week, when the announce- 

 ment was made that J. M. McCuUough's 

 Sons had Ixjught out the Cincinnati Cut 

 Flower Co. Tliis purchase winds up 

 the affairs of one of the oldest com- 

 mission houses in the city. 



Dock Sunderbruch, who was the larg- 

 est stockholder in the Cincinnati Cut 

 Flower Co., will be the manager of the 

 cut flower department in J. M. McCul- 

 lough's Sons' establishment. This ar- 

 rangement is only temporary, as Mr. 

 Sunderbruch e.xpects to soon open a 

 retail store. 



W. Loebes, formerly with the Lock- 

 land Lumber Co., has organized the 

 (Greenhouse Construction Co. The com- 

 pany is located at 32 Fast Third street, 

 Cincinnati, and will do a general green- 

 house construction business. 



Visitors were: H. M. Altick, Dajton, 

 Oliio, and E. T. Grave, Richmond. Ind. 

 C. J. Ohmer. 



BUFFALO. 



There is not much to record in the 

 last week's history. It has been mostly 

 iiccn])i((l in sending out hills for the 

 Ini-iness we liavc done, and o|>ening en- 

 velopes witli tlie familiar remark "Please 

 remit." A man who wants to pay and 

 will pay as soon as possible (the possible 

 is indefinite) should be esteemed, for he 

 will pay as soon as he can draw on his 



Making Rcse Cuttings at Geo. Reinberg's, Chicago. 



the past month in very good stjde. If 

 more growers were on to Dick Witter- 

 staetter's method of patching up a 

 bvirsted calvx, they would not lo.se so 

 nuicli on bursted flowers. It is done 

 with a very fine wire. Dick has it down 

 to a science, and it is very hard to 

 detect. 



Bulllx)us stock is selling well, there 

 being an especially good ^all for nar- 

 cissus. Harrisii lilies beat them all, 

 and are sold before they are in bloom, 

 at the remunerative price of .$2.50 per 

 dozen. 



Violets were never more scarce at this 

 season, and there are virtually none to 

 be had. 



balance in the bank. He will seldom 

 grumble at the goods sent and with 

 pleasure liquidates his obligations, and 

 is better pleased to pay a bill than to re- 

 ceive, for what little else have we than 

 to Ije at peace. Contentment is l>ettcr 

 than riches, but the old darky sagely re- 

 marked when he heard that quotation: 

 "Ah kind a think, sah, Ah could get 

 along wif both." 



We have had some sunshiny daj's of 

 late when Old Sol ran his rainbow 

 cotirse, or rather we were revolving so 

 that we saw his genial face from 9 a. m. 

 to 4 p. m., and we stood in a neighbor- 

 ing cigar store and said, "We are 

 blessed.'' As I in my feeble way have 



frequently said, we are children of our 

 en\ ironments. We are survival of the 

 elements and the weather was not made 

 for us, and if we don't like it we can get 

 ofi', as many are getting off every second. 



Did yim notice that excellent little 

 story in the papers last week, dedicated 

 to Adam Graham, of Cleveland? A phy- 

 sician made his call on a very sick gen- 

 tleman in the early morning, and as he 

 was ushered in by the butler he remarked, 

 "I hope your master's temperature is. 

 lower this morning." The Scotch butler 

 remarked: "1 wudna be certain o' thatj 

 lie died this mornin' at (i o'clock." Ac- 

 cording to the Scoft-li butler, his ma.ster 

 is not feeling the terrible hardships of 

 the coal famine. 



The trade in posies has dropped off 

 considerably since New Year's, and th& 

 great gait that "sassiety" went has left 

 them with nervous prostration. Still 

 business is fairly good and uses up all 

 the products of our houses and incoming 

 shipments. 



The new firm started on the 10th. Its 

 name is Byrnes & Slatteiy and is lo- 

 cated on llain street. Mr. Byrnes is a 

 son of Colonel Bj'rnes, a veteran of th& 

 war. I mean the real war where Grant 

 figured. He is a tall, handsome youth 

 who has had a year in New York. And 

 Mr. Slattery has been ten years with 

 Thorley. He belongs to that race which 

 is not uncommon in the big city, known 

 as the Ilibcrnico-Americano. Its .a va- 

 riety of the biped that is quick and 

 active and doubtless means well, but i& 

 handicajiped with the belief that "Ney 

 Vo;irk" is the center of the universe and 

 all of us ]X)or creatures outside of it 

 have much to learn. He is with all that 

 a very genial, nice little man, and as I 

 once said on a previous occasion, the 

 more the merrier. 



If ifr. Thorley parts with many mora 

 of his valuable assistants, what is h& 

 going to do? I do really pity him; all 

 his Craker Jacks are coming to this ter- 

 rible, slow town. One firm has gone to 

 great ex]>en.se to advertise that he has a 

 Thorley man. and now we have the real 

 thing in business for himself. If they 

 can teach us how to keep violets two 

 days without losing their sweetness, or 

 American Beauties from turning blue, or 

 carnations from slipping into slumber, 

 they will have conferred a great bless- 

 ing on our )>oor craft. In all other 

 blanches we are more than proficient. 



I should like to have said something 

 about coal tliis issue, but it is too late. 

 The Rev. Edward Everett Hale says h& 

 sees no solution but that government 

 should, own or control the coal mines. 

 He is not an anarchist nor an advanced 

 socialist. He is the pride of this coun- 

 tr3''s liberal divinity and philosophy. 

 A gi-eat change will come and must come. 

 Men are ruined in our calling, and if 

 they become enlightened and temperate 

 anarchists they have only followed the 

 great law of nature, "self preservation." 



We are better off in Buffalo than th& 

 great majority of cities, but bail enough 

 to only strengthen my Ix-lief, wliicli I 

 have had for many years, that the people 

 should own all natural monopolies, which 

 coal mines have now become. 



W. S. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Holiday Trade. 



The florists of this city can look 

 back on Christmas of 1902 as the most 

 successful holiday season ever experi- 



