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The Florists' Review 



March 11, 1920 



THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



1129-1131 ARCH STREKT, PHILADELPHIA 



H. BAYER8DORFER & CO., props. 



Just received, 1000 doz. Bamboo Pot Covers to Fit 6-inch Pots 



Per 100, Natural ------- $30.00 \ YOY 



Easter 



Per Doz., Natural ------ 



Per 100, Dyed Green or Brown - 

 Per Doz., Dyed Green or Brown - 



Sab]ectto beiug UDSold on receipt of order. 



4.00 



36 00 1 Lilies, 



4-75 Etc. 



displayed Acacia pubescens, both grafted 

 and own-root. At night they looked 

 alike; the difference, he said, could be 

 clearly seen by daylight. 



Various Notes. 



Fred J. Michell and Mrs. Michell re- 

 turned from St. Petersburg, Fla., 

 March 8. 



Clarence U. Liggit is out of town on 

 a short business trip. 



Mark P. Mills has recovered from 

 an attack of tonsillitis. This is be- 

 lieved to be Mr. Mills' first illness. 

 Mrs. Mills thinks that he made as bad 

 a patient as most strong men do. 



John Berger, who has worked hard 

 for the publicity campaign, teases Rob- 

 ert Kift by telling him that sweet peas 

 were good stock until the publicity com- 

 mittee took hold of them. 



Henry F. Michell says that Alexander 

 B. Scott would not play him a golf 

 match at Summerville, S. C. 



Stephen D. Greene says there are fel- 

 lows who take a roll in bed. 



Gilbert Woltemate had the misfortune 

 to have the iron smokestack blow down 

 that awful night of the blizzard. 



Louis Berger arranged a beautiful 

 window with plant baskets for William 

 Berger 's Sons. Each basket was filled 

 with a single variety of blooming plant. 

 The selection of baskets and their ar- 

 rangement betokened the artist. 



Robert A. Craig says that he dis 

 tinctly remembers the blizzard of 1888. 

 His mother said, "Children, I am afraid 

 that the weather is too Itad for you to go 

 to Sunday school." Mr. Craig added, 

 with a smile, "We had a wonderful 



time." 



The Florex Gardens will erect at their 

 range at North Wales two greenhouses 

 72x500 feet, each to replace a house in- 

 jured by the snow storm. Phil. 



B. F. Leston and S. 

 representing Carbone, 

 Mass., were visitors in 

 week. 



Gerard Smith, 

 Inc., Boston, 

 this city last 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business was poor in the cut flower 

 markets last week and prices dropped 

 to low levels new for the present season. 

 Efforts to stimulate buying by means of 

 bold advertisements notifying the public 



The Ever-Ready Flower Pot Cover 



The Ever-Ready Stands Out Strongly in Meeting every Pot Cover 



Requirement -k 



Of Vfhmt mni How Mads. It includea a 

 ■trong cardboard foundation the outaidc 

 of wnich la covered with best quality 

 Waterproof crepe paper with fiber ribbon 

 ties at top and bottom, and all firmly put 

 together with improved metal fasteninss. 



Low of Cost It is supplied at low 

 enough prices to allow of gratis disposal, 

 as the improved appearance of the plant 

 justifies advanced pricing that more than 

 offsets its cost. 



A TioM and Money Savar. Compared 

 with trimming pots specially, with papers, 

 mattings and the like, it freely saves 

 flower store workers' time and avoids the 

 cost of high-priced materials. 



>READY 



TRADE PRICE UST OF EVl 

 COVERS 



As formed 



for Per Am. 



'4-inch siae tlM 



5-inch sise LTD 



6- inch size IJO 



7-inch sUe 1.9S 



J-inch size 2JS 



Standard sices may also be adapted for 

 Azalea Pots 



5-inch size $170 



6-inch size IJO 



7-inch size....... 1.95 



8-inch size 2.25 



L9-tnch size 2.45 



Above prices are net. 



Standard 



Pot 

 Shapes 



Pan or 



Half- size 



Shapes 



Per 100 

 $12.00 

 UJOO 

 14M 

 1100 

 17.00 



113.00 

 14.00 

 1100 

 17.00 

 19.00 



For adapting with the varied colors and tints of blossoms and foliage these covert 

 are regularly supplied in the following four standard colors, viz.: GREEN, WHITE, 

 PINK, RED. 



Ever-Ready Covers are readily obtained of the leading dealers in Florists' Supplies 

 or by orders sent direct to us. 



Made and Supplied by the 



Ever-Ready Flower Pot Cover Co. 



WM. H. GREVER, Manager 



1 46 Hughes Ave. "^ S^^Si/'"- BUFFALO, N. Y. 



that flowers are lower failed to achieve 

 that purpose, since, on the day when big 

 business could naturally have been ex- 

 pected, a fierce blizzard struck Boston 

 and almost paralyzed business. Condi- 

 tions show, in comparison with 1919, an 

 improvement, but present prices seem 

 decidedly low to growers and salesmen 

 when compared with the extreme values 

 maintained through January and Feb- 

 ruary. We always get a Lenten slump 

 and always hear the story that business 

 is "the worst ever known at this 

 season," but previous years' data do 

 not bear out these pessimistic pronounce- 

 ments. 



Koses are somewhat oflP crop with most 

 of the growers, but are more than ample 

 for the demands. On short-stemmed 

 stock, prices have dropped to as low as 

 $20 per thousand, while the demand for 

 other grades is not at all robust. Car 

 nations are coming in abundantly and 

 are of fine quality, but values are down 

 to $3 to $.5 per hundred, with white es- 

 pecially weak. Both violets and sweet 

 peas are plentiful and move slowly. 

 Lilies are hard to move at much reduced 

 prices. Daffodils and tulips are slow at 

 $4 to $5 per hundred. Calendulas, wall- 

 flowers and forget-me-nots are in heavy 

 oversupply. The season for freesias is 



