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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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and was obliged to go home Saturday 

 and remain until Tuesday. 



J. K. Allen sold an immense lot of 

 poinsettias and carnations in pots. 



Traendly & Schenck did a large ship- 

 ping business and were making no com- 

 plaints of any kind. 



Gunther Bros, added several hundred 

 cases of holly to their turnover this 

 season. 



Charles Millang said business was 

 never better on Saturday morning and 

 his only kick was lack of room. 



A. L. Young said Christmas was not 

 quite up to other years, but the year as 

 a whole has been more than satisfactory. 



Kessler Bros, say the plant trade was 

 enormous. 



All the Brooklyn wholesalers and the 

 supply houses report a satisfactory holi- 

 day trade, and the plantsmen everywhere 

 were sold out a week before Christmas. 



George Saltford shipped large quan- 

 tities of violets to out-of-town buyers. 



Bert Chadwick has been called to Lon- 

 don, Ont., by the illness of his father. 



S. B. Wertheimer, who was at home 

 ill for several days, is again attending to 

 business. 



Bowling. 



A half dozen of the faithful found 



time to bowl December 23. The scores 



were: 



Player. Ist 2d 3d 4th 



Berry 137 120 124 149 



Scott 140 131 148 167 



Shaw 131 122 132 142 



Kakuda 121 125 134 126 



McArdle 87 106 103 166 



Manda 169 189 165 166 



Manda wins the Scott prize of $5 in 

 gold for the high average to date. Alex. 

 D. Shaw & Co. have donated several bot- 

 tles of their best brand of champagne 

 to be competed for, a bottle each week, 

 while they last, going to the high score 

 of the evening. J. Austin Shaw. 



WICHITA, KAN. 



The Market. 



The Christmas trade showed a fair 

 increase over previous years. Most of 

 the stock offered was of good quality 

 and commanded about the same price 

 as last year. Some exceptionally good 

 Lorraine begonias and cyclamens were 

 shown, but most of the azaleas hardly 

 came up to first quality. Fancy plant 

 baskets found a ready sale whenever 

 time could be found to arrange them. 

 The demand for ferns and palms was 

 better than usual, some highly satis- 

 factory sales being recorded. 



The cut flower business included the 

 usual kick against high prices, and then 

 the final long sigh and "I'll take 'em." 

 Practically all shipped roses were of 

 good qua'lity, although one or two 

 Beauty orders proved a disappointment. 

 The quantity of both Beauties and 

 other roses was just ab6ut sufficient for 

 the demand. In bulbous stock the sup- 

 ply and demand were about even, both 

 being comparatively small, as usual. 



Carnations were of fair quality, with 

 ample opportunity to use more than 

 could be secured. There was a marked 

 shortage in violets, hardly any being 

 offered for sale. 



Much of the holly came in poor con- 

 dition, but there seemed to be enough 

 to supply the demand. Green rope was 

 sold before it came, and the later cus- 

 tomers had to be content with holly 

 and wild smilax, or not be content at 

 all. Mistletoe was good and the 



amount handled seemed to be about 

 the same as last year. The florists who 

 handled trees reported clean-ups, while 

 a local commission house imported a 

 car besides, and had some left. 



Taken altogether, the Christmas busi- 

 ness was a satisfactory climax to a 

 good autumn business, which has shown 

 an even increase over the correspond- 

 ing time for last season. E. 



Bidgefield, Conn. — F. E. Lewis is 

 building a large greenhouse on his 

 estate, West Lane. 



Rumford, Me. — E. B. Davis occupied 

 an extra store on Congress street dur- 

 ing the Christmas rush. 



Stroudsburg, Pa J. Howard Stone 



held a formal opening December 17 of 

 his new flower store, at 503 Main street. 



Beloit, Wis. — C. S. Naugle, who has 

 been ill for the last five weeks, is again 

 able to get around the house and is 

 gaining steadily. 



Wichita, Kan. — Ealph Culp, son of 

 W. H. Culp and engaged in the business 

 with him, took unto himself a wife 

 Thanksgiving evening. 



Columbus, O. — Fire destroyed the 

 greenhouse of Frank Miller, on Fair- 

 view pike, December 16, causing a loss 

 of several hundred dollars. The origin 

 is unknown. 



