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HORTICULTURE 



December 30, 1911 



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HEWS STANDARD POTS 



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POT MAKERS FOR 140 YEARS 



WORLDS LARGEST MANUFACTURER* 



P— r— Street, 

 LOMO ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND DISCOUNT! 



A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factortaa 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page Q53) 



ready sale and here the supply could 

 not keep up with the demand, espe- 

 cially those locally grown. One very 

 exceptional feature of this Christmas 

 was the largt; amount of flowers used 

 for church decorations, the demand for 

 cut flowers and plants being almost as 

 heavy as at Easter time. One church, 

 in particular, this year used over three 

 hundred poinsettias, and with very 

 good effect, banked as they were in the 

 organ loft and suspended in baskets 

 around the balconies. This, together 

 with an elaborate supply of southern 

 smilax, holly and laurel wreathing, 

 made a very impressive scene which 

 caused a great deal of favorable com- 

 ment. On the day following Christmas 

 it was almost impossible to find a 

 piece of holly or mistletoe with which 

 to fill orders for the festivities among 

 the smart set which are taking place 

 during the week. Business in the Cen- 

 tre Market during the holidays was 

 exceptionally good and the Saturday 

 night before Christmas found practi- 

 cally all the stands cleaned out. 



By retail we in- 



PHILADELPHIA elude of course 



RETAIL CHRIST- both plants and 



MAS MARKET cut flowers, 



The general 

 consensus of opinion (gathered from 

 the leading retail men in personal in- 

 terviews) seems to be that the year 

 was not as good as last. People gen- 

 erally did not seem to have the money 

 for ordinary luxuries after paying for 

 their automobile hurrahs of the past 

 few years. Those retailers who claimed 

 an increase admitted that said increase 

 was mostly in their charge sales. We 

 found few, if any, who were willing 

 to admit that their cash sales were 

 larger. In plants there was quite a 

 lot of good stock left over at the 

 close of the market. In cut flowers, 

 this was not so pronounced. What 

 few left-overs appeared in the latter 

 were of the punky kind, caused either 

 by the weather or by the growers 

 holding them back too long. One 

 good feature this year was the ease 

 of delivery caused both by the mild 

 weather and the fact that it was Sun- 

 day the day before. The latter fact 

 caused people to place their orders on 

 Saturday, which gave one full day to 

 catch up, and obviated much of the 

 usual night-work. One retailer who 

 has been thirty-five years at the same 

 stand said it had been the easiest 

 Christmas he had ever put in, although 

 he imagined he had done about as 

 much business as usual. 



There were no striking novelties of 

 any kind to be seen either in plants 

 or cut flowers. In fact many of the 

 odd and rare things of recent years 

 that were hailed with hope and an- 

 ticipation as having a future were 



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ENRY 1 DREER, sms, punts, wte gj Supplie s. 714 chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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can be shipped at an hour's notice. Pries 



conspicuous by their absence. The 

 old standbys such as poinsettia, Lor- 

 raine, azalea, erica, croton, pandanus, 

 dracena were all out in full force and 

 holding their own — most of the stock 

 seen in these lines being very well 

 grown and well finished. There was 

 some good holly around this year, but 

 most of It was rather dry, crinkly, 

 brown and lacking in substance, gloss 

 and finish. Holly is about "the limit" 

 when it is below the mark; no good 

 unless it is good. "When it's good, 

 it's very, very good; when it's bad, 

 it's horrid!" Mistletoe was about nor- 

 mal. Plenty of laurel. Lycopodium 

 was in better supply than last year on 

 account of the mild season, even as far 

 north as the deep woods in Wisconsin, 

 but there was no over-supply. Around 

 City Hall square, which is the hub of 

 the Christmas tree trade, the supply 

 seemed to be much smaller than last 

 year. Most dealers had cut their 

 orders in half and some had quit. 

 Notwithstanding that condition, half 

 the meagre stock was left unsold, 

 showing that the Christmas tree cus- 

 tom is gradually on the wane in 

 Philadelphia. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 

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Stephen Dennis, Jones- 



boro, Ark. 

 1,011,194. Hoe. William S. Hales, 



Pineville, N. C. 

 1,011,375. Chopper and Thinner for 



Plants. Roy Salsbury, 



Enid, Okla. 

 1,011,417. Weeder. John F. Dvorak, 



Prince George, Va. 



HILFINGER BROS. , Pottery, Fort Edward, N. Y. 



Aagsst ReOur & Sons, 31 Barclay SL. N. Y. City, Agents. 

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SYRACUSB. 

 N. Y. 



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21th l 1 Sts., 



Waskngta. D. C 



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FOR OUR 



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 Key Checks, Badges, Hurtling Brands, 

 Pew Numbers, Numbering Machines, 

 Check Protectors, Stencil Combinations, 

 Steel Alphabets and Figures. Indelible 

 Inks, Steucll Colors and Brushes. Door 

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 first order or opoo receipt of 5 two- 

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