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The Florists' Review 



NOTEMBEB 16, 191Q. 



ston, reports that business started so 

 well that he did not wait for the of- 

 ficial opening of the store, which was 

 to take place November 15. 



A visit to the A. F. Keenan stores 

 on Sixty-third street on the afternoon 

 of November 11 discovered E. J. 

 Parker, who can turn his hand to any 

 task, helping out with a rush of fu- 

 neral work. Mr. Keenan says there has 

 been a marked increase in business in 

 the last two or three weeks. 



L. R. Finnerman, of A. Henderson & 

 Co., is highly enthusiastic about the 

 Bloomington flower show, which he says 

 was the finest in the history of the 

 Illinois State Florists' Association. Mr. 

 Finnerman also says that too much 

 credit can not be given to A. Washburn 

 & Sons, Bloomington, for their splendid 

 work in connection with the show. 



Saturday, November 11, marked the 

 peak of the chrysanthemum season for 

 1916, according to John Michelsen, who 

 believes the quantity on the market 

 now will decrease rapidly and that bet- 

 ter prices soon will be the rule. 



J. J. Karins, of Henry A. Dre r, is in 

 town again. 



H. H. Putnam, an authority on green- 

 house engineering and heating, now is 

 connected with the American Green- 

 house Mfg. Co. Mr. Putnam was at 

 one time employed by the Sanitary dis- 

 trict, first as a heating engineer and 

 later as a consulting engineer. 



Among the visitors in Chicago No- 

 vember 12, who viewed the floral art 

 exhibit held at the La Salle hotel, were 

 Theodore Miller, of St. Louis, and E. 

 S. Boerner, of Champaign, 111. 



T. E. Waters, of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 reports that there is a great demand 

 for made-up magnolia wreaths. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



The Market. 



The weather last week, extraordinary 

 because of its serenity, caused an ac- 

 cumulation in the market. Stock of all 

 kinds was overabundant, but, despite 

 this volume, prices of chrysanthemums 

 were normal. Carnations and roses, 

 however, were hard to dispose of at 

 any price, although the quality was 

 exceptionally good. 



As the result of the election and an 

 impending street car strike, a slight 

 depression was felt during the. week 

 that caused some anxiety among the 

 florists, but this was relieved November 

 11 by a stupendous consumption of 

 chrysanthemums, which was principally 

 due to a football game. 



Hoses in all the best varieties, includ- 

 ing Russell, American Beauty, Shawyer, 

 Ophelia, the Killarneys, etc., which 

 regularly made $6 to $8 per hundred, 

 were sacrificed at $2, and dragged at 

 that. As a result of the glut, street 

 boys bought surplus stock for appar- 

 ently nothing and peddled it wherever 

 they could find buyers. Examples of 

 these cut prices were: One lot of fifty 

 American Beauty roses, twenty-five of 

 which had 18-inch stems and twenty- 

 five 12-inch stems, in fine condition, for 

 75 cents; fifty extra select carnations 

 for 50 cents. This slashing of prices 

 is disastrous to the retailer, as he can- 

 not purchase stock for that, but until 

 the florists cooperate nothing will be 

 done to prevent this butchering of 

 prices by peddlers, department stores 

 and tranaientfl. 



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Various Notes. 

 Miss Grace Brown, of Bloomfield, 

 Ind., has accepted a position with the 

 E. Q. Hill Co. 



The Bertermann Bros. Co., the A. 

 Wiegand 's Sons Co. and Albert Stanley 

 are arranging evergreen window boxes 

 for the winter season. 