Sharon, Pa. — R. A. Burgeon has just 

 completed a new greenhouse and will 

 plant it to rhubarb and lettuce. He has 

 also installed a new Capitol boiler, with 

 sufficient surplus capacity to heat still 

 another house of the same size. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The building of 

 the Kusik-Eckhardt Co. was destroyed 

 by fire Christmas night. No estimate 

 of the loss is made, but it is stated that 

 the company will start anew as soon 

 as a suitable location can be secured. 



Wakefield, Mass.— Chas. C. Ball, 

 whose greenhouses are at Yale and 

 North avenues, had the pleasure of 

 directing the decorations for his own 

 wedding recently. He was united in 

 marriage December 3 with Miss Sigrid 

 H. Widell, of this city. 



Masrwood, HI. — Ernst Eober, who has 

 owned and operated the greenhouses at 

 1712 Fourth avenue for the last two 

 years, has sold a one-half interest to 

 Martin Radke, well known in Maywood 

 as a grower. The business will now be 

 conducted under the name of Eober & 

 Eadke. 



Berwick, Pa. — John A. Smethers & 

 Son were somewhat handicapped on ac- 

 count of their heavy loss by hail last 

 summer. Business, however, has been 

 excellent, with a good demand for pot 

 plants and an unusually large amount 

 of funeral work, and the outlook, on 

 the whole, is bright. 



Austin, Tex.— A. J. Seiders, of this 

 city, has been in Houston, Tex., for the 

 last two months, laying out and plant- 

 ing a large residence park. Many choice 

 plants, trees, etc., are being planted, 

 including a carload of palms from Cali- 

 fornia. In connection with this park 

 a small greenhouse, 18x50, and a work- 

 room are also being built for Judge Ed- 

 win B. Parker. The A. Dietsch Co., of 

 Chicago, furnished the greenhouse ma- 

 terials. 



Aubumdale, Mass. — Frederick W. 

 Fletcher, of the Riverside Greenhouses^ 

 has completed a new greenhouse and a 

 cement salesroom. 



Babylon, N. Y. — A. W. Warren, for- 

 merly with Wiborg, at East Hampton, 

 is now superintendent for the Howell 

 Carnation Co., at this place. 



Sandwich, 111. — Mrs. F. Spickerman, 

 proprietor of the Sandwich Green- 

 houses, has added to her equipments a 

 handsome new delivery wagon. 



Muncie, Ind. — The Muncie Floral Co. 

 reports the holiday trade as the best in 

 seventeen years of experience. Poin- 

 settias sold best, with azaleas a close 

 second. 



Fulton, 111. — E. O. Hills was recently' 

 confined to his home for several days 

 by illness, but at last report he had. 

 sufficiently recovered to be able to at- 

 tend to business at his greenhouses. 



Berlin, N. J. — L. K. Peacock, of the 

 Peacock Dahlia Farms, has removed 

 from Williamstown Junction to Laurel 

 Springs, where he is making arrange- 

 ments to cultivate five acres of dahlias 

 next summer. 



Ravinia, 111. — Herman A. Dreiske, 

 who owns a range of greenhouses here, 

 recently purchased a tract of ground 

 at the county line and is preparing to 

 handle shrubs and other nursery stock 

 as well as fiowers. 



Adams, Mass. — On Saturday night, 

 December 17, an explosion of coal gas 

 at the greenhouses of A. J. Boothman 

 set fire to the roof of the boiler room, 

 but the flames were extinguished before 

 much damage was done. 



Richmond, Me. — A recent issue of a 

 local newspaper contained a picture of 

 the home and greenhouses of F. L. Bil- 

 lings, who in May, 1909, purchased the 

 business of the late L. B. Dingley, in 

 the south end. Since Mr. Billings be- 

 came owner he has enlarged the houses, 

 until he now has 8,000 square feet un- 

 der glass. He was born in Haverhill, 

 Mass., in 1851, but has lived in Maine 

 the greater part of his life. 



Black Hall, Conn.— Edgar H. Steele 

 has resigned his position as manager 

 of the Black Hall Greenhouses and will 

 become manager of the greenhouses of 

 the Andrews estate, at Elmwood, Conn., 

 a suburb of Hartford. The Black Hall 

 Greenhouses have been leased to T. L. 

 Brown and J. F. Howard, local market 

 gardeners. Brown & Howard express 

 their determination to continue to grow 

 the high quality of cut flowers, potted 

 plants and forced vegetables for which 

 this place has always been famous. Con- 

 nected with it are ten acres of good 

 garden soil for outside crops. Both 

 men are hustlers and start in with the 

 best wishes and promised support of 

 the trade. 



