NOVEMBEU 29, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



85 



SPECIALTIES: 



Sweet Peas Bouvardia 

 Paper Whites Mignonette 



Stevia 



Valley 



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 W 1 vie 19 home-g^rown singles 



Large supplies of Roses and Carnations, including the finest 

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Special fancy, $4 per dos.; Smaller e^rades, $2 to $3 per doz. 



Shipped in ortclnal boxes of 50 as packed at tlie ereenhouses 



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KO to the old gontlenian for advice iis to Mliut 

 we might gain if we went to Wasliin^ton. 



Enclosed is an article from a tlorist trade 

 paper, which sliows the interest by tlie florist 

 craft. 



We should be glad to hear from you upon 

 this important subject. 



Yours respectfully, 



B10N.1AM1X ll.VMMOM). 



Committee on Ways and Means. 

 House of Representatives, 

 Washington, I). C. 

 Auburn, N. Y., Nov. :il, 1900. 

 Mr. Benjamin Hammond, 



Fishklll-ou-IIudson. X. Y. 



Dear Sir: Yours of the 20th Inst, received. 

 Congress meets thl« year December .'J, and tlie 

 term of this congress expires on Marcli 4, giving 

 three months, with the exception of the holi- 

 days, for what work we have to do. The time 

 is barely sufficient to give consideration to the 

 appropriation bills which will come up. All 

 would agree it would be entirely impossible to 

 pass a tariff bill. 



While you desire but one item of the tarifC 

 changed, this could not be considered without 

 taking up the whole subject of tariff revision 

 and considering all the claims for changes to 

 t)e made to the different s<lie<lules. This, of 

 course, Is a matter that requires much time and 

 deliberation. 



I read with interest yoin- stiitemcnt in tjje 

 Weekly Florists' Ueview. While we imported 

 if54,0tK.I,0iX) of cylinder, crown and common win- 

 dow glass in 1M9(>, and lint i|!lS,(XH>,<KK) in round 

 numbers In liHtn. it would appear that our 

 workmen had S^:Ui,00t),O(}(> worth more of glass 

 to manufacture at the latter date than in ism;. 

 This means, of «ourse. prosperltv to the work- 

 men in the glass manufacturing business. 



You would readily admit that your business 

 had been nuioh better since 1SU7 tlian it was 

 In the three years preceding that .rear, \inder 

 the Wilson tariff act, and the year or two before 

 that, when the country was prostrated becauve 

 of the uncertainty of what the Wilson people 

 might do, for your business must be very de- 

 Iiendent upon the general prosperltv of the 

 country. It would be well for you to" take Into 

 ••onslderation whether it Is not better to have 

 the country generally prosperous under the 

 present act, which brings prosperity to your busi- 

 ness, rather than to restore the glass business 

 to its condition under the Wilson tariff, therebv 

 bringing your business back to tlie same condi- 

 tion of affairs. I only throw out this sugges- 

 tion for your consideration, because wlien the 

 subject of tariff revision is taken up. 1 shall 

 hope to hear from the florists on this subject. 

 Y'ours very triilv. 



SEUKXO K. I'AYXE. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



Xoveml)er lias witliout doubt been a 

 disappoiutmont to most of the trade in 

 Chicago, both wholesalers and retailers. 

 The middle of the month saw a greater 

 depression in the wholesale market than 

 is usual at the height of the chrysanthe- 

 mum season, and the light demand con- 

 tinued right up to Thanksgiving. While 

 great quantities of stock were moved, and 

 in some lines prices Avere high, still 

 the volume of business for November 

 does not exceed that of last year. And 

 Chicago is so accustomed to steadily and 

 rapidly increasing volimios of s.ilos that 

 it halt in the advance is something in 

 the nature of a shock. 



For a full fortnight before Thanks- 

 giving shipping trade was less than usual 

 at this season and a long period of dis- 

 agreeable weather, whicli killed street 

 .sales, had much effect upon the city 

 stores that depend upon transient trade. 

 The high class stores, catering to the 

 best society business, are almost the only 

 ones which did not feel the slackening of 

 business during the month. 



What the cause or causes may have 

 been is hard to say. In every line of 

 business in Chicago great activity pre- 

 vails and throughout the country pros- 

 perity is at a higher level than in any 

 previous year. It is doubtless merely a 

 combination of circumstances which will 

 shortly give way to normal conditions, 

 and we shall have a rush in volume suf- 

 ficient to offset the temporary slacken- 

 ing in pace. 



Thanksgiving. 



Writing on the eve of Thanksgiving, 

 no more than a general summary of the 



trade is po.ssible, but it seems quite evi- 

 dent that the business for Thanksgiving 

 has not exceeded that of last year, al- 

 though it must be taken into account 

 that last year's Thanksgiving demand 

 was exceptionally heavy. The prediction 

 that supplies of stock would be ample 

 has been thoroughly justified. Monday 

 the market Avas heavily loaded with stock. 

 Most of it was held at the increased 

 ] trices anticipated for Thanksgiving. 

 However, the day did not prove to be 

 more than a normal Monday with most 

 houses, city buying not being in evi- 

 dence, for the retailers foresaw a break 

 in prices. Monday night found the 

 market far from cleaned up. 



Tuesday was the big shipping day 

 and the volume of business was large, 

 nearly all good stock being well cleaned 

 up. The weather for several days has 

 been unfavorable to stock and complaint 

 is anticipated because of the softness of 

 stock, especially carnations, which were 

 not of average shipping quality. 



Wednesday morning round the market 

 lieaviiy supj)lied, a part of the stock be- 

 ing carried over from Tuesday, and ship- 

 ping demand being over there Avas a 

 weakening in prices, most apj)arent on 

 carnations, l^air stock broke to as low 

 as .1)2 per hundre<l where the buyer would 

 clean up the lot. Receipts of violet3 

 were light. 



The supply of chrysanthemums has 

 been something tremendous, many thou- 

 sands of small Bonnaffoas being sold at 

 moderate prices. The principal Avhite was 

 Timothy Eaton, and the supply Avas so 

 heavy that really grand flowers went to 

 the Greeks at almost their own figures. 

 There were abundant supplies of roses 

 in all departments, but really good stock 



