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The Florists^ Review 



JANUABT 2, 1919. 



BRAMPTON, ONT. 



Christmas Business. 



Christmas is over once more, and it 

 has been a great relief to the growers 

 to have come through the busy season 

 with the finest weather conditions that 

 have been known for years. During 

 the entire week preceding Christmas the 

 thermometer hardly went below the 

 freezing point and little extra wrapping 

 was necessary. Shipments went out in 

 the pink of condition and received ex- 

 ceptionally good treatment at the hands 

 of the express companies. 



Prices were higher than ever have 

 been known, but there does not seem 

 to be any difficulty on the part of the 

 retailers in disposing of stock. There 

 were some fine Hoosier Beauty roses, 

 which brought 60 cents each, but Co- 

 lumbia, Ophelia and the other varieties 

 were wholesaled at $30 per hundred. 

 Instances were known where Paper 

 Whites were charged wholesale at $6 

 per hundred, and were retailed at $2.40 

 per dozen, but we trust that cases such 

 as these were the exception rather than 

 the rule. Soleil d 'Or brought $8 per 

 hundred by reason of the scarcity of all 

 bulbous stock, but the good quality 

 warranted the price on this particular 

 occasion. Generally speaking, it is felt 

 that the high-water mark has been 

 reached in the matter of prices this 

 Christmas. 



Various Notes. 



Apart from the hurry and bustle of 

 business, the week has been rather a 

 sad one. E. H. Dale, the only son of 

 the late Henry Dale, founder of the 

 greenhouses here, was a victim of in- 

 fluenza, followed by pneumonia, pass- 

 ing away December 22. "Ted," as he 

 was familiarly known to all, was in 

 his thirty-fourth year, but had never 

 been actively engaged in the business 

 of the Dale estate. His sister, Fanny, 

 who was married to W. A. Beatty, of 

 the shipping-room staff, also passed 

 away, December 24, after an attack of 

 pneumonia. W. G. P. 



Battle Creek, Mich.— T. H. Fuller has 

 found business exceptionally brisk this 

 season and has sold out his own crop of 

 gladiolus bulbs. He has taken over the 

 stock of Earl Edgerton, of Lansing, 

 Mich., consisting of about five acr' s of 

 bulbs, and hopes, "with the as*- ..-..u.ce 

 of The Review, to be able to di^oode of 

 this stock before planting time. " • ' The 

 large orders this year," says Mr. Puller, 

 "certainly are not due to a shortage in 

 the bulb crop, nor the higher prices, but 

 are due to the fact that the florists 

 realize the merits of the gladiolus as a 

 cut flower and many seem to be growing 

 this flower this year in their cool 

 houses. ' ' 



STAR BRAND ROSES 



"American Pillar" and nearly every 

 other good hardy climber. 



Send for our Uat. 



^"U JONES CO, 



Robert Pyle. Prea. 



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eit GroTt, 

 Peniia., U.S.A. 



Ant. Wlntz«r. V.-P. 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



ORCHIDS 



Bast commercial variitiea collected, imported 

 an4irrown by JOHN De BUCK. 710 Chnatnnt 



strM*.iiiccArcrn. N. .T. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



MUM STOCK PLANTS 



Per 100 



Golden Queen.. .$4.00 



Mre C. C. PollworUi 8.00 



Improved Golden Chadwick... 8.00 



White Chadwick Improved .... 6.00 



Chieftain (Pink) 4.00 



Seidewitz (Pink) 4.00 



Early frost 4.00 



Oconto (While) 4.00 



POMPONS 



Per 100 



Western Beauty $400 



Klondyke 4.00 



Baby Ktondyke 4.00 



fairyQueen 400 



GoMen Climax.. 4.00 



C. C. Poilworth Co 



MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 



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SEASONABLE STOCK 



Achyranthes Herbstii, 254 -in., $4.00 per 100. 



Ageratum, Little Blue Star, 2J4-in., $3.50 per 100. 



Asparagus Sprengcri, Zyi-'xn., $3.50 per 100. 



Asparagus Sprengeri, heavy, field-grown, in 5-in. pots, $18.00 per 100. ^ 



Begonia, Prima Donna, Gracilis Luminosa, White Pearl, 2-in., $4.00 per 



100. 

 Coleus, ten market varieties, 2J4-in., ready after Jan. 1, $3.50 per 100. 

 Boston Ferns, 2j4-in., $4.50 per 100. 

 Boston Ferns, 3-in., $10.00 per 100. 

 Heliotrope, 2J4-in., purple, four varieties, $3.50 per 100. 

 Lantanas, weeping, 254-in., $4.00 per 100. 



Palms, Kentia Belmoreana, 254-in., short, bushy stock, $10.00 per 100. 

 Palms, Kentia Belmoreana, 3-in., short, bushy stock, $16.00 per 100. 



THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., 



Painesville Nurseries 



Narscrymcn, Florist*, SccdMncn PAINESVILLE, OHIO 



Mention The Beriew when yon write. 



PLANTS YOU NEED NOW 



Cyclamen, 4 to 6-inch, in full bloom 35c to $1.00 each 



Cincinnati Begonias, 4 and 5-inch, in bloom 50c and 75c each 



Boston and Whitmanii Ferns, 4-inch 20c and 25c each 



Whitmanii Ferns, 5-inch 35c each 



Wanamaker Ferns, 4-inch 25c each 



Small Kentia Palms, 3 leaves, 6 inches high $15.00 per 100 



Dracaena Terminalis, 5 and 5 >^ -inch 50c and 7c c each 



Cinerarias 3>^-inch, $15.00; 4-inch strong, $25.00 per 100 



Packing, 109(7 of invoice if in pots, 5% if out of pots. 



GULLETT A SONS, Lincoln, Illinois 



JOHN BADER CO. 



Ferns, Palms and 

 Bedding Plants 



PRICE LIST NOW READY 



OfBcs and Grecahoua**, NT. TROY 

 N. S. PITTSBURGH, PA. 



A. N. PIERSON 



nfCORPORATEa) 



Growers of Pltiits, Cut Flowers, 

 Palms and Ferns 



CROMWELL, CONNECTICUT. 



