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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_21_1 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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THE WESTERN HOUSE FOR THE WESTERN TRADE Mention The Review when yon write. The market is somewhat overstocked with green goods, especially smilax and asparagus strings. Chinfpag Demand. Referring to the prediction of an east- ern visitor that the tendency in this mar- ket will be steadily in the direction of a demand for better grades of stock, and that the market for short roses will grow steadily poorer and poorer, as it has done in large eastern markets, A. L. Randall had this to say: "We have for some time noted that our customers are or- dering the best grade of stock more largely than ever, with less demand for the low grades. I refer particularly to the shipping demand. It appears that the extensive greenhouse building throughout the west has resulted in a large production of short roses and me- dium quality carnations, which many buyers have either on their home places or close at hand, but they must come to Chicago when they want really fancy stock, the demand for which is stronger than it ever was." Reinfoerg's. The Beauty crop now being cut at Peter Reinberg's is something phenom- enal. It is the greatest ever cut in the establishment, but at the store it is as- serted that although the ice-box occa- sionally overflows to the adjoining one of John Kruchten, the stock is moving out quite satisfactorily and they hope the bright weather will continue, for they fear an end to the Beauty crop when dark days come again. One of Peter Reinberg's firemen was held up while going his rounds early on the night of January 4 and one of the storage rooms also was robbed, several hundred roses being taken. Mrs. Reinberg and Mrs. Leonard Kill are sisters. They buried a third sister December 31, who left a boy 4 years old and a little girl of 2 years. Mr. and Mrs. Reinberg propose adopting the son and Mr. and Mrs. Kill have taken the little girl. Business for 1907. In its annual review of business con- ditions in Chicago in 1907 the Record- Herald says the wholesale value of cut flowers sold in this market was $1,815,- 000, as against $1,452,000 in 1906, an increase of twenty-five per cent. These figures are followed by a signed state- ment by Oscar J. Friedman, retailer, as follows: A better proof of the adage, "The luxuries of yesterday are the necessities of to-day," cannot be found than in the marvelous growth of the cut flower business of Chicago. In less than a decade greenhouses having millions of square feet of glass have sprung up like magic on the outslcirts of the city. Two establishments claim to have more than 1,000,000 square feet of glass each, and it is conceded that Chicago has the model establisliment of this kind in the world. The wholesale cut flower dealers send their goods as far south as New Orleans, as far north as Duluth, as far east as Pittsburg and as far west as Denver. Our city can pride itself on being the largest shipper of cut flowers in the world. It is not clear whether or not the fig- ures are Mr. Friedman's estimate, but wholesalers will not generally accept them as correct. There has been no twenty-five per cent increase in the wholesale cut flower sales in 1907. The Tribune's estimate of sales in 1907 is $2,200,000, no increase over 1906. Weather of 1907. The mean temperature of the year differed from normal by not more than 1 degree. January was much warmer than usual, and March was phenomenally warm, exceeding in temperature even the following April. The contrast between the warm weather of March and the cool period during April and May was quite marked. In fact, the average tempera- ture of April and May combined was the lowest for that period in the his- tory of the station. The amount of precipitation was 1.70 inches greater than the average. The total depth of snow, 42 inches, was 5.7 inches more than the average, the great- est excess of snowfall occurring in May and December. The heaviest snow was 8.2 inches. The cloudiness was more marked than usual, except during February, March and November. As compared with their normals, April was the cloudiest and No- vember the sunniest, the departures be- ing minus twenty per cent and J)lu8 six- teen per cent, respectively. The percent- age of possible sunshine for the entire year, 52.8, was 5.2 per cent below the normal. The last killing frost was May 4, the first in fall, October 14. The Glass Market. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. reports that inquiries from those who will build greenhouses in the spring are coming in quite freely and that the indication is that there will be rather more than the average amount of building this season. They say the opportunity was never bet- ter, so far as the price of glass is con-

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