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The Florists^ Review 



December 5, 1912. 



WINTER WINDOW BOXES. 



The popularity of window boxes for 

 summer decoration promises shortly to 

 be equaled by their popularity in win- 

 ter. In winter, necessarily, evergreens 

 are the principal plants used, but it has 

 been found that a considerable variety 

 of stock is available. Though boxwood 

 still is used in larger quantity than any- 

 thing else, other handsome evergreens 

 can be used, either singly or in a com- 

 bination of varieties, producing a larger 

 range of effects. So large has the busi- 

 ness become that some of the nurseries 

 making a specialty of evergreens for 

 window boxes now supply the boxes 

 with the plants established in them. 

 These they can selVto retail florists who 

 have themselves no facilities for han- 

 dling and filling the boxes, thereby 

 largely increasing the use of this form 

 of winter decoration. 



SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 



The Market. - 



Stock of all sorts has been scarce 

 since Thanksgiving. The warm weather 

 preceding brought an abundance of 

 flowers for the holiday. However, the 

 weather since has been quite cold and 

 cloudy and things have not matured so 

 well. Eoses, carnations, violets and 

 chrysanthemums have gone up in price. 

 Chrysanthemums are pretty well cleaned 

 up, only a few remaining. There are 

 still a few good pompons to be had. 



from Boston, and stevia from Connecti- 

 c-ut ■w^ere added to the list of cut flow- 

 ers last week. Trade in general has 

 been good. Immortelles are in demand 

 this fall. They have almost doubled in 

 price. ^.., 



Various Notes. 



Mark Aitken did a good Thanksgiv- 

 ing business. He finished cutting his 

 mums last week. His violets are get- 

 ting scarce, but with the new crop they 

 will again be plentiful. 



The Flower Shop, on Worthington 

 street, reports a fine trade for the end 

 of November. It was all sold out of 

 stock at the close of Thanksgiving day. 



William Schlatter & Son say that this 

 year's Thanksgiving trade was ahead of 

 last year. Their specialties were sweet 

 peas and poinsettias. 



Osterman & Steele were far ahead 

 of last year in their receipts f oj^ Novem- 

 ber 28. They had some specially good 

 stevia last week. 



T. F. Sheehan was entirely cleaned 

 out of flowers November 28, which 

 would indicate that trade was more 

 than satisfactory, 



N. F. Higgins reports that trade was 

 the best ever. He is showing some good 

 cyclamens, primroses, azaleas, Lwrraine 

 begonias, and Scotch heathers. 



Meacham & Hassell -did a fine Thanks- 

 giving business. They had a run on 

 pompon chrysanthemums. 



A. N. Pierson, of Cromwell, Conn., ia 

 shipping some good pompon chrysanthe- 



Window Boxes Filled with Evergreens Have Become Widely Pof ular. 



Beauties are much better than they 

 have been and brought a fancy price for 

 Thanksgiving. Carnations are good 

 this week, both in stem and color. 

 Paper White narcissi and Koman hya- 

 cinths are quite plentiful. Primroses, 

 Lorraine begonias, cyclamens, Jerusalem 

 cherries, azaleas and heather plants 

 sold well at Thanksgiving. Sweet peas. 



mums and American Beauties to this 

 city. 



Miss May French, of Mark Aitken 's, 

 made up a handsome and costly ca.sket 

 cover last week, which went to a promi- 

 nent funeral in Palmer, Mass. 



N. F. McCarty & Co., of Boston, are 

 sending good Richmond, Taft and Kil- 

 larney rosea to this city. 



Eichmond Warner made a business 

 trip to Palmer, Mass., last week. 



Visitors: Eobert Greenlaw, of S. S. 

 Pennock-Meehan Co., Philadelphia; A. 

 Zirkman, of M. Eice & Co., Philadel- 

 phia; Fred W. Pettit, of F. E. Palmer, 

 Brookline, Mass. E. C. A. 



HARTFORD, CONN. 



The Market. 



The general opinion of the trade is 

 that Thanksgiving was the best ever. 

 In some lines the demand exceeded the 

 supply, especially on the best grade of 

 roses and violets. Some good White 

 Killarney came in on . long stems and 

 sold readily. Killarney was short in 

 stem, but anything in the shape of a 

 rose sold. There were plenty of yel- 

 lows, but they all cleaned up. Beauties 

 were scarce, but of good quality, and 

 had there been more of them they 

 doubtless would have sold. Specials 

 brought from $6 to $10 per dozen, re- 

 tail, while specials of other varieties 

 brought from $3 to $4 per dozen. Car- 

 nations were plentiful and sold well. 

 Beacon was more in demand than any 

 other, with Pink Delight and Winsor 

 close seconds. Fancy grades fetched 

 from $2 to $3 per dozen, retail. Mums 

 came in heavily, but the quality was 

 not of the best. The poorer grades 

 hardly paid for the handling. There 

 were quite a few sweet peas and they 

 sold well. Valley was good and just 

 about enough to go around. Violets 

 were cleaned up the previous week, so 

 that they were hardly seen. Orchids 

 sold well and were in good demand. 

 Lilies went slowly, but the supply was 

 not large. Greens cleaned up. Some 

 well grown begonias were seen, also 

 poinsettias in pans. 



Various Notes. 



John Coombs has received a new Ford 

 auto, which will be quite an addition 

 to his delivery department. 



Louis Barton is cutting some fine 

 Killarneys at his Elmwood houses. His 

 orders are mostly out of town. 



Spears & McManus are receiving 

 some fine carnations from Morgan & 

 Sons, of Glastonburg. 



A burglar entered the store of J. A. 

 Brodrib, on Windsor avenue, but only 

 obtained 45 cents for his efforts. 



Mrs. Goodman, of West Hartford, 

 picked some fine violets, which found 

 a ready sale at Thanksgiving. 



A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, has started 

 to graft roses and that work will go 

 on until well toward spring. 



W. S. C. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. 



The close of last week showed the 

 market to be in a tight condition in 

 every line. Thisy^i^ek's opening, how- 

 ever, showed an easiiigjip all along the 

 line because the cut came back to 

 normal. Almost everything ready had 

 been cut close for Thanksgiving, and 

 had sold. There is an active demand 

 that at the time of this writing takes 

 up everything in sight. The list of 

 offerings includes every seasonable 

 rose, carnations in a rather short sup- 

 ply, lilies, callas, chrysanthemums, in- 

 cluding many choice Chadwick; lily of 

 the valley, single and double violets, 

 orchids, narcissi, pansies and stevia. 



