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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Decbhbeb 10, 1008. 



The Florists' Supply House of America 



Christmas Selections 



HANDLE WILLOW BASKETS, laree and deep, just the 

 thine for filling with gtowiag Poinsettias— the color, a dark, 

 reddith brown, harmonizing admirably with the brilliant 

 scarlet of the bracts above. 



LARGE PLAID and CHIFFON MATS, very popular 

 for plants at Christmas. 



RED IMMORTELLES, IMMORTELLE WREATHS, 

 (all sizes), bells, stars and crosses. 



RED and GREEN STRAW BRAID BASKETS, round, 



square, oval and oblong— another pretty plant basket of the 



Christmas color. 

 RUSCUS, STATICE and MAGNOLIA WREATHS. 

 MAGNOLIA LEAVES, BEECH SPRAYS and 



STATICE, to use in combination, or for decorating. 

 TONEWARE, in new styles and sizes. Our iron Toneware 



is the coming thing. 



8Kin> rOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUK. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., Philadelphia, pa. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM 



rORD BROS. N^"Y^rk 



The largest receivers and shippers off Cut Flowers in this country 



looses, Qarnations, Qiolets, Qalley, Q|ilies 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES, unrivaled and unlimited 



48 West 28th St., .J:?r^.r., NEW YORK 



Mention The Hevicw when you write. 



figures, but I fear that even Charles 

 Keller, who makes so many pots, would 

 doubt my word. 



Leo Niessen believes that Beauty and 

 Richmond will be plentiful this Christ- 

 mas. 



Maule & Howell, of the Millbrook Lea 

 Greenhouses, Whitford, Pa., have been 

 shipping choice carnations to S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co. 



George Carpenter has been sending 

 exceptionally fine Stevia serrata to 

 William J. Baker. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. report the 

 receipt of exceptionally heavy Christmas 

 orders last week. 



Prospects for all Christmas greens are 

 excellent. 



The Joseph Heacoek Co. made a hand- 

 some exhibit of its new rose pink carna- 

 tion, Dorothy Gordon, at the December 

 meeting of the Florists' Club. This 

 exhibit should have been reported last 

 week, but was inadvertently omitted. 



The show window of J. J. Habermehl's 

 Sons, in the Bellevue-Stratford, was 

 handsomely decorated with poinsettias 

 for Thanksgiving, the first seen this 

 season. 



Pennock Bros, had a handsome window 

 display of American Beauty roses a few 

 days ago, which was mucii admired. 



Julius lioehrs, Rutherford, N. J., and 



William J. Stewart, Boston, attended 

 the December meeting of the Florists' 

 Club. 



John Stephenson, of Oak Lane, says 

 that next year it will be My Maryland 

 and the year after Mrs. Jardine. Pos- 

 sibly — if we can all grow Mrs. Jardine 

 like Mr. Stephenson, of Oak Lane. 



Rodman M. Eisenhart, Torresdale, Pa., 

 has been up against it like all other 

 violet growers this season, but by skillful 

 handling he is rapidly getting his plants 

 into fine blooming condition. 



Frank S. Jackson, manager of the 

 Thorn Hedge Greenhouses, Newton 

 Square, Pa., sent his first poinsettias to 

 H. H. Battles December 5. 



Joseph Neidinger has been busy with 

 liis Christmas specialties. He manufac- 

 tures immortelle chandelier effects and 

 artificial poinsettias, and does both well. 



Phil. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



After a few days of frost and over- 

 coats last week, the temperature was back 

 Monday morning, December 7, to 60 de- 

 grees, and an April rain was falling. 

 Nothing indicated winter but the Christ- 



mas trees, which are here in tens of 

 thousands. 



In the wholesale cut flower market 

 there is but little change to note. Beau- 

 ties are abundant, and 30 cents the top; 

 8 cents is the extreme figure for Maids. 

 The new varieties of roses demand a 

 little higher figure and some of them, 

 especially My Maryland, are growing 

 rapidly in popularity. 



A comparison with last year's quota- 

 tions at this time is interesting, inas- 

 much as it shows an exactly similar con- 

 dition of the market. Four cents was 

 then, as now, the extreme top for nov- 

 elties in carnations, and 50 cents to 75 

 cents for the specials was the violet 

 quotation. Lilies had advanced to 12 

 cents and that ia top price now, so 

 history repeats itself. 



The quality of everything is now su- 

 perb. There is no more pickling and 

 there will not be until Christmas. It 

 is too soon to prophesy the holiday 

 prices. The retail florists have had 

 prices to suit themselves and are enjoy- 

 ing general prosperity. 



The supply of cypripediums is difficult 

 to digest daily, So many are coming in. 

 Many of the best varieties of orchids are 

 now arriving in goodly numbers and 

 James McManus says that the Christmas 

 supply will be large, although the cat- 



