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HOETICULTURE 



December 12, 1914 



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Canton China Hall-Seat or Plant 

 Pot Stand 



We invite the attention of intending buyers, or those 

 interested in seeing- the newest productio: s of ihe potters' 

 art, to our importations of English, French, German, Jap- 

 anese and Chinese Plant Pots or Jardinieres, selected by 

 our buyers at the places of production. 



They include all sizes and shapes up to the large and 

 very large, from the lowest price through the medium to 

 the costly. 



Dinner Ware. On the 3rd and 4th floor will be found 

 an unequalled exhibit of Dinner Sets all values from the 

 expensive upwards. 



Our stock of China and Glass occupies ten floors and more 

 than 9,000 bins including everything in this line pertaining 

 to the Home, Hotels, Clubs, Public Institutions, etc. 



CANTON CHINA PLANT POT 



Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Go. 



Crockery, China and Glass Merchsnis 



33 FranLlin, cor. Hawley Sts., Boston, Mass. 



they are alwa.vs given a hearty wel- 

 come 



Plants for Christmas- 

 Retailers are scurrying around 

 among the growers to see what bloom- 

 ing and decorating plants are avail- 

 able for Christmas. It appears that 

 cyclamen are in much larger supply 

 than usual, arid plants are in the pink 

 of condition, ranging in size from 5 

 to 7-in. pots. Begonias also are to be 

 seen in quantity, the Cincinnati talk- 

 ing the lead in numbers, though a 

 good many Lorraines are grown. Be- 

 gonia Davenport will be tried again 

 ne.xt season, when it is hoped it will 

 do better than it has done this year. 

 Azaleas will meet all demand and 

 there is an especially good supply of 

 the medium and small sizes. Heather 

 is in e.xcellent condition and fairly 

 abundant. There are plenty of primu- 

 las, mainly obconieas. Dutch bulbous 

 stock will be extremely limited. The 

 foregoing comprises the bulk of 

 lilooming plants and with the otaheite 

 oranges and berried plants will serve 

 to brighten up the stores. Kumquats, 

 so much in evidence a year ago, are 

 now among the missing. Araucarias 

 are the leaders in decorative foliage 

 plants and Dracaena terminalis, 

 palms, ferns, &c., are welcome addi- 

 tions. 



Another Brick Thrown. 

 The flower business had another re- 

 buff when one of the incoming county 

 officers tried to prevent the use of 

 flowers when the new officers took 

 their seats Monday. This has been a 

 time-honored custom and not to he 

 given up lightly, so the big floral em- 



blems found their ways to the various 

 rooms as before. Peter Reinberg had 

 many remembrances from his political 

 friends as he took his new office as 

 president of the County Board. 

 An Echo from the Boston Convention. 

 .Among the visitors at tln' Kroe- 

 schell exhibit last -August was O. H. 

 Williams, of Olneyville. Providence, 

 R. I. His farewell to Mr. Lauten- 

 schlager was, "Some day 1 will buy a 

 Kroeschell." The other day his boiler 

 gave out and he took the fast train 

 for Chicago, to see the Kroeschell 

 boiler at the factory. He bought a 

 No. 11, which will heat 22,500 sq. ft. 

 of glass when the temperature is 1,5 

 degrees below zero. Two hours after 

 the order was placed, the big boiler 

 was on its way East. 

 Plant Baskets as Funeral Tributes. 

 Tom McAllister is one of the pro- 

 gressive men in the trade. So care- 

 fully does he pilot a customer through 

 the difficulties of ' placing an order, 

 that very few of the freak funeral 

 designs come his way. A large baski^i 

 of live plants with bow of ribbon to 

 harmonize, he regards as more digni- 

 fied and befiting a funeral, and says 

 there is just as much money in it for 

 the retailer as in the ridiculous freak 

 design and far more satisfaction. 



therefore take heart. It's in the scheme 

 of things, and always has been. The 

 proper frame of mind under the cir- 

 cumstances is the old biblical injunc- 

 tion: "Blessed is he who expecteth 

 little: for he will not be dissap- 

 pointed." 



If the growing end of the business 

 has liad the same careful records 

 kept Ifrom their standpoint) there 

 will be no plaint coming when the 

 returns arrive from the wholesaler. 

 The lull probably comes from the na- 

 tural tendency of people in general 

 to conserve themselves a little for the 

 Christmas and New Year festivities. 



G. C. W. 



NEW FLOWER STORES. 



Plainfieid, Ct. .lohn L. Alquist. 



Huntington, ind. — A. G. Bieberich. 



Ashavilie. N. C. — Allison's Flower 

 Shop 



Wilkesbarre, Pa. — G. Bauman. 168 S. 

 .Main street. 



Providence, R. I.- 



11(1 Kinsley bldg. 



Frederick Bohl, 



THE IVIID-DECEIVIBER LULL. 

 The second week of December has 

 always been a bad one for the flower 

 business. So says a retailer of a 

 quarter of a century's experience, who 

 has kept record day by day. week by 

 week, month by month, and year by 

 year, during all of these twenty-five 

 years. The disappointed ones may 



Cleveland, O, — Miss Christine Cliff, 



Tl'ii llougli avenue. 



New York, N. Y. — Robert Press- 



freund. 414 Fourth avenue. 



Portland, Ore. — Fairyland Flower 

 Shop, Broadway and Alder street. 



Portland, Ore. — C. C. Ruenitz. .■?82 

 Yamhill street: S. B. Hendee. 142 

 Broadwav. 



