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The Florists Review; 



Dbcbmbbb 1, 1921 



From A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn., George Asnius received a large 

 box of new late pompon chrysanthe- 

 mums with the request that he let the 

 trade have an opportunity to see thcni 

 after the C. S.,A. committee had a look. 

 Mr. Asmus staged them in the store of 

 Joseph Foerster Co., where they at- 

 tracted much attention. Most of the 

 varieties still are under number. 



Fred Price, of Peter Reinberg, Inc., 

 has been interviewing growers as to the 

 prospects for winter crops and finds that 

 quite a few are planning to be on crop in 

 January. Mr. Price says these growers 

 have been on in November and probably 

 will not have large crops for Christmas. 

 The same report has come from other 

 sources. 



W. A. Hansen is devoting three weeks 

 to swinging around the circle for the 

 Joseph Foerster Co. He was at the Twin 

 Cities November 29. 



N. J. Wietor states that Thanksgiving 

 prices were something of a disappoint- 

 ment, but that the sales for the week 

 nevertheless exceeded any previous 

 Thanksgiving in the history of Wietor 

 Bros., they never before having had so 

 large a cut at this date. 



H. Munson, widely known among the 

 growers as the supplier of boiler tubes 

 for hot water systems, is preparing to 

 sail early in December for a long visit 

 at his old home in Sweden. Mrs. Mun- 

 son died early this year and recently he 

 has incorporated his business and turned 

 the active management over to other 

 hands, so that the date of his return is 

 problematical. 



Alois Frey leaves December 2, to re- 

 turn to his home at San Fernando, Cal. 

 After spending three weeks most pleas- 

 antly here, he confesses to a desire for 

 the fertile valley in the mountains. 



William Feniger, of Detroit, Toledo 

 and Akron, has been here, looking over 

 the market and in conference with his 

 partner, Sam Bloom. The Feniger- 

 Bloom interests include a wholesale 

 house in Detroit and three retail stores 

 in other places. They take a great deal 

 of stock off the Chicago market. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Th.'uiksfriving business was a keen dis- 

 njipointnu'ut in every direction, with 

 the grower, wholesaler and retailor. The 

 volume of business done was the small- 

 est in years during this festival period. 

 The market was vastly oversu])plied, the 

 list of arrivals l)i'ing materially swelled 

 l)y tlic (lumping in of tlie surpluses of 

 other markets. It was a (lucer condi- 

 tion, but one which Now York is occa- 

 sionally called upon to suffer. It seemed 

 to be "in the bone" that the holiday 

 business was going to be bad, and sub- 

 urban retailors who grow for their own 

 roquireiuents got "cold foot" and 

 shipjx'd lihi'ral surpluses into the metro- 

 politan market. And this extra supply, 

 su])ploiuent ing a visible oversupply from 

 ]ogitimat(> sources, sent the market 

 down to a point from wliicli recovery 

 was not possible. It cannot bo said 

 that conditions accelerated the demand 

 from the storekeepers. They certainly 

 did not. The Greek fraternity, wliose 

 buying is every day more extensive than 

 tli.at of the florists along tlie avenues, 

 started buying for Thanksgiving on the 

 previous Monday, and when the bulk 

 of stock arrived Wednesday morning 

 and the supplemental shipments later in 



A Manifest Duty 



KENNICOTTS' have a well estab- 

 lished reputation for taking c^re of 

 their regular customers at rush times 

 and Holidays. It is a duty, as well 

 as our pride. 



All who will need to depend in any 

 measure upon a trustworthy source 

 of supply should establish them- 

 selves as buyers before the midwinter 

 season, when all florists are clamoring 

 for stock. 



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