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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Dbcbmbeb 23, 1009. 



Good Wishes and Greetings 



We wish to extend to all our patrons and friends 



A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 



for their generous support during the season of 1909, which has been so 

 prosperous for all of us. With a continuance of your favor, a still larger 

 business will be enjoyed by all of us during the coming season. 



With every good wish, we remain faithfully yours, 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 



1129 Arch Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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back the regular daily shipments is, al- 

 ready evident, and the usual flood at the 

 last seems inevitable. There will be few 

 chrysanthemums and these are already 

 sold. The orchid supply is large and 

 varied and prices will hold easily until 

 after the holidays. Lilies, valley and 

 all bulbous stock are bringing top prices. 

 Apart from the shortage in bouquet 

 green, the green goods men are jubilant. 

 Day and night the making of wreaths 

 and roping goes on, with large forces of 

 extra men. Holly, when good, sells 

 rapidly at $4 to $5 a case. The price of 

 bouquet green is 12 cents at present and 

 15 cents may be obtained before the 

 week is over. There are millions of 

 Christmas trees. Every grocer and 

 butcher has a hand in their distribution. 

 Florists now handle only the selected 

 stock. The small, bushy evergreens in 

 pots and baskets sell fast. 



Varioftt Notes. 



M. C. Ebel, treasurer of the Aphine 

 Co., of Madison, has been greatly en- 

 couraged by the results of the demon- 

 stration made last week in New York 

 and to be repeated shortly in Boston. 



The next meeting of the Florists ' Club 

 will take place January 10. It will be 

 inauguration night and the new oflScers 

 will orate and the plans of the new 

 president will be elaborated. 



The debutante receptions have been 

 numerous this month and some large 

 weddings and banquets have given the 

 retail florists general encouragement. 

 The openings of new plays at the 

 theaters, averaging one a night of late, 

 have also added to the responsibilities of 

 the big stores in the theater zone. 



Hunt's poinsettias from Staten Island 

 are handled by J. K. Allen. 



The greenhouse builders are all cheer- 

 ful as to the prospect for business in 

 1910. 



The banquet and ball season is close 

 at hand. The Greek ball January 17 

 will be a gorgeous affair if it is at all 

 like its predecessors. 



Frank Good, with John King Duer, 

 of Madison avenue, goes to Buffalo 

 January 1 to join the force of S, A. 

 Anderson. 



The fourteenth annual smoker of the 

 Madison Florists' Club will be held 



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Wednesday, January 12. This is always 

 a warm evening in New Jersey. 



Last week, down on lower Fifth ave- 

 nue, Wernz & Koehne took charge of the 

 Grace church and house decorations for 

 the Whitridge-Greenough wedding, and 

 December 29 have the Gourd-Milhan 

 wedding, an elaborate one, at St. Pat- 

 rick's cathedral. 



Kessler Bros., were practically sold 

 out of plants December 18. 



W. Elliott & Sons are making exten- 

 sive improvements in their store and al- 

 ready planning for the spring auction 

 trade. 



The Cleary Horticultural Co. has a 

 large stock of trees, plants, evergreens 

 and holly for Christmas. 



The Stumpp & Walter Co. maintains 

 a unique decoration, both inside and out, 

 at the big store on Barclay street, with 

 Christmas bells, holly trees and Japanese 

 novelties. 



0. V. Zangen, Hoboken, is well pleased 

 with his wholesale cut flower branch on 

 West Twenty-eighth street and its prog- 

 ress during the last year. 



Eussin & Hanfling say they have had 

 their most successful year. 



Walter Sheridan is celebrating his 



twenty-seventh Christmas in the whole- 

 sale cut flower business. 



G. E. Bradshaw is receiving large ship- 

 ments of asparagus from the south. 



The Cut Flower Exchange manager 

 and his assistants have arranged for the 

 yearly turkey rafSe December 23. Two 

 fine birds will reward the lucky specu- 

 lators. 



Gunther Bros, have had a successful 

 year in their new store and are handling 

 violets as extensively as in the old days 

 of the nineties on West Twenty-ninth 

 street. 



John P. Scherer, of Scherer & Co., 

 was out of the city for two months this 

 fall, with a force of men, collecting 

 ferns, hemlock, laurel and evergreens 

 for his new store at 106 West Twenty- 

 sixth street. 



The Manhattan Flower Market is 

 sending out its usual novelties in calen- 

 dars. 



Siebrecht & Son are cutting large 

 quantities of Cattleya labiata. 



Mrs. Sarah J. Burnham, mother of W. 

 W. Burnham, formerly with Blooming- 

 dale Bros., New York, died December 

 17. Mrs. Burnham was the owner of a 

 flower establishment in Harlem some 



