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CLEVELAND, O. 



SPHAQNUM MOSS 



~ GOOD CliBAN MOSS. 



Sphagnum Moss, wire bound, $1.85; 10 bales, 

 $12.50. Burlaped, $2.25, 10 to 25 bales at $2.00. 

 Immediate shipment. Moss Is scarce. 

 GULLBTT & SONS, LINCOLN, ILL. 



Sphagnum Moss, per bale $1.75 



Sphagnum Moss, 10 bales 16.50 



Green Sheet Moss, per sack 2.00 



AMERICAN BULB CO., 

 172 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago. 111. 



Sphagnum Moss, 10 bbl. bale, $3.75, 5 bales, 

 $13.76: 5 bbl. bale, $2.25; 6 bales, $10.00; 8 bbl. 

 bale, $3.00, 5 bales, $12.50. Burlap, 85c extra. 

 Cas h. Jos. H. Paul, Box 156. Manahawkln, N. J. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 

 Sphagnum Moss, burlaped, per bale, $2.00; 10 

 bales, $18.00. 

 KEMBLB FLORAL CO., OSKALOOSA, IOWA. 



Advertisers have learned from experience that 

 THB RBYIBW 

 PAYS BBST. 



Tobacco stems In full bales or more, $1.00 per 

 100 lbs. Schenck Cigar Co.. Maroa, 111. 



TOBACCO 



Tobacco stems. Tobacco dust. By lb. or car 

 loads. Write for prices. 



The Ohio Tobacco Products Co., Bedford, 0. 



Fresh Tobacco stems, average 180 lb. bale, 

 $1.50, ton $15.00, for 10 days only. 

 Shelby Floral Co., Shelby, 0. 



Tobacco stems for fumigating, large bales, 2BO 

 to 800 lbs. each, at $6.00 per bale. Cash with 

 order. Willis H. Baldwin, Conshohocken, Pa. 



dgar Tobacco stems, $1.60 per 100 Iba. Spe- 

 cial prices In ton lots. Peter N. Jacobaen, Olgar 

 Mfr. 882 Harrison St.. DaTenport. la. 



TOBACCO 8TBM8. fresh all the time, best 

 qnaUtjr. $2.00 per 100 Iba. In bales. $80.00 per ton. 

 Dayton Nicotine Co.. Dayton. O. 



ALBUM OF DBSIONS, $1.00 per copy, prepaid. 

 Florists' Pub. Co., Oaxton. Bldg.. Chicago. 



Strong Totmcco dost, $2.00 per 100 lbs.; 200 

 lbs.. 88.B0. O. H. Honkel Co.. Mllwankaa. W<«. 



WIRE STAKES 



Mfr. Wire Stakes, Oalvanlsed, 



norists' Box Wire, 



Stone Wire. 



THOMAS HAMILTON. 



127 N. Qroas St.. Philadelphia. Pa. 



WIRE \VORK 



WIBB DBSIONS. 

 Special Offer. 

 100 wreaths. 10-ln., 12-ia., 14-in., $8.00. 

 W* are offering a special dlsconnt on all wire 

 orders. Writ* ns for acatatogae. 



PITTSBUBOH OUT FLOWBB 00.. 



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FLORIS TS' W IBB DBSIONS. 



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ALBUM OF DBSIONS, $1.00 per copy, prepaid. 

 Florists' Pub. Co., Oaxton, Bldg., Chicago. 



WOOD LABELS 



LABBLS FOB NURSBBTMBN AND FLORISTS. 

 Benjamin Chase Co.. Perry VlUaae. N. H. 



BBAGUi: OF THE BEKESHIBES. 



In the Boston Herald at Christmas 

 time appeared an illustrated article of 

 nearly a column concerning the business 

 of Lewis B. Brague, called "the 

 pioneer Christmas tree man of the Berk- 

 ehires," who is familiar to florists as a 

 source of cut ferns for many years. 

 The article said: 



For fifty-two years Mr. Brague has been cut- 

 ting the graceful spruces and the fragrant bal- 

 sams from the hillsides, and he says the supply 

 Is Just as plentiful now as it was when he started 

 Id business In 1867. 



