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JANUABT 3, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



489 



ROSES 



are improving every day and we are now 

 getting in a fine lot of Kaiserins/ Brides, 

 Bridesmaids and Chatenays, The Rich- 

 mond are a little short in stem, but the 

 flowers are fine. 



CARNATIONS 



are good, and Violets are the finest coming 

 into this market. 



The Cleveland Cut Flower Co 



Long Distfltace Phones CLEVELAND, OHIO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



exceed ten per cent upon the capital 

 actually invested. "If investigation 

 should show a fair capitalization," the 

 report says, "and if the company's offer 

 be adequate in other respects, there 

 would seem to be no advantage in grant- 

 ing a franchise to an independent com- 

 pany. ' ' This meets general approval. 



Various Notet. 



The plantsmen are already planning 

 for Easter and have- a complete closing 

 out of Christmas plants to encourage 

 them. 



A goodly number of carnation grow- 

 ers from New York and vicinity will at- 

 tend the Toronto convention. Those of 

 us who were born in Canada and know 

 something of its warm-hearted hospitali- 

 ties can safely assure the visitors of an 

 unusually vigorous welcome and the 

 sleigh riding and curling and other win- 

 ter sports so dear to the Canuck heart 

 will be an unusual treat for those who 

 come from this climate of dampness and 

 who will realize for the first time the in- 

 spiration and healthfulness of a Cana- 

 dian winter. John Dunlop and his lieu- 

 tenants will demonstrate the brotherhood 

 of American florists as it has never been 

 shown before. It will be an inexcusable 

 blunder to miss the Toronto carnation 

 convention. New York should have a 

 representation of at least twenty-five. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held January 14, 

 one week from Monday evening, at the 

 Grand opera house. Final arrangements 

 for the trip to Toronto will then be com- 

 pleted and possibly a 'special car ar- 

 ranged for. The fare will be one and 

 one-third, and the New York Central 



probably selected. At the club the new 

 oflScers will begin their duties and Presi- 

 dent Totty Will elaborate his policy and 

 make his appointments. There is no 

 doubt of the club 's continued growth and 

 prosperity. 



Saturday evening of this week the ball 



The small Gladiolus advertisement 

 we had in the 



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not only brought inquiries from all 



parts of this country but from Europe 



as welL The REVIEW is the paper 



to advertise in. It seems to go 



everywhere. 



S. HUTH 



Cuyahoga Falls, O. 



Dec. 22, 1906. 



of the wholesale florists' employees takes 

 place at the Manhattan Casino, One Hun- 

 dred and Fifty-fifth street and Eighth 

 avenue. The Sixth and Ninth avenue ele- 

 vated lands you at the door. The Twen- 



ty-second regiment band has been en- 

 gaged and the boys deserve encourage- 

 ment. A good many of the wholesalers 

 have promised to attend. 



The New Year will see the beginning 

 of a brilliant season in society that 

 should quickly manifest its effect in the 

 increased prosperity of the florists. The 

 Old Guard ball in January will have the 

 President as a guest. The other events 

 follow each other in never-ceasing rapid- 

 ity, the Arion, the Emerald and a host 

 of others. The opera season is at its 

 height in two great houses and a hundred 

 theaters are crowded nightly. Every- 

 thing betokens prosperity, and prosperity 

 means progress to floral art and home 

 decoration. So great are the good times 

 that the preachers have begun to warn 

 the public of their danger and even Rock- 

 efeller and a few other poor millionaires 

 are advising the people to go slow. 



The Cut Flower Exchange is an illus- 

 tration of good business management. 

 Its dividend just declared for the cur- 

 rent year is ten per cent. 



The window displays by the prominent 

 retailers before Christmas excelled any 

 previous demonstration and doubtless 

 accounted partially for the general in- 

 terest. To particularize would be un- 

 fair and to give all their due would make 

 necessary more space than the Review 

 would grant me. Every season adds to 

 the artistic combinations of plant and 

 color and to the novelties that have be- 

 come now a necessity in this blase and 

 critical metropolis, where one lives a 

 lifetime in a day. 



The forty-eight hours before Merry 

 Christmas dawned were interesting, every 

 one of them, and it took them all to visit 



