December 28, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



385 



POEHLMANN'S 



New Year's Price List 



Amerloan Beauties Per doz. 



Extra long stem $12.00 



36-inch steins 10.00 



30 

 24 

 20 

 18 

 15 

 12 



9.00 

 8.(0 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 



Short stems $1.50 to $2.00 



Per 100 



Richmonds $12.00 to $25.00 



Liberty 12.00to 26.00 



Maids lO.OOto 18.00 



Brides lO.OOto 18.00 



Chatenay lO.OOto 15.00 



Sunrise 8.00 to 15.00 



Gates and Uncle John 10.00 to 15.00 



Perles 10.00 to 15.00 



Short stemmed roses 6.00 to 10.00 



Special fancy long stem 

 charged accordingly. 



SUBJECT TO CHANGE 



WITHOUT NOTICE 



Per 100 



$6.00 



Carnations 



fancy $8.00 to 10.00 



Harrisii, very fine 26.00 



Violets 1.50to 2.50 



Aspcuragrus— Sprays 4.00 



Strings, 50c to 60c each. 



Sprengeri 4.00 



Stevia 2.00 



Valley, Romans 3.00 to 4.00 



Paner ^^liites 4.00 



Smilaz.$2.00 per doz. Ferns. .$2.00 per 1000 



Orders from parties not already on our books and not known to us will be shipped 

 C. O. D. Will not have time to look up references during the holidays. 



POEBLMANN BROS. CO.«L".'*!ir Chicago 



GREENHOUSES: MORTON GROVE, ILL. 900,000 FEET OF GLASS. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



between buyer and seller. That the 

 pleasant relations vphich have been estab- 

 lished between us may continue indefi- 

 nitely is the wish we desire to express in 

 extending to you most heartily the sea- 

 son's greetings." 



THE READERS* CORNER. 



Shasta Daisies. 



On page 272 of the issue of the Re- 

 view for December 14 is a query about 

 Shasta daisies. The correspondent can 

 get these into flower by June 1 by keep- 

 ing them going and by liberal treat- 

 ment; 55 degrees at night, with plenty 

 of air will suit them for the winter. 

 Their dying off in August and Septem- 

 ber is probably caused by exhaustion. 

 A few of ours did the same. As soon 

 as I noticed them turning yellow I re- 

 moved all the old flowers and seeds and 

 gave them a good cultivating and nearly 

 all came around. This plant is a hungry 

 one and requires liberal treatment and 

 young stock can easily flower and seed 

 itself away. E. A. W. 



TROUBLE WITH STEAM. 



I have been installing a new heating 

 system in our houses, but it does not 

 work right. The coils are made of 1^4- 

 inch pipe, about fifty feet in each, and 

 are fed by a %-inch pipe and drained 

 by a %-inch pipe which leads to a trap 

 at the middle of one side of one house. 

 The coils do not clear of water as they 

 should. The pipes in the coils are par- 

 allel. We tried spreading the ends apart, 

 but it did no good. Are the %-inch 

 supply pipes too small? We have three 

 coils on one %-inch pipe. We take the 

 steam underground from the boiler, 

 about sixty feet distant. R. H. P. 



I am not certain that I comprehend 

 your diflSculty. From your description I 

 infer that the supply pipe is %-inch 

 and is taken off the boiler and then car- 

 ried below the water level in the boiler 

 underground to a point beneath the 

 house and then to the coils. The coils 

 indicated carry about forty-five square 

 feet of radiation, which could easily be 

 cared for by a short %-inch pipe, but I 



doubt if you will ever be able to make a 

 long %-inch pipe supply them properly. 

 A 1%-inch supply pipe arranged to 

 enter each coil at the top and a %-inch 

 pipe leading fronii the outlet of each to 

 a common return to the trap will, I be- 

 lieve, overcome the difficulty. The prob- 

 lem is complicated by the loop in the 

 flow and the trap. If the boiler can be 

 lowered so as to carry the flow pipe 

 direct from the top of the boiler to the 

 coils and the return back to the boiler, 

 no difficulty will be encountered, pro- 

 vided proper air valves are supplied. 



L. C. C. 



NEW YORK. 



The Christmas Market. 



All things considered, it was a fairly 

 satisfactory result that presented itself 

 to the wholesale cut flower section on 

 Christmas morning. Everything good 

 had about been absorbed. little stock 

 arrived on the early trains and the day's 

 demands were yet to be depended on. 

 I doubt if Monday night found any 

 ice-boxes doing duty. The day itself 

 was ideal; clear, sunny and with not 

 enough frost in the air to make wrap- 

 ping a necessity. 



Saturday and Sunday prices realized 

 were quite up to expectations. The best 

 Beauties brought $1.25, the best Maids 

 and Brides 25 cents each; the best vio- 

 lets $1.25 per hundred, and carnations 

 all the way from $4 up to $25 per hun- 

 dred for the great novelties of this 

 year's introduction. Sad to say, on 

 Sunday night the evidences of pickling 

 of carnations were seen and thousands of 

 Enchantress, Lawson and other varieties 

 went to sleep long before any of the 

 weary and disgusted wholesalers thought 

 ol rest. The same story must be told 

 of violets. Thousands upon thousands 

 came in utterly without perfume or 

 "smelling" so badly that the criticisms 

 are unfit for publication. But what's 

 the use? It has been fully proven that 

 one may protest till doomsday and still 

 this idiocy will be perpetuated. Nothing 

 can move the perpetrators of this out- 

 rage but removal of the guilty to the 

 sphere where all deceivers ultimately 

 land. Year after year we emphasize 



the iniquity and dishonesty of this prac- 

 tice, but it is like butting one's head 

 against a stone wall or the marble floor 

 of a Turkish bath. Lots of roses, too, 

 came in dull, sick, pale, unable to hold 

 up their heads, and when the growers 

 get returns from these they will get, if 

 they get anything, more than they de- 

 serve. But there was much grand stock, 

 the finest that ever reached a holiday 

 market, and this stock was at a pre- 

 mium and brought even more than was 

 expected. 



Lilies were not much in demand and 

 the supply was not abundant. Valley 

 was sufficient for all requirements. Or- 

 chids fulfilled the prophecy as to their 

 standing, with shipments and local de- 

 mand enormous. None were left and 

 prices held firm throughout, no abnormal 

 advance being asked by the experts 

 who handle them. McManus shipped to 

 many cities and the big locals were 

 taking them in 300 and 400 lots at mid- 

 night Sunday. 



Bulbous stock was not much called for 

 and prices Were normal. Everybody had 

 pansies in shoals and mignonette and 

 hyacinths were abundant. 



The stock and crowd at the Cut Flower 

 Exchange at 6 a. m. Monday were both 

 light and prices were considerably be- 

 low Sunday's. 



With the Retailers. 



The retailers, as usual, have no fault 

 to find with the Christmas trade. Greater 

 demand than usual for cut flowers was 

 evident. Baskets and boxes of mixed 

 plants were everywhere popular. Novel- 

 ties were numerous and very salable. 

 Palms, ferns, azaleas, orange trees, or- 

 chid plants, begonia baskets, everything 

 was in demand. Every retail store on 

 Sunday evening looked as if it had been 

 struck by a cyclone. I question if a 

 respectable plant of any kind remained 

 unsold. Many declare it to have been 

 the best Christmas ever known. Some 

 say "a little better than last year ' ' and 

 one or two say, "hardly equal to three 

 years ago." The majority always rules. 

 It was "the best ever." 



Baskets of plants, made to sell at $50 

 and over, sold slowly. The popular 

 size is now $10 to $25. "The tendency 

 this year among the best people is to 



