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The Florists' Revkw 



Jdni 19. 1919. 



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The Market. 



The glut of last- week continues. 

 Shipments are larger. Practically any 

 kind of stock can be had at extremely 

 low prices. Considering the hot weath- 

 er, carnations and roses are arriving in 

 fair shape. Peonies are as plentiful as 

 ever. During the week some of them 

 could be had at the buyer 's price. Some 

 carnations have again found their way 

 to the market, where they retailed at 35 

 cents per bunch of twenty-five. 



The stores, with few exceptions, are 

 holding prices steady in anticipation of 

 a shortage of stock as soon as the first 

 crop of outdoor flowers is over. Many 

 of the stores featured carnations and 

 peonies Saturday, June 14, at 50 cents 

 per dozen. The days have been so hot 

 that the public has not been interested 

 in anything much, with the exception 

 of weddings, for which the decorations 

 are liberal. Many fine wedding orders 

 have been filled during the last month 

 and many more are booked. Wedding 

 trade has been far better this season 

 than ever before. F. P. A. 



CIiEVEIJ^ND. 



The Market. 



The market continues slow with the 

 exception of Saturdays, which, as a rule, 

 are now busy days since the wholesalers 

 have kept closed on Sundays. Flowers 

 have been plentiful during the last 

 week, especially carnations and peonies, 

 which have arrived in exceptionally 

 large quantities, due to the extremely 

 warm weather. Florists predict that, if 

 this weather keeps up, flowers will all 

 come in a pile and then stock will get 

 scarce within a few weeks. The weath- 

 er has been so warm that if it does not 

 rain soon, things will be literally burned 

 up where there are no facilities for 

 watering. 



About the same varieties of flowers 

 have been coming in as last week, with 

 a few exceptions. Coreopsis has made 

 its summer debut, as also have outdoor 

 daisies. It will only take a few days 

 for the ramblers to open. There have 

 already been numerous calls for them. 



The superabundance of flowers has 

 kept the street boys busy all the week. 



Various Notes. 



Albert Barber, of the chain of Park 

 Flower Shops, has opened a new store 

 at 2120 East Fourth street. The store 

 was opened for business June 14 and, 



Loses no seedlings 



Makes 100 per cent 

 transplant 



A couple of days before transplanting the seedlines. this man turns 

 on the Skinner System and waters the field just right, so the soil will be 

 in the pink of condition for transplanting. 



As fast as a row across the field is in, the water is turned on that row. 



And so row after row is set out and at once watered. 



Now you see why this nurseryman makes a 100% transplant. 



He claims that his seedlings make a four years' growth in three, be- 

 cause of being watered the right way. 



Are you losing a year the Skinner System could save you? 



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The Skinner Irrigation Co. 



223 Water St. 



TROY, OHIO 



although not quite ready, did a fairly 

 good business. W. H. Everett, who had 

 much experience in the flower business 

 at the Park Flower Shop on the Square, 

 has been placed in charge. 



Fred Burger has purchased a new 

 Holmes air-cooled touring car. 



Frank Williams, of the Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., left June 14 on a fishing 

 trip through Canada. 



Edward Burkhart has just been re- 



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