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The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



JANUABY 4, 1906. 



Everlasting Tile Bench 



DT will soon be time to rebuild your Greenhouse 

 Benches and we desire to call your attention to our 

 Everlasting Tile Bench. It is all tile except the 

 sideboards, which are easily removed when emptying or 

 filling the bench and it is strong enough to wheel over. 

 Roses and Carnations grown on it the past season are 

 doing better than on the other benches. Think it over. 



WIRE DESIGNS 



When you take your inventory and find you are 

 short on Wire Designs, please let us give you prices and 

 discounts. 



CUT ELOWERS 



All Cut Flowers and Supplies on hand in season. 



AMERICAN BEAUTY, 



86 to 40-lnch stem per doz., $12.00 



24 to 30-inch stem " 7.00 



20-Inch8tem " 8.00 



16-lnchBtem " 1.60 



12-inchstem " 1.00 



Shortstem " .75 



Brides, Bridesmaids per 100, $8.00 to 12.00 



Chatenay " 8.00to 12.00 



Meteor " 8.00tol2.00 



Carnations " 3.00 to 6.00 



PaperWhites '* 4.00 



Pansles " 1.50 



SweetPeas " 1.50 



Violets, single " 1.00 



fancy N.Y. double.. " 1.50 



Tulips, white " 4.00 



VaUey " 5.C0 



Asparagus per string. .25 to .50 



Sprengeri per 100, 2.00 to 4.00 



Galax, green per 1000, $1.00; per 100, .15 



Adiantum " 1.00 



Smilax per doz., $2.00 " 15.00 



Fancy Ferns per 1000. 1.50 " .20 



Subject to change without notice. 



The Cleveland Cut Flower Co 



Long Distance Phones CLEVELAND, OHIO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



MONMOUTH, ILL. 



Death of Thomas Hewitt. 



Thomas Hewitt, one of the oldest and 

 best known florists in Illinois, died of 

 heart failure December 23. He had been 

 ill for some weeks, but was thought to 

 have been recovering. His first attack 

 was while at the St. Louis convention 

 last year. Mr. Hewitt was born in Tux- 

 ford, Nottinghamshire, England, August 

 31, 1841. In February, 1867, he came 

 to Chicago, and eight years later the 

 family moved to Monmouth, which has 

 ever since been its home. The first five 

 years Mr. Hewitt engaged in gardening 

 and after this branched out as a florist. 

 His establishment has gradually grown 

 until at present it is the largest in its 

 section. 



In politics Mr. Hewitt was a republi- 

 can. In 1887 he was elected school direc- 

 tor for the northern district of Mon- 

 mouth township. On November 6, 1864, 

 Mr. Hewitt married Alice Eimmer, at 

 SheflSeld, England. Three children were 

 born. Mrs. Hewitt died in 1870. Mr. 

 Hewitt was again married, to Miss Katie 

 Powell, at Chicago, in 1874 and she is 

 left with five children to mourn his 

 death. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



The demand for all kinds of cut 

 flowers has been far beyond the supply 

 since the Christmas rush started and the 

 prospects seem to be about the same for 

 the month of January. The Cleveland 



Cut Flower Co. had nice consignments 

 every day, but orders that were booked 

 ahead seemed to use up all that they 

 could get, and late comers were disap- 

 pointed. The Christmas prices were in 

 force with this firm for New Year's 

 day and they report a fine business; in 

 fact, about twenty per cent greater than 

 that of last year, and they claim it is 

 the result obtained by their advertising 

 in the trade papers, many orders com- 

 ing to them from florists in other cities, 

 who have orders to fill in northern Ohio. 



All of the retail stores have been very 

 busy with decorations and funeral work, 

 and many of them would welcome a lull 

 in the demand, so they could get a 

 chance to rest up. 



T. G. Yale of Wellington was in the 

 city last week on a business trip and 

 reports trade as being very good with 

 him this season. Last summer he built 

 two new houses, each 20x100, modern 

 construction, with iron gutters on seven- 

 foot posts, and he is well satisfied with 

 the results as shown so far. 



New Year 's day is past and everything 

 was cleaned up except violets, which 

 seemed to have a depressed feeling, 

 many being left over, which was a sur- 

 prise to all. 



WICHITA, KAS. 



By way of trade notes I might say 

 that the Christmas trade, generally 

 speaking, was good and fairly satisfac- 

 tory. There was a good sale for cut 

 flowers, roses and carnations being most 

 in demand. Bulbous stock sold slower. 

 Prices were about same as last year. 

 Blooming plants sold fairly well, also 



palms and ferns. Holly was in good 

 demand and all sold out. The volume of 

 business was a little more than last year. 

 Prices at wholesale are too high for 

 the quality furnished and the retail flo- 

 rist gets all the blame for robbing peo- 

 ple, yet we realize that the demand large- 

 ly sets the price. As for ourselves, we 

 do not push the cut flower sales but try 

 to provide for the demand as best we 

 can, and then avoid as many cases of 

 heart failure as possible among our 

 customers by making retail prices at a 

 close margin and making as many plant 

 sales as possible. 



Now, the above remarks are not neces- 

 sarily for publication but are given as 

 a sort of unburdening, as it were, for 

 I think that the opinion is general among 

 florists that the high prices at Christmas 

 are more than the most of the stock is 

 worth and the price is usually paid with 

 a mental protest, or opinion that the 

 buyer is being robbed. "We are apt to 

 entirely lose sight of the fact that if 

 the demand were not there the prices 

 would at once be lower. 



W. H. CULP. 



WASHINGTON. 



The New Year. 



New Year's day brought beautiful 

 weather and good business. The Presi- 

 dent's reception was the leading social 

 event. The decorations, following the 

 established custom, were furnished by 

 the landscape department, of which Mr. 

 George H. Brown is the head. While 

 tastefully arranged, they were not elabo- 



