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The Florists' Review 



July 15, 1915. 



MOERISTOWN, N. J. 



Hugh C. Holmes, Main and Piue 

 streets, reports that while there has 

 been no great rush during the season 

 just closed, business has about come up 

 to that of last year. Had general busi- 

 ness conditions been good, he would 

 have gone ahead of last year. He is 

 now i)ainting and repairing his green- 

 houses. 



John S. Green, Mt. Kemble avenue, 

 has torn down his greenhouses and is 

 now principally engaged in the truck 

 gardening business, though he grows 

 sojne sweet peas, dahlias, etc., outdoors. 



Robert A. Elliott, 18 Pine street, had 

 a good season and sold out his stock 

 well. He had many calls for pink 

 geraniums. Besides carrying a general 

 line of plants and flowers, he specializes 

 in carnations and chrysanthemums. He 

 has planted his mums for the fall trade. 



E. A. Holton, 120 South street, re- 

 ports a good business for the closing 

 season. The usual summer lull has now 

 appeared. 



John R. Mclntyre, 325 South street, 

 has found that while business was a 

 little slower than usual during the 

 spring and early summer, in the aggre- 

 gate it was nearly normal. 



John M. Barker, Pear and South 

 streets, who makes a specialty of sweet 

 peas and chrysanthemums, did a good 

 spring business in sweet peas. He has 

 some late sweet peas in a greenhouse 

 ■which was put up last winter, which 

 are doing well. He is picking 7,000 

 sweet peas from this house every other 

 •day. He has added one and one-half 

 acres to his property. 



Marcus L. Forse reports that his 

 spring and early summer business was 

 unusually good, being far ahead of 

 usual. If it had not been for the 

 Easter Saturday blizzard, the season 

 would have been the best in many 

 years with him. Collections have been 

 fairly good. R. B. M. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



G. K. Parker, of the George M. 

 Kellogg Flower & Plant Co., who also 

 is president of the Kansas City Flo- 

 rists' Club, is hard at work on arrange- 

 ments for the club 's second annual 

 picnic, to be held July 28, at the nurs- 

 ery of Holsinger Bros., Rosedale, Kan. 

 Last year, at the first picnic, which was 

 a great success, there were nearly 200 

 in attendance. This year they expect 

 a larger attendance than at the first 

 picnic. The florists' stores will all 

 close for the occasion, so that employees 

 as well as employers can attend. They 

 are arranging a program of contests 

 for the afternoon, for which prizes will 

 be awarded, and a number of houses 

 have alrea<ly given generously- for this 

 j)urpose. ^^^ 



Alden, N. Y.— J. B. Miller has pur- 

 chased his partner's interest in the 

 firm of Miller & Stroh, and will con- 

 tinue the business under his own name. 



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 c&mations with 



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MONG our customers are some 

 of the biggest cranks in the 

 business. 



Leastwise that's what a lot of 

 their fellow growers tell us. 



But, strange as it may seem, we 

 have not found them to be cranks 

 at all. Simply because a man has 

 pronounced ideas and wants them 

 carried out, doesn't make him a 

 crank. 



It proves he is a thinker. And 

 when a man does a lot of good, hard 

 thinking, he grows. And the man 

 who is growing, you know well 

 enough, makes the best kind of a 

 grower. 



We build our houses according 

 to specifications. 



That's exactly what our specifi- 

 cations are for. 



It's why our specifications are so 

 much more specific than the gen- 

 eral run. 



When these so-called cranks buy 

 their houses of us and drive a close 



bargain, we don't blame them. We 

 are doing the same thing with 

 everything we buy. We have to, 

 or we couldn't sell houses to these 

 close buyers and make a cent. And 

 surely we are not in business for the 

 fun of it, any more than they are. 



So, looking at it from all sides of 

 tbe question, it seems as if our en- 

 tire organization was trained right 

 along the crank lines, which puts 

 us in a position to surely satisiy 

 the most cranky to satisfy. 



As we understand it, you are a 

 bit of a crauk yourself about some 

 things. 



Then let's get together and do 

 business. It's plain to be seen that 

 "we belong to the same lodge." 



You know now. better than ever, 

 why it is you can depend on depend- 

 ing on Hitchings. 



And remember we go anywhere 

 for business. 



Or to talk business. 



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We are prepared to supply our customers with 

 Pecky Cypress material for benches, cut to fit 

 so that it can be quickly erected; or we can fur- 

 nish the lumber just as it cormes from the mill. 



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