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The Florists^ Review 



FnsvABT 17, 1916. 



rOET WAYIIB, IND. 



The Market. 



Bright weather last week brought out 

 quality blooms for St. Valentine's day 

 business in great numbers. The stock 

 is in better condition at this writing 

 than it has been since December. Car- 

 nations, lilies, sweet peas and all bulb- 

 ous stock are plentiful. Bodes are 

 more plentiful, but they are not in over- 

 supply. Sweet peas are arriving in 

 good order, the Spencer varieties tiHting 

 the lead in production and price. 

 Freesias are in good supply and orchids 

 are plentiful and bring good prices. 

 Gardenias and valley have a good de- 

 mand. The advance orders for St. Val- 

 entine's day were numerous and at this 

 writing the local florists are beginning 

 to feel the eflPects of systematic adver- 

 tising. All hands have been extremely 

 busy filling valentine orders, but it is 

 too early to determine the volume of 

 business done for this day. Novelties, 

 such as heart-shaped baskets filled with 

 violets, valley, pansies and spring flow- 

 ers, and corsages in heart-shaped boxes, 

 have taken the lead in the day's de- 

 mand, while red roses have sold in great 

 quantities, as well as potted plants of 

 spring flowers. 



Violets have been extremely plentiful 

 and proved popular at $2 per hundred. 

 In spite of the colder, healthier weather 

 prevailing, the death list was long last 

 week, and funeral work was heavy. 

 Green goods, especially Asparagus plu- 

 mosus and Sprengeri, are scarce and of 

 high price. 



Various Notes. 



Walter E. Cook, representing Stumpp 

 & Walter Co., New York, was a busi- 

 ness caller last week. 



The Doswell Floral Co. picked a fine 

 lot of single violets for the St. Valen- 

 tine's day trade. 



F. J. Knecht & Co. are cutting some 

 special Hussell roses. E. F. 



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SYEAOUSE, N. Y. 



The Market. 



Although stock has become more 

 plentiful, business continues good and 

 there is little cause for complaint. The 

 market is well supplied with roses, car- 

 nations, daffodils and tulips. Sweet 

 peas are scarce and orchids are in good 

 demand. Easter lilies and white car- 

 nations have sold well, owing to the 

 large amount of funeral work. Paper 

 Whites are scarce and sell quickly. 

 The price of daffodils and tulips has 

 taken a drop. Potted Von Sion daffo- 

 dils find a ready sale. 



Various Notes. 



Everything is in fine shape at the 

 greenhouses of Charles Bourne. He 

 has a fine stock of spring plants and 

 the Easter plants are coming along 

 nicely, being timed just right for 

 Easter. 



The Baker Floral Co. has its houses 

 crowded with plants for Easter. The 

 lilies are fine and will come on prop- 

 erly for Easter. There are 3,000 roses 

 potted for the Easter trade. Carna- 

 tions at this place are now in full crop. 



The W. E, Day Co. had an attractive 

 St. Valentine's day window display. 



Warner Bultmann has been busy with 

 funeral work. He made up twenty to 

 twenty-five pieces in one day. All 

 hands are kept bnsy here. H. F. B. 



Our thirty-three years of ■nooess In mamifaoturing 

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