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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



APRIL 



1S98. 



ROCHES! ER, N. Y. 



Prospects for a lively Easter trade 

 are bright, an unusually large number 

 of advance orders being on the books 

 now. and this fact indicates to our 

 florists a material increase in demand. 

 It is now pretty certain that the supply 

 of cut flowers will be plentiful and of 

 fairly good quality. Lilies will perhaps 

 he the only exception, they are not 

 any too abundant. The bright weather 

 during March has not been favorable 

 for the violets. They are diminishing 

 in size and are faded, but some good 

 flowers, grown in frames, are yet in 

 the market and these arS' sure of 

 bringing good prices. 



We had hard freezing weather for 

 some days, an advantage to all those 

 growers who were trying to hold back 

 their flowei-ing plants, but not in all 

 cases were the efforts crowned with 

 success. Azaleas and genistas suffered 

 most, but after all there is plenty of 

 them to go around. A goodly number 

 of potted H. P. roses are offered in 

 some of the establishments and well 

 flowered Crimson Ramblers in 7 and 

 S-inch pots with immense clusters are 

 also seen in several places. Metrosi- 

 deros are finer than ever before in 

 this town. The pretty ericas are seen 

 only here and there and in limited 

 numbers. I have no doubt that many 

 more of these might be disposed of 

 here, but for some reason only a few 

 of our growers seem to have an incli- 

 nation to handle them. 



Excellent large specimens of the old 

 marguerites are met with here and 

 there; the blue daisy is also seen in 

 smaller sizes, thickly set with flowers; 

 lilacs are very abundant; rhododen- 

 drons in all colors seem to gain in 

 favor; Spiraea Anthony Waterer has 

 been tried for the first time here and 

 turned out a good subject for Easter 

 forcing; hydrangeas are in fine shape 

 and there is a very generous display 

 of such things as cinerarias, herba- 

 ceous spiraeas and deutzias in various 

 sizes. Besides the usual pans of tulips, 

 hyacinths, narcissus and valleys, we 

 see pansies. violets, forget-me-nots 

 and hardy primroses employed for the 

 same purpose. They ought to sell read- 

 ..y for they are completely covered 

 with bloom. 



The past week was a rather quiet 

 one and Palm Sunday did not create 

 the usual demand for church decora- 

 i.ons, but nobody feels discouraged 

 over the matter, as there is every in- 

 dication for an increase in this year's 

 Easter trade. May all have the grati- 

 fication of seeing their most sanguine 

 hopes realized before Easter is over. 



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This is no longer an experiment, it has come to stay. There 

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 it is not: we furnisb what people want and there is nothing 

 in greenhouse material that you cannot get from us. and all 

 of open-air-dried Cypress clear of bright sap, stained sap, 

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DAVENPORT, lA.— Mrs. F. L. Bills 

 has a new store at 10-4 West Second 

 street. Until after the spring plant 

 sales are over Mrs. Bills will also con- 

 tinue her business at the old location 

 on Brady street. 



