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The Florists^ Review 



January 9, 1913. 



THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



St. Valentine's Day Novelties. 



We will have a complete line of Florists' Supplies for St. Valentine's Day. 



We want to call your special attention to 



OUR DAINTY TWO-TONE BASKETS 



They are little beauties in style, form and the soft blending of two flower colors. They are adapted 

 for Violets, Sweet Peas, or even for a small plant in bloom. 



Tumbler Baskets will also be one of our most attractive specialties. 



We have a new silk fiber ribbon that will meet with instant approval. In texture it is 

 finer, in color it is brighter than the old silk fiber ribbon — best of all, the price is down — just 

 think of it, a superior ribbon at an inferior price! 



FOR EVBRYTHINQ IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. SEND FOR OUR SILENT SALESMAN. 



1129 Arch Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



private banquet hall, was splendidly 

 arranged with floral decorations of 

 American Beauty roses by E. Q. Shoch. 

 Edward G. Bowers, advertising man- 

 ager, extended to Mr. Eschner, on 

 behalf of the employees, a vote of 

 thanks for his kindness. Mr. Eschner 

 responded and in part said that the 

 affair next year will surpass this one. 

 Mr. Zirkman, R. Q. Shoch, Eaymond 

 Brunswick and J. E, Willard each had 

 a word to say, after which the party 

 went to hear Cissie Loftus at Keith's. 

 Among those present were: Joseph 

 Lane, Frank Feinstein, August Stadler, 

 Wendel Gellich, Frederick Carbiner, 

 Anthony Angelo, Harry Bloom, Philip 

 Bastine, Timothy Callahan, Thomas 

 Goya, John Hendry, Casper Wild, James 

 Lane, John E. Willard, Jackson Neil, 

 Robert Glass, David Boyle, Harry 

 Meis, Raymond Barker, Frank Smith, 

 Israel Radbill, Samuel Edleman, B. 

 Eschner, A. Zirkman, R. Brunswick, R. 

 Q. Shoch, F. J. Farney, Ed. G. Bowers. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



New Year's week was quiet enough 

 for all branches of the trade to recu- 

 perate after the strenuous Christmas 

 season. Even the holiday celebration 

 of the advent of 1913 hardly created 

 a ripple in the placid market. Apart 

 from the banquet to the President and 

 the funeral of Ambassador Eeid, no 

 special call for cut flowers developed. 

 A few large weddings and several so- 

 ciety dinners tended to relieve the 

 monotony of the week. Prices of roses 

 and carnations sank gradually to the 

 usual midwinter level and little change 

 is now anticipated before the early 

 Easter activity materializes. Between 

 this and the National Flower Show in 

 April there seems little danger of 

 stagnation and the retail trade looks 

 forward hopefully to ten busy weeks, 

 which culminate March 23. The two 

 weeks' interval before the exhibition 

 which follows Easter gives but little 

 time for the finishing touches of "the 

 greatest show on earth," as Chairman 

 Totty and his aides begin to rever- 

 ently call it. 



SPECIAL OFFER SPIRAEA 



To Make Room for Incoming Stock off Seeds 



100 1000 



Gladstone, the best of all forcing Spiraeas $6.50 $60. 00 



Compacta Multifflora, dwarf, and of very compact 



growth 5.50 50.00 



Astilbe Fioribunda, a very plumy variety 5.50 50.00 



laponlca, the old type, tall 4.00 35.00 



BEGONIA BULBS 



V^ery Choicest Largre-flowering Type. Extra Large. 



Slnsl«, serarate colors doz., 4Cc; 100, $2 50; 1000. $22.00 



SlnBl«, mixed colors doz., 30c; 100, 225; 1000, 20.C0 



Double, teparate colors doz., 65c; 100, 4.U0; 1000, 37.50 



Doubl*, mixed colors doz. 50c; 100, 3.75; 1000, 33.00 



GLOXINIA BULBS 



Separate colors doz.. 60c; 100, $1.26: 1000. $30.00 



Mixed colors doz., 60c; 100. 3.00; 1000, 27.60 



We ire Headquarters for CANNA ROOTS, GLADIOLUS BULBS, etc. 



Handy Wholesale Price List and Order Sheet of Flower Seeds, crop 1912, now 

 ready. Mailed free upon application. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



518 Market Street, :: :: PHILADELPHIA 



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The left-over plants and combination 

 baskets from Christmas sold well for 

 New Year's. Cut flawers were not 

 widely called for and wholesale prices 

 were less than half the Christmas quo- 

 tations. American Beauties led the de- 

 cline and all varieties of roses joined 

 in the procession, with the exception of 

 a few of the latest novelties, and of 

 these there is yet a limited supply. Of 

 Killarney and the older kinds there 

 seems to be no limit. Carnations now 

 are abundant and 4 cents was top for 

 everything but the specialties. Lilies 

 and valley are moving slowly and at 

 lower quotations. Violets also have 

 fallen, with a top at 50 cents as the 

 week closed. Many thousands of 

 white violets met with no demand 

 whatever. Good single violets sell best 

 this season. There are plenty of or- 

 chids, especially cattleyas and cypri- 

 pediums, and no wide demand, the 



quotations depending on necessity 

 rather than quality. Gardenias hold 

 well, the best revolving around $5 per 

 dozen. There is now no dearth of 

 callas and they must be exceptional to 

 go above $10 to $12 per hundred. There 

 is an abundance of sweet peas, wall- 

 flowers, narcissi, hyacinths and tulips. 

 Poinsettias have followed mums into 

 the limbo for the season. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club will hold its first 

 session for the new year Monday eve- 

 ning, January 13. President Siebrecht 

 agrees with President Wilson that 13 is 

 his lucky number. Mr. Siebrecht will 

 announce his committees, on the judi- 

 cious appointment of which so largely 

 the future of the club depends. There 

 will be exhibits and an extra pure 

 food demonstration by the house com- 

 mittee that should assure a large at- 



