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The Florists" Review 



July 15, 1915. 



PROVIDENCE, E. I. 



The Market. 



The weather is muggy and disagree- 

 able and business is sluggish. There is 

 no demand for even the stock that is 

 coming into the market, and of this 

 much is extremely poor in quality. Car- 

 nations are on the wane. Roses are 

 off with a majority of the growers and 

 prices are all knocked to pieces. 



Various Notes. 



Philip Lavery, of James B. Can- 

 ning's, is enjoying a vacation at Coney 

 Island and New York. 



O. H. Williams benched nearly 2,000 

 carnation plants last week, including 

 some of the new varieties. He is an- 

 ticipating an early cut. 



F. McCarthy, of T. O'Connor's, is in 

 New York on a vacation trip for a 

 couple of weeks. 



W. A. Bower, for several years with 

 Macnair, became the owner of the 

 flower department at Dimond's last 

 week. 



The flower show of the Greystone 

 Horticultural Society has been post- 

 poned a couple of weeks on account of 

 weather conditions. 



Joseph Foster, of Alonzo Vose's, at 

 Culinberland Hill, and a companion, 

 started a few days ago on a daring 

 canoe trip to Harwich Port, Mass. 

 They intend to rough it and expect to 

 be . gone about three weeks. 



Charles Hunt has purchased a 7-pas- 

 senger Pierce-Arrow touring car for 

 pleasure purposes. 



Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, who conduct 

 the flower stand at the Union station, 

 are leaving in a few days on a several 

 weeks' trip to Alberta, Can. 



Mr. Ennis, of the Hampden Meadows 

 Greenhouses, reports that 5,000 panes 

 of glass were broken in his range by 

 the recent hail storm. 



Fry Bros, have commenced the erec- 

 tion of another greenhouse, 25x83, on 

 Radcliflfe street. 



John J. Kelley is preparing to re- 

 build his greenhouse at Valley Falls. 



Charles H. Greaton, Joseph E. C. 

 Farnham and Eugene McCarron were 

 drawn last week by the aldermen for 

 petit jury duty. 



Superintendent James Warren, of 

 the North Burial Grounds, has been 

 granted permission by the city council 

 to attend the annual convention of 

 cemetery superintendents at Minne- 

 apolis next month and an appropriation 

 of $150 has been made for the purpose. 



Paul A. Schwartz, of Pascoag, went 

 to Penacook, N. H., last week on a 

 visit to relatives. 



The Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety has suspended its meetings until 

 September. 



Charles Evans, formerly with Albert 

 Holscher, was married last week and 

 is enjoying his honeymoon in New 

 Hampshire. 



Louis Wax, of the Flower Shop 

 Greenhouses, North Attleboro, was 

 married last week to Miss Bertha 

 Jordan, of Philadelphia. W. H. M. 



The Cfipper 



There a re 

 three thingrs 

 that destroy your lawns 

 — Dandellons.Buck Plan- 

 tain and Crab Grass. In 

 one season the Clipper 

 will drive them all out. 

 Your dealer should bare 

 them— if he has not, drop 

 usa line and we will send 

 circulars and prices. 

 Clintr Lawa Mtwer Ci. 

 Bai IS, Diun, III. 



Two Men Tell of the Ad- 

 vantages of Using The 

 Skinner System for Asters 



Mr. W. T. Funnell, of HuntiDgton, L. I., writes that "with 

 our asters we see a marked improvement iu four ways since we in- 

 stalled the Skinner System of Irrigation. The plants are more vigor- 

 ous, the stems are longer, the flowers are larger and more of them. 



"Being a surface rooter, they are greatly damaged by dry weather 

 and consequently we formerly lost nearly half our crop by drought." 



Walter Scott, of LaGrange, 111., says: "No one grows better 

 asters than I do since installing the Skinner System. The Skinner 

 System watered asters were at least 30% better than those watered 

 with a hose. Last year I would have lost my crop except for your 

 system." 



THK Skinner System of Irrigation turns the uncertainly 

 of your erop inio a certainty. It'a one wli.4l>e <lieapeht 

 kindH of <rop insurance. It generally pays for itself the 

 firstyear. To con vlnee yourself, why not order one of our 

 50-foot Complete Portable Lines for 811.75? It will 

 water 3600 tqaare feet. Send for new Bulletin. 



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