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The Rorists' Review 



JANDABY 2, 1913. 



them easily broke all records. They 

 experienced great trouble in delivering 

 late orders. 



Various Notes. 



J, E. Shield, of North Woburn, hit 

 the Christmas holidays just right with 

 a splendid crop of carnations. His 

 leaders are Beacon, White Wonder, 

 Pink Delight and Fenn. 



A. A. Pembroke picked 30,000 high 

 grade carnations during the two weeks 

 ending December 28, and the prices 

 were the highest he has ever received. 



Attendance steadily increases at the 

 landscape gardening classes of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club and pu- 

 pils all seem keenly interested. 



Many growers have cause to remem- 

 ber the snow storm of December 24, 

 1912. Transportation facilities be- 

 came utterly demoralized in midafter- 

 noon. Terminal stations were crowded 

 and delays of from three to six hours 

 in trains leaving were the average. 

 Those who went home early were for- 

 tunate. Quite a few were Branded in 

 the city over night, ^ 



Welch Bros. Co. had far the heaviest 

 Christmas business in its history. The 

 high price of flowers somewhat re- 

 stricted sales of these, but trade in 

 greens was record-breaking. 



John Barr secured as high as $12 

 and $15 per hundred for some of his 

 fancy carnations, of which he had a 

 heavy pick for the holidays. Beacon 

 and his new variegated, Mrs. B. P. 

 Cheney, were top-notchers. 



Andrew Christensen, of Stoneham, 

 who grows 40,000 carnations, is well 

 pleased with Kosette and Benora, 

 among the new varieties. St. Nicholas 

 comes rather slowly. Of older varieties. 

 White Wonder, Beacon, White En- 

 chantress and Pink Delight are the 

 leaders. 



William Sim marketed 150,000 single 

 violets for the holidays. He will not 

 start picking sweet peas until early in 

 Februa^ry. 



ThefW. W. Edgar Co. hardly had a 

 salable plant left. They have 10,000 

 lilies and a host of other plants coming 

 along for Easter. 



The Flower Growers' Sales Co. had 

 splendid business, both in plants and 

 cut flowers. They had 45,000 sweet 

 peas from Thomas Roland 's big new 

 house at Revere. 



L. E. Small, of Tewksbury, and West 

 Street Greenhouses, of Reading, are 

 large shippers of bachelor's buttons to 

 W. R. Holden. 



Donald Carmichael, of Wellesley, has 

 had splendid success with mignonette 

 and carnations this season. 



"Never saw anything like it," is 

 the report of H. M. Robinson & Co., on 

 Christmas trade. They were well 

 cleaned out. 



Everett E. Cummings, of Woburn, 

 had 43,000 Princess of Wales violets 

 for the holidays. 



A. G. Lake, of Wellesley Hills, has 

 a heavy cut of yellow marguerites, in 

 addition to his carrations. 



'The Massachusetts Moss & Greenery 

 Co. reports a great sale of all lines of 

 Christmas supplies. 



Arthur Griffin, of Woburn, finds 

 Pink Delight, White Wonder and Bea- 

 con the best of their color. He will 

 grow less of Gloriosa another season. 



Penn's report that their holiday 

 trade was a banner one. They adver- 

 tised heavily in the newspaper, making 

 cyclamens and poinsettias leaders. j 



Montrose Greenhouses had a fine 

 Christmas crop of roses. Killarney, 

 Richmond and Ward are their special- 

 ties, although some Sunburst are 

 grown. Ward with them is good. 



Freesia from W. R. Nicholson, H. W. 

 Vose, S. J. Goddard and Sutermeister 

 Estate was unusually abundant and 

 good for the holidays and sold finely. 



McAlpine Bros., of Exeter, N. H., 

 had a superb cut of Richmond for 

 Christmas. There were many thou- 

 sands of them and plenty had stems 

 four to six feet long. 



I regret to report the death of the 

 wife of Geo. C. Harbison, the well- 

 known foreman for W. H. Elliott, at 

 Brighton. Mr. Harbison has the sin- 

 cere sympathy of many friends in his 

 afiliction. Among the pallbearers at 

 the funeral, December 24, were W. H. 

 Elliott and Peter M. Miller. 



Peter M. Miller is on a business trip 

 to Bar Harbor, Me." 



John Stafford, of Bar Harbor, Me., 

 and his nephew, James Morrison, are 

 visitors this week. W. N. Craig. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



As a surprise, the weather man sent 

 us a heavy snow for Christmas. There 

 was a snowfall on Monday, but it melted 

 off about noon. That night the snow 

 fell again, about six inches deep, and 

 remained until after Chistmas. No 

 more ideal Christmas weather could be 

 expected, but so many were afraid of 

 the cold that it undoubtedly hurt the 

 flower trade on Tuesday and on 

 Wednesday forenoon. In spite of this, 

 the sales were the largest that were 

 ever known here for Christmas. De- 

 liveries were hard to make on account 

 of the cold and snow, which were not 

 expected and were not prepared for. 

