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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 15, 1910. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Oateway to the South. 



The buying public is busy spending 

 its big round dollars for Christmas 

 presents and, as a consequence, is neg- 

 lecting the usual round of social 

 gaieties that take up a great deal of our 

 commodity. This is the usual pre-holi- 

 day state of affairs. Still, business is 

 by no means dull. The regular orders 

 from the local stores and the heavy out- 

 of-town buying about clean up every- 

 thing worth while. Prices in almost 

 all lines are stiffening. 



As a whole, there is a sufficiency 

 of roses of all kinds, with stock in- 

 creasing in quantity and white moving 

 most slowly. The varieties offered are 

 Killarney and White Killarney, Bride, 

 Bridesmaid, Taft, Ivory, Richmond, 

 Bhea Reid, Jardine and Beauties. The 

 supply of Beauties is ample for all de- 

 mands. 



Carnations are comparatively scarce. 

 The prices in this line are advancing 

 and advices of prospects for the imme- 

 diate future are not a bit encouraging. 

 Other lines are about sufficient for re- 

 quirements, with the exception of sin- 

 gle violets. The cloudy weather is do- 

 ing its best to put this flower out of 

 running for the holidays. They are, 

 however, coming in a little more 

 strongly than for some time. A sufficient 

 quantity of double violets is offered 

 to meet requests. Last week the mar- 

 ket for them was slow, but the early 

 part of this week shows a decided ad- 

 vance in demand. Longiflorum, nar- 

 cissus and stevia are more plentiful 

 than they were and help nicely in 

 rounding out the general supply. Lily 

 of the valley is a regular factor. Box- 

 wood, owing to the absence of lycopo- 

 dium and the consequent shifting of 

 demand toward it, is becoming scarce. 

 It is shipped out as fast as it arrives. 

 The supply of other greens is ample. 

 The Christmas decorative greens are of 

 good quality this year. Holly is well 

 berried and laurel roping was never 

 cleaner. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the Cincin- 

 nati Florists' Society was held at the 

 club rooms December 12. The flower 

 show committee's report was enthusi- 

 astically received by the members 

 present. In less than five minutes $4,- 



000 was subscribed toward the $10,000 

 guarantee fund for the flower show to 

 be held next autumn. With the spirit 

 shown by those present and the co- 

 operation of the other members of the 

 society, the affair should be an unquali- 

 fied success. 



The club accepted the invitation of 

 William Murphy to meet for the next 

 regular meeting at his wholesale place. 

 Mr. Murphy and C. E. Critchell will fur- 

 nish refreshments for a general house- 

 warming after the business meeting. 



Various Notes. 



P. J. dinger has had Michael Match- 

 en, of Peter Reinberg's establishment, 

 look over the heating circulation at his 

 greenhouses at New Castle. When asked 

 about business, Mr. dinger said : ' ' Fine. 



1 clean up every day. My Killarneys 

 are some of the best I have ever seen. ' ' 



Robert Buck & Co., of Washington 

 C. H., O., have been sending some fine 

 mums and snapdragons to C. E. Critch- 

 ell. 



C. C. Murphy is right in line with a 



John B. Nugent. 



(New President of the New York Florista' Club.) 



large supply of carnations for Christ- 

 mas. His houses of his seedling red 

 will be in full crop at that time, no 

 matter what conditions are between 

 now and then. 



Gustav Meier, of the Hyde Park Rose 

 Co., is seriously ill with bronchial pneu- 

 monia. 



F. J. Farney, representing M. Rice & 

 Co., and Martin Reukauf, representing 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., were both in town 

 December 12. 



The bowlers will meet Monday, De- 

 cember 19, at Finke & Craig's. C. E. 

 Critchell has offered a box of cigars to 

 the individual making the highest aver- 

 age on Monday, in the two champion- 

 ship games. The two Als, Al Sunder- 

 bruch and Al Heckman, have been 

 "kidded" so much on being "bunch 

 bowlers," and on having a streak of 

 extraordinary luck, that they are out 

 with a challenge to bowl any other two 

 men of the bowling club a series of 

 games for pleasure or a consideration. 



C. H. H. 



Butland, Vt. — G. E. Hunt has a good 

 opinion of the carnation, Fair Maid. 

 He considers it freer than Enchantress, 

 a good shipper and the best of all in 

 the light pink shades. 



De Land, Fla. — It is reported that Dr. 

 Henri Dux, of Germany, recently locat- 

 ed here, will establish a plant for pre- 

 serving foliage of ornamental plants 

 and shrubbery and will ship this north 

 to be used for decorations. The doctor 

 has discovered a process by which the 

 natural color of leaves can be preserved 

 indefinitely and at present will use prin- 

 cipally the palmetto and magnolia for 

 that purpose. 



NEW YOEK 



The Market. 



We are having real winter weather. 

 The cut flower market had a healthful 

 tone all last week. There have not 

 been larger shipments than the market 

 could digest and prices have remained 

 at a reasonable level, and a little lower 

 than a year ago. The mum shipments 

 are practically over. It has been a 

 long season for them and the public 

 seems satiated. There are a few Chad- 

 wicks, Eatons and Bonnaffons yet, but 

 all of any value are sold before arrival. 



Violets were abundant all the week 

 and the quotations December 10 fell to 

 60 and 50 cents. It is likely 75 cents 

 will be top until a few days before 

 Christmas. Some wholesalers are con- 

 tracting to deliver violets for Christmas 

 at $1.25 per hundred. Others think 

 this too liberal a figure and predict a 

 shortage, because so many growers in 

 Rhinebeck now ship direct to customers 

 in the smaller cities and give New 

 York the cold shoulder. A good many 

 growers are shipping as lightly as pos- 

 sible. 



Beauties are as much in demand as 

 ever. The banquet season is on and 

 these are always the favorite dinner 

 decoration. Rose stock of all kinds is 

 now superb. Prices are rising slowly. 

 My Maryland grows in popularity. 

 Richmond is in wider demand and will 

 reach a record mark for Christmas. 



Carnations are rising. The novelties 

 bring 6 cents readily j 4 cents was gen- 

 eral for all the older varieties of merit. 

 There is nothing under 2 cents in the 

 market. Doubtless choice stock will 

 bring 8 cents shortly. 



