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The Weekly Flotiills^ Review* 



December 22, 1904. 



HOLIDAY FANCIES 



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We have goads in novel styles, jost what the Holiday 

 Trade demands. 



We have new ideas in French Baskets, very stylish and 

 petty. Our Rainbow Baskets are charming, the colotrs 

 blending harmoniously. 



In Wreaths the latest ideas are the Fancy Cycas Wreaths 

 with red# bronze» silver and gold finish. 



We afso have pleasing effects in Beech, Magnolia and 

 Laurel with llowers, or plain Ruscus Wreaths, like Smilax, 



and Beaded French Wreaths with bright finish, are both 

 choice for the decorator. 



We have Ligfht Folding^ Screens, very useful. 



Bamboo Plant Stands, beautiful Rainbow Pot Covers, New 

 Crepe Papers and a variety of handsome Vases. 



We lead in STAMOARD SUPPLIBS, Fresh Cape 

 Flowers of every color, Plain Wreaths and Leaves of Cycas, 

 F)at Baskets, Wheat Sheaves, etc We wish all our friends a 

 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 



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Mention TTie ReTlew when yon write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market* 



The market is in a very uncertain con- 

 dition at the present writing. Business in 

 the stores is quiet, all interest being cen- 

 tered in the last two days of this week. 

 There is a little shipping of the better 

 grades of stock to outside cities, but be- 

 yond that the wholesale houses are not 

 busy. Today's price-list is, of course, use- 

 less for lYiday and Saturday. Indica- 

 tions point to higher prices than last year 

 on choice red roses and carnations. The 

 cold, stormy weather of the past two 

 weeks has retarded the crops and it is 

 feared in consequence the quantity of 

 poor flowers will be large. The consensus 

 of opinion is that fancy American Beau- 

 ties will bring $12 to $15 a dozen, with 

 the lower grades in proportion, and that 

 all will be rather scarce; that Liberties 

 will bring about the same price as last 

 year, with a fair supply in sight; that 

 good Maids and Brides will be scarce at 

 20 cents, a few higher, but the bulk of 

 the stock will range from $15 down ; that 

 good red carnations will be extremely 

 scarce; that Enchantress and other fan- 

 cies will be in fair supply at $10 to 

 $12.50, the ordinary grades, the standard 

 varieties, being pretty plentiful at from 

 $3 to $4, the gap between these prices 

 being filled by the select sorts at from 

 $6 to $8. 



Poinsettias will be abundant and very 

 fine. Valley will be in splendid quality 

 and so plentiful that late orders on Sat- 

 urday and Sunday are pretty sure to be 

 filled. Chrysanthemums, except a few odd 

 lots, are over. Violets will be in moderate 

 Bupply, with the doubles at $1.50 to $2, 

 singles at $1 or more. Orchids, except 

 cypripediums, will be scarce and greens 

 of all sorts plentiful. 



The Plant Trade. 



Large wholesale firms which make a 

 specialty of foliage and flowering plants 

 for Christmas report a satisfactory busi- 

 ness for the holidays. The Henry A. Dreer 

 Co. said this week that their business, 

 chiefly in palms and ferns and other dec- 

 orative plants, was about equal to last 



yoof; — with — ordCTS — coming tH~nicely. 

 Charles D. Ball's view of the situation 

 was very much the same, while Joseph 

 Heacock's business in kentias was larger 

 this month than his palm business any 

 previous December. Robert Craig & Son 

 report a good demand for Gloire de Lor- 

 raine, cyclamens, azaleas, ferns and single 



plants of poinsettias, Dracaena terminalis, 

 Bougainvillea Sanderiana, also some very 

 nice combinations of plants of dracsenas 

 and ferns and poinsettias, pretty nearly 

 cleaning up on everything. Wm. K. Har- 

 ris experienced an excellent demand for 

 his very choice collection of holiday plants, 

 which included Ponderosa lemons very 

 well colored, buttercup primroses in from 

 4-inch pots to 12-inch pans, gardenias 

 and an assortment of almost every foliage 

 plant, Aucuba Japonica, etc. John & 

 W. H. Westcott include among their 

 Christmas specialties some very handsome 

 Gloire de Liorraine. 



