. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 10 The Florists'Review DacBMBaB 26, 1912. come accustoraed to expecting maxi- mum prices in every department of trade at Christmas. There is no reason for anyone, grower or retailer, to feel otherwise than satisfied with the Christ- mas business in cut flowers. Naturally, now that other salable stock is avail- able, the retailers are apt to push the less perishable articles, but the demand for cut flowers is world-wide and con stant. The box of cut flowers is the refuge of the last-day Christmas buyer who does not know what else to send. It is as s
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 10 The Florists'Review DacBMBaB 26, 1912. come accustoraed to expecting maxi- mum prices in every department of trade at Christmas. There is no reason for anyone, grower or retailer, to feel otherwise than satisfied with the Christ- mas business in cut flowers. Naturally, now that other salable stock is avail- able, the retailers are apt to push the less perishable articles, but the demand for cut flowers is world-wide and con stant. The box of cut flowers is the refuge of the last-day Christmas buyer who does not know what else to send. It is as staple in a flower store as sugar in a grocery. Greens have sold as usual. The holly wreath has never-changing vogue. Easter Is Near. The interval between Christmas and the next great flower day, Easter, is shorter this year than for many seasons. The character of the Easter business is radically different from that of Christ- mas, but the experience of the current week leads to every assurance thai Easter of 1913 will consume everything of salable quality the trade can have ready in the third week in March. <•^<^^.<?^<<^V^^.^^^?^?^<?^•fe^»>•fer»>•fer»>^yr»>•fe»>•fe»^H^r»>•fe»^ I THE RETAIL. FLORIST, 'W^'»=i^<»^<??».<^^.<»^<#^<#^=^^fe^»)•fe^»^^fe^A•S^r»>•'^ OHEISTMAS NOVELTIES. Possibly the best selling Christmas novelty was the small split willow or braid basket, dyed red, mossed and filled with boxwood sprays, red ruscus and winter berries, of course with some red ribbon on the handle. Stores that were ready in time sold these in sur- prising numbers at from $2 to $5 each. There were plenty of ways to vary the filling, but in most cases the more red the basket contained, without being all red, the better seller it was. The Christmas trees mounted on plateaus and trimmed up as shown in The Review for December 12 proved splendid sellers. A tree that cost 25 cents could, with the addition
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