April 25, 1908 



horticulture: 



571 



PROMPT DELIVERY IN 



BOSTON 



AND ALL NEW ENCiLANI) POINTS 



HOUGHTON & CLARK 



396 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 



HART'S HANDY HANDLE 



"At Easter-time, with a little chiffon decoration, and the Handle, we were 



able to increase the value of plants from ^ofc to ioo%."— H. E. Wilson. 



Write for descriptive circular and prices 



GEO, B. HART, 24 Stone St„ Rochester, N, Y. 



BOSTON 



and all 



NEW ENGLAND POINTS 



THOS. F. CALVIN 



124 Tremont St.. Boston 



T'^ronto. Ont. 



ATLANTA FLORAL CO. 



'' l^^^r- ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 



BOSTON'S BEST 



In Quality and Desian 



Can be relied upon when you transfer your 

 retail orders to 



EDWARD MACMULKIN 



194 Boylston Street, Boston 



Send flower orders for delivery in 



TRANSFER 



Your orders for flower or plant delivery in 

 Eastern New England to 



JULIUS A. ZINN, 



2 Beacon St., Boston. 

 Fine Deslf^n Work a Specialty. 



M* a ■ Bi Orders for flower 

 VV ^1 I Bg deliveries to Yale 



other Connecticut 

 points carefully filled and delivered by 

 J. N. CHAMPION & COMPANY 



1026 CHAPEt STREET NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



CKicag'o. Established in 1857 



WITTBOLD 



FLORIST 



1657-1659 Bucldngham Place 



L. D. Phone 558 lake View. Send us your retail orders. 

 We have tie best facilities in the city. 



The Far=Famed Flowers of 



TORONTO 



Delivered on mail or telegraph order for 

 any occasion, in any part of the Dominion. 



JOHN H. DUNLOP, 



96 Yonge St., 



ROBERT J. DYSART, 



Public Accountant and Jtuditor 



Simple methods of correct acoonnting i 

 especially adapted for florists' use. ' 



Books Balanced and Adjusted 



Merchants Bank Building 



as STATE ST., - BOSTON 



Telephone, Main %Z . 



EVERY FLORIST NEEDS IT 

 Lewis's Weekly Board File 



takes the place of Memo or Order Books, or a line of nails. Just the thing for Sdles- 

 Slips, Orders to be filled, etc. The Board File is made up of sets of our Spring Spindle 

 File as illustrated herewith. Among the prominent Florists now using it are: 



H. H. Ritter. Dayton, O.; W. C. Stickel. Pres Park St. Flower Harket. Bf^ston; 

 Edw. Wo id, Pres. /lusic Hall Flower flarket, Boston; J.C. Matcher, Amster- 

 dam. (N. Y. ; F. 5. Follwe I PitUfield. Haas. ; I. L. Powell, nillbrook, N. Y. ; 

 Kensington Flower ^hop, Boston : T. F. Calvin, Boston, Hass. 



S0,000 In Use, 



See Large Ad. Horticulture, page 504, April 11, 



A. F.LEWIS MFG. CO., E. Boston, Mass. 



Easter Market Reports 



Local wholesalers report 

 DETROIT a greatly increased Eas- 

 ter trade with an un- 

 prccedenteij demand for violets and 

 rose.s. The former were sold out by 

 Saturday noon; one firm alone had 

 125,000. A very strong demand cleaned 

 lilies up rapidly; the supply was some- 

 what weakened by heavy shipments 

 up-state of potted lilies. Of car- 

 nations there were about enough to go 

 around, bringing mostly $2.00 per 100, 

 a comparatively small quantity selling 

 at ?4.00 per 100. All bulbous stock 

 was in good demand but the enormous 

 supply Oil hand made it a drug after 

 all. Greens of all descriptions found 

 buyers readily. Prices averaged same 

 as last year. 



The Easter trade 

 INDIANAPOLIS is reported as gen- 

 erally favorable 

 with a flean-up in plants as well as 

 cut flowers. There was an abundance 

 of gooil stock in all lines. There was 

 a slight advance in price of Beauties, 

 teas and carnations, but the volume of 

 stock was handled at conservative fig- 

 ures. The heaviest call was for Easter 

 lilies, both cut and pot. There was a 

 good supply of these, the largest pro- 

 portion of which w-as rather short- 

 stemmed. While there were no novel- 

 ties in the plant line, a more complete 

 list has never ieen shown with results 

 most gratifying. An abundance of lily 

 of the \ alley, sweet peas, some orchids 

 a.nd an unlimited supply of bulbous 

 stock sold well. The amount of busi- 

 ness totalled up about equal to previ- 

 ous year.s, notwithstanding the fact 

 that no top-notch prices were received. 

 Easter week 

 PHILADELPHIA trade.taking 

 stocks all along 

 the line was as good as last year in 

 cut flowers as far as volume was con- 

 cerned but prices were of course very 

 much under the average. The only 

 flower that did any soaring was the 

 orchid. Orchids were quite scarce and 

 in sharp demand with prices in sym- 

 pathy. Roses Were equal to require- 

 ments and showed no great change in 

 prices. Fancy long stem American 

 Beauty were in large supply, mediums 

 Iwere scarc'e, and shorts poor in quality 



and too many. Red and pink roses 

 went even better than the whites,, 

 which is unusual for Easter. Carna- 

 tions were in good supply and mod- 

 erate in price. Double violets are still 

 fairly plentiful, the Rhinebecks now 

 helping out the decreasing locals. Im- 

 mense quantities of lilV of the valley 

 consumed and yet no upward move- 

 ment in prices. More- people have 

 gone into growing this crop — not only 

 locally but at distant shipping points 

 that used to consume much of the sur- 

 plus. Mignonette is a glut. White 

 daisies ditto. Yellow daisies the best 

 sellers. Sweet peas continue fine and 

 went all right. Greens were in good 

 supply and fair demand. As a catch, 

 crop for Easter, Brunner and Drusch- 

 );i roses were welcome. The Druschki 

 is not a very good carrier — bruises too 

 easily. But no white can beat it for 

 purity. 



INCORPORATED. 



Mai tin & Forbes Co., Portland, Ore.; 

 W. Martin, James Forbes, George 

 Spencer; capital, $50,000. 



BOSTON FLORIST LEHER CO. 



Ma nufacturers of FLORISTS' LETTERS I 



This wooden box nicely stained and 

 varnighed, 18x30x12, made in two Bec- 

 tlons* one for each size letter, g^iven 

 away with flrgt order of 500 letters 



Bloclc Letters, iJ6 or 2 inch size per 100. $2. 



Script Letters, 3. Fastener with each letter or 

 Mord. Used by leading florists everywhere and 

 tor s je by all wholesale floribts and supply dealers 



N. r. ncCARinv, Manager 



66 Pearl Street, BOSTON, MA55. 



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ORAL StRIPT LETTERS 

 AND EMBLEMS 



ONCE USED ALWAYS USED 



Forsalebyal firslclasssupply houses. Madeby 



ORAL MFC. CO. 



26 Hawley St., Boston 



