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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



APRIL 14. 1898. 



CLEVELAND. 



Resume of Easter Trade. 



Although at this writing it is still 

 too early to get an.v very definite and 

 detailed information as to the busi- 

 ness done at Easter, there can be no 

 doubt, from the general statements 

 made, that on the whole it has been 

 very good. Cut flowers sold well and 

 plant sales cut fully as great a figure 

 as at any former Easter time. 



Reports so far .-is received conflict 

 somewhat in the details, some being 

 under the impression that this outsold 

 that, while some one else claims the 

 reverse to be true. Only a little more 

 time to allow the smoke of conHict to 

 clear away can .iustify more than gen- 

 eral statements. 



Carnations sold well and were short 

 in supply with many. Two or three 

 report enough to fill all orders. Lilies, 

 both cut and as pot plants, were in 

 good demand. Azaleas sold well, al- 

 though so far as reported there seems 

 to have been a suflicient supply in all 

 sizes. 



On the markets there were numerous 

 quantities of good stock offered and 

 trade there appears to have been sat- 

 isfactory, a condition which favorable 

 weather undoubtedly had much to do 

 with. There was no frost and no wind 

 to destroy stock, and while the day 

 was cloudy, only a very little rain fell 

 tor a short time in the afternoon and 

 then just enough to lay all the dust. 

 It is very possible on the whole that 

 there may be no great increase over 

 the best previous year in most instan- 

 ces, but the probability is that total 

 sales have not often been exceeded 

 heretofore. NEMO. 



PITTSBURG. 



Easter trade surpassed all expecta- 

 tions. The prospects Saturday morn- 

 ing were not encouraging, a drizzly 

 rain set in and continued at intervals 

 all day. In spite of the inclemency of 

 the weather, business keeps up very 

 brisk. The amount of business done 

 will exceed that of last year by a good 

 percentage. 



The usual Easter display, which 

 was opened Easter Sunday at the 

 Phipps Conservatory at Schenley 

 Park, is the finest Pittsburg has ever 

 seen. It is estimated that fifty thou- 

 sand people viewed the exhibit last 

 Sunday. 



The flower exhibit at the Allegheny 

 Conservatories far surpasses the Eas- 

 ter openings of former years and the 

 handsome collection was much ad- 

 mired by many thousands. T. P. L. 



HARTFORD. CONN. — One of the 

 greenhouses of Alfred Whiting was 

 partially destroyed by fire April 3. The 

 loss is estimated at $1,500. 



Extra select stock at Kennicott 

 Bros. O)., Chicago. All flowers in 

 season at lowest market rates. 



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to ensure for it a lare^e sale 



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It IS a sport from Mrs 

 color, being: 

 Uie center of the tinwer. It has lieen thorouglily tested, and is a novelty of sterling merit 



Henry Robinson, with which \ariety it 

 a delicate primrose yellow, deepening" toward 



( )ne of the innst eminent ea^.tern fjruwers w ho has tested it states that it is one of the best 

 thine^ in Chr\ santhcinums sent out in some time. Every Chrysantliemum grower will want 

 it. A Yellow Mrs. Henry Robinson will be a niun'ey-maker, and a tine exhibition va- 

 riety as well. Plants nuw rr.u\\ l^r Mi-Iimtv, W.- h;i\f itUn (ini- sti.ck'^ of the other finer in- 

 troductions of the ve.ir-FRANK HARDY. MRS. H. WEEKS, AUSTRALIAN GOLD. 

 [Price, $3.00 per dozen; $20.00 per 100. 



Wm. H. Chadv\ick, SG per do7. The Yellow rellow, $3 per doz. Pennsylvania* 



Autumn Glory, Solar Queen, Black Hawk. Quito, Thornden, $5 per doz.; $35 per 100. 

 Boundless Snow, Mrs. C. H. Peirce, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, $3.50 per doz.; $25 per 100. 



Weofleralsoall the best of the Novelties for 1897, and the Best Standard Sorts. 



Send lor our wliolesale list and lar^e descriptive catalogue, giving full list of varieties 

 and prices. We have a very large and tine lot of Novelties in Cannas for 1898. also best and 

 latest introductions in Carnations, Dahlias, Strong Field-grown Roses and other Hardy 

 Plants, a large and fine collection of Palms and other Decorative Plants, etc., etc. 



We will be pleased to send our wholesale list and descriptive catalogue to any one who 

 may not have received tliem. 



\l F. R. PIERSON CO., Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



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