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HORTICULTUEE 



April 10, 1920 



THE EASTER TRADE. 



It Was Very Satisfactory in All 

 Sections. 



It was a splendid Easter. Reports 

 from all sections show that florists are 

 well satisfied with the business which 

 they did. The only exceptions come in 

 some of the smaller towns where it 

 was difficult to get the prices charged 

 for lilies. In the Boston market every 

 lily was cleaned out. As a matter of 

 fact, there appeared to be more lilies 

 on the market in the final round-up 

 than were supposed to be grown in 

 New England. It is hard to tell just 

 where they all came from, but even as 

 it was, the market ran rather short. 

 Most of the flowers sold readily, too. 



It was the same in New York. The 

 offerings were rather more than ex- 

 pected, if anything, but there was no 

 difficulty in getting rid of all the stock. 

 The open air flower markets estab- 

 lished by the city apparently did not 

 harm the stores in any way. As a 

 matter of tact, many people who went 

 to these markets expecting to buy 

 lilies cheap were disappointed by the 

 prices charged. 



George Watson sends us a very fav- 

 orable account of the Easter business 

 in Philadelphia. He says: 



The fine weather most of the week 

 was a great help in making Easter 

 week in Philadelphia a good one and 

 it certainly was a good one indeed ac- 

 cording to all reports very very good. 

 Two of the high spots in this fine show- 

 ing were topped by the two highest 

 prices among the floral favorities 

 namely American Beauty roses and 

 Cattleya orchids. Thursday and Fi-i- 

 day there were not near enough to go 

 around as the out of town demand 

 was especially brisk. The people in 

 the cities of the Southern states seem 

 to be all millionaires these days as the 

 run was particularly heavy on the 

 highest priced flowers. 



Sat&rday was different. There were 

 enough Beauties for all demands. 

 Other roses were fine and cleaned up 

 well. So did carnations and sweet 

 peas. The latter have fallen off a bit 

 in quality from the top notch of a 

 couple of weeks ago but they sold well 

 for all that and everything found a 

 ready market from the highest grade 

 to the lowest. 



There were quantities of Southern 

 daffodils that were also very much ap- 

 preciated by the street multitudes who 

 all wanted an Easter posy of some 

 kind. And the home conservatory 

 product in the daffodil line like Em- 

 peror, Empress, Horsfieldi, etc., did not 

 suffer at all from this competition but 

 easily found ready sale at six and 

 eight. 



We noticed some good sized lots of 



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Per 

 2S0 Seeds 



Vftrqnliar'* OUnt Pink ^.00 



Fkrqnhar'f Olant Salmon 2.00 



F&rqahar'a Roby Qaeen 1.75 



rarqnhar'c Olant Bed 1.76 



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ZDOSeedi 

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with pink zoDe, primrose eye) . . . .91.7S 

 rarqahar** Olant WUta 3.00 



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ANTIRRHINUM 



Oiant Rose Pink ^ oi., 



Olant White ^ oz., 



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 .60 



Olant Yellow % o»., 



Olant Scarlet ^ ox., 



OASMATION HAB.OUKRITE. Farqnliar'e New Olant Mixed, 



1/16 oz., J1.26; H 01., 



L/OBE1.IA. Farqahar** Dark Bine, Dwarf % oz., $0.S5; ^ oc, 



FBTT7NIA. Farqoliar's Ruffled Giants Ulxed 1/16 oz., 



gA£,VIA SPIJJNDENS BONFIRE Vi oz., $1.00; oz., 



BAI.VIA 8PI-ENDEN8 COIfPACTA % oz., $1.00; oz., 



BAI^VIA SPLENDKN8 % oz., $0.76; oz., 



SALVIA ZURICH ^ OZ., 



VERBENA. Farqohar'g Giant Blue. Pink, Scarlet, White, 



H oz., $0.35; ^ oz., $0.60; oz., 

 VKRBKNA. Farqnliar'* Mammoth Hybrid* Mixed, 



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VTSCA. Bricht Raze, White with roM aye. Pore White \4 oz., $0.60; am., 



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R. & J. FARQUHAR COMPANY 



BOSTON, MASS. 



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Seeds and Bulbs 



30-32 Barclay Street 

 NEW YORK CITY 



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 821 6th Ave. NEW YORK 



GARDEN SEED 



BEAT, CARROT, PARSNIP, RADISH asd 

 OARDBN PEA SEED In Tsriety ; also other 

 Items of the short crop of ttils past seaaoa 

 as well as a fnll line of Garden Seeds, wtU 

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 Hortfciritiirel Sundries 



ie« w. asud sc. new 



put lilies on sale this (Monday) morn- 

 ini; but we are told the only reason 

 they did not sell Saturday was because 

 they were not open enough then. 



The plant men also report a good 

 trade — most of them stating that they 

 had a great many more orders than 

 they could fill. So we can all make a 

 graceful and happy bow to a good old 

 fashion Easter. The war is over and 

 Queen Flora's herself again. 



ASTER BEETLE 



One ounce of Paris green to twelve 

 and one-half gallons of water will kill 

 .-i.ster beetles without burning the 

 flowers or foliage. It may slightly 

 color white flowers, but they can be 

 cleaned easily by dipping them in 

 cold water. Arsenate of lead discolors 

 foliage and flowers too much, but it 

 is effective. 



