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Febkuarv 11, 1915. 



The Florists* Review 



15 



Wreath of Roman Hyacinths and Littes of the Valley. 



Of course, 



years found 



but nothing 



of the last 



production in Europe, and no shipments 

 at all from Belgium, the leading win- 

 dow glass manufacturing country of the 

 Old World. On the other hand, the 

 American manufacturers are exporting 

 glass to China, Japan, England and 

 Canada. The exporting of American 

 window glass to Asiatic countries is al- 

 together unprecedented, as Europe has 

 heretofore supplied them. 

 American glass has for 

 some market in Canada, 

 to compare with that 

 few months. The demand from Austra- 

 lia also is large, but there seems to be 

 much diflRculty in securing shipping 

 space to this country; and, in addition 

 to this, many manufacturers complain 

 that the ocean freight rates are all but 

 prohibiMve. As an index to the situa- 

 tion, it IS interesting to note that there 

 are at present 25,000 cars of general 

 merchandise, not yet unloaded, in New 

 York, awaiting shipment to European 

 and Australian ports. The sales repre- 

 sentative of one of the largest glass 

 manufacturers in the United States as- 

 sured The Review that more than a 

 few of these cars are loaded with win- 

 dow glass. The exports to South Amer- 

 ica are also proportionately large, but 

 they are attended with none of the diffi- 

 culties besetting the Australian trade. 



The Effect on Prices. 



The effect of the war on the prices of 

 glass has been to establish a more uni- 

 form price the world over, rather than 

 to cause any marked variation from 

 the prices of last year. For though 

 there has been a rise of perhaps two 

 and one-half per cent in the larger sizes, 

 there has been a corresponding fall in 

 the price of the smaller sizes. The 

 manufacturers are exporting the sheets 



without cutting them up and getting 

 about 51^ cents f. 0. b. the factory, 

 while 16 X 18 f . o. b. Chicago is selling 

 at about 5 cents per foot. In other 

 words, the factory gets close to a penny 

 a foot more for the sheets than it would 

 get by cutting into greenhouse sizes. 

 The general impression is that there 

 will be no important change in prices 

 before April 1 and that whatever tend- 

 ency there is points to another decline 

 in greenhouse glass rather than to any 

 advance. This is due, according. to the 

 opinion of one manufacturer, to the 

 larger output of greenhouse sizes by 

 the machine-blowing plants. The average 



factory cuts greenhouse sizes only as a 

 sort of by-product of the process of 

 cutting larger sizes, but nevertheless 

 about fifteen per cent of the output is 

 in the 16-inch sizes. 



The Promise pt Stability. 



Because of the l^Tge volume of im- 

 ports last spring and. during ,|fhe early 

 summer, and the consequeufeMluctanco 

 of the American manufactui*!^ to cause 

 what they feared mighi. be an overpro- 

 duction, the stocks that will be in the 

 hands of the jobbers when the hand 

 manufacturers cease operations in the 

 spring will be lower this year than in 

 any one of the twenty preceding it. 



The fact that gives the strongest as- 

 surance of the stability of the market 

 is that a majority of the manufacturers 

 are looking forward to an era of unprec- 

 edented prosperity in the glass trade. 

 Of course many jobbers, being more 

 or less interested in imports, dissent 

 from this view; but, all things consid- 

 ered, the manufacturer should be relied 

 on to sound the true note. 



BOMANS ANB VALLEY. 



The first few months of 1915 will see 

 a larger supply of Boman hyacinths 

 and lily of the valley than ever before 

 has been known in the history of cut 

 flower growing in America. There was 

 an unusually large importation of 

 French Bomans last autumn and the 

 supply of valley pips this season prom- 

 ises to be the largest ever, due to 

 America being Germany's only open 

 market. Consequently the retailers 

 will have an excellent opportunity to 

 use Romans and valley in designs like 

 the one shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, a wreath of white on a 

 background of adiantum. 



A FLORAL LOCOMOTIVE. 



The members of the Philadelphia & 

 Beading railroad branch of the Y. M. 

 C. A, decided January 28 that they 

 wished to make a suitable gift indica- 

 tive of their calling to the Eeverend 

 Billy Sunday when the visited, Janu- 

 ary 30, the Tabernacle where he is hold- 

 ing his meetings in Philadelphia. They 

 decided on a locomotive eight feet long, 

 three feet high and two and a half feet 

 wide, perfect in its details so far as 

 the eye could see. This was made by 



All tt Seems to Need is the Toot-toot to be the Real TUng. 



