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LILIES FOR YOU! 



Notwithstanding the Early Date of Easter Our Lilies will be of the 

 Same High Grade that we Have Been Furnishing in Years Past 



Wo pa.k in lloxos of Tweiilv -five Pots each. Nii-«-lv fraU'd over llie Top. Our I'arkiiiK is lln- 

 doubtt'dly the UKST IN THE UNITED STATI-^S. AveiaRe 5 Flowers to the Pol. One Extru 

 Plant, gratis. In eai'h crate. 



Prices In case lots. 12c. i)er Flower or Bud. OUDKH EARLY so that we may be able to Ship 

 Them Direct from the Greenhouses Without UehiindlinK. 



We carry a full line of Fresh Choice Flowers, all varieties, and the larj4est stock of 

 Florists' Supplies. Artificial Flowers and Foliage in New Enj^jland 



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Ophelia, Hadley and ail the popular Novelties in all grades and prices. 

 The Killarneys, Richmond, Cardinal, Killarney Queen, Maryland, Russell, 



FLORISTS' SUPPLY DEPARTMENT 



Kaster l!a.-;l<els. Vases. Xoveltie.'i in All Lines. 



Plant Auctior^ Sales for Sprirvg Season will begin early in April if shipments 

 arrive, and tHereafter each Tuesday and Friday until June 



N. F. McCarthy & co. 



Wholesale Florists and Supply Dealers 112 Arch & 31 Otis Sts., BOSTON 



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CHICAGO. 



Fred Ivautenschlager. of Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co.. is in the East, where he will 

 attend the flower show and visit Bos- 

 ton and other cities. 



It looks now as if the LeMoyne 

 building might become a sort of flor- 

 ists' center some day. "How long is 

 your lease? " is a very frequent ques- 

 tion. A. L. Randall and E. C. Amling 

 will soon be able to move in. 



Growers of bulbous stock are rejoic- 

 ing over the fine quality of the stock 

 they are now selling, by far the best 

 they have ever had. It is attributed to 

 the possibility of this country having 

 received the high-class bulbs hereto- 

 fore reserved for European countries. 



Walter M. Schlueter, who was in 

 the sash and door section of the Foley 

 Greenhouse Co. at the old factory, has 

 now rejoined the company at its new 

 place. He is a brother of Christian 

 H. Schlueter. secretary of the firm, 

 and is already at home with the green- 

 house material propositions. 



The Foley Greenhouse Manufactur- 

 ing Co. shipped a carload of material 

 this week to August Von Boeselager 

 at Mt. Clemens. Mich., for his new 

 greeniiouses. The material will be 

 shipped to Columbus, C. in a few days, 

 for the new vegetable range at the 

 Ohio State University. This makes 

 four state universities that this com- 

 pany has erected greenhouses for in 

 the past year — Illinois. Indiana, Iowa 

 and Ohio. The Von Boeselager house 

 will be of unusual size — 42 x 200 feet. 



and the 24-foot bars are each in one 

 piece. 



The .\dams Flower Store is receiv- 

 ing credit for catching a crook trying 

 the worn-out game of getting flowers 

 and money on a worthless check. A 

 telephone order for three dollars' 

 worth of flowers and request to send 

 seventeen dollars for change aroused 

 suspicion and a detective was sent to 

 be present when the money was 

 passed. The result is. one less at lib- 

 erty to make a living at the expense of 

 others. 



Eight years ago. the humble sham- 

 rock made its first appeal to the i)lant 

 lovers of Chicago. A few hundred 

 |)lants were grown in Elgin. 111., and 

 sold to the wholesalers here for $12.00 

 per 100. They were in two-inch pots 

 and were resold, to hotels mostly, for 

 25c. each. Each year has seen the 

 stock increase, and this year about 

 100,000 are offered in three sizes. The 

 department stores have used them as 

 special offerings, and one store alone 

 uses half the amount grown. Methods 

 of handling have improved also. The 

 ones in thumb pots are stood in flats 

 containing wet sand ar.d so kept fresh. 

 Proper boxes are provided for custom- 

 ers to carry home their plants, and 

 fancy boxes for shipping. It seems as 

 if everything now had been done to 

 popularize the sale of the shamrock, 

 and the public has responded with a 

 will. What plant comes next? 



At the meeting of the Chicago Flor- 

 ists' Club, April 8, the members will 

 be entertained by a stereopticon lec- 



ture on the trip to San Francisco, 

 siven by a representative of the Greg- 

 ory Tours. The club has a live man 

 who knows how to get good entertain- 

 ment for the meetings, and his friends 

 call him "Mike." He is just as popu- 

 lar, however, when it comes to selling 

 flowers at the Chicago Flower Grow- 

 ers" -Association, on Michigan avenue, 

 wliere, with his chief, Paul Klings- 

 l)orn, they sell every kind of stock to 

 be foiind in the Chicago flower market. 

 Their supply of roses this year has 

 been imusually fine and arrangements 

 have been made that will secure a still 

 larger supply of the very best to be 

 had another season. Plants as well as 

 cut flowers are a strong feature here. 

 Manager Klingsporn has made his one 

 year in this store count big and to him 

 is due much credit for the year's 

 success. 



The body of a man, believed to be 

 that of Albert Scott, of West Roxbury, 

 Mass.. was found at Quincy Neck, last 

 Sunday afternoon, by three boys who 

 were taking a stroll through the woods. 

 A receipt for rent made out by the Bos- 

 ton Flower Exchange led to the prob- 

 able identification. Mr. Scott was the 

 proprietor of greenhouses in West 

 Roxbury, which he conducted under 

 the name of the Willow Hill Green- 

 house. He disappeared from home 

 shortly before Thanksgiving. At that 

 time he is said to have been in a high- 

 ly nervous state that bordered on mel- 

 ancholia. He was well liked by the 

 trade in and about Boston and much 

 regret is felt at his tragic ending. 



