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We are the largest manufacturers of Floral Wirework in the 

 United States. We defy all competition in price and Quality 



Prices will not be lower than at present. Raw 



material is scarce and getting scarcer. Better 



place an order 



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SCRANTON, PA. 



PITTSBURGH. 



Marion F. Gross, a former attache 

 of the A. W. Smith Company, has en- 

 tered the employ of Albert Brigg. 



David Praser is a member of the 

 committee appointed by the Chamber 

 of Commerce to judge the prize gar- 

 dens of the Vacant Lot and War 

 Farms Garden commissions. 



Anthony W. Smith, Jr., will spend 

 August at Pointe aux Pines, Lake 

 Michigan. Howard E. Andrews is at 

 Atlantic City. Murray J. McGrew is 

 in Cleveland. N. L. Huttinger will 

 visit his brother, who is in camp at 

 Syracuse, N. Y. R. H. Stewart has 

 returned from a trip through Michi- 

 gan. L. F. Post has returned from a 

 New England and Canadian journey. 

 Mrs. Ernest C. Ludwig has been spend- 

 ing the past week in New Galilee, Pa. 



NEW YORK. 



J. H. Beatty, former superintendent 

 of parks of Manhattan, has located in 

 Norwalk, Conn., where he has bought 

 a small farm and will enjoy rural life. 



Horace S. Ely & Co. have leased the 

 southerly store, basement and sub-base- 

 ment, in 784 and 785 Fifth avenue, to 

 Max Schling, now located at 72 West 

 Fifty-ninth street. 



Rudolph Zilka, who has been criti- 

 cally ill for the past two months as 

 the result of an attack of pneumonia, 

 is now in St. John's Hospital. His 

 condition now seems favorable. 



During the week just past business 

 conditions have been somewhat slow 

 as befits the season, unfortunately. 

 Roses, of fair quality considering the 

 time, are somewhat of a glut, while 

 carnations have about dwindled in 

 quality and quantity to rock bottom. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Samuel S. Pennock left for Denver 

 on the 29th inst. to attend to some 

 real estate matters in connection with 

 the estate of his lately deceased father, 

 Abram L. Pennock. He expects to re- 

 turn to Philadelphia in about two 

 weeks. 



The annual meeting of stockholders 

 of the New York and New Jersey Mar- 

 ket Florists' Association will be held 

 on Monday, July 30, at the office of 

 W. H. Siebrecht, Jr. 



Fairfield, Conn. — John Beach, for- 

 merly of Bridgeport, has started here 

 as a grower. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 



San Francisco, Cal. — Standard Seed 

 Company, voluntary bankruptcy, as- 

 sets $783, liabilities $4,119. 



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