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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



View in the Stor< of Thos. Ycung, New York, at Easter. 



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Joe, but thank you ; I will take a 35-cent 

 cigar." S. A. Anderson said, "It was 

 the greatest Easter we ever had and 

 from accurate tabulation twenty-five per 

 cent ahead of la.st year.'' And on the 

 East Side and West Side they all have 

 the same story to tell. In the far up 

 Main street in the beautiful residence 

 district of Central Park that was cow ' 

 pastures and turnip fields a few years 

 ago, Mr. Foss. who is on the corner of 

 Main and Amherst, reports a great sale. 

 And in the center of the city, Cold 

 Springs district, the business was super- 

 fine. The glory and labor of it we 

 have realized, and part of the proceeds, 

 but the full appreciation of our great 

 expectations will come along in the early 

 days of May, we hope. 



The florist who combines w'ith his 

 business the making of gardens, plant- 

 ing vines and shrubs, sowing a grass 

 plot, etc., work that can not be digni- 

 fied by calling it landscape gardening 

 and yet is in that line, is very, very 

 bus}'. The good taste to have their homes 

 embellished on the exterior as well as in 

 the interior pervades all classes and 

 makes the appearance of the resident 

 portion of the cit}' more and more beau- 

 tiful. A Clematis paniculata and Hall's 

 honeysuckle are seen on many a modern 

 veranda, and a spirea, cyclamen, or for- 

 sythia in every little front yard. What 

 a pity in this country of magnificent 

 distances that even the small wage 

 earner has to live in a tenement house 

 or in rows of little brick houses jammed 

 together for a mile in length, where the 

 blistering sidewalk is the front yard and 

 a dreary sand or clay plot the garden. 

 Value of land is the excuse. Tlie trolley 

 car annihilates distance and affords bet- 

 ter scenery than a dirty street and your 

 neighbor's wash. 



All kinds of flowers are plentiful, 



and all we are waiting for is the young 

 couples to get together in holy matri- 

 mony and have May and June weddings. 

 Of course, I don't mean the same parties 

 for both months, because this is the 

 state of New York and not Illinois or 

 Indiana. Every state has its own pe- 

 culiar institutions. Kentucky is the 

 onlv state where people are born with 

 titles. W. S. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Tlie cut flower business since Easter 

 has been very active. The supply of 

 almost everything has been sufficient to 

 meet the demand, except on carnations 

 which are especially short. 



A tremendous amount of Maids, 

 Brides, and Kaiserins are arriving, of 

 which the quality is very good. The 

 demand for roses the past week was 

 very small. In order to move them they 

 were ofl'ered as low as $25 per 1,000 for 

 fine stock. About the only good flow- 

 ers in Beauties are the extra long- 

 stemmed ones. The medium and short 

 Beauties still come crippled. The aver- 

 age price on fine Beauties is $3 to .$4 

 per dozen. The prices on choice and 

 fancy carnations are held up from $4 

 to .$ii per 100. 



Bulbous stock is about done for with 

 us. for this season. 



Lilies are abundant and selling slowly. 

 I hear of some large sales as low as 

 $00 per 1,000. 



Sweet peas are very fine and enough 

 arriving to meet the demand ; from 50 

 cents to $1.25 is the price. 



Violets are very scarce and the ones 

 arriving are sold quickly. 



In greens there is ))lenty of Aspara- 

 gus Sprengeri, but sniilax is scarce. 



Burki is cutting some exceptionally 

 good Liberty and Kaiserin roses, at his 

 Bellevue place. 



Theo. lieckert is sending the Pitts- 

 burg Cut Flower Co. yellow, white and 

 purple Spanish iris. 



Easter Flower Shows. 



Chas. T. Siebert's flower show in the 

 Liberty market, Saturday before Easter, 

 proved to be a grand success. The place 

 wa,s visited by at least 10,000 people. 

 Mr. Ernest Zieger said that business 

 was enormous and away ahead of last 

 year's Easter business. 



Ernest Ludwig and G. & J. W. Lud- 

 wig's shows in the Alleghenj- market 

 were the finest displays ever made. 

 The business of these two firms was the 

 largest in the history of their business. 

 From early morning tintil late at night 

 great crowds of buyers jostled one an- 

 other in their eagerness to get the best 

 of the stock. 



Notes. 



J. H. Orth has moved to a new and 

 larger store room, at 522 5th avenue, 

 JIcKeesport, Pa. 



,1. B. Murdoch & Co. discontinued their 

 retail business at 510 Smithfield street, 

 and will devote all their time to the 

 growing of cut flowers for the wholesale 

 market. 



Rjindolph & McClements have secured 

 the contract for the decorations for the 

 Thaw-Yarmouth nuptial, which takes 

 place here Monday. April 27. The deco- 

 rations will ])e very expensive and 

 elaborate. 



Parks. 



Superintendent Falconer will quit the 

 parks. Director E. M. Bigelow regret- 

 fully announces that he had given up 

 hope of retjiining the services of William. 



