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The Florists^ Review 



Decejiuek 30, I'Jiiii 



ing booked no orders themselves, placed 

 no orders. There were hardly any- 

 sweet peas. 



It was the scarcity of carnations 

 which cut the biggest hole in the Christ- 

 mas sales, and even at that there were 

 carnations which went to waste; some 

 of the growers had held their stock back 

 until it was in such condition no one 

 would buy it. Happily, there was not 

 much of this. 



The supply of poinsettias was much 

 smaller this year than last, with the re- 

 sult they sold cleaner than last season. 

 "White flowers never are in strong de- 

 mand for Christmas and Paper Whites, 

 Eomans, Easter lilies and callas ex- 

 perienced no special rise in price, but 

 sold nearly clean. 



The Christmas supply of pot plants 

 was limited, both in quantity and vari- 

 ety. Many of the smaller stores made 

 little attempt to handle cut flowers, 

 'buying only after they had taken orders, 

 but the scarcity of pot plants forced 

 the larger stores to take up cut flowers 

 in a stronger way than they have in re- 

 cent years. It is r&ported that some of 

 the retail stores had stock left, both 

 plants and cut flowers, but the way the 

 market opened December 27 indicated 

 that the retailers must nearly all have 

 been pretty well cleaned out. The sup- 

 ply of stock this week is larger than 

 had been expected, in view of the cold 

 weather and the closeness with which 

 everything was cut before Christmas. 

 The brighter weather has improved the 

 quality and there is a general feeling 

 that Christmas was good enough to lend 

 confidence to the view that January 

 will be another prosperous month in the 

 trade. 



Various Notes. 



"With three rooms on the second floor 

 of the Palmer House, Mangel was able 

 to handle expeditiously a Christmas 

 business that rivaled last year's record. 

 Cut flowers sold remarkably well, while 

 plants were cleaned out. A special 

 order of 150 poinsettia plants was re- 

 ceived the following Monday, to be used 

 for decorations of the Chicago City 

 bank banquet at the Hamilton Club that 

 evening. 



Pot coverings have much to do with 

 the sale of plants at Christmas, in the 

 estimation of Walter W. Adams, and 

 some novel and attractive arrangements 

 were to be seen at his store, at State 

 and Division streets. 



Paul E. Weiss and C. J. Michclsen and 

 their wives expect to leave January 16 

 to spend a few days with E. C. Amling, 

 at Sawtelle, Cal. 



Andrew Chronis forsook liis place at 

 the office of the Eaklios restaurants to 

 oversee the big Christmas business of 

 the Alpha Floral Co. the latter half of 

 the week. Orders were less numerous, 

 but were of larger amounts than a 

 year ago, and the total was not far from 

 last year's. 



P. C. Schupp left Miami, Fla., Decem- 

 ber 20. where the thcrmoniptcr regis- 

 tered 85 degrees, and arrived in Chicago 

 Christmas eve, to find the temperature 

 10 degrees. Mr. Schupp enjoyed the 

 warmth, but Mrs. Schupp prefers Chi- 

 cago's climate. 



"That's the way they come!" 

 "Thev" referred to twenty cards left 

 by one customer, each to accompany a 

 Christmas gift of a dozen roses, a not 

 unusual order at the store of the E. 

 Wienhoeber Co. during the days pre- 

 ceding Christmas. Despite the cold 

 weather, a large stock of plants was dc- 



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