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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



DECEMBER 27, 1906. 



For New Year's 



We can supply your needs if stock is to be had in this market. 



VIOLETS, VALLEY, CARNATIONS, ROSES, PAPER WHITES 



Wire or Phone— We do the rest 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



Wholesale Commission Florists 



40-42-44 Randolph Street, l. a Phone, centrd 466 CHICAGO 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



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iBEST ROSES I 



9 if you want something special for New Year's, try £ 



I The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. j 



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Wholesale Cut Flowers, 35 Randolph St., Chicago 



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Mention The Review when you write. 



but some things, cut box sprays, for ex- 

 ample, -were entirely sold out. 



The Ball Season. 



The season of fashionable midwinter 

 balls, usually commencing about the mid- 

 dle of January, and ending with Lent, 

 a movable date, is this year earlier than 

 ever before. The first large affair in 

 ultra-fashionable circles was a private 

 ball, Mrs. Gowan's, at the Bellevue- 

 Stratford, December 21. The Benedicts 

 followed at Horticultural hall, December 

 26. Mrs. Van Kenssalaer's will be held at 

 the Bellevue-Stratford on Friday; Mrs. 

 Cuyler's, in the same hostelry, January 

 2; and the First Assembly follows, also 

 in the Bellevue-Stratford, January 4. 

 While these balls do not always affect the 

 market materially, they are apt to do so 

 to some extent, cut flowers being largely 

 used when dinners precede the dance, 

 while the demand for both foliage and 

 blooming plants is quickened. Whether 

 the gaiety of the social season will last 

 until Lent is problematic. 



VariotM Notes. 



S. S. Skidelsky will read an essay on 

 "Our Credit System, Its Uses and 

 Abuses, ' ' before the Florists ' Club at 

 the January meeting. 



John Thatcher, for many years gar- 

 dener to Edward Le Boutillicr, Wynne- 



wood, Pa., will, on Tuesday next, take 

 charge of a new place at Chester, W.Va., 

 the property of C. A, Smith. Mr. Thatch- 

 er is a member of the Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society and the Florists ' Club, 

 and a grower whose foliage plants have 

 won many prizes. 



Marshall Rogers, formerly with Jo- 

 seph Heacock, will, on Tuesday next, be- 

 gin work with W. E. McKissick. 



M. Eice & Co. report that their lines 

 of Christmas novelties were a big suc- 

 cess, and that they received many dupli- 

 cate orders by telegraph. 



Gilbert Woltemate is in charge of his 

 uncle's place at Main and Queen streets, 

 Germantown. Mr. Woltemate has had 

 two years' experience on this place, fol- 

 lowing several years on his father 's 

 place at Mt. Airy avenue. 



Theodore Edwards, of Bridgetown, 

 N. J., sent the first Trumpet Major nar- 

 cissi to W. J. Baker. 



D. T. Connor 's new greenhouse oflBce is 

 a good card for Lord & "Burnham Co. 



The Flower Market has paid off its 

 second fifty per cent of the capital 

 stock. 



The Leo Niessen Co. had the largest 

 stock of Beauties ever offered in this 

 city at Christmas. 



Berger Bros, and W. J. Moore made 



their market headquarters look like old 

 times. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. had its 

 big force on the jump. The quantity 

 of stock handled was enormous. 



Myers & Samtman cut 13,000 American 

 Beauties for Christmas, 8,200 of which 

 went to the Leo Niessen Co. and the 

 balance to A. M. Murdoch, of Pittsburg. 

 The firm have assured Mr. Niessen that 

 their Beauties will be in crop for six 

 weeks. 



Some frozen shipments from the grow- 

 ers were received and express compan- 

 ies got entangled with shipments for the 

 south and west. 



Mrs. George Burton, wife of the well- 

 known rose grower, died on Christmas 

 day. The funeral services will be held at 

 her husband's residence on Saturday, at 

 2 p. m. Mr. Burton has the heartfelt 

 sympathy of his many friends. 



Hope you had a busy Christmas, and 

 will have a Happy and a Prosperous New 

 Year. Phil. 



Dallas, Tex. — Col. E, H. K. Green, 

 who has returned from a business trip 

 to Chicago, has made all arrangements 

 for doubling the capacity of his green- 

 houses. When completed the equipment 

 will rank among the most complete in the 

 country. 



