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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



.T.\ni;aiiy 4. l!»12. 



WICHITA, KAN. 



The Market. 



Perhaps the most remarkable thing 

 about the 1911 Christmas was the fact 

 that there was nothing remarkable 

 about it. The volume of business was 

 a small percentage better than for the 

 same dates of last year, with prices 

 about the same. The weather was not 

 as warm as Christmas on some previous 

 years, but the thermometer did not go 

 below 20 degrees. Deliveries were 

 handicapped slightly, but not seriously, 

 by snow and rain which came early in 

 the week and remained for Christmas. 



Christm«B»- plants were excellent in 

 quality and found the usual ready sale. 

 The honors were divided about evenly 

 between azaleas, Lorraines, poinsettias 

 and cyclamens, with plant baskets and 

 ferns coming second. 



Shipped cut flowers arrived in good 

 condition, and for once were sufficient 

 in quantity. The demand seemed a 

 shade heavier than usual, but the re- 

 tailers came a little nearer getting their 

 orders filled and were better prepared 

 to handle the later shoppers. The 

 prices were about the same as for pre- 

 vious years, Beauties ranging from $6 

 to $15, roses around $3, with fancy 

 KiBarney. and Richmond at $4 and 

 $p. Good _pink and white carna- 

 fidhs «»©ligTrt'$1.50; i«ds, $2. Violets 

 just about equaled the demand, and 

 sold for $1.50 and $2 per hundred. Some 

 bulbous stock was offered, around 75 

 cents per dozen. 



The consignments of holly came about 

 when ordered and, as usual, one or two 

 cases proved a disappointment. All 

 that was salable was sold early; this 

 was true also of holly wreaths. Mistle- 

 toe was slightly better than usual, and 

 was just about equal to the demand. 

 Only two florists handled Christmas 

 trees and these report nice clean-ups. 

 There is enough green rope left to do 

 some decorating. The gradually in- 

 creasing price and the gradually de- 

 creasing thickness of this once popular 

 article seems to discourage the mer- 

 chant who used to hang several hun- 

 dred yards. He now leaves such stuff 

 alone or invests in some gaudy green 

 paper creation that can be dusted off 

 and folded away for future reference. 



Since Christmas the usual quietness 

 has appeared, though business is better 

 than for the same dates last year, due 

 mostly to the demand from out of town. 

 The weather and the rather stiff prices 

 have not encouraged local transient 

 trade. 



Various Notes. 



The florists were thankful that the 

 week before Christmas was marked by 

 a decided lull in funeral work. This 

 was broken rather suddenly for the 

 firm of Chas. P. Mueller on Christmas 

 afternoon, when everyone was ready 

 to go home and rest, by a nice order 

 for out-of-town funeral work that kept 

 them busy until evening. 



Bixby & Co. report a highly satis- 

 factory Christmas business in plants, 

 with quite a little flurry, also, in cut 

 flower baskets. 



F. Kuechenmeister has given up gas 

 as greenhouse fuel and gone back to 

 the old reliable coal. 



The Blake vegetable growing estab- 

 lishment has installed a new oil burner 

 for heating. B. C. 



The Mum Manual, by Elmer D. Smith, 

 for 40 cents sent to The Review. 





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Formerly Took a Day— Now Takes 

 an Hour 



^UU — to water all my greenhouses," writes Mr. Blake, 

 uVrl of Columbus, Kansas. 



The iSkinner Syst<^m of Irrigation (either outdoors 

 or iinioore) will do the work of ten men with hose— 

 and do it better. |t 



The spray from the special nozzles of the Skinner 

 Sjs'em comes down in a mist form— waters uniformly 

 without bruising tender foliage or caking the ground. 



In ore season you will gave enough in wagrsalone to pay 

 for your Skinner System, and you will get l)etter. eirliur crops— 

 the kind that bring big prices on the early market. 



Write today for our six bioks on Irrigttio \ — and r«ad 

 what your brother Florists and Gardeners are doing with the 

 Skinner System of Irrigation. Let us show you in actual dollars 

 and cents where it is costing you money every day you put off 

 iuvestigatingthis wonderful new Inveniioi). Write topay to , 



Dept. H. The Skinner lRRi«ATiQN^'(>^^roy^hio. 

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