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The Florists' Review 



July 29, 1910. 



DETBOIT. 



The Market. 



Business is just as it always is dur- 

 ing the summer months. There is but 

 little doing. Stock of every description 

 is plentiful. The market is better sup- 

 plied than ever before with such out- 

 door flowers as candytuft, sweet alys- 

 sum, gypsophilas, scabiosas and cen- 

 taureas. The first asters have made 

 their appearance, as also have dah- 

 lias. Gladioli are available in large 

 quantities, but not many in fancy 

 kinds. Koses are plentiful and im- 

 proving in quality, the foliage in 

 this vicinity being badly mildewed 

 lately. Beauties are of good quality, 

 though small in size. These always 

 popular roses find a ready sale now and 

 are good value for both retailer and 

 consumer. Carnations are becoming 

 smaller as the summer advances, and 

 are selling for little more than nothing. 



Various Notes. 



Harry Breitmeyer and his wife left 

 last week for a trip in their touring 

 car, taking in several cities in Ohio 

 and then stopping at a summer resort 

 for a few days. 



Norman Sullivan took the Saturday 

 boat for Cleveland, and after spending 

 several days in that city, he and some 

 friends will return to Detroit via au- 

 tomobile. 



B. Schroeter had a fair-sized summer 

 wedding decoration July 26. 



Four loaded touring cars left De- 

 troit, or rather Albert Pochelon's sum- 

 mer cottage just outside Detroit, late 

 Friday night, July 23, for a ten days' 

 trip up the Au Sable river. In the 

 ^ party were E. A. Fetters; Mr. Pochelon, 

 his wife and two of his children; Wal- 

 ter Taepke and his wife; Robert 

 Rahaley and wife; George Hampton, of 

 Jos. G. Neidinger, Philadelphia, and 

 several friends not known to the trade. 

 When the party reach their destina- 

 tion, several days will be spent in trout 

 fishing. 



Albert Sylvester, of the Michigan 

 Cut Flower Exchange, recently placed 

 his order for a Buick light 6-cylinder 

 touring car. 



Martha Kurtzholz and Helen Ott, 

 both of B. Schroeter 's store, have been 

 away on their annual vacations. Miss 

 Kurtzholz is still in Saginaw visiting 

 relatives. H. S. 



Poison KIL-WORN Po"on 



Destroys Worms, Ante, etc., tniesUni; Oolf, 

 Cricket Clroands, Parks and Lawns. Sure 

 death to Snails. Does not Injure crass: 

 causes the insects to come to the surface to 

 die. (Must not come In contact with fine 

 plants.) 



One (rallon Kil-Womi makes SO irallons 

 liquid when mixed with water. 



lqt..$1.0U; H2Kal.,$l.W: 1 sral. $3.00; 

 5irals.,$13.S0. 



Poison KIL-WEED Poison 



A sclenUflc Weed Destroyer — free from 

 •xlor. An unsurpassed preparation for the 

 removal of Orass, Weeds. Vines and Bushes 

 from paths, etc. Saves expense of several 

 men; can be applied with an ordinary 

 sprinkling can. 



One srallon Kil-Weed makes 30 to 36 sal- 

 Ions liquid when mixed with water. 



1 qt., 35c; Hj sral., 60c; I grai., $1.00; S-jrals.. 

 J4.00; 10 gals., $7.50; 1 barrel, per gal., 65i-. 



LEMON OIL COMPANY 



Dept. n 

 420 West LexMitM Strcit. BALTIMORE. MO. 



Directions on every pkg.; write for circular. 



How Things Look 



Last Tu«8day I returned from an ex- 

 tended trip through the Eastern States. 



Took It, to find out "How Things Look," 

 as they say in Boston when speaking of 

 business conditions. 



The papers are filled these days with the 

 words of fortune tellers, who for one rea- 

 son or another (mostly another) seem to 

 feel they are competent to pass on any- 

 thing from the number of kernel's of corn 

 there will be on a cob to the price pink 

 Klllarneys will be the day before Xmas. 



It makes good reading, what these 

 soothsayers turn out; but It has very lit- 

 tle to do with real business. 



Being in a very real business, we deter- 

 mined to get a line on things correctly. 



The Eastern States was selected, be- 

 cause of the well known conservatism of 

 its business men. 



In Kansas you know they whoop thin^ 

 up; and then have to strain every nerve 

 to see that they stay up. But the "Boston 

 way folks" know that you can bake beans 

 only Just so fast, without burning them. 



So they form their business Judgments 

 un the baked bean plan. Consequently 

 when you get their point of view, it is apt 

 to be done all the way through and 

 browned all the way around. 



But enough of beans — now for the facts. 



Of the many men in various lines of 

 business with whom I talked but few were 

 anything but optimistic. Of course there 

 were some calamity howlers. The kind 



Hiraiitififs 



NEW YORK OFFICE 

 1170 Brtadway 



which, like the poor, 

 with us." 



'we always have 



Boiling the whole thing down, the Im- 

 pression seemed to be that the European 

 War was on for a long pull, and that this 

 country was never in a better position to 

 make money. Now If the business men 

 would stop taking their pulse every few 

 minutes and Instead of talking war, eat- 

 ing war, and sleeping war, would get 

 business busy, that business would then 

 start moving briskly. 



As one man put it: "Cut out the war 

 talk and go along and roll your hoop." 



So I came back, feeling decidedly opti- 

 mistic. 



As far as our orders are concerned, we 

 have nothing to kick about; especially 

 those for our Reconstructed Construction. 

 From the way our commercial business is 

 going, it is evident that a lot of the grow- 

 ers are confident of business being such as 

 it never has been before; and they are 

 going to be ready to get their share, along 

 with some of that belonging^ to the other 

 fellow who has put off building. 



As you know, building conditions were 

 never better. Materials are lower than 

 they will be again for many a long day 

 to come. Labor is plentiful and eager to 

 work when they work. 



And now, how about you? 



You know we go anywhere for business. 

 Or to talk business, and you can depend 

 on depending on Hitchlngs. 



ntpany* 



GENERAL OFFICES AND FACTORY, EUZABETM. N. J. 



BOSTON OFHCE 

 48 ftitnl St. 



MMitloa The Review wb«n too writ*. 



PNILAOELPHIA OFFICE 

 40 St. ISth St. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



We are now putting on the mar- 

 ket one and two-ounce bottles of 

 NICOTICIDE. Write to dealers for 

 prices. 



r. R. PAimORFE CO., Inc., ^ikii^'^ 



CLARKSVILLE. 



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