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NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



C'harlcK L. Plorcf, of Holbrook, 

 MasD.. slilpix'd tho llrwt Kliidloll of the 

 geooon to Mnnn Co., Inc., this week. 



Superli Hiuipilriittoii Ih Ix'Iiik Krown 

 by W. U Howard, of .Mllford, .Maas., 

 who won further reputation for his 

 "Silver I'lnk" at the New York Show. 



We are pleased to report that N. M. 

 Silverman, of r.i". Winter street, 1b re- 

 covered from his severe attack of grip, 

 which kept him confined for three 

 weeks. 



The firm of South worth & Greene, 

 of W. Stoughton. has been dissolved. 

 Mr. S. Greene Is now In the Boston 

 Flower Kxchanpe. eiiRaKcd In selUnK 

 tho products of several Rrowers. 



Cattleya Trlanae Is now being re- 

 placed by Cattleya Schroederae In the 

 markets. F. J. Dolansky states that It 

 hardly sells as well as C. Uabiata or 

 C. Trlanae. He will have C. Mosslae 

 for Kaater. 



Harry Quint has a brilliant display 

 of plants In front of his store on Boyl- 

 slon street. The front of the building, 

 for over sixty feet. Is lined with 

 flowering plants. This display is a 

 small show in itself. 



Some specialties noted this week are 

 candidum lilies from -Mann Bros.. Ran- 

 dolph; carnation Pink Delight from 

 J. A. Nelson. Framingham; Bougain- 

 vllleas from Thos. Roland of Nahant, 

 and jonquils from Paine Bros., Ran- 

 dolph. 



City florists have gone heavily into 

 plants this week. Several college 

 students have been put on by Penn 

 the Florist as extra help— an experi- 

 ment in the psychology of employes, 

 in which Henry Penn is deeply inter- 

 ested. 



Spring plant auction sales will be- 

 gin early this month at the N. F. Mc- 

 Carthy & Co. auction rooms. These 

 will take place every Tuesday and Fri- 

 day until June. The first sale will 

 be held on Friday. April 9. This 

 Is one week later than the cus- 

 tomary date but this is unavoid- 

 able. Owing to the danger from the 

 mine fields the steamship companies 

 have been holding back and refused to 

 accept goods for shipment at usual time 

 and the first arrivals were on Wednes- 

 day of this week. The stock opens up 

 well and we advise those who wish to 

 secure the goods to get busy at this 

 first sale as the future is uncertain. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



Preparations are being concluded by 

 the town of San Leandro, in San 

 Mateo county, for its second annual 

 flower show, to be held April 9 and 10. 



W. Vortriede, gardener of the Cali- 

 fornia State Capitol grounds at Sacra- 

 mento, has completed a plan for land- 

 scape work on the grounds of the new- 

 Willows, Cal., high school. 



A new flower shop has recently been 

 opened at 1422 Haight street by Na- 

 varret Bros., who formerly conducted 

 the new Rosarie at Divisadero and 

 California streets. They are now oper- 

 ating as the Sunset Floral Company. 



PHILADELPHIA. 

 Uyron Bragg hoA Buccecded Stuart 

 H. Miller as foninun at ICdword Hold's, 

 1CI9-21 Ranstead i4tr<>^'l. Mr. Bragg 

 has had six years' <>xiH»rlence In the 

 wholesale commission bUKlnoau with 

 various houses. Including Ully & Up- 

 ton, Berger Bros, and Tho Phlla. Cut 

 Flower Co. Ho lmpre8Bt>8 the cjisual 

 visitor as a very nice boy. 



The new ever-blooming pelargonium 

 ■hiuiUT Greeting," rose pink with dark 

 purple blotch, is a feature In the Eas- 

 ter plant offerings of the Pcnnock- 

 .Meehan Co. Shapely little plants in 

 4-inch pots, about 9 inches high in 

 bloom and coming on. sell readily at 

 35 cents. They make an elegant win- 

 dow or conservatory plant and bloom 

 all summer if planted out-of-doors 

 One of the best novelties of the season. 



Seize Suzuki, of the 'Yokohama Nurs- 

 ery Co., leaves New York for Europe 

 on the Lusitania. Saturday, April 3. 

 We had the pleasure of a visit from 

 him in Philadelphia, March 3" and 

 want to see more of him. He sounds 

 reasonable to us — judging from our 

 first meeting. Think can convince him 

 that our aliihabet of 26 letters would 

 save them a lot of money over there 

 in Japan. Has our slang down fine al- 

 ready. Does not believe for one thing 

 in "standing too long on one leg." This 

 is a new one on yours truly. 



