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November 8, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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ROSES 



arc improving every day and we are now 

 getting in a fine lot of Kaiserins^ Brides^ 

 ' Bridesmaids and Giatenays. The Rich- 

 mond are a little short in stem^ but the 

 flowers arc fine. 



CARNATIONS 



are good^ and Dahlias are the finest coming 

 into this market. 



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AMERICAN 

 BEAUTY 



86 to 40-incb stem per doz., $3.00 



24 to 80-Inch stem " 2.60 



20-lnch8tem " 2.00 



IMncbstem " 1.50 



12-liich8tem " 1.00 



Short stem " .75 



Bride, Bridesmaid per 100, $8.00 to 6.00 



Chatenay " S.OOto 6.00 



Meteor " S.OOto 6.00 



Carnations " 1.50to 2.00 



Valley " 3.C0to 4.00 



AsparagruB per string, .25 to .50 



Sprengeri per 100, 2.00 to 4.0O 



Oalax, green per 1000, $1.50; per 100, .25 



Adiantum " 1.00 



Smilax " 20.00 



Dagger Ferns per 1000, 1.50 " .20 



Subject to change without notice. 



The Cleveland Cut Flower Co. 



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CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



Business continues good and chrysan- 

 themums have been cleaning up nicely 

 every day. The first pink and white 

 Ivory made their appearance the first of 

 the week and are more than welcome, as 

 it is the best variety for general use 

 and none of the newer sorts has been 

 able to take its place as a shipper and 

 a useful flower for the small florist and 

 his trade. Violets continue to improve 

 and prices are advancing. H. B. Carlton, 

 of Willoughby, is sending in some fine 

 Gov, Herrick that find ready takers. 

 Isaac Kennedy is sending in the best 

 grade of Brides and Maids reaching this 

 market, and the west side florists gobble 

 them up before they reach Euclid avenue. 



Variout Notes. 



J. M. Gasser has broKen down under 

 too close application to business and the 

 constant worry over labor troubles, which 

 he greatly magnified, and consequently 

 brought on such a state of mental worry, 

 bordering on a total collapse, that his 

 friends interposed, and at the sugges- 

 tion of several physicians he has been 

 prevailed upon to take a complete rest 

 as the greatest hope of restoring his 

 health. He left last Saturday for a pri- 

 vate sanitarium at Walnut Hills, Cin- 

 cinnati, where a complete change of 

 scene it is hoped will restore him to 

 health in a few months, when he will 

 either return to active work for the 

 Easter season or pay a long visit to 

 relatives in Texas. 



The Carl Hagenberger Floral Co. had 

 its formal opening last Saturday at the 



new store on East Fifty-eighth street. 

 Beautiful weather and some extra select 

 stock helped to make the new firm a suc- 

 cess from the start, which was a fore- 

 gone conclusion to those who know of the 

 push and energy of Misses Westman and 

 Getz, members of the firm. Carl Hagen- 

 berger, who is associated with them, now 

 has a string of stores, including Madison, 

 Painesville and Cleveland, backed up by 

 his extensive plant at Mentor. 



E. Heidenblut is much pleased with 

 the advent of the new Tomeon, or three- 

 cent street car line opened on Rhodes 

 avenue last week, and in consequence he 

 is planning extensive improvements in 

 the spring, among other things being an 

 addition of several new houses to grow 

 stock for the wholesale trade. 



One of the Baur brothers, of Erie, Pa., 

 who has been at the greenhouses of the 

 Gasser Co., has resigned and taken a posi- 

 tion as store man with Smith & Fetters, 

 where he will put a finishing touch to his 

 knowledge of that end of the business. 



M. Bloy, grower and manager for the 

 Ohio Floral Co., has acquired an interest 

 in and taken the position of general 

 manager for the extensive plant of the 

 Gasser Co. 



Memphis, Tenn. — The business of 

 iiie Memphis Floral "Co. is showing the 

 result of Otto Schwill's enterprise in 

 the matter of the new store. They are 

 doing much more than last year. 



Fort Atkinson, Wis. — Louis Prochas- 

 ka received a carload of coal from West 

 Virginia recently on which the freight 

 charges were $156.16. The first cost of 

 the coal, fifty-one tons, was $69. 



PACKING PLANTS. 



I wish you would tell us how to pack 

 plants and cuttings for shipment both in 

 summer and winter. I either pack too 

 tight or too loose, or get the plants too 

 hot. Have never had the satisfaction of 

 receiving a reply of "Plants arrived in 

 good condition, ' ' and I do not know 

 what the matter is. J. G. A. 



This is such a large and intricate sub- 

 ject that our friend cannot expect the 

 subject to be dealt with in any compre- 

 hensive way, although we should all be 

 glad to get some points from the packer 

 for some firm which does a large ship- 

 ping business. The expert packers are 

 among the most valuable men in any es- 

 tablishment. They have served no ap- 

 prenticeship to that special part of the 

 business, but have picked it up by prac- 

 tice and experience, and are sure to be 

 endowed with quick wit and good judg- 

 ment — in other words, brains. It is a 

 rare occurrence when receiving an invoice 

 of plants, large or small, from large 

 firms, east or w6st, that we could not 

 truthfully reply, "Plants arrived in ex- 

 cellent condition." 



We can here give only some general 

 ideas on packing. One dimculty about 

 packing plants is that in many orders 

 there will be a great variation in num- 

 ber and size of plants, and there is where 

 smartness comes in. The quality of paper 

 for wrapping your small plants is worth 

 considering. We used to receive plants 

 from Peter Henderson & Co. that were 

 wrapped in a fine quality of brown 

 paper. It was soft and flexible but 

 tough. After some searching we found 



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