December 5, 1918. 



The Florists^ Review 



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CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE 



In quantity, both now and for the holidays, of splendid quality. 



It would be advisable on account of express conditions to have your 

 Christmas order shipped a week or ten days ahead of time. They will keep all 

 right, besides making a good show. 



$2.00 per doz., $15.00 per 100. 



BOXWOOD, 20c per pound, ^^^^ags of about 50 



pounds. 



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Pompons are holding out with some 

 growers. There is little bouvardia to be 

 seen. Both the green and variegated 

 stevia are coming into town and there 

 are a few Paper Whites, some yellow 

 daisies and some pansies. 



The chrysanthemum season just 

 closed has been remarkable. Despite 

 the fact that war conditions prevailed, 

 prices have been higher than for many 

 years and they have been well sustained. 

 There was really no depression from 

 overproduction at any time. This was 

 due partly to there being fewer grown, 

 hut mainly to the choice of varieties. 

 There were more late and midseason va- 

 rieties grown and less of the early sorts, 

 although in fairness it must be said that 

 the season found an extraordinary mar- 

 ket for early sorts, owing to the epi- 

 demic. Prices were at their lowest dur- 

 ing the first week of November and at 

 their highest during the last week. An 

 exception to this may be found in some 

 of the sales during October, which, qual- 

 ity considered, rivaled those of Thanks- 

 giving week. 



Reconstruction. 



We have reached a most interesting 

 period in the history of our business. 

 The government has ceased to cheek 

 production through curtailing fuel and 

 withdrawing labor, and conditions are 

 likely to improve slowly. 



How to meet the present conditions is 

 a serious question. So serious is it as to 

 cause a wide difference of opinion as to 

 the best course to pursue. So wide is 

 this difference of opinion that producers 

 are divided into two camps — those who 

 believe it is best to go slowly and those^ 



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 DECEMBER 



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who believe it is best to go ahead at 

 full speed. The former, and by far the 

 larger body of growers, both of plants 

 and cut flowers, made their arrange- 

 ments on the basis of the fifty per cent 

 fuel order of last spring. When that 

 was changed in the fall, they had not the 

 labor or the stock ready to operate 

 their entire ranges at once. They be- 

 lieve it better to run part of their places 

 at a profit than to risk a loss of the 

 whole, and they will wait and watch. 

 The other and smaller group of grow- 

 ers are willing to take a chance. This 

 group includes a few plant growers and 

 more growers of cut flowers, of whom 

 many are rose growers. They have se- 

 cured fuel of some sort and expect to 

 get more. They have met the labor 

 prices somehow and are confident that 

 the market will reimburse them for their 

 extremely heavy outlay. This confidence 

 has been greatly strengthened by peace. 



The wholesalers as a body are in- 

 clined to agree with the second group 

 of growers, to which view they natur- 

 allv incline. Here again opinion is di- 

 vided. "If the market holds," and 

 "If prices do not have to go too high," 

 are the qualifying statements. 



Results will be watched with keen in- 

 terest. 



The Bulbs at Dreer's. 



When it became known that Henry 

 A. Dreer, Inc., had for a second time 

 closed its store in order to get out its 

 bulbs on time, people were not surprised. 

 The bulbs were nearly four weeks later 

 in arriving than last year. If it was a 

 good thing to do then, it probably was 

 an even better thing this year. So 

 when the store reopened, after two 

 weeks' work behind closed doors, and 

 the smoke had been given time to clear 

 away, a descent was made on 714 to 



