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The Weekly Florists' Review 



December 13, 1906. 



fund for the flower show are coming in 

 fast, and bj the first of the year one- 

 half of the $10,000 will be subscribed. 

 Frank Weber, chairman of the commit- 

 tee, will return early next week, and 

 then the committee will take up a per- 

 sonal canvass of those who have failed to 

 respond. To date one-quarter of the 

 fund has been subscribed. 



The florist bowlers had a fine time at 

 the new DeSoto alleys on last Monday 

 night. Capt. Lohrenz had ten men out 

 and some good scores were made. George 

 Schreifer was high man of the night. 

 Some of the west end florists bowl every 

 Monday night at the Hamilton hotel. 

 J. J. B. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



A whirl through the retail shops of 

 this city will convince anyone that trade 

 is good all around and that our people 

 are keeping strictly up with the times, 

 which means much. Not many years ago 

 all a cut flower store needed was an ice- 

 box and a counter, but now note the 

 change. Our shops are really art rooms 

 and each one tries to excel the other in 

 artistic blending of color and arrange- 

 ment, and at this season the collection 

 of specimen plants you will find in every 

 store makes it worth a trip around,, not 

 to mention the beautiful pottery, both 

 antique and modern, all arranged with 

 plants to the best of advantage. These, 

 with the Christmas novelties of all kinds, 

 make the stores beautiful and of interest, 

 even to one who sees them every day. 



There have been many decorations in 

 the last week, requiring large flowers, 

 and the late chrysanthemums have come 

 in most usefully and brought much bet- 

 ter prices than earlier in the season. 

 Many of these decorations have been for 

 debutantes, but this week will clean up 

 all that are on the calendar at present 

 and other affairs will take their places. 



The wholesale houses were quite busy. 

 Stock of most kinds was scarce and it 

 kept them busy to keep every one in a 

 good humor without giving them exact- 

 ly what they wanted. Saturday night 

 saw most of them cleaned up nicely. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club met Tuesday night 

 with a large attendance and some fine 

 exhibits of plants, .such as begonias, 

 primulas, cyclamens, poinsettias, palms 

 and a general assortment of such plants 

 as are desirable for the holidays. Several 

 of those appointed to talk were away, 

 leaving only Charles Crall and W. A. 

 Clarke of those appointed. While they 

 did not say a great deal, they said 

 enough to start the others, so there were 

 some pertinent questions asked and an- 

 swered. It was remarked by several that 

 the club is very much alive and that 

 every meeting gives the members some- 

 thing to think and talk about. While 

 some of the remarks are not compliment- 

 ary, they are made with good intent, and 

 only for the good of the boys. One 

 thing which was forcibly brought to 

 their attention was that there is an open- 

 ing for a man to grow palms, ferns and 

 blooming plants in this vicinity. The 

 next meeting will be a smoker and a 

 good committee has it in charge. They 

 will try to let you know more of it later. 



Fred Burki and T. P. Langhans have 

 been doing the east most of the last 

 -week, presumably looking up good things 

 for another season. 



Theo. F. Imback, of Morgantown, W. 



Va., was in the city a couple of days 

 looking after business. 



L. L. Lamborn spent a day at Bakers- 

 town, visiting the Pittsburg Rose & Car- 

 nation Co., and one day about Pittsburg. 

 Mr. Lamborn is a large grower from Al- 

 liance, O. 



E. M. Hall, of Fairmont, W. Va., was 

 also looking up holiday goods last week. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Business remains about the same. 

 Preparations for Christmas are seen on 

 all sides. Mums are practically gone. 

 Eoses and carnations are scarce. Evi- 

 dently the pickling of the latter has al- 

 ready begun. Valley, Komans, narcissi, 

 etc., are selling readily; in fact, any 

 half-way good flower is soon disposed 

 of at a good figure. 



There seems to be a scarcity of azaleas 

 for the holidays. Poinsettias are plen- 

 tiful. 



Qub Meetiog. 



The weather was anything but favor- 

 able on the Detroit Florists' Club's last 

 meeting night, but the attendance was 

 fair. Eobert Rahaley acted as secre- 

 tary. J. F. Sullivan was laid up with 

 a cold. Leopold Mallest, of Mount 

 Clemens, was elected a member. The 

 names of Frank DeBeul and Mr. Tossey, 

 both employed on Belle Isle park, wete 

 proposed. A discussion on red-spider 

 brought out the opinion that there is no 

 way of killing this pest, the different 

 insecticides being merely preventives if 

 applied in time. A question as to what 

 mums pay best brought out the retailers' 

 view that too many yellow and mid- 

 season varieties are grown. About one- 

 half white, one-fourth pink and one- 

 fourth yellow is about right. In this 

 locality the medium-priced varieties sell 

 best. Wm. Brown ventured the opinion 

 that even though the fancy kinds do not 

 meet with a ready sale, it is essential 

 that some be displayed about the store. 