He has helped to carry the joyous Christmas 



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ADVANCE CO., Richmond, Indiana 



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tidings into 1,560,000 American homes, an av- 

 erage rate of 30,000 a year. 'This year he has 

 shipped twenty carloads to the Boston, New 

 York. Pittsburgh and New Orleans markets. Not 

 only was he the first to make a commercial as- 

 set of tb« hillside farm spruces, which the 

 farmers for generations had regarded as worth- 

 less and a nuisance, but be was a pioneer in the 

 shipment during the winter of ferns and spruce 

 branches for florists. 



Born and brought up in Hinsdale, Mr. Brague, 

 now 73, has made that town the center of the 

 Berkshire Christmas tree industry. In his early 

 years he was a machinist in the Plunkett tex- 

 tile mills. In 1867, Just after the Civil war, 

 when prices of many commodities were at top- 

 notch, as they are now, he and his father, the 

 late Lewis P. Brague, began to ship Berkshire 

 trees to the large cities. Now his son, Lewis H. 

 Brague, is associated with him under the firm 

 name of L. B. Brague & Son. 



During the half century Christmas tree prices 

 have fluctuated but little. Bven this season, Mr. 

 Brague says, the farmers have realized little if 

 any more from their crops than in other years. 



Mr. Brague has taught the close-fisted farmers 

 that the back pasture can produce something of 

 value besides the gnarled and crooked-limbed 

 apple trees whose crop annually goes in through 

 a bungbole and out through a straw. As an 

 illustration, one Peru farm of twenty-flve acres 

 for fifteen years or more has brought in an an- 

 nual revenue of from $150 to $200 on Christmas 

 trees. The owner uses modern conservation 

 methods, cutting annually only those that are 

 ripe. Only a few years ago the yeomen of the 

 hills allowed the dealers to cut at will, believ- 

 ing that chopping out the Christmas trees was a 

 good riddance. Now some of them convey the 

 trees, tied in bundles of from three to ten each, 

 to the nearest shipping point, or they sell the 

 cutting rights to the dealers, who employ men 

 to chop only the most slender and the most sym- 

 metrical. 



During the busy fern-gathering season, which 

 lasts from early September to the first heavy 

 frost, the Bragues employ 250 men. The Christ- 

 mas tree trade starts in the first week of No- 

 vember and lasts until the holidays. This year 

 •n early snow and ice storm delayed the harvest 

 two weeks in November. 



New York dealers want only the fragrant bal- 

 sams; Boston, Pittsburgh, New Orleans and 

 other southern and middle western cities are 

 satisfied with spruce. 



The real productive spruce area of Massachu- 

 setts is roughly ten miles wide and thirty miles 

 long, comprising ten Berkshire towns, Hinsdale, 

 Washington, Dalton, Becket, Peru, Windsor, 

 Adams, New Ashford, Savoy and Florida, with 

 a small part of Cummlngton, Plalnfield, Hawley 

 and Carlemont included. These Hampshire and 

 Franklin towns are a part of the upland region 

 of western Massachusetts. From this territory 

 approximately 112,500 Christmas trees have been 

 shipped this season. If the farmers have re- 

 ceived 25 cents apiece for them, the income 

 would be $28,125, all from land that wouldn't 

 sell for a dollar an acre. 



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Provo, UtalL— The Quality Floral Co. 

 was recently incorporated with a cap- 

 ital of $10,000. The officers are as fol- 

 lows: President, John W. Adams; vice- 

 president, Charles Hopkins; secretary, 

 Bert Crane; directors, D. A. Brown, 

 John Guy and Orson Shill. 



Laurel, DeL — L. M. Smith & Co. are 

 preparing to disseminate their two late- 

 blooming chrysanthemums in the spring. 

 The yellow has been named Janliary 

 Gold. The white sport of it they call 

 Dr. Hitch. The first name was sug- 

 gested two or three years ago by The 

 Eeview, as descriptive of the latest- 

 blooming yellow variety. Smith & Co. 

 grow these varieties three, four and five 

 blooms to the plant. Of course such 

 flowers are not large, but they are well 

 formed and readily salable. 



