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The Florists^ Review 



April 27, 1916. 



PITTSBUKGH, PA. 



The Market. 



The Easter business, if not the best, 

 was as good as the best. Stock of all 

 kinds, excepting carnations, sold at 

 regular prices. There was enough to 

 satisfy all demands and the wholesalers 

 were cleaned up Saturday night. The 

 retailers did an excellent business. It, 

 rained from Friday to Monday, but this 

 did not seem to interfere with business. 

 There was a good demand for plants 

 during the first part of the week and 

 little attention was given to cut flowers 

 until Friday. There certainly never 

 were so many plants sold as this year; 

 anything with blooms sold at a fair 

 price. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. E. A. "Williams had a fine collec- 

 tion of made-up baskets of blooming 

 plants in her store, and they sold as 

 quickly as she could get them in. 



Eandolph & McClements had their 

 store and the conservatories adjoin- 

 ing filled with- pretty plant arrange- 

 ments. One of the representatives of a 

 western house remarked that they could 

 never sell half of the stock on hand, 

 but Easter Sunday saw them cleaned 

 out of everything fit to sell. 



G. P. Weaklen & Co. were well 

 stocked, but sold everything. 



The A. W. Smith Co. had an extra 

 force of salespeople to take care of the 

 increased trade, but Saturday there 

 seemed to be a riot in the store and one 

 could scarcely get near the counter. This 

 concern reports the largest Easter trade 

 it ever had, in both plants and cut 

 flowers. 



Miss E. B. Maxwell reports a clean- 

 up of stock and that the volume of 

 business done was only limited by the 

 facilities for taking care of it. 



The Blind Floral Co. made a specialty 

 of plants and expressed astonishment 

 at the number of them sold. 



Wm. Turner knows, without waiting 

 for his bookkeeper's report, that busi- 

 ness this Easter exceeded that of any 

 previous Easter. 



The W. & W. Flower Store, of Wash- 

 ington, Pa., reports cut flowers to have 

 come into their own again. "The big- 

 gest Easter business ever by fifty per 

 cent, ' ' was the report. 



J. M. Johnston, of McKeesport, says: 

 "Believe me, it was some Easter. I 

 have four stores and each of them sold 

 everything in sight and needed more." 



The express companies were handi- 

 capped with too much business and 

 florists had to suffer with other people. 

 Most of the stock arrived twelve hours 

 late, especially stock from the Hud- 

 son. Violets, which were a glut, seemed 

 to drop out of sight. Few came in for 

 Easter and, as a result, orders taken 

 were never filled. Some of the orders 

 delivered came back marked no good. 



The market stands certainly had a 

 harvest. Prices were right and they 

 did a big business. 



The frequent rains this spring have 

 kept growers from getting their fields 

 plowed for the carnation cuttings. The 

 result will be late planting and a big 

 rush to get stock out. 



Many out-of-town people were disap- 

 pointed when the express companies 

 refused to accept cut flower shipments 

 after 3 o 'clock, April 22. Clarke. 



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 Norby & Hoefle has been dissolved, 

 C. P. Norby being successor to the firm. 



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