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1008 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 23, 1905. 



SUPPUES 

 CONSTANTLY 

 ON HAND 



WILD SMILAX 



READY FOR 

 IMMEDIATE 

 SHIPMENT 



Galax Leaves 



''Zr Fancy Ferns J'Z. 



SWEET PESS, 75c to $1.00 per fOO. VIOLETS, 50c to 75c per 100. 



TEA ROSES, pet 100, $2.50 to $6.00. CARNATIONS, per 100, $1.50 to $2.50. 



ALL OTHBR CUT FLOWBRS IN SEASON AT COBBSSPONDINO PRICES. 



Have you ordered yoor CUT FLOWER BOXES for Easter? We sell tliein. Send for catalogue at once. 



Vaughan & Sperry, ^sTsf Chicago 



MpiiiVmi Th» R»tI«>w wh>n yon wfltc. 



demand is good and the shipping demand 

 increases. .. „ 



Various Notes. 



St. Patrick's day was well celebrated 

 and the florists generally felt its influ- 

 ence, especially in shamrocks and green 

 carnations. Both plants and flowers sold 

 universally and extensively. Bowe dis- 

 posed of several hundred plants and his 

 experience indicates the general trend. 

 The wholesalers on Thirtieth street de- 

 clare no more inspiring section of the 

 great parade appeared than the Brooklyn 

 Hibernians led by the genial John Mal- 

 lon on a snow-white charger. 



The street cut flower legion is not only 

 rampant these sunny