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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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Decbmbbb 20, 1910. 



leas, araucarias and other plants, in 

 which they specialize. 



Extra fine lots of yellow marguerites 

 are coming in from Lewis Smith, of 

 Tewksbury, and D. J. Horrigan, of Fox- 

 boro. Mr. Horrigan also has an abun- 

 dance of calendulas. 



John Barr's new variegated seedling 

 carnation sold at $12 per hundred and 

 looks like a winner. Mr. Barr is one of 

 our most progressive growers and is plan- 

 ning to increase his greenhouse area in 

 the near future. 



Philip L. Carbone, on Boylston street, 

 had an artistically arranged store for 

 Christmas. His wreaths of spruce, pine 

 cones and Ilex verticillata tied with broad 

 bows of scarlet ribbon were well made 

 and in active demand. Business here 

 was heavy. 



H. Hansen, of Maiden, had an excellent 

 lot of Firefly azaleas, primulas and other 

 seasonable flowering plants, which found 

 a ready sale. 



H. E. Bates, of the King Construction 

 Co., was one of our visitors last week, 

 looking up new building contracts. 



Thomas Roland, of Nahant, grew 

 many of the superb plants of Erica 

 melanthera seen at the better class 

 stores here. 



At the next meeting of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club, January 17, 

 officers will be installed and a pleasing 

 entertainment will be provided for 

 ladies. 



J. Newman & Sons, at their Tremont 

 street store, did a heavy Christmas 

 trade, both in plants and cut flowers, 

 last week. 



Malcolm Orr, of Saugus, who forsook 

 violets for sweet peas, is having grand 

 success with them. No finer flowers 

 than his were seen in the Christmas 

 market. 



William Sim, of Cliftondale, had as 

 usual an immense pick of grand qual- 

 ity Princess of "Wales violets from his 

 100,000 plants. He had also a heavy 

 pick of fine sweet peas. 



Inquiry of Henry M. Robinson & Co. 

 elicited the fact that this energetic 

 firm had easily beaten all previous 

 Christmas records, both in greenery and 

 cut flowers. W. N. Craig. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



A little of everything would best ex- 

 plain the weather conditions for Christ- 

 mas week. The beginning was severely 

 cold and made heavy wrapping nec- 

 essary. Shipping was difficult and 

 many lots were reported frozen. Along 

 at the end the weather became mild and 

 by Thursday a heavy rain fell, which 

 lasted all day and was a big drawback 

 to business. This was followed by snow 

 and mild temperature, and for Saturday 

 and Sunday the weather was ideal. 

 This condition brought the people out 

 in good fashion and business was excel- 

 lent. All the stores were cleaned up of 

 all salable stock and from reports the 

 Christmas trade was a record-breaker. 

 Plants were the principal feature and, 

 on account of the scarcity of carnations 

 and low priced cut flowers, they were 

 much in demand. Poinsettias in pans, 

 begonias and baskets all sold readily. 

 Cut stock, especially the carnations, 

 were higher in price than in other 

 years on account of the scarcity. Arti- 

 ficial stock sold this year better than 

 ever and replaced many a flower and 



plant. Some stores made the window 

 effect of ruscus and other stock not 

 perishable. Baskets of ruscus and box, 

 statice and such things sold well. Vio- 

 lets and valley were most in demand for 

 corsage work and ranged in price the 

 same as in other years. Bed bouvardia 

 sold well and was used extensively with 

 Romans. 



Various Notes. 



After New Year's the bowling club 

 will resume duties at the old stand and 

 we hope to see all the old faces back 

 on the job. 



Miss Rebstock was taken sick a few 

 days before the holidays, which was a 

 big handicap, as she is the mainstay of 

 the store. R. A. S. 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



It was a retailers' Christmas. For the 

 wholesaler and the grower the prices 

 realized were little above half of those 

 of a year ago. In addition to the ad- 

 vantage of low rates for his stock, the 

 usual retail values of other years pre- 

 vailed. The public has been educated, 

 through many holiday experiences, to 

 an average of values that now are paid 

 without question. In addition to this 

 encouraging state of affairs, from the 

 retailers ' standpoint, never were flower- 

 ing and foliage plants more abundant or 

 more reasonable in price. Last, but not 

 least, the weather turned warm, deliv- 

 eries were made safely without any 

 extra care or wrapping, and every retail 

 store on Monday morning looked as if a 

 Kansas cyclone had struck it. The few 

 left-overs in the plant line, if there are 

 any, will all be needed for New Year's 

 gifts, and so the Christmas of 1910, 

 from its retail outlook, will long be 

 pleasantly remembered. 



The wholesale distributors of cut 

 flowers found the problem of disposal 

 this year a serious one. The quantity 

 of roses and carnations sent in was 

 enormous. Most of it was of superb 

 quality. There was little pickling and 

 yet it was no easy matter to realize 

 above one-half the prices of a year ago. 

