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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



MAY 5. 1S9S. 



ROCHES! ER, N. Y. 



Flowers are almiiflaut and cheap, but 

 the demand has been good for the last 

 two weeks, and but little goes to waste 

 so far. Prices are low and very un- 

 steady. Some days an encouraging im- 

 provement is noticed, but it does not 

 last very long, and the next morning 

 may see job lots offered at ridiculously 

 low figures again. Still, our retail flor- 

 ists are not complaining much. Sales 

 during the past month compare very 

 favorably with those of any April for 

 some years past. Of course, this may 

 largely be due to the increase in East- 

 er trade, but there were not many 

 real dull days tor them since Easter, 

 and quite often they were very busy 

 and had to work late at night. 



The trade in bedding plants is be- 

 ginning earlier than usual; they are in 

 evidence everywhere in all parts of the 

 city. The present balmy spring weath- 

 er is favoring early planting and peo- 

 ple are impatient, though it is by no 

 means safe to risk any of this soft 

 stuff outside, except perhaps iu well 

 sheltered city yards. For years low 

 prices were the rule here for all kinds 

 of bedding plants. This season is no 

 exception, and in all probability they 

 will fall lower than ever before the 

 end of the month. 



J. W. Keller is settling up his busi- 

 ness accounts, with the intention of 

 quitting the wholesale flower business. 

 Rochester florists will have to get 

 along without a commission house, 

 unless a new man starts in. 



Around the entrance to Mount Hope 

 Cemetery additional greenhouses have 

 been built lately by several firms, one 

 of them a new beginner: strange it 

 seems that at the other end of the city, 

 where two large and well patronized 

 cemeteries are located close together, 

 nobody starts in. Flowers to decorate 

 the graves there have to be brought 

 from the city stores. K. 



MR. P. VOS. of the Holland Bulb 

 Co., sailed from New York for Liver- 

 pool on the Unibria April :?<>. He re- 

 ports a very satisfactory trip among 

 the American trade and is especially 

 gratified that he found all his custom- 

 ers well pleased with the bulbs ship- 

 ped by him last year. 



IN THE notes from Madison, N. J., 

 on page S.'^2 of last week's issue, a 

 typographical error In a line in the 

 last paragraph transformed a "hat 

 mix up" into a "hot mix up." It was 

 a mix up of hats, but not a heated 

 one. 



WARREN, O.— Mr. Geo. W. Gaskill 

 has been quite sick for several weeks, 

 but is now convalescent and expects to 

 soon be able to be about again. 



Extra select stock at Kennicott 

 Bros. Co^ Chicago. AH flowers in 

 season at lowest market rates. 



Last Call 



For Field-Grown Roses! 



ORDER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. 



We still have to otk-r an u\i.fj>!i,iT 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES, 



i-\tr,i ■^trone tn-M-mown plant'^ ••{ tlir \.r\ hnr-t S'^rt^, -uch as Mrs. John Iiaiug*, Ulrich Brunner, 

 Mnie. Gabrielle Iiuizet, Paul Neyron, Mag'uaCharta, G-loirede Paris, Baroness de Both- 

 schild, Gen. Jacqueminot, etc. This is liiu' ^ti>ck ii.ir pottiiiv,' Inr Liii' ■-i^rinp: --atr- ^r tor out-door 

 planting— line strong blooming stuck. We otter it as lung as unsuld ai $12,00 per lOO. 



We have to ofter also, a magnificent lot of 



YELLOW RAMBLER ROSES, 



strong (lormant jilants, 3^j-incli pnl--, $10. per 100; j-ini.h puts ur strong fteld-grown plants. $20.00 

 per 100. 



We offer also litu' 'Strong fit-ld-grown plants of 



CRIMSON, WHITE AND PINK RAMBLERS, 



ill >.iiiif price as ^'t■ll^\v Rambler. 

