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The Florists^ Review 



Fbbbdabt 26, 1920 



played. The Carnations, who were 

 rolling the Sweet Peas, won all three 

 games, cutting down the lead of the 

 Boses to seven games. The next meet- 

 ing of the league was held Wednesday, 

 February 25, when the Roses met the 

 Sweet Peas and the Carnations met 

 the Daisies. 



Ernest Strehle, park superintendent, 

 is back attending to business at his 

 oflace in the city hall after ten days' 

 illness with the flu. J. J. B. 



The contract has been let by R. A. 

 Long, of Longview Farm, at Lees Sum- 

 mit, Mo., to the American Greenhouse 

 Mfg. Co. for a steel-frame house 85% 

 X 450 feet and a passage house 11 x 

 41% feet. This house is the largest 

 that has ever been contracted for by 

 this company. 



WASHINGTON, D. 0. 



The Market. 



The supply of stock has shown a fair in- 

 crease during the last week and prices 

 have dropped a little in some cases. Car- 

 nations have dropped to $15 per hundred, 

 sweet peas to $4 per hundred. Orchids 

 are bringing 75 cents to $1 each. Some 

 good daffodils are coming in and clean up 

 at $8 per himdred. Tulips and Paper 

 Whites are bringing $10 per hundred. 



There has been a scarcity of Asparagus 

 plumosus during the last week and otSer 

 greens cleaned up well. 



The rose supply has not been good. 



The demand for funeral flowers is still 

 on the increase. Many of the local flo- 

 rists have been crowded with funeral 

 work, due to the loss of a number of 

 the city's most prominent men. 



Various Notes. 



George Shaffer reports business extraor- 

 dinarily good. He has a number of large 

 weddings booked for this month. His 

 entire force is kept busy with funeral 

 work and the orders continue to pile up. 



E. C. Mayberry, of the Du Pont Flower 

 Shop, is back on the job again after his 

 long illness. 



Arthur Niessen was in town February 

 19. 



R. Bowdler has been unusually busy 

 with funeral work. G. v. 8. 



Oyster Boast for Club. 



The Washington Florists' Club will 

 start the new club year with an old- 

 time oyster roast. During the war, the 

 florists of the national capital refrained 

 from their usual gaieties and adopted 

 a resolution postponing all of their big 

 entertainments. It was recently dis- 

 covered that there was a tidy sum 

 available for a real entertainment and 

 J. Harper Hetherington, manager of the 

 Washington Floral Co., was selected to 

 make arrangements for an oyster roast 

 to be given at the greenhouses of that 

 ■company, at Alexandria, Va. 



The date set is Saturday, February 

 28. The trip to Alexandria is to be 

 made in automobiles, the procession 

 forming at 5:30 p. m. in front of the 

 store of the S. S. Pennock Co. When 

 the members reach Alexandria, they 

 will be taken in charge by David G. 

 Grillbortzer, president of the Washing- 

 ton Floral Co., a guarantee that the 

 €vent will be a successful one. 



Independence, Mo. — J. O. Hinde plana 

 to build an additional house, 20x100 

 feet. 



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Write, wire or phone. 



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IS READY FOR SHIPMENT 



Standard Cases $3.00 each 



Natural Sheet Moas $1.75 per bag 



Perpetuated Sheet Moss 3.50 per bag 



CALDWELL THE WOODSNAN COMPANY, ^'il'iS'^^- 



Mention The RctIcw when yon write. 



Louisville, Ky. — A. Baurmann has a 

 department in a local newspapej under 

 the heading, ' ' Hints for Home Florists. ' ' 

 In addition to discussions of various 

 floricultural subjects, there are answers 

 to queries. 



Zanesville, O. — C. L. Humphrey's ad- 

 vertisement for St. Valentine's day oc- 

 cupied an entire column in the local 

 morning daily paper. The results were 

 big, says C. L. Humphrey, for the busi- 

 ness for the holiday was tremendous. 



