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The Weekly Florists' Revicl^. 



December 30, 1909. 



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THE FINEST ROSES 



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CLEVELAND, OHIO 



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CLEVELAND. 



The Market. 



Reports on Christmas trade from the 

 different florists in this vicinity seem to 

 be most favorable; in fact, most of the 

 retailers report a heavy increase in busi- 

 ness. There seemed to be a good supply 

 of almost everything, the retailers having 

 no trouble in getting all the cut flowers 

 they wanted. There was a scarcity of 

 some kinds of pot plants and quantities 

 were frozen in transit, making a bad 

 matter worse. There was a decided fall- 

 ing off in the demand for Beauties and 

 violets at the last moment, which left 

 the Christmas morning shipments unsold. 



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Knoble Bros, are more than pleased 

 with the result of Christmas trade, hav- 

 ing had an increase of fifty per cent 

 over last year. This firm advertised in 

 the daily papers for a week preceding 

 Christmas, making special mention of 

 boxwood wreaths, which they sold by the 

 hundred?;. It kept six Avagons and two 

 automobiles busy to deliver their output. 



A. M. Albrecht reports having done 

 twice the business of last year. He han- 

 dled cut flowers of all kinds in quantity. 



C. A. Bramley was a heavy buyer over 

 the holidays, having had some large 

 funeral orders besides his usual Christ- 

 mas rush. Mr. Bramley was also fortu- 

 nate in not having been injured when his 

 wagon was hit by an automobile. 



The Jones-Russell Co. is elated over 

 the volume of trade done for the first 

 holiday in business. It was above the 

 hig}?eet expectations. This firm worked 



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with all hands on until 8 p. m. Christmas 

 night. They also report having many 

 large decorations for the week between 

 Christmas and New Year's. 



Westman & Getz are more than pleased 

 with the Christmas trade. They handled 

 large quantities of fancy hampers and 

 baskets filled with fancy foliage plants. 

 Their call for cut flowers also was heavy. 



Smith & Fetters report a heavy in- 

 crease over a year ago. They also have 

 a great number of decorations for this 

 week. 



John Kirchner had the best sale of 

 Christmas plants in years. His cut flower 

 trade was also up to the mark. 



Peter Nichols, of the Arcade, sold 

 quantities of wreaths of all kinds, also 

 quantities of air plants in fancy brass 

 dishes. 



Milford Parks had a heavy call for vio- 

 lets. Beauties, Killarney and red carna- 

 tions. His trade was far ahead of a 

 year ago. B. 



The J. M. Gasser Co. reports a most 

 excellent Christmas trade. Everything 

 sold well at a fair price. There was no 

 advance in prices over former years, al- 

 though roses and carnations were a de- 

 cided improvement in quality over other 

 Christmases. Killarney roses were par- 



ticularly fine; in fact, better than any 

 pink rose ever handled at any previous 

 Christmas, and they cut 12,000 of them. 

 Beauties were not abundant, and not of 

 good color. Consequently there was not 

 much sale for these. Snapdragons, gar 

 denias, orchids, daffodils, pansies and 

 mignonette were in evidence and soM 

 well. Wallflowers, begonias, poinsettias 

 and cyclamens took the lead in plants. 

 The blizzard and snow storm arriveil 

 promptly on schedule time Christmas 

 morning, delaying incoming shipments of 

 flowers from the east. Violets were from 

 twelve hours to two days late, causinjj; 

 considerable worry and disappointmeni 

 to the retailers. Who should stand this 

 loss, the shipper, the express company or 

 the purchaser? It was not carelessness, 

 or lack of effort, on the part of the first 

 two named. The Gasser Co. made one 

 shipment of 200 cypripediums to Mon 

 tana. These had to leave a week m 

 advance. 



KANSAS QTY. 



The Market. 



We have passed through the severest 

 cold weather for Christmas that has been 

 known for twenty years. The ground 



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