 W'r li.i\<_- a large stock ol extra strouj; tielLl-gmun plants of 

 CIiEMATIS -finest sorts Mme. Ed. Andre, Jackmanii, Heuryii, and Hybrida Sieboldii. 



Price, $30.00 per 100. 

 CI-EMATIS PANICULATA .slr.i -Ir.ini; ti. ],1 i;rnivn plants, $15.00 per 100. 

 HYDBANGEA PANICUI.ATA GBANDIFIiOBA— strung field grown plants. :l ft. higli, 



$12.00 per lOO. 

 AZAI.EA MOlIiIS— extra tine, well l)uddeii plants, very bushy. $35.00 per 100. 



We have also a lew thou^.ind SPIRAEAS Irll whit h will make niie stork lor potting for Decora- 

 tion Day. Can offer strong I liini|.^ :i^ hilhuvs Spiraea Astilboides Ploribiinda, f.i.Oti per 100: 

 case 2r)0 clumps, fUl.tiO. Spiraea Conipacta Multiflora, Sii.oij j.er 10(1; case H.'iO Llinnps, ll'J.aO. 



See our special ofter of HYDRANGEA OTAKSA in last week's Review. This offer will hold 

 good for this week. We soM .i lot .il this stock last week, and will hold the same offer open for another 

 week. If \ou want an\ H\ ilr.uejr.i I M.ik^.i, now iv the time to bu> it. Full particidars in last week's ad. 



F. R. PIERSON rn., Tarrytown-on-Hudson, 



N. Y. 



sow 



NOW 



PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA, 



or Chinese 

 Primrose. I 



ENGI.ISH "GIAITT EXHIBITIOIT PRIZE" STRAIIT. 



A uniciiie strain adapted hir e\ery purpose, luit esneciall\ \aluable lor Florists. This seed has 

 been saved Ity the most experienced grower m England. E\ery possible care has been used in the 

 selection and harvesting; only flowers of good form and substance, produced by plants of robust con- 

 stitution and faultless habit, have been used for this purpose. 

 ROSEA fPinkl, Chiswick Red. COCCINtA SlIPERBA (Crimson). 



ALBA MAGNinCA (W liitel. COtRllLEA (beautiful Blue). 



VILUGE MAID (White, striped with Crimson). MIXED (all Colors.) 



Price per packet, about 500 Seeds* of any of above varieties. $1.00. Half packets 50c each. 



SEED AND BULB GROWERS, 



50 Barclay Street, - NEW YORK. 



STIMPP & WALTER CO., 



5,000 El^Xlematis 



In the best 



Leading 



Varieties::: 



Holland grown. No reasonable offer refused. ^#^. Iiily of the Valley and all Spring* 

 Write for prices or make a cash offer. '^-V^ Bulbs on hand now. 



Write for Prices to.. 



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



ir YOU-- 



Have Any Surplus Stock 



to sell to the tradi-. 

 advertise it in tlie 



Florists' Review. 



The JENNINGS 



t Finest Strain. 



THEY ABE OBAin>. 



Fine stockv plants, m bud and hloom, $10 and 

 $12.50 per 1000; $1.50 per 100, by express. Small 

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

 with order. Lock Box 254. 



E. B. JENinirGS, 

 Grower of the Finest Pansies. Southport, Conn. 



PANSIES; 



Clematis Paniculata, Um\T!6o: 



Violets— Princess of Wales. $;l.00 per 100. 

 Chrysanthemums — Pennsylvania and other 



fancy and commercial varieties. 



Fur prices, address 



G. EISBl>B, 



nth and Jefferson Sts.. PHILADELPHIA. Pa. 



Sphagnum Moss 



A very select quality, 75c per bale, !• 

 bales *6. 00 Grown and packed by 



M. I. LYONS, - Babcock,Wis. 



Write for prices on car lots. 



^ ^ ^ ^ Always mention the FloriStS^ RcVlCW when writing advertisers, J* J< ** 



