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The Weekly Florists' Review.* 



January 2, 1908. 



1908 



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BETTER TIMES 



Christmas at RetaiL 



The retailers report general satisfac- 

 tion with this year's business. It was 

 about up to last year in total of sales 

 and those retailers who were able to get 

 last year's prices made more money than 

 a year ago. Both cut flowers and plants 

 were cheaper at wholesale. Most of the 

 retailers cleaned up on plants as closely 

 as could be expected and hardly anyone 

 was stuck with cut flowers, because no 

 one bought any great quantity of stock 

 until after orders had been taken for it. 

 A few retailers could not get rid of all 

 the plants they had bought. Some 

 azaleas were left, but the principal over- 

 stock was the poinsettia. This city never 

 has seen so many poinsettias as were of- 

 fered this Christmas and a great many 

 of them had nothing to brag about as to 

 quality. Quite a few of these still are 

 to be seen. 



Various Notes. 



E. C. Amling says Christmas was not 

 only the best on record, but was notable 

 for the even balance between supply and 

 demand. He cleaned up as closely as 

 he ever did and at the same time says 

 he filled every order, even those calling 

 for red. 



The George "Wittbold Co. is rigging up 

 an electric pump to return the condensa- 

 tion to the boilers, to take the place of 

 a Bundy steam trap. 



The A. Dietsch Co. says that it cannot 

 supply the demand for Washington red 

 cedar, although that material costs a 

 little more than the best grade of cypress 

 greenhouse material. 



E. E. Pieser, of the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., says that the first twenty-eight days 

 of December, 1907, gave the same sales 

 record, almost dollar for dollar, as the 

 whole month of December in 1906. 



C. M. Dickinson is again on duty every 

 day at E. H. Hunt's after a fortnight's 

 illness, covering the Christmas rush, dur- 

 ing which he managed to be on deck part 

 of the time. 



The A. L. Bandall Co. reports that 

 the four days of Christmas business were 

 the largest in the history of the house, 

 but they concur in the general report 

 that prices averaged less than last year. 



Percy Jones, manager of the Flower 

 Growers' market, says the Christmas 



business was notable in that there was no 

 great rush for stock, but a good steady 

 business that cleaned everything up. 



Vaughan & Sperry say they had vio- 

 lets at Christmas that the city buyers 

 took at $2 without stopping to ask the 

 price of. other grades. 



E. Fransen, of Scheiden & Schoos, 

 says his firm is ready to ship carnation 

 cuttings. 



Bassett & Washburn are still cutting 

 large quantities of longiflorum giganteuni 

 lilies. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. reports that on 

 the Christmas business they filled many 

 more orders than last year, but the or- 

 ders did not average so large. At the 

 same time they were short 500 to 600 

 dollar Beauties. Since Christmas busi- 

 ness has been good with them. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. had freesias 

 for Christmas, and every day since. Cat- 

 tleyas are among their receipts. They 

 report having secured better prices for 

 carnations than at any previous Christ- 

 mas. E. F. Winterson began a term in 

 the criminal court December 30, serving 

 as juryman for Judge Wright. 



White Perfection continues to give 

 splendid results at J. A. Budlong's. 

 They think it leaves little to be desired 

 of white carnations. 



Weiland & Risch are beginning to cut 

 heavily of Killarney once more. 



Orchid receipts at C. W. McKellar's 

 are the heaviest of the season. Quality 

 is fine and a large number of varieties 

 now are available. 



At Peter Reinberg's, Leonard Kill 

 reports that December 23 was the big- 

 gest day thus far recorded in their busi- 

 ness. 



I. C. Silliman is now with Gus Lange. 

 Mr. Lange says business has been better 

 right along this fall than it was last 

 year and that Christmas was somewhat 

 ahead of a year ago, in spite of the fact 

 that trade was late in starting. He says 

 they had no trouble in waiting on every 

 customer except between two o'clock and 

 five on the afternoon of December 24, 

 when the rush was past all possibiUtiea 

 of handling. 



George Eeinberg is planning to do con- 

 siderable rebuilding in the early spring, 

 to put his entire place in the beet pos- 

 sible condition. 



George Walther is recovering from an ' 

 attack of quinsy, which kept him out of 

 the store during the Christmas rush. 



John Kruchten says 1908 looks good 

 to him, as he starts the year with a 

 new carnation grower and a new rose 

 grower. 



N. J. Wietor says that Wietor Bros, 

 are so well satisfied with 1907 that they 

 will not add to their range of glass for 

 1908, feeling content with the extent of 

 the business now done. They are cutting 

 heavily at present. 



L. Coatsworth made a flying trip this 

 week to the establishment of the Ben- 

 they-Coatsworth Co. at New Castle. 



George Weiland says Christmas at 

 Evanston proved to be the best to date, 

 but that for New Year's the demand up 

 to Monday had not been as strong as a 

 year ago. 



Zech & Mann report the total of De- 

 cember business about as last year, the 

 last week of the month running about as 

 it did a year ago, with Christmas a lit- 

 tle better, and the middle of the month a 

 little slow. 



Peter Eeinberg has put in an exten- 

 sion telephone in the Beauty department 

 to save Archie Spencer's legs and his 

 time. The Beauty crop is heavy, and the 

 time saving is of special consequence. 



H. M. Hooker Co. has leased from the 

 Witbeck estate 116% feet frontage on 

 the south side of West Washington 

 street, for ninety-nine yesirs at annual 

 rental of $4,660, or five per cent on $93,- 

 660, or practically $800 a foot, a record 

 price for that neighborhood. The 

 Hooker Co. will improve with a six- 

 story warehouse costing $200,000. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has dropped the 

 Golden Gate rose. 



The epidemic of grippe, which has 

 seized the city, has caused many ab- 

 sentees to be noted in the market. 

 Among them were: A. C. Kohlbrand, 

 of E. C. Amling 's; W. E. Lynch, of E. 

 H. Hunt's; Mrs. W. E. Horton, of Bas- 

 sett & Washburn's; John Degnan, of 

 the E. F. Winterson Co. 



We enclose money order for $1 for 

 another year of the Review. We cannot 

 do without it; it is the standard of ex- 

 cellence. — Frank Bros., Beardstown, 



