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December 8, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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The Gardening Staff at Lincoln Park, Chica£o, IlL 



Standlngr:— Wm. Lampe, John Hig^ns, J. Galley, Oeor^e Walfleln, Carl Rabe, Paul Stoever. Seated:— John Schnell, C. J. Strombach, consultinr 



^rdener; M. M. Schneider, Alois P. Frey, head gardener. 



cies, for it is supply and demand at date 

 of sale wliicli really regulate prices. To 

 make matters worse, the same mistake 

 waa made the week after Thanksgiving, 

 for no one foresaw that prices then 

 would be above those for the holiday. Of 

 course the market became easier after a 

 few days, but it made the wholesalers 

 lots of trouble while the great scarcity 

 lasted. Probably this week it is the 

 growers who are kicking, for the univer- 

 sal shortage led them to expect more 

 than the stock really averaged. 



Christmas Prospects. 



What Christmas will see in the way 

 of supply and prices depends wholly on 

 the weather. There is plenty of stock 

 in sight on the plants, particularly roses, 

 if we have mild temperatures and sim, 

 but weather like that of last week holds 

 growth almost at a standstill.. Even un- 

 der the most favorable conditions Liber- 

 ty roses and red carnations will be far 

 short of the demand. Beauties are also 

 likely to be very scarce, short and medium 

 lengths particularly so. White is never 

 in heavy demand at Christmas and, what- 

 ever growers may be tempted to do, they 

 are advised to send in their white stock 

 as fast as ready. There will be a good 

 market right along now. 



The Florists* Club, 



There was a special meeting of the 

 Florists' Club Tuesday evening at the 

 ofl5ce of the Benthey-Coatsworth Co., for 

 the purpose of taking immediate action 

 to participate in the appropriation shortly 

 to be made by the state legislature for 

 experimental work at the experiment sta- 

 tion at the State Agricultural College. 

 Prof. A. S. Beal was present and told 

 what is being done for other branches of 

 horticulture, etc., and how it is financed. 

 He said that the station authorities would 

 like to put up a range of about five 

 greenhouses and devote them to work in 

 the interest of the florists. He told how 

 to go to work to secure the necessary ap- 



propriation from the state. This is a 

 matter which has been up before and 

 which has the approval of every man in 

 the trade. A committee was appointed to 

 draft a resolution expressive of the club 's 

 position and to set an active campaign in 

 motion. 



The Florists' Club skipped the regular 

 November meetings because of so much 

 flower show activity but will meet tonight, 

 at Handel Hall. 



Various Notes. 



Some of the special stock made very 

 good prices the past week. The Ben- 

 they-Coatsworth Co. has been getting 15 

 cents for special Maids and one customer 

 offered 18 cents on condition that he 

 could have all that were received on a 

 certain day. He got them. Peter Rein- 

 berg has had Liberty that brought $2 a 

 dozen. Weiland & Risch have also been 

 getting big prices for special Maids 

 this week. 



Poehlmann Bros Co. are looking for- 

 ward to the Christmas business being the 

 best in the history of the concern. The 

 blue ribbons will have no small part in 

 making it so. 



C. R. Hills and G. F. Crabb, of Grand 

 Rapids, were in town last week to trans- 

 fer Crabb & Hunter's lease at the Grow- 

 ers' Market to the Grand Rapids Flor- 

 ists' Association. This was organized 

 by nine firms, who have since been add- 

 ed to, who will do their selling as one. 

 Mrs. Jamison, who sold Crabb & Hunter 's 

 cut is in charge. 



K E. Pieser says that he disagrees 

 with those who do not count 1904 a good 

 year for the florists. He believes that 

 the trade at large was never «e prosper- 

 ous as during the year just drawing to a 

 close and that the business in the Chica- 

 go market, in the aggregate, is ahead of 

 th^' best previous year. 



Phil Hauswirth's name among the Red 

 Men is now Grandpa Two Times; his 

 daughter has a lusty baby boy born last 

 week. 



Mrs. Simonds, wife of D. F. Si- 

 monds, of the Ogden Floral Co., passed 

 away Tuesday morning. She had one 

 son, Harry Simonds, who is employed 

 by Percy Jones, in the Growers' Market, 

 and the Market people sent a great 

 standing wreath to the funeral, as a par- 

 tial expression of their sympathy. 



Gustavus Adolphson, an employe of 

 the George Wittbold Co., shot himself in 

 the basement of the store at 1657 Buck- 

 ingham Place December 3. He was an 

 old employe, was well liked and no cause 

 can be assigned for his act. 



Albert Kroeschell, the senior of the 

 four brothers who comprise the com- 

 pany making the well known greenhouse 

 boiler, died Thanksgiving day. The 

 many friends of the firm extend sym- 

 pathy. 



H. N. Bruns lost a baby boy last week 

 and has the sympathy of all. 



M. Weiland had some very large fu- 

 neral work at Evanston on Monday and 

 made heavy calls on the market. 



C. W. Reimers returned to Louisville 

 Saturday night after spending a week 

 here selling poinsettias. He was well 

 pleased. Among others, Wienhoeber took 

 400. 



John Lang, Melrose and Robey streets, 

 has gone to his old home at Eisenach, 

 Germany, expecting to return in eight 

 months. 



Many wholesalers handle wild smilax 

 in quantity. It is not in the hands of 

 any one wholesaler by any means. 



W. B. Hilton has interests which will 

 call him to Cuba again this winter and 

 he contenjplates going thence to the 

 Pacific coast with his family. He.HJIL. 

 sell his stow if opportunity oflFers. 



The Wilks Mfg. Co. says that busi 

 ness is very good this fall. A great num- 

 ber of the smaller establishments 

 throughout the country use their heater,, 

 it being admirably adapted to the work 

 required in such places. 



Baumann & Co. say the sale for Christ- 

 mas bells has been far ahead of expecta- 