John E. Haines, of Bethlehem, Pa., 

 sent a vase of Imperial and Pink Im- 

 perial carnations. Pink Imperial is a 

 fine variety. The stem is long and 

 strong, but apparently not as brittle as 

 the Lawson stem. Calyx and shape of 

 flower are fine. Color is a pleasing pink, 

 about Lawson shade. 



The program called for a display •>!' 

 Christmas novelties, but owing to the dis- 

 agreeable weather only two exhibits were 

 staged. George Backham showed some 

 fine cyclamens and Fred Miesei made a 

 nice display, including fine Jerusalem 

 cherries, primroses, salvias in bloom in 

 pots, and exceptionally fine cyclamens. 



Eobert Flowerday was to have read an 

 essay on "Christmas Twenty Years Ago 

 and Today" at the next meeting, but it 

 was deemed advisable to put this off 

 until after Christmas. 



Various Notes. 



Thos. Magee, of Davis & Magee, To- 

 ledo, O., bought considerable stock in 

 this city for Thanksgiving. 



Mrs. Allan P. Cox reports a steady 

 increase in business and is well satis- 

 fied. Mrs. Cox only recently embarked 

 in the trade. 



Thos. Browne, of Greenfield, enter- 

 tained a number of the boys at an an> 

 nual feast and card party the afternoon 

 and evening of December 7. 



Almost any evening you will find & 

 dainty supper being prepared by one of 



the young ladies in Taepke 's store. * ' We 

 prefer getting our own meals," says 

 Miss Amanda; and they do it right. 



A floral department has been opened 

 in Harvey's drug store, at Woodward 

 avenue and High street. The bulk of the 

 stock comes from A. Harvey's green- 

 houses in Orion, Mich. H. S. 



CINQNNATL 



The Market 



Business has not been rushing, still 

 the wholesale houses are selling out close 

 every day. The demand is just about 

 equal to the supply. Eoses are still in 

 heaviest supply, but with the mum out 

 of the market they are selling so much 

 better that there is not the oversupply 

 that we have been having all fall. 

 They are being sold right up to quoted 

 prices. Carnations continue about as 

 last reported. There are none too many 

 of them and they sell out clean every 

 day. Violets are having a good run and 

 more could be sold to good advantage. 

 Singles are especially in demand and 

 bring the highest prices. Few mums 

 are to be seen now, but there is scarcely 

 any call for them. 



Everyone is busily engaged in making 

 preparations for the holiday rush. That 

 flowers will be scarce at that time goes 

 almost without saying. We are now 

 having dark, cloudy weather, when we 

 ought to be having some bright sun- 

 shine. From the present prospects car- 

 nations will be only in fair supply. Eoses 

 ought to be more plentiful than any 

 other flower, 



Christmas decorating greens are now 

 on the market in large quantities and 

 the demand for them will be fully up 

 to previous years. There is some report 

 that good holly will be scarce, but I 

 believe that there will be plenty to go 

 around, though the price may average 

 a little higher than in other years. This 

 will be a good thing. Bouquet green 

 will be scarce. 



Society Meeting. 4 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society was held 

 December 8. After the usual business 

 was transacted the members engaged in 

 a social discussion of many interesting 

 topics. It was decided to open a ques- 

 tion box, and any member who is de- 

 sirous of gaining information on any 

 subject can, by sending the question to 

 either the president or secretary of the 

 society, have the same answered by an 

 expert at the January meeting. If it 

 proves to be successful, the question box 

 will be made a permanent feature of 

 every meeting. The next meeting of the 

 society, which will be held January 12, 

 will be devoted especially to social fea- 

 tures. There will be a smoker and sev- 

 eral speakers of considerable reputation 

 will be present to entertain the mem- 

 bers on various topics. It is intended 

 to make this meeting the banner one of 

 the year, and, with all the good things 

 that will be served up, there ooight to be 

 a big turn-out of the members. 



C. J. Ohmeb. 



Sibley, I a. — A. E. Eedshow will erect 

 a greenhouse plant here early in the 

 spring. 



West Grove, Pa. — The firm of Green 

 & Baylis is a new partnership formed 

 December 1, 1906. They have 15,000 

 feet of glass and will make chrysanthe- 

 mums a specialty. 



