December 15, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



209 



^r— Christmas Greens 

 and Florists' Supplies 



HOLLY) best in the market, $5 and $6 per case. 

 fWILD SMILAX, $4 and $7 per case. 

 JP*^ >BOX GREEN, $J8 per JOO lbs. 



- HARDY FERNS. Fancy, $1.50 per JOOO. Dagger, $J.OO per JOOO. 

 GALAX9 New Crop, Green and Bronze, $1.00 per 1000. 

 LAUREL. Wreaths, $2.00 per doz. and upward. Festooning, 5c and 6c per yd. 



HENRY N. ROBINSON & CO, 



io»sf Dmjjo. Tg.phon. Q g„j| II Province Street, Boston, Mass. 



ORCHIDS. 



' We are strictly specialists in Orchids, we collect, import, grow and sell 

 them exclusively. We have them in all stages, freshly imported, semi- 

 established and established, ready to put in your greenhouse. Send for 

 catalogue of Imported Orcliids just arrived in fine condition. We have 

 Cattleya Mendelli, Laelia Anceps, Oncidiam Tigrinum and 

 O. Papillo, etc. Write for Special list No. 14. 



LAGER & HURRELL, ^1°^!^' Summit, N. J. 



Mention The RcTiew when j;ou write. 



WHITE SATIN TIES 



Embellished with Violets. 



LION & WERTHEIMER 



463-467 Broadway. New York City. 



Wellsville, O. — W. A. Herbert has 

 built a new house 12x100. 



Richmond, Ind.— The R G. Hill Co. 

 is this week putting in 40,000 to 50,000 

 cuttings of Uieir new rose, Richmond. 

 Mr. Lemon says that the free flowering 

 qualities of the variety are a surprise 

 even to themselves. Richmond is the 

 Mecca for many pilgrims this year. 

 They expect a particularly large number 

 of visitors just before and just after the 

 Chicago carnation show. 



Galveston, Tex. — Mrs. Charles Eick- 

 holt returned late in November from 

 Dusseldorf, Germany, where she has been 

 for nearly a year. She underwent a 

 serious surgical operation while there and 

 was months in the hospital. She has 

 not fully recovered but is again able to 

 give her personal attention to business, 

 which is very good. She has had a large 

 number of large decorations recently. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



Business is light and it does not look 

 very encouraging till the Christmas 

 rush starts in. The retail as well as 

 the wholesale trade in this city is very 

 much off color. A very good shipping 

 trade has been the salvation of the whole- 

 sale men and they have been able to 

 take very good care of the out of town 

 demand. 



Flowers are not plentiful. There are 

 more roses, perhaps, than anything else, 

 but none too many of them. Carnations 

 are scarce. Bulbous stock is plentiful 

 and sells well. Callas and Harrisii are 

 in very good demand and many more 

 could be disposed of. The supply of all 

 kinds of green goods is first-class. Vio- 

 lets are selling very well, especially those 

 of best quality. 



The Christmas outlook is none too 

 bright so far as the supply of stock is 

 concerned. Carnations will be especially 

 short. All kinds of red roses will be 

 far short of the demand. Bulbous and 

 other stock will just about meet the de- 

 mand. All things taken into considera- 

 tion, we can scarcely expect this Christ- 

 mas trade to be up to last year, but I do 



not think that we will have any cause to 

 kick, at that. 



Various Notes. 



The regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Society was held last Saturday. H. 

 Weber & Sons, of Oakland, Md., sent 

 a vase of their new white carnation. My 

 Maryland. The blooms arrived in fine 

 shape and made a very favorable im- 

 pression. The committee gave it 86 

 points. 



The market is now well supplied with 

 holly and other holiday decorative stock 

 and many of the retail men are busily en- 

 gaged in decorating the down town 

 stores. Most of the holly has not been 

 up to standard. Many cases are almost 

 worthless. There are any number of 

 paper immortelle and sawdust Christmas 

 bells, but the price has been cut on them 

 so that there is very little money in them 

 for the retailers. 



Frank Huntsman has been quietly 

 raising a few seedling carnations at his 

 Kentucky plant. He has several that 

 will bear watching, one especially, a very 

 good pink. 



Hardesty & Co. are making a great 

 show of flowers in their Fourth street 

 store. They handle some of the finest 

 stock seen in this city and their show 

 windows are always very attractive. 

 This, by the way, is the very best adver- 

 tising that a retail store can do. 



Geo. S. Bartlett reports business very 

 good in the fertilizer line. His bone meal 

 is in steady demand. 



H. Schlachter has been confined to 

 bed for several weeks with a severe at- 

 tack of rheumatism. 



J. A. Peterson has returned from his 

 Eastern trip and reports a very good 

 trade. 



E. T. Grave, of Richmond, was a vis- 

 itor this week. C. J. Ohmer. 



We highly value the Revhw, indeed 

 we cannot dispense with it. — ^P. H. D» 

 Witt & Co., Wooster, O. 



