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The Florists^ Review 



May 15, 1913. 



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5 FLORISTS^ FUEL DIRECTORY I 



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2,000,000 TOWS ANNUAL CAPACITY 



T HACKER 

 COAl- 



DAT! CTAM-THACKER and 



nUUO 1 Un-POCAHONTAS 



COALS 



TBAOBMAn 



ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO FLORISTS' USE 



The high standard of Houston Quality, Houston Preparation and Houston 

 Service has made these coals Famous in the Greenhouse and Florist Trade. 



POCAHONJiA^' 



COAL 



TIAOB MAIK 



Main Of fic* 

 Unlpn Trust BMc., Cincinnati 



KCPER Hood, Gen'l Sales Agt. 



HOUSTON COAL COMPANY 



Waatarn Offlea ; 

 Old Calany BMc, Chicaca R. C. Cantelou. Western tSgr.' 



Sautham Offfica " ' 

 Saabaard Bank Bide Nerfalk, Va, 



W. W. Houston, Southern Mgrr. I 



Mention Tbe ReTlew when,yon write. 



Panther 



HiKbest irrade for Steam 

 and DomeBtlc. 



Carbon 63 27 



Ash X99 



B. T. U 15.181 



W. S. TAYLOR. Wttt'a Sales «|t. 



WEST VIRGINIA 



POCAHONTAS COAL SALES 



CORPORATION 



OLD COLONY BLDG. ^; CHICAcio, ILL. 



CWe will write you a positive Kuarantee that PANTHER coal has every single 

 desirable feature of the best Pocahontas, except that it makes a little more smoke- 

 Last year (first year produced) we got seven Florists that were 

 using Pocahontas to try Panther. Six of them are still using Panther. 

 Freight rate to Western points is 15c and 20c lower than Pocahontas. 

 Mjnerun carries about 65 to 70% lump. Get our prices. Write for 

 Parcel Post sample. W« own Pocahontas mines also. 



Three Mines 

 No. 3 Seam 



POCAHONTAS 



None Better 



Mines 

 McDowell Co., W. Va. 



Main Office: Norfolk, Va. 



Mention The Bevlew when you write. 



4ireenhouse Heating. 



'^ May quotations for Pocahontis and 

 New River coals, mine run, are $1.25 at 

 the mine; $3.30 at Chicago. 



StJBSCRiBERS are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. The greenhouse heating 

 -equipment advertised in this paper is, we 

 believe, the best for the trade to buy, 

 and each article the best in the special 

 field of its adaptation. 



To judge from the reports in the coal 

 trade papers, the labor troubles in the 

 West Virginia mines have been sifted 

 down to the one question of the recogni- 

 tion of the union, a proposition on which 

 alone the men are not prepared to make 

 a stand. It seems, therefore, unlikely 

 that the troubles will spread to the 

 smokeless field and improbable that the 

 production of the florists' favorite fuel 

 will be curtailed this summer in the 

 measure that seemed, a few. weeks ago, 

 more than likely. 



THE FUEL MABKET. 



Interest in the Chicago coal market, 

 flays the Black Diamond, centers in the 

 placing of contracts. Some of the pro- 

 ducers of steam coal proved undependa- 

 ble when the coal shortage came last 

 fall. They could not, apparently, re- 

 sist the temptation to go back to the 

 old practice of making a pretense of 

 being short of coal on their contracts 

 that they might have some coal to sell 



Talaphana Cantral 14 



latabliahad 1857 



Kelly, W. Va., Smokeless Coal 



MINE RUN 

 IDEAL COAL FOR FLORISTS 



E. L. HEDSTROM ft CO. 



MINERS AND SHIPPIR8 



BITUMINOUS COAL 



Marquette BIdg., CHICAGO 



Phone or Write for Prices 

 Representative win Call 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



at higher prices on the open market. 

 The avenues of information are a lit- 

 tle too wide open these days to permit 

 any such practice to prevail and as a 

 consequence those concerns are finding 

 it difficult to renew their old contracts, 

 that business going of its own volition 

 to other members of the trade. Those 

 concerns, cut out of some of their reg- 

 ular contracts, are appealing to new 

 groups of buyers, and in the struggle 

 to place a certain tonnage, are forced 

 to cut prices. The concerns which lived 

 up faithfully to their contracts have 

 not only retained their old customers 

 at slightly higher prices, but also have 

 taken on the new ones who are looking 

 for a dependable supply of coal. 



On smokeless coal, the placing of con- 

 tracts has been rather heavy, despite 

 the higher prices. In that field the 

 price is determined by the law of sup- 

 ply and demand, plus the appreciation 

 among the operators that certain neces- 

 sary charges have too long been neg- 



lected and must at this late date be 

 made against the coal production. There 

 has been more or less talk that the 

 smokeless operators could not hope to 

 obtain their circular prices. Ind.ed, 

 the reports have been frequent that 

 the prices already have been cut. An 

 inquiry into the facts of the situarion 

 not only reveals that prices as no^ 

 announced are being held firm, but that 

 the operators appreciate that this is 

 but an intermediate step in the up- 

 ward tendency of prices. The next vise 

 will, it is intended, bring the va'ues 

 up to perhaps $1.50 on an average fot 

 the mine-run. 



LOCATION OF PIPES. 



I am building an addition to nif 

 greenhouse, and when the work is com- 

 pleted I shall have two solid beds. 

 each Cx36, and one solid bed 3^x36. 

 Now, in my case it is not a question" 

 of what size and number of flows anJ 



