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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



MARCH 24. 1S98. 



BALTIMORE. 



Market Conditions. 



Little new can be said of the retail 

 business this week, except that it is 

 still holding its own, and all reporfs 

 are excfptionally encouraging for a 

 continuance of same. Funeral work 

 was largely in demand, owing to the 

 death of several prominent citizens. 

 We are having veritable summer 

 weather, with a bountiful supply of 

 good stuff. The wholesale houses are 

 well stocked and prices have dropped 

 considerably. 



A continuance of this warm weather 

 will produce a scarcity of good vio- 

 lets for Easter, as they are now bloom- 

 ing to excess. One grower alone could 

 pick 50.000 strictly first-class blooms, 

 from 100 sash, if he could find a mar- 

 ket for them. 



Gardeners' Club. 



Monday evening, March 14, the Gard- 

 eners' Club elected the following offi- 

 cers to serve for the ensuing year: 

 President, Edwin A. Seidewitz; vice- 

 president, Chas. M. Wagner; recording 

 secretary, Chas. F. Feast; financial sec- 

 retary, W. Paul Binder; treasurer, Wm. 

 B. Sands; librarian, Jno. L. Wagner, 



A banquet followed at the Hotel La- 

 fayette. Fifty-nine members sub- 

 scribed, making one of the largest 

 turnouts in the history of the club. 

 After a most sumptuous repast our 

 newly-elected president was prevailed 

 upon to make a few remarks befitting 

 the occasion. He said in part: 



"It is often said, 'a man who loves 

 flowers cannot be a bad man.' If this 

 be true, we gardeners must be all 

 good, for show me a man who has 

 selected our vocation from a mere mer- 

 cenary purpose, and who has a want of 

 enthusiasm upon beholding a gem of 

 Flora's Kingdom, and I'll show you a 

 man who is dangerous and unworthy 

 of confidence and respect. If we but 

 followed the beautiful lessons taught 

 by nature, there would be no strife 

 among those who cultivate the fiower, 

 and our vocation would be the instru- 

 ment to bind us closer together than 

 the obligations of any fraternal or-' 

 ganization." 



The club gratefully acknowledged 

 the receipt of a large bunch of Emp- 

 ress carnations, sent by Mr. Wm. 

 Swayne, of Kennett Square, Pa.; also 

 a fine vase of Alba Superha from Mr. 

 Jno. Burton, of Chestnut Hill, Phila- 

 delphia. 



Genial Mr. Burt Eddy, of Vaughan's 

 seed store, has been in town several 

 days, and reports the seed business 

 "booming." C. F. F. 



ONE DOLLAR will bring you The 

 Florists' Review for a year, and at the 

 same time entitle you to the earnings 

 on one dollar's worth of stock in the 

 Florists' Publishing Co. You will 

 never be able to make a more profita- 

 ble investment of a similar amount. 



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I To Succeed in Gardening J 



! You Must Have First=Rate Seed. I 



Do vou know uii;it a tirst-r.iti.- 



seed is?' It is bred up. just as a horse, or Ceiw, or dog. or 

 lien is. \'egetables and flowers are poor in their natural 

 state; tiiey are fair in their usual state; thev are rich in tlie 

 proper seedsman's proving-ground. And the richer they 

 are tiie more unstable they are; tliev tend back, as water 

 runs down liill. A first-rate vegetable or flower Seed goes 

 liack to a lower grade as soon as it ceases to feel the seeds- 

 man's care. Thib care is not cultivation; it is sorting out 

 and breeding up. 



The wise gardener trusts no seedsman's Seeds in the 

 next generation. He gathers no Seeds himself; he bu>s 

 of ids seedsman every >ear, and so does his wife. 



\'ou see, the farmer's and gardener's first anxiets is, 

 not plows and harrows, but Seeds. Any plow wdl plow; 

 an> harrow will harrow; but first-rate Seeds he must have. 

 cr (nil in his crops. 



I Do you plant for PROFIT? 



" If so. ^ou slinuld write h.r BURPEE'S BLUE LIST. 



= wliich gi\es wholesale prices lor Market Gardeners. 



^ FItirists and farmers' Clubs. i^^^In writing for 



= thisli^t lie ?ure to ask also for our complete des- 



" criptne catalogue— The Farm .Vnnt.al f*.>r isys-- 



= if \ou have not alread\ receded a c«ip\ 



BIRPEE'S 

 SEEDS are the 

 BEST THAT GROW 



W. ATLEE BIRPEE & CO., 



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Two Great Sports. 



Carnation Victor. ^ Ciirysanttiemum Pennsylvania. 



Undoubtedly the liest I'lnk Carnation in com- 

 merce and certainly the most prolific bloomer, ' 

 perfectly healthv and of vigorous growth. 



Rooted cuttings now ready. S4.00 per 100; 535.00 

 per 1000. Come and see this Carnation growing. 



The finest yellow for cut blooms or exhilMtion 

 purposes ever produced. Plants ready March 1-), 

 55,(K1per do7.; S35.f«:i per 100; 5'JriO,0(l prr \0()0. 



HUGH GRAHAM, 



104 South 13th Street, Philadelphia. 



TREE PAEONIA 



in only Choice VarieUes; strong, 

 4-year-old plants, 50c. each.... 



Tree Roses, Snowballs, Hydrangeas, Clematis, Paeonia, Rhododendrons, 

 Azaleas, Magnolias, H. P. and Moss Roses. 



L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. ^ 



BRANCH or THE HORIICtLTtRAL CO., 

 BOSKOOP, HOLUMO. 



5,000 EE!r Clematis 



In the best 



Leading 



Varieties::: 



Holland grown, \o reasonal.tle offer refused. 

 Write for prices or make a cash otter. 



^'.^. Iiily of the Valley and all Spring* 

 *^;^^ Bulbs on hand now. 



Write for Prices to., 



F. W. O. SCHMITZ, Jersey City, N. 



J. 



PAMQIC'C TheJENNINGS 



r#^l^^3l^^3. Finest Strain. 

 THEY ABE GBAND. 



Flue stock\ plants, in Imd and lilooin. $10 and 

 $r2..iOper 1000: $1..W per 100, by express. Small 

 plants bv mail. 75c per 100. Seed, $1 pkg. Cash 

 with order. Lock Box 254. 



E. B. JENNINGS, 

 Grower of the Finest Fansies. Southiiurt, Cdnn, 



Sphagnum Moss 



A very select quality. 7.Sc per bale, !• 

 bales $6.00 Grown and packed by 



M. I. LYONS, - Babcock, Wis. 



Write for prices on car lots. 



