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The Florists^ Review 



Dbcbmbbb 19, 1918. 



Greenbonse Heating 



SuBSOBiBiRS are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 anj details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not iinderstw>d. But please do not 

 ask The Beview to make a choice of ap- 

 paratas for yon. The greenhouse heating 

 equipment advertised in this paper is, we 

 believe, the best for the trade to buy, and 

 each article the best in the special field 

 of its adaptation. 



THE FQEL SITUATION. 



Easier in East. 



There is a continually easing tendency 

 in the fuel market, of particular advan- 

 tage to florists in the eastern districts. 

 A large part of the relief is due to the 

 continued mild weather, but another 

 part is due, of course, to the removal of 

 the pressure of war work. This has been 

 of special advantage to eastern growers 

 in that it has relieved the demands on 

 transportation. The fuel troubles in the 

 east have been due as much to the lack 

 of transportation facilities as to any 

 shortage of coal. 



While the Fuel Administration has 

 taken off all restrictions on the green- 

 house industry, eastern florists who have 

 been burning -anthracite are not yet able 

 to buy fuel; this is because the domestic 

 demand has not been satisfied. Growers 

 are able to get enough bituminous coal, 

 and it is having the effect of starring 

 them on the work of reestablishing their 

 operations on the basis of full capacity. 



Bituminous Abundant. 



The fuel situation was much more 

 serious in the east than in the middle 

 west and growers in the east as a rule 

 accepted the condition as likely to con- 

 tinue, whereas, western growers, instead 

 of closing a large part of the glass as the 

 eastern people did, went ahead with 

 preparations as usual, trusting to their 

 ability to get coal when they needed it. 

 The western growers therefore now are 

 in much better position than the trade is 

 in the east. 



In the middle west local bituminous 

 coals are abundant; the railroad yards 

 at Chicago are congested with cars of 

 coal for which there is no immediate 

 buyer. The. same thing is true of other 

 larger cities. ' Prices are not weakening 

 except in an unimportant way, because » 

 the labor cost is so high the mine opera- 

 tor must maintain his rates. But buyers 

 are learning that they do not now need 

 to accept the low-grade coal and certain 

 mines are finding it increasingly difficult 

 to operate. Their closing will release 

 additional labor for the mines producing 

 better fuel and will have a tendency 

 toward lower wages and lower prices for 

 another season. 



While the government has taken off 

 all the fuel restrictions on fiorists, it has 

 not yet canceled the zone plan by which 

 distribution was controlled, and the 

 smokeless coals are not yet going west. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



This week the market is in much tho 

 same condition as in the latter part of 

 October and the first part of November, 

 during the epidemic of infiuenza. It 

 may be worse, for at that time we had 



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|E wish to grasp you by the hand 

 with a warm and hearty hand- 

 shake, and to personally extend 

 to you greetings for the year's 

 sweetest holiday — a Yuletide 

 with the world again at peace. 



We take this opportunity also to thank 

 our patrons for the many courtesies shown 

 us in the year of 1918, and to say we too 

 are grateful to the S. A. F. & 0. H., the 

 P. T. D. and the Florists' Clubs of this 

 country, who have done so much for the 

 welfare of the Florists' Trade. 



To ALL we send expressions of 

 jubilant happiness — Here's a Merry 

 Christmas to you and yours. 



KROESCHELL BROS. CO. 



444 West Erie Street, CHICAGO 



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