 Friday's all-day rain did not add any 

 to the cheerfulness of the street. The 

 wholesale stores were open all of Satur- 

 day night and Sunday. By noon of 

 Christmas day the clean-up had been 

 accomplished. The top price for Beau- 

 ties was $1, but comparatively few 

 reached this figure; 60 cents to 75 cents 

 was the general average, and many 

 were sold at 50 cents before Sunday 

 night was over. There was a limit to 

 the shipment of Killarney. It domi- 

 nates values. Every other variety of 

 roses feels this influence. Richmond 

 could not rise above 25 cents. Bride, 

 Maid and Maryland were high at 12 

 cents. The No. 1 and No. 2 roses were 

 the first to go; much of the long- 

 stemmed stock was left over. The best 

 Beacon and Victory carnations touched 

 10 cents and the novelties did no better. 

 For Enchantress 8 cents was high mark. 

 Thousands sold as low as 6 cents before 

 Monday. There was great abundance 

 of all varieties, and no finer quality was 

 ever seen at this season. The supply of 

 orchids proved ample for the demand, 

 but gardenias sold at $6 a dozen, and 

 there were not enough of them. Good 

 valley held at 4 cents. There was too 

 much of the medium grade. Lilies did 

 not go above 12 cents, and there was 

 no shortage. Narcissi were a glut. 



Violets seldom rose above $1.25; all 

 were not sold, however, for on Monday 

 the top was $1 and on Tuesday the 

 street merchants were again in evi- 

 dence. 



The green goods men had a wonderful 

 Christmas, if one may judge by the 

 little stock remaining. This will all go 

 during the present week. 



Various Notes. 



It is difficult to particularize where 

 all the retailers demonstrate their artis- 

 tic ability at Christmas, in beautiful 

 window decorations. Among the best 

 of the window displays were Brown's 

 and David Clarke's Sons', on upper 

 Broadway; Warendorflf 's, at the Anso- 

 nia; Dards', Myer's, and the Bunyard 

 Co. 's, on Madison avenue; Bowe's and 

 Small & Sons', on Broadway, and Mc- 

 Connell's and Wadley & Smyth's, on 

 Fifth avenue. Over in Brooklyn there 

 were equally fine window displays at 

 Jahn's, on Nostrand avenue; Wilson's, 

 on Greene avenue, and Phillips' and 

 Masur's, on lower Fulton street. 



John F. Sharkey, Jr., arrived in town 

 December 6 and will later be associated 

 with his father at 814 Sixth avenue. 



Harry Turner spent his Christmas with 

 old friends in England, going over on the 

 Mauretania. 



A. T. Boddington last week shipped a 

 carload of cannas to Winterson's Seed 

 Store, Chicago. 



Miss Behan, formerly with John 

 Young, is now bookkeeper for Myer, at 

 Madison avenue and Fifty-eighth street. 



Siebrecht & Siebreeht were well pleased 

 with their first Christmas. Howard E. 

 Blauvelt is their manager. 



J. J. Coan, of the Growers' Cut Flower 

 Co., had a fine lot of mums at Christmas, 

 especially Yellow Chadwick. Prices 

 realized were satisfactory. 



Mistletoe was at a premium Christmas 

 eve. Moore, Hentz & Nash say they 

 could have sold double the quantity im- 

 ported from England. 



William P. Ford says he never han- 

 dled finer Beauties or carnations than 

 this Christmas. 



Monsieur Beauplan, of the Forster 

 Mansfield Co., raised the wages of all 

 his employees five per cent as a Christ- 

 mas present. The firm now occupies the 

 whole building and has some large con- 

 tracts in decoration. A new refrigerator 

 was built in Wadley 's last week, at 

 Pla infield, N. J. 



The greatest enterprise of the holiday 

 season was the plunging of C. C. Trepel. 

 His store at Bloomingdale 's is four 

 times the size of last year. He had an 

 immense stock and spent $1,200 in ad- 

 vertising in the week. The same method 

 prevailed in his store at Losier's, Brook- 

 lyn. He buys cut flowers by the wagon- 

 load, and takes risks that would make 

 the ordinary florist turn gray in a night. 

 His wife manages the Brooklyn business. 



Joseph J. Levy handled a fine grade 

 of poinsettias and asparagus in pans for 

 his Christmas plant specialty. 



Young & Nugent and August Millang, 

 on Twenty-eighth street, did an enormous 

 Christmas business. As a retail street, 

 the building operations of the last six 

 months have been discouraging. Mr.. 

 Nugent has a large telephone clientele, 

 and a big volume of orders daily from 

 out-of-town florists. 



Badgley, Reidel & Meyer were much 

 elated over their first combination 

 Christmas. 



P. J. Smith was under the weather 



