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The Weekly Florists' Revie\^« 



Obcbubeb 19, 1901. 



BOSTON. 



Track Conditions for Dec. 9-J4. 



Trade was very slim and I know of 

 no reason to assign therefor except the 

 approach of Christmas and the conse- 

 quent withdrawal of all the money into 

 channels of other lines of trade. 



Material of all kinds has really not 

 been at all plentiful. A good demand 

 could hardly have been supplied at any 

 price, but as things were nothing was 

 really out of the market for a moment 

 and pink and white roses, chrysanthe- 

 mums, hyacinths and narcissus were al- 

 together too much in evidence. Eed 

 roses and good carnations held their 

 ground very well at quite fair prices, 

 but prices on everything else were very 

 uncertain. 



Naturally conditions for Christmas 

 depend almost altogether upon the 

 weather during the intervening time and 

 a forecast can be of but little value. 

 But in these days of sharp competition 

 if normal weather conditions prevail it 

 will seem strange indeed to me if there 

 is not a full supply of everything sea- 

 sonable after all. And I hardly think 

 the w-iser salesmen will hold up goods 

 for more than a fair figure. But is it 

 not a liard proposition to decide as to 

 just what constitutes a fair figure? 



Prices run .so low during a large part 

 of the year that growers must surely 

 obtain every cent possible at other times 

 in order to maintain a living average. 

 Every salesman who Iiandles anything 

 like a large amount of goods will have 

 a few cu.=tomers who pay a fair price 

 and piirchase quite heavily when goods 

 are plentiful. These customers of course 

 insist upon being partly supplied at 

 least at scarce periods at some price 

 that seems fair to them under the cir- 

 cumstances, and the chief trouble comes 

 in the fact that after they get half what 

 they really need and ought to have, the 

 salesman has nothing left with which to 

 furnish the man who made him accept 

 low prices for his surplus at the last 

 flu.sh period. Can a salesman help re- 

 membering both his friends and his ene- 

 mies at such a time? 



Various Items. 



December 12 was marked by the death 

 of Edmund M. Wood, the head" of the Wa- 

 ban Rose Conservatories, and a leading 

 citizen of Natick, being princijjal owner 

 of ihe Henry Woods Sons Paint Co., also 

 of the Geo. H. Wood Rubber Cement 

 Manufacturing Co., a director of the 

 Bay State Ice Co. and of the Tremont 

 Nail Co. To his enterprising business 

 energy must be credited a lafge part of 

 the vast improvement in the quality of 

 roses sent to the Boston market during 

 the past ten j'cars. Under the able man" 

 agement he saw fit to employ his conserv- 

 atories set the standard which others 

 must attain. He leaves a wife, one son 

 and two daughters. 



A. telephone message arrived this 

 morning (Dec. IG) to the eiTect that the 

 boiler house and some other buildings at 

 least at the fine large greenhouse plant 

 of H. N. Eaton, at South Sudbury, are 

 burning. Particulars cannot yet be ob- 

 tained. J. s. Manter. 



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 take time to view the Review, and I al- 

 ways find something to interest me. — 

 F. J. Fillmore, St. Louis, Mo. 



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SURPLUS STOCK— MUST BE SOLD 



We have on liaiul rhe foUuwlng surplus, strong bloomiu;,' bulbs, first-class in every par- 

 ticular, whicii we offer at these remarkably low prices until the stock is closed out. 



Named Single aud Double Hyacinths of the following varieties. fl.5U per HJO; ^O.CWperl 000 



SINGLE —:)110 Grandeur a Merveille. 30O Ida. 300 Glgantea. 250 Czar Peter. 200 Kin? of the 

 Yellows. 250 Baron van Thuyll Blue. 100 Alba Superblsslnta. 20() Norma, 150 Reine des 

 Hyacinths, 1.50 Robert Steiger. 300 Charles Dickens. 



DOCBLK — :«0 La Tour d'Auverg-ne. 400 Blocksberg. .300 Bouquet Rovale. 300 Goethe 

 2O0 La Virsrinlte. 200 Prince of Saxony, 300 Pure d'Or, 300 Ne Plus Ultra, 200 Carl, Crown Prince 

 of Sweden. 300 Lord R.-it'Liu. 



BEDDING HYACINTH.S — Separate or Mixed Colors, Single or Double. S3. 35 per 100; 

 S30.00 per 1,000, While, Red and Blush, Blue and Yellow. 



NARCISSUS 



Per lai pt-r 100 



100 Soliel dOr *1 .50 300 Early Paper White SO 00 



1.50 Sir Watkin 3.75 l.OOOVonSion i 00 



S.OOOTotusAlbus, per 1,000*6.00 ti5 



200 Trumpet Major 1 CO 



100 Anl KIsh 3.75 



300 Polyanthus, mixed 90 



250 Poetic us Ornatus *)0 



100 Stella, 



100 Grand Primo 1,75 



100 Glorlosa 1.T5 



100 Louis Le Grand or White Pearl 2.25 



lOOPseudo 1,00 



400 Double Roman fiO 



Per lUO 



200 Tournesol, yellow : *3,50 



200 Gloria Soils .' T5 



300 Scarlet King-. 75 



300 La Candeur 70 



SINGLE 



Per 100 



100 La Relne $0.75 



lOll Crysolora IK) 



100 Due van Thol. carmine SO 



100 Due van Thol. yellow 1.35 



100 Pottebakker. yellow 1.35 



DOUBLE TULIPS 



Per 100 



400Murlllo 12.00 



300Salvator Rosa , 2.75 



300 Duke of York 76 



200 Rex Rubi-orum 1 . lo 



TULIPS 



Per 100 



500 Parrot Tulips, mixed fo 70 



200 Tulipa VerdlfiDra (Green Tulips) ... 1 .25 



200 Tulipa Golden Crown 60 



500 Byblooras and BIzarrs. mixed 75 



4(KI Darwin Tulips, mixed 1.25 



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Per 100 



250 Allium Pendullum $0.50 



.5(Kl Tritelcia Unlflora 20 



:iOti Amaryllis Fonuosslsslma 4.00 



Per 100 

 5,000 Preesla. blooming bulbs $:f per 1.000, *o M 

 .5.000 Freesla. larger size $4 per 1,000 46 



Rose Growers THE DINGEE & CONARD CO., West Grove, Pa. 



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