90 



■^^^■ 



The Florists' Review 



JDLT a, 1813. 



3 1 ' IC 



I FLORISTS' FUEL DIRECTORY j 



3C=ac 



2,000,000 TONS ANNUAL CAPACITY 



^OU S TO V 



THACK ER 

 COAL- 



HOUSTON! 



-THACKER and 

 POCAHONTAS 



ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO FLORISTS' USE 



The high standard of Houston Quality, Houston Preparation and Houston 

 Service has made these coals Famous in the Greenhouse and Florist Trade. 



POCAHOttliA^S 

 COAC 



nAOB MARK 



Main Offffic* 

 Union Trust BUg., Cincinnati 



Kdpee Hood, Gen'l Sales Atrt. 



HOUSTON COAL COMPANY 



Wastarn Offlea 

 Old Colony BMs., Chlcaso R. C. Cantelou. Western Mgi. 



Southam Offlea 

 Saaitoard Bank Bldc^ Norfolk. Va. 



W. W. HousrroN, Southern, M^r. 



M«>iitloii Th«i H»'Tl«'w whwn yon wr<t» 



CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB' CCB COB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB 



c 

 c 



QUALITY 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



PREPARATION 



c 

 c 



C. C. B. POCAHONTAS SMOKELESS COAL 



The unqualified fsvorlte of leading floriflta for twenty years. 



" SOVEREIGN 



C A blocky splint coal. Intense, uniform and lasting heat. Minimum impurities. 



iC a lower freight rate than Pocahontas. A trial car brings a permanent customer. 



Caities 



c CASTNER, CURRAN & BULLITT, Inc., '^SSkSS^^^ CHJCAQO, ILL. c 



B CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB CCB «CCB B 



Mention The RPTtew whpn yon write. 



Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write thp 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. 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 FUEL SITUATION. 



During the last week the coal trade 

 has been, to use an expression every- 

 body will understand, "up in the air." 

 The situation on smokeless has been 

 about like the situation on white car- 

 nations just before Mothers' day — all 

 sorts of stories in circulation about 

 scarcity and high prices. But, like the 

 prices of the man who has no white car- 

 nations he cares to sell, quotations are 

 largely fictitious. Some of the concerns 

 that supply the greenhouse trade with 

 smokeless coal are saying little, but are 

 keeping right on with their business, 

 arranging to take care of good trade 

 the same as usual and gathering in the 

 cream of the business in this field. Oth- 

 ers are doing nothing but scaring off the 

 buyers. 



The excitement has been over the not 

 unexpected announcement that the 

 United Mine Workers of America had 

 called a strike for July 1 in the West 

 Virginia fields. Of course every coal 

 man knew that the union does not in- 

 clude any large proportion of the miners 

 and that* nothing like a complete cessa- 



Talapbona Cantral 14 



Mines on B. & O. R. R. 



KatablMiad iS87 



Kelly, W. Va., Smokeless Coal 



MINE RUN-IDEAL COAL FOR FLORISTS 



FOR JULY SHIPMENT: $1.10 par nat ton f.o.b.mlnas. 

 Avallabia aquipmant. Prica aubjact to chansa without notlbo. 



E. L. HEDSTROM ft CO. VlH^lSr' 



BITUMINOUS COAL 



Marquette BIdg., CHICAGO 



Phone or Write— 

 Repreaentati7e Will Call 



Mention The Rf Tiew when yon write. 



FOR "GOODNESS' SAKE" 



Try PANTHER COAL 



NOTICE THIS— We wUl write you a "positive grunrantee" that Panther 

 Goal has every sloKle desirable feature 

 of the very best Pocahontas.except that It 

 makes a little more smoke. It looks like 

 Pocahontas, but is not so soft. It's cheap- 

 er. Burns like it— as little ash; no clink- 

 ers; lasts as long; just as intense heat. 



Write today for prices. WE MINE POCAHONTAS TOO 



West Virsfinla Pocahontas Coal Sales Corporation 



Chlcmiro Office, 0»d Colony BIdir. Main Office. Norfolk, Va. 



.\ifmiuij liie KeyiBV^ w lieu you write. 



tion of production is possible, but just 

 how far the row will go no one could 

 tell — and even now it is too early to 

 have any reliable information. How- 

 ever, the effect on the market was im- 

 mediate. Smokeless coal at once became 

 the leading factor. So many people be- 

 lieved there will be a shortage and 

 began buying smokeless coal that a 

 shortage was created almost over night. 

 Open prices at once took a jump. With 



the circular standing at $1.25 for minn 

 run at the mouth of the shaft, the trade 

 in Chicago had been getting $1.35 .ami 

 at once began asking $1.40 to $1.50 — 

 one man even went so far last week a'l 

 to say he expected to see the best grades 

 of smokeless coal sell at anywhere from 

 $1.50 to $2 per ton at the mines this 

 fall. Of course such talk is bad for all 

 concerned, except for the good, reliable 

 firm that knows its own strength and 