Various Notes. 



Bayersdorfer & Co. are very busy, re- 

 porting splendid demand for their ad- 

 vanced ideas in holiday novelties. 



M. Rice & Co. have shipped immense 

 quantities of Christmas supplies and say 

 that business is exceptionally good. 



J. Stern & Co. have their windows filled 

 with some very well done artificial plants, 

 chiefly caladiums. Caladium argyrites 

 look particularly natural. 



Alphonse Pericat was arrested by his 

 former employer, G«orge B. Wilson, on 

 the charge of stealing some pipe and the 

 book containing notes of his orchid ex- 

 periments. The defendant stated that he 

 had not taken any pipe and that the book 

 was his private property. He had offered 

 the plaintiff a copy. The defendant was 

 released. 



W. A. Leonard, whose Brides and Maids 

 were planted as late as .September and 

 who has in consequence had but few good 

 roses till now, is sending some very choice 

 blooms to S. S. Pennock. 



Fred Ehret went out on Monday to 

 Doylestown to see John P. Andre. He 

 reports Mr. Andre's Brides and Maids as 

 second to none coming into this market, 

 his place being in very fine shape. 



Wm. J. Muth reports that the Cut 

 Flower Co. has received a large shipment 

 of green and bronze galax and green and 

 bronze leucothoe leaves. The company an- 

 ticipates a good stock of cut flowers for 

 the Christmas orders. 



Edward Reid is developing a good trade 

 for his Hudson river Marie Louise violets. 



A. J. Pmijnngl^ jjfi fwriding 



some special valley which is over a foot 

 in length. 



The pretty new Mergenthaler store 

 and conservatory in Germantown is now 

 in active operatiom 



The Henry F. Michell Co. is doing a 

 good business in greens for Christmas. 



Berger Brothers have received a good 



shipment of galax leaves. They are mak- 

 ing a specialty this week of winterberry 

 for church decoration. 



B. Gibbs states that E. Bernheimer is 

 receiving some giant daisies and Paper 

 White narcissi. 



Last Friday Wm. J. Baker received 

 what are thought to be the first single 

 daffodils of the season. 



The Strafford Flower Farm is cutting 

 great quantities of choice carnations this 

 week, among them a good proportion of 

 crimsons and scarlets. 



Hope you'll have a splendid Christmas. 



Phil. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



The week opened with little doing in 

 tlie line of city trade, but with a first- 

 cless country damani". The situation 

 Monday and Tuesday might be summed 

 up by saying that there was little stock 

 in the market but sufficient for require- 

 ments. The Christmas orders from out 

 pf town were coming iu heavily Monday 

 and Tuesday and at thi^ writing tbo pros- 

 pects are for a record-breaking Christmas 

 I'UEiaess. A week or ten days ago the 

 city buyers all wanted to leave orders" fcr 

 Christmas stock, tut pnces deterred 

 them. As one leading retailer expressed 

 it. "You couldn't so much as look at a 

 wholesale man. If you broached the mat- 

 ter of leaving a Christmas order with him 

 he waved you away as though he hadn't 

 any use for business. ' ' But the out of town 

 buyers have not been deterred by high 

 prices and now the city people are assur- 

 ing themselves of a certain proportion of 

 their needs. Many of them are of the 

 opinion, however, that Saturday after- 

 noon will see the market weaker than at 

 any other time this week and are taking 

 their chances. 



It is true that prospects are for larger 

 supplies of stock than have heretofore 

 been anticipated but it is an absolute 

 certainty that the good material will be 

 f^r short of the requirements. There are 

 likely to be enough flowers of inter- 

 n'pdiat^ grades to supply all orders on 

 which this character of material can be 

 use d and it would not be at all gnrprig. 

 ing it some of the large quantities of 

 low grade material which are sure to be 

 sent in toward the latter part of the week 

 fail to find a satisfactory market. While 

 prices on strictly first-class material will 

 be as high as ever before in this mar- 

 ket, the average will be nothing to brag 

 about because of the quantity of poor 

 stock. ; ^Ifflfl 



