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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



Jam DAB Y 9, 1008. 



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THE WESTERN HOUSE FOR THE WESTERN TRADE 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



The market is somewhat overstocked 

 with green goods, especially smilax and 

 asparagus strings. 



Chinfpag Demand. 



Referring to the prediction of an east- 

 ern visitor that the tendency in this mar- 

 ket will be steadily in the direction of a 

 demand for better grades of stock, and 

 that the market for short roses will grow 

 steadily poorer and poorer, as it has done 

 in large eastern markets, A. L. Randall 

 had this to say: "We have for some 

 time noted that our customers are or- 

 dering the best grade of stock more 

 largely than ever, with less demand for 

 the low grades. I refer particularly to 

 the shipping demand. It appears that 

 the extensive greenhouse building 

 throughout the west has resulted in a 

 large production of short roses and me- 

 dium quality carnations, which many 

 buyers have either on their home places 

 or close at hand, but they must come to 

 Chicago when they want really fancy 

 stock, the demand for which is stronger 

 than it ever was." 



Reinfoerg's. 



The Beauty crop now being cut at 

 Peter Reinberg's is something phenom- 

 enal. It is the greatest ever cut in the 

 establishment, but at the store it is as- 

 serted that although the ice-box occa- 

 sionally overflows to the adjoining one 

 of John Kruchten, the stock is moving 

 out quite satisfactorily and they hope the 

 bright weather will continue, for they 

 fear an end to the Beauty crop when 

 dark days come again. 



One of Peter Reinberg's firemen was 



held up while going his rounds early on 

 the night of January 4 and one of the 

 storage rooms also was robbed, several 

 hundred roses being taken. 



Mrs. Reinberg and Mrs. Leonard Kill 

 are sisters. They buried a third sister 

 December 31, who left a boy 4 years 

 old and a little girl of 2 years. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Reinberg propose adopting the 

 son and Mr. and Mrs. Kill have taken 

 the little girl. 



Business for 1907. 



In its annual review of business con- 

 ditions in Chicago in 1907 the Record- 

 Herald says the wholesale value of cut 

 flowers sold in this market was $1,815,- 

 000, as against $1,452,000 in 1906, an 

 increase of twenty-five per cent. These 

 figures are followed by a signed state- 

 ment by Oscar J. Friedman, retailer, as 

 follows : 



A better proof of the adage, "The luxuries of 

 yesterday are the necessities of to-day," cannot 

 be found than in the marvelous growth of the 

 cut flower business of Chicago. In less than a 

 decade greenhouses having millions of square 

 feet of glass have sprung up like magic on the 

 outslcirts of the city. Two establishments claim 

 to have more than 1,000,000 square feet of glass 

 each, and it is conceded that Chicago has the 

 model establisliment of this kind in the world. 



The wholesale cut flower dealers send their 

 goods as far south as New Orleans, as far north 

 as Duluth, as far east as Pittsburg and as far 

 west as Denver. Our city can pride itself on 

 being the largest shipper of cut flowers in the 

 world. 



It is not clear whether or not the fig- 

 ures are Mr. Friedman's estimate, but 

 wholesalers will not generally accept 

 them as correct. There has been no 

 twenty-five per cent increase in the 

 wholesale cut flower sales in 1907. The 

 Tribune's estimate of sales in 1907 is 

 $2,200,000, no increase over 1906. 



Weather of 1907. 



The mean temperature of the year 

 differed from normal by not more than 

 1 degree. January was much warmer 

 than usual, and March was phenomenally 

 warm, exceeding in temperature even the 

 following April. The contrast between 

 the warm weather of March and the cool 

 period during April and May was quite 

 marked. In fact, the average tempera- 

 ture of April and May combined was 

 the lowest for that period in the his- 

 tory of the station. 



The amount of precipitation was 1.70 

 inches greater than the average. The 

 total depth of snow, 42 inches, was 5.7 

 inches more than the average, the great- 

 est excess of snowfall occurring in May 

 and December. The heaviest snow was 

 8.2 inches. 



The cloudiness was more marked than 

 usual, except during February, March 

 and November. As compared with their 

 normals, April was the cloudiest and No- 

 vember the sunniest, the departures be- 

 ing minus twenty per cent and J)lu8 six- 

 teen per cent, respectively. The percent- 

 age of possible sunshine for the entire 

 year, 52.8, was 5.2 per cent below the 

 normal. 



The last killing frost was May 4, the 

 first in fall, October 14. 



The Glass Market. 



The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. reports 

 that inquiries from those who will build 

 greenhouses in the spring are coming in 

 quite freely and that the indication is 

 that there will be rather more than the 

 average amount of building this season. 

 They say the opportunity was never bet- 

 ter, so far as the price of glass is con- 



