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into favor for cut flowers in spite of the fact that they do 

 not keep very well. Miss Edith Granger avoids this diffi- 

 culty, as she explains in the Garden Magazine, "by picking 

 off all blooms that have not already lost their petals in the 

 evening, so that in the morning all the open flowers will be 

 new ones. These are cut as early as possible, even while 

 the dew is still upon them, and plunged immediately into 

 deep water." 



You need not be discouraged by the low prices at which 

 flowers, especially violets and roses, are often offered in 

 the streets. Those flowers are the discarded stock or de- 

 layed shipments of the swell florists. You will find that 

 those flowers are fading, or revived with salt, and will not 

 keep. 



That they are so peddled, shows that everybody, at hotels, 

 dinners, funerals, weddings, hi the home, and the young 

 men for the young women, want flowers, the loveliest things 

 ever made without souls. We have only to supply such a 

 want to find our place in life. 



Fleischman, of Fifth Avenue, estimates cut flowers, not 

 cut prices, since the war in the New York winter market : 



Violets, $1 .00 per hundred ; Carnations, Killarney Roses, 

 Brides and Maids, Richmonds, $1.00 per dozen; American 

 Beauty Roses, $1.50 to $5.00 per dozen; Valley Lilies, 

 $3.00 per bunch of 25; Chrysanthemums, choicest, $2.00 

 to $5.00 per dozen. 



These prices continue indefinitely. The winter wholesale 

 figures are : 



Violets $ .35 to $1.00 per hundred 



Carnations, common 1.00 to 1.50 per hundred 



Carnations, selects 1.50 to 2.00 per hundred 



Carnations, fancies 2.00 to 5.00 per hundred 



Killarney Roses 1.00 to 6.00 per hundred 