 But there was no loss and all deliveries 

 were made by working late. 



As a rule the prices remained firm, 

 though we have reports of some sell- 

 ing of carnations at cut prices. The 

 day after Christmas, a glance at the 

 stock that was left showed that every- 

 thing had been cleaned up as closely 

 as could be done without the danger of 

 serious shortages later. Carnations 

 were all sold, one might say; so were 

 the made-up baskets and pots. Aza- 

 leas were cleaned up so closely that 

 there were not enough for the trade 

 that always comes the next few days. 

 Roses were the only item that was left 

 in any quantity at all. Most of these 

 were cleaned up before Saturday night, 

 so that the close of the week found 

 everyone happy. 



Trade is lighter now than is usual 

 after the holiday season, and everyone 

 is making use of the respite to get 

 ready to push the stock for Easter. 

 Funeral work is especially light, an 

 unusual thing just after Christmas. 

 Inquiries lead to the belief that crops 

 are in good condition, and that there 

 should be a full crop of lilies and other 

 plants for Easter here. Should they 

 make good, this will be a bumper year 

 for the business here, as all the trade 

 enjoyed exceptional sales at both 

 Thanksgiving and Christmas. 



Various Notes. 



Haury & Sons report their best 

 Christmas season. They were espe- 

 cially strong in Lorraine begonias and 

 made-up baskets. They cleaned out 



almost every salable plant in these. 

 Their delivery boy had an accident 

 December 24 that might have been 

 serious. In making a crossing the 

 wagon was struck by a street car. 

 The damage to stock was slight and 

 the boy escaped with nothing m6re 

 serious than a severely bruised 

 shoulder. 



Geny Bros, had a large stock of as 

 good azaleas as could be found any- 

 where, but they were all sold out. 

 Their baskets were fine and everyone 

 was sold, and more had to be made up 

 on the spur of the moment. They had 

 the heaviest cut of carnations that 

 they have ever had, but sold out 

 closely. They say they have never 

 bought so little for the holiday trade 

 and never before had so satisfactory a 

 business. 



I was unaWe to visit Melntyre Bros., 

 but understand that they got their full 

 share of the business. I am told that 

 they had a good supply of mighty fine 

 late chrysanthemums, which sold well. 



The Joy Floral Co. had an extra 

 heavy supply of as fine roses as were 

 ever seen in the city. While they did 

 not entirely clean up on them, they 

 managed to make a good clean-up by 

 the end of the week. A steam pipe 

 burst one night in their Beauty house 

 and cooked one end of one bed. But 

 for the fortunate circumstance that a 

 man was in the range at the time and 

 turned off the steam at once, the re- 

 sults would have been serious. They 

 say they have had a good trade since 

 Christmas, especially out of town. 



F. B. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. ^ 



Christmas business proved good for 

 everyone. The wholesalers cleaned up 

 and might have sold more, particularly 

 in roses and carnations, had they been 

 forthcoming. Every retailer in town 

 sold out and could have used more 

 stock had it been available. In fact, 

 their business was limited only by the 

 supply. A few double violets alone 

 were held over. Plants, too, sold well. 

 Begonia Glory of Cincinnati, poinset^ 

 tias, azaleas and cyclamens were the 

 leaders, in the order named, in bloom- 

 ing plants. A great many ferns, Bos- 

 tons, Whitmani and Farleyenso, also 

 were used. 



In decorative material, boxwood ran 

 short. For the four or five days pre- 

 ceding Christmas the only supply was 

 the limited quantities that were rushed 

 in by express. Holly sold well, but not 

 quite as quickly as other years. The 

 average quality was high. The supply 

 of laurel roping was shorter than other 

 years, but the quantity offered suf- 

 ficed to go around. Deep inroads were 

 made into the supply of immortelles. 

 Red and green ruscus sold well. Wild 

 smilax was an exceptionally good 

 seller. 



The outlook, in the immediate fu- 

 ture, for flowers is bright. The aver- 

 age supply in each line is on the in- 

 crease. The average quality is high. 

 With this in view, the wholesalers 

 should easily be able to take care of 

 all calls on them for stock. 



Various Notes. 



C. E. Critchell was the first in the 

 market to offer Mexican ivy this fall. 



P. J. dinger repeated his usual 

 Christmas performance. He came into 



