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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 27, 1900. 



WE WISH ALL OUR PATRONS 



and all those whom we would like to be our pratrons in 1907, a 



HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 



We have had a splendid year, and we know that the high quality of our stock and our 

 promptness and care in filling orders has helped our customers to enlarge THEIR busi- 

 ness, for the calls upon us have steadily increased. Stock is in fine condition for a bril- 

 liant start in 1907. We CAN serve YOU and would like to have the opportunity to do it. 



NEW YEAR'S PRICE LIST 



ROSES Per 100 



Maid, Bride, Chatenay: 



Select $15.00 



first 12.00 



" medium $8.00 to 10.00 



Richmond, Killarney: 



Select 25,00 



" first IS.OOto 20.00 



" medium ..12.00to 15.00 



Suniise, Perle, Gale, select 12 00 to 15 00 



first 8 00 to 10.00 



Shoit stem Roses, good 6 00 



Special loug stem roses charged accordingly. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Perdoz. 



Over 40-inch, select , $15.00 



36-inch, select 12.C0 



ABIERICAN BEAUTIES 



80-inch, select 



24 inch, select 



2u-lnch. select 



18-lnph, select , 



15-inch, select 



12-inch, select 



Short stem, select $1 



CARNATIONS 



Extra fancy Enchantress, Pros- 

 perity, Red, Lawson and White 



First quality 



Split and short stems $4. 



Harrisii 



Tulips 5 



Narcissus 3. 



Perdoz. 

 $10 00 

 8.00 

 600 

 ft.lM) 

 4.00 

 3 00 

 2.00 



00 to 

 Per 100 



.00 to 



00 to 

 00 lo 



8.00 

 600 

 5.00 

 20.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 



Romans $3 



Valley .- 4 



Violets 1 



Mignonette, large spikes 



Stevia 



Adiantum 



Adiantum, fancy Croweanum.. 



Smllax 



Sprengeri, Plumosus Sprays... 



Plumosus Strings each 



Ferns. per KOo 



Galax per loiO 



Leucothoe 



Chrysanthemum Merry Xmas, 

 per doz 2.05 to 



Per 100 

 00 to $4.ro 



onto 

 .50 to 



1. 00 to 



.ro to 



.50 to 



5 00 

 2.50 

 8.00 

 2.00 

 1.50 

 2.00 

 16 00 

 4.00 

 .60 

 2.00 

 1,50 

 1.00 



300 



Subject to ctaanee \7ltbout notice. 



POEHLMANN BROS. CO. 



33-35 Randolph St. ^^^^t CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



wreaths, balls, bells, etc., Avith immor- 

 telles, instead of holly. 



Of course all the plants were more or 

 less embellished — mostly more — and it 

 was in the embellishment more than in 

 the stock used that novelty was found. 



Versatile Uncle John. 



[With apologies to "Phil."] 

 Scene : Most any wholesale house. 

 Time: Saturday afternoon, Decem- 

 ber 22. 



Order Picker: "That Metropolis or- 

 der calls for 500 Maids; w'at '11 I give 

 'em?" 



The Boss: "Two hundred Uncle 

 John. ' ' 



A minute of silence, save the commo- 

 tion of many busy workers; then 



Order Picker: "Say, Boss! Metrop- 

 olis wants 200 Brides.''' 



The boss: "Can't you get 'em?" 

 Order Picker : ' * Nary one. ' ' 

 The Boss: "Oh, well! Give 'em a 

 ihundred Uncle John." 



Various Notes. 



Fred Weber has made arrangements 

 to double his glass as soon as building 

 'Can be begun in the spring. He bought 

 the glass more than a month ago, when 

 the market was at the bottom. The ad- 

 dition will be two high houses 27^^x300. 

 Mr. Weber's crop is Beauties he has 

 done so well that he thinks nothing could 

 equal them. He now has grown his 

 plants eighteen months without rest. He 

 had a splendid crop in the summer, when 

 good Beauties are scarce, and has an- 

 other fine cut just coming on. He missed 

 •Christmas by about a week, but there 

 •.always is a good market in January. E. 



C. Amling is Mr. Weber's selling agent. 



W. J. Smyth took full advantage of 

 his new show windows to make the finest 

 Christmas display he has ever shown, 

 especially effective at night, illuminated 

 by seventy-five red incandescents. The 

 windows were filled with ardisias and 

 poinsettias, in red pot covers, baskets 

 and hampers. The back of the window 

 was formed by long loops of lycopodium 

 wreathing, at the end of each loop an 

 Alpha bell. Mr. Smyth said it was 

 much his biggest Christmas, but practi- 

 cally all plants. ' ' People who asked for 

 cut flowers simply walked out when told 

 the price." 



Arnold Ringier, secretary of the W. 

 W. Barnard Co., states that the business 

 in holiday greens was "the best ever." 

 High prices generally were accepted as 

 a matter of course and the inability to 

 fill all orders was the only feature which 

 caused concern, 



John Poehlmann says he found time in 

 Monday 's rush to accept a proposition 

 from the agent of the McCormick estate, 

 which will, after May 1, give the Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. twice as much room as 

 it now occupies in the basement of the 

 Atlas block. The increase in the firm 's 

 glass and production make more commo- 

 dious selling quarters very necessary. 



A. Lange has renamed the Rosalind 

 Orr English rose as Lady English in his 

 advertisements in the daily papers, and 

 it really has a better sound, but when he 

 says * ' It has recently supplanted Amer- 

 ican Beauty as the favorite rose," it is 

 possible he is drawing the long bow. 



Leonard Kill says that Peter Rein- 

 berg 's Christmas sales were so much 

 greater than last year — consequent upon 



more glass, better crops and better 

 prices — that he hesitates to say just what 

 the increase was for fear that it will 

 add nothing to his reputation for ver- 

 acity. 



Fleisehman, in the Railway Exchange 

 building, is said to have been the largest 

 local buyer of cut flowers for Christmas. 

 The store is not large enough for the 

 plant trade done by the stores with con- 

 servatories. Nothing but the best cut 

 stock is handled, largely Beauties, vio- 

 leis and quantities of orchids. 



Frank Garland, at Des Plaines, says 

 he has a few dozen plants of a sport of 

 Enchantress that is the best yet. It is 

 about as dark as Lawson. 



W. E. Wadsworth, who has charge of 

 Muir 's Forty-seventh street store, says 

 the Christmas call was largely for bas- 

 kets of plants, poinsettias being the 

 leader, with Lorraine begonia second. 



The park gardeners are asking an in- 

 crease in wages to give them all $75 a 

 month. They now get from $60 to $70. 



Uncle John Thorpe had a two-column 

 article on ' * The Flower Shop ' ' in the 

 Daily News a few days before Christ- 

 mas which must have been worth a great 

 deal to the trade. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. handled quite a 

 quantity of good mums for Christmas. 



The supply people report being pretty 

 well sold out of Christmas specialties. 



The big charity ball New Year's Eve 

 is looked to as sure to call for many 

 flowers, especially violets. 



J. J. Soper, of Rockford, was a visitor 

 Saturday, looking up Christmas stock. 

 He says uusiness is flourishing in Rock- 

 ford, and it is no longer a question of 

 price if the stock pleases the buyers. 