A grower has a fundamental right to 

 market his product in such a way as 

 appears to him best He may sell 

 wholesale or retail or consign to an 

 agent. The commission man is the 

 growers' agent, and all the rights and 

 privileges of the grower accnie to him. 

 If a grower makes a contract with a 

 retailer, or anybody else, and fails to 

 live up to the contract, the retailers' 

 recourse is obvious. But it is certain- 

 ly futile to write a letter to the Ledger 

 about it. It is certainly high time for 

 the retailers to stop trying to make 

 the grower a doormat for all their 

 troubles. That is — some retailers. 



We learn that Robert Kift finds 

 fault with us for spelling our name in 

 full in that New York show story. That 

 long-hand signature was only to show 

 our appreciation of the importance of 

 the subject. Our usual way is George 

 C. Watson which is a rial "parting-in- 

 the-middle." Spelling it in full is not. 

 Also, we wish to call attention to Rob- 

 ert. He can't part his in the middle 

 because he hasn't any middle. Bald- 

 headed men without any niiddle should 

 be careful how they meddle with folks 

 who can part it any old way! If we 

 were in a dudish mood we could even 

 part it on the side like this: 



G. Cooi'KR Watson. 



Robert, you are barking up the 

 wrong tree. There are lots of more 

 Important things to occupy your time 

 and ability than 



GEowiE Cooper Watsox. 



CHICAGO. 



Frank Oecbslln was practically sold 

 out of pluntH ten days brfore Easter. 



MlsB Miriam Hancock, daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hancock, won a gold 

 watch in n recent newspaper contest. 



.Mr. and .Mrs. C. W. McKcUar are 

 back from an early vacation which 

 they took to the exitosltlon at San 

 Francisco. 



Chas. SamuelBon has returned from 

 a trip lo the northwest and come* 

 back aallBfied with the apple outlook 

 there. 



Frank Polockl Is no longer with the 

 Frank Floral Co.. that firm having 

 changed to the Miller & Musser Co., 

 Wabash avenue and bake street. 



The .\mling Co. and the A. L.. Ran- 

 dall Co. are now occupying their new 

 homes In the he Moyne block which is 

 one of the finest In the loop. Both 

 florists have carbonic gas cooling sys- 

 tems, operated by Kroeschell Ice ma- 

 chines, and the elimination of the serv- 

 ices of the ice men means much to- 

 ward the keeping of the store clean. 

 Any temperature can be secured. The 

 machine of the AmIIng Co. is In the 

 basement and the gas is carried up 

 into cooling tanks containing brine, 

 through which the gas Is carried by- 

 means of coils. 



Each year sees one or more of the 

 State street department stores enter 

 the field for plants and cut flowers. 

 A trip to these places would be a re- 

 velation In prices and often in quality, 

 both being often low, but not always 

 so. Easter week, the lowest prices 

 quoted on lily plants with two or three 

 blooms, was l.")C. per plant. The plants 

 were mostly short, but the blossoms 

 fairly good and thousands were sold. 

 No florist could compete with these 

 prices, for they lould not handle the 

 quantity of stock to secure them at a 

 low enough figure. Very good hya- 

 cinth plants were offered at one de- 

 partment store for ten cents each. It 

 would make interesting reading could 

 the number of dollars be given that 

 are now turned to these stores that 

 once went to the retail florists. In the 

 seed and nursery departments of these 

 stores, where clerks are unfamiliar 

 with the character of bulbs which 

 they sell, illustrations from seed cata- 

 logues are used to supply the needed 

 information. 



WASHINGTON. 



The monthly meeting of the Florists' 

 Club of Washington, D. C, scheduled 

 for April 6, has been postponed one 

 week because of the nearness of that 

 date to Easter Sunday. President 

 Cooke slates that there will be a num- 

 ber of interesting features which will 

 probably be ready for Tuesday even- 

 ing. April 13. 



It is reported that the police are be- 

 rnming very active with respect to 

 moving along the street men who ped- 

 dle flowers. The competition offered 

 by these itinerant merchants has long 

 been a source of complaint on the part 

 of the storekeepers, and it is said that 

 on Saturday last what was almost a 

 general raid took place and a number 

 of the vendors were haled before the 

 Police Court. ' ' -" ■"•■' ' 



