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The Rorists^ Review 



JONi 10. 1920. 



PBOVIDENOE, B. I. 



The Season. 



With Memorial day past, the rush of 

 the season is now over until fall, but 

 the stores and growers are preparing 

 for the annual renovations, replantings 

 and other plans for the new season. As 

 a whole this last season has been a 

 satisfactory one. There has been a 

 good supply of about everything staple, 

 while some novelties have had a good 

 run. The demand has been active and 

 prices have ruled a trifle in advance of 

 former years. Several of the growers 

 whose houses have been shut off for one 

 or two years have decided to reopen and 

 several have signified an intention of 

 increasing their glass before fall. 



In New Quarters. 



Joseph E. Koppelman removed last 

 week from 47 Eddy street, where he has 

 conducted a wholesale business in cut 

 flowers and florists ' supplies for the last 

 five or six years, to considerably larger 

 quarters in the business block which he 

 purchased some months ago, in Custom 

 House street. The entrance to his 

 salesrooms is at 26 Custom House street; 

 the salesrooms are on the second floor, 

 where he has nearly double the space of 

 the old store, with commodious offices, 

 telephone booths and one of the finest 

 series of iceboxes to be found in New 

 England, with capacity for more than 

 100,000 cut flowers, while large baths are 

 available for freshening ferns, etc. On 

 the third floor has been fltted up an ex- 

 tensive wire factory, with machinery 

 for the production of everything de- 

 sired in wire frames and designs. A 

 passenger elevator at the front and a 

 freight elevator at the rear of the build- 

 ing afford ample communication. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Smith, of the Eastern Wreath 

 Mfg. Co., was a business visitor in Bos- 

 ton and vicinity last week. 



William Doel, of Pascoag, was in this 

 city last week purchasing supplies. 



James Hacking, of Central Falls, who 

 has been on the sick list for several 

 weeks, is convalescing. 



Chipman 's Greenhouse, Woonsocket, 

 is handling a large number of plants for 

 bedding purposes. 



Vincent McGinley has started in busi- 

 ness for himself as a landscape gardener 

 and nurseryman in the rear of 39 Frank- 

 Un street. 



Willis S. Pino reports having this 

 spring the largest business in his ex- 

 perience. 



William B. Hazard was a recent busi- 

 ness visitor to New York and vicinity. 



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