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Decgmbkb 6, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



167 



PinSBURG CUT FLOWER CO.! 



HEADQUARTERS FOR 



Pennsylvania Fancy Green Sheet Moss, 



BOXWOOD and MISTLETOE v 



222 Oliver Ave, 



PinSBURG, PA. 



Mention The Review when yog write. 



Some of the spectators had a little 

 match of their own, as follows: 



Dowd 158 136 Wilson 138 111 



Fenrlch 189 189 Burnett 85 ... 



Shaw 130 156 Adam 90 ... 



The match took place at the Eankin 

 alleys, 37 Park Kow, opposite the post- 

 office, and arrangements were made by 

 the New Yorkers for a permanent or- 

 ganization, with Saturdays for the bowl- 

 ing night until further notice. Ten 

 names were at once enrolled, and a mem- 

 bership of twenty is assured. "With 

 Wheeler as president, Chadwick, secre- 

 tary, and Will Eickards, treasurer, the 

 club's success and permanency may be 

 depended on. All who desire to join are 

 requested to be present at 7:30 next 

 Saturday evening. The locality is con- 

 venient for all. J. Austin Shaw. 



AN ACTIVE NEV-YOHKER. 



One of the younger members of the 

 wholesale fraternity in New York is 

 Alexander J. Guttman. He has brought 

 to the business an indefatigable energy 

 and a liking for the work, which goes a 

 long way toward successful effort. He 

 has not confined himself solely to the 

 wholesale cut flower business, but in 

 partnership with Charles Weber, a well- 

 known Long Island grower, distributed 

 Victory carnations last season so suc- 

 cessfully that Mr. Guttman has now 

 entered into an arrangement with John 

 E. Haines, of Bethlehem, Pa., for the 

 dissemination of the latter 's two new 

 sorts of this season, Imperial and Pink 

 Imperial. Mr. Guttman is one of the 

 nominees for the secretaryship of the 

 New York Florists' Club, the election to 

 be held next Monday evening. He has 

 ever since his connection with the trade 

 taken a prominent part in all organized 

 effort for the advancement of trade in- 

 terests and has been a wide traveler, 

 attending all the principal flower shows 

 and trade conventions throughout the 

 United States. 



Red Wing, Minn. — George Humphrey 's 

 fltore was destroyed by fire, along with 

 several other places of business, Novem- 

 ber 27. 



Milwaukee, Wis.— The Loveland 

 floral Co. has been incorporated by 

 John Krueger, Carl Carlquist and C. P. 

 O. Wegner. The capital stock is $1,500 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Thanksgiving trade was most satisfac- 

 tory, everything cleaning out well. 

 Chrysanthemums, aa was to be expected, 

 were abundant and made but little 

 advance in price. The highest price we 



Alexander J. Guttman. 



heard of on these was $6 per dozen. 

 Roses and carnations were both rather 

 scarce and brought somewhat higher 

 prices, especially the bright-colored sorts. 

 Of violets there was a splendid supply, 

 the singles being in best demand, but all 

 sold out. Scarlet bouvardia sold well 

 and poinsettias made their initial ap- 

 pearance. Other flowers were not es- 

 pecially plentiful. 



Since Thanksgiving prices have ruled 

 firm, some of the better grades of tea 

 roses making $2 per dozen. Carnations 

 are also higher, while violets keep up to 



the dollar mark, some going higher. 

 Mignonette of good quality is coming in, 

 selling from $3 to $8 per hundred. There 

 is a good supply of Paper Whites and a 

 few Roman hyacinths are appearing. 

 Callas and Easter lilies are both rather 

 scarce. No change in quotations on 

 green stock. 



Poinsettias and Lorraine begonias in 

 pans are appearing in quantity, also 

 azaleas, cyclamens, ardisias and other 

 seasonable pot plants. The colder 

 weather we are now experiencing will, 

 however, check the gale of both these 

 and cut flowers. 



Boston vs. Chicago. 



A paragraph in a recent issue of the 

 Review gave Chicago credit for having 

 more train arrivals and departures than 

 any other city in the world. There are 

 several cities which surpass Chicago in 

 this respect, one of these being Boston. 

 Boston's great South Terminal station, 

 the biggest on the American continent, 

 has 848 arrivals and departures of pas- 

 senger trains daily. The North Union 

 station has 602. The freight trains at 

 the two stations number 174 daily, a 

 grand total of 1,622, or eighty-five more 

 than Chicago. The Boston, Revere Beach 

 & Lynn R. E. has a ten-minute service 

 which would add 100 more to Boston's 

 credit. 



We admit Chicago 's greatness in 

 many ways, but she must continue to 

 play second fiddle to Boston in train 

 statistics for some time. It must be 

 remembered that within fifty miles of 

 Boston resides a population of over 

 3,200,000, which is several hundred thou- 

 sand more than Chicago has within a 

 similar radius. 



Various Notes. 



A school garden conference will be 

 held at Horticultural hall on December 

 15, with addresses by a number of 

 prominent workers. 



At the next meeting of the Gardeners* 

 and Florists' Club, on December 18, W. 

 H. Wyman, of the Bay State Nurseries, 

 will speak on "Craft and the Crafts- 

 man. ' ' 



Welch Bros, had a splendid Thanks- 

 giving trade. H. M. Robinson & Co. 

 also had a first-class turn-over in flowers 

 for their first year. 



Newtonville Greenhouses and W. H. 

 Elliott have, as usual, a fine lot of 



