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We ore prepared to deliver In good shape, flowers, plants, or made up work as ordered. Flor- 

 ists at a distance may transfer their orders by mall, telcRram or 'phono to us with a certainly 

 of prompt and careful attention. 



THOMAS F. GALVIN, Inc. 



1 PARK STREET 



BOYLSTON & FAIRFIELD STS. 



COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL 

 ^CDS~rOIM, IVIASS. 



Also THOMAS F. GALVIN, Inc., Galvin Building, 561 Fifth Avenue, New York 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



H. J. Borowskl & Sons, of Roslln- 

 dale had a fine exhibit of cyclamen at 

 Horticultural Hall. 



The popular demand for baskets is 

 well shown by the shipments at the 

 big wholesale houses of Welch Bros, 

 and N. F. McCarthy. 



B. F. Snyder & Co. and the New Eng- 

 land Florist Supply, two young supply 

 dealers, report good progress for their 

 first year's business. 



Alex. Coplen. Boylston street, has 

 one of the smallest stores in the city, 

 but it is advantageously located in a 

 rapidly improving district. 



Heard at the Flower Show; "Aren't 

 these tulips lovely?" Oh, yes, hut 

 they're not Darwins." The Darwins 

 are rapidly forging to the front. 



The new cyclamen, "North Shore," 

 exhibited by Mrs. Lester Leiand, of 

 Manchester, Mass., attracted much at- 

 tention at the Boston show. This is a 

 seedling from Rosy Morn x Giant Pink. 



Some specialties noted in the flower 

 market this week are Winsor carna- 

 tions, from H. H. Rogers, of S. Sud- 

 bury; single violets, from Ed. Bing- 

 ham, of Dedham; pot schizanthus, 

 from J. Foote, of Reading, and Spanish 

 iris, from Frank P. Putnam, of N. 

 Tewksbury. The finest American 

 Beauty roses seen for a long time are 

 now being cut by the Budlong Rose 

 Co. They are beautiful, stately speci- 

 mens, topping seven feet in many 

 cases. 



WASHINGTON. 



Fred H. KranuT lia.s had his store 

 filled with visitors during the week, 

 this being the time of his annual 

 spring show. The stock on exhibition 

 is exceptionally fine and well worthy 

 of mention. 



Charles Scarborough was in charge 

 of the Gude Bros., exhibit at the New 

 York show. Donald Malcolm, with the 

 same concern, has returned from a 

 two weeks' visit in Rochester, New 

 York City and Philadelphia. 



Following a custom of many years, 

 Gude Bros. Company have made a spe- 

 cial display of their Easter lilies at 

 the Anacostia houses for the benefit 

 of the public. On Sunday they showed 

 more than 15,000 lilies to a large 

 crowd of people. 



Till' WabliiimiDU I'Uiiul Company 

 has taken possession of its new quar- 

 ters on Fourteenth street, northwest. 

 This firm has succeeded to the busi- 

 ness of the former Washington Flor- 

 ists' Company. The store is an at- 

 tractive one. On the opening day a 

 fine display was made of Bonfire, 

 Gloriosa and other carnations pro- 

 duced by them and a fine lot of roses 

 from their greenhouses. 



The Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion has granted the express com- 

 panies' petition for a rehearing of the 

 express rate case, following the claim 

 made by the latter that the present 

 rates are proving disastrous. The 

 date for the hearing has not yet been 

 set but a case is being worked up 

 here with respect to the rates on plants 

 in pots to be presented at the proper 

 time. William F. Gude has requested 

 that it be announced in Horticui.tituk 

 that he is very dc^iroiis of obtaining 

 all data possible bearing on the sub- 

 ject and suggests that those interested 

 forward to him such material as may 

 be accumulated at the earliest possible 

 moment. 



SAN FRANCISCO 



The California Rose Co.. of Pomona, 

 Los Angeles County, Cal., has opened 

 a store at 721 K street, Secramento. 



Sacramento, Cal., school children 

 held a bulb exhibition at the offices of 

 Superintendent of Schools Hughes in 

 the Sacramento city hall on Saturday, 

 March 13th. Prizes were awarded for 

 the best flowers, the children having 

 raised the bulbs at home. 



Arrangements have been concluded 

 for the holding of a floral pageant in 

 San Francisco on May 29th as a 

 special feature of Sacramento Day at 

 the exposition. The committee in 

 charge of the event is composed of 

 George M. Treichler, Major P. J. Har- 

 ney and Wm. A. Jleyer. 



Domoto Bros, are sending in some 

 nice gardenias which are being well 

 received. They are only the second 

 growers who have been successful in 

 growing gardenias here, the first and 

 long the only one in the field being the 

 E. W. McLellan Co., which has lately 

 been bringing in an unusually fine cut 

 of these fiowers. 



PITTSBURGH. 



George Mar.'^hall, of the McCallum 

 Company, is sllll confined to his home 

 by illness. Fortunately, Karl Kllnke, 

 the credit man for the firm, Is again 

 able to be on duty. 



Ray J. Daschbach has received the 

 contract for decorating the new Rosen- 

 baum store, the opening being the Im- 

 portant mercantile event of Easter 

 week. Mr. Daschbach's work will in- 

 clude ten floors. 



Mr. and Mrs. John Werner, of Knox- 

 ville, have the sympathy of their 

 friends in the recent loss of their six- 

 teen-year-old son, whose death took 

 place last Sunday, the interment being 

 Tuesday morning. 



That "it is an ill wind that blows 

 nobody good" has been emphasized 

 during tlie past week in the unusual 

 demand for hospital and funeral work 

 for pneumonia victims. Pink ramblers 

 were lavishly used in the single Lenten 

 wedding of the week, the Weaklln 

 Company doing the work. The arched 

 doorways and windows were outlined 

 with the ramblers, which also formed 

 the background for the bridal party. 



The Beckert Seed Company have an 

 attractive window display of vari- 

 colored bulb plants, with a window-box 

 border of grass, just appearing. Au- 

 gustiis Frishkorn, the manager, reports 

 their work is just about the same as 

 during previous seasons, notwithstand- 

 ing the general financial depression. 

 He attributes this to the "Back to the 

 Soil" movement, together with the fact 

 that many unemployed men are mak- 

 ing the best of a bad matter by making 

 gardens during their idleness. 



Samuel McClenients and Ed. C. 

 Reineman expect to attend the con- 

 vention in San Francisco, and, inciden- 

 tally, the Panama-Pacific Exposition. 

 Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Graves, w^ho are 

 also prospective visitors, are planning 

 to leave in July. Some one who re- 

 cently asked Superintendent William 

 Falconer, of the Allegheny Cemetery, 

 if he were going to take this trip, was 

 answered in characteristic fashion, 

 "Why, child, WHERE would I get the 

 money?" So; "to him that hath shall 

 be given" to see the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition. 



Word has just been received from 

 New York that H. C. Frick has decided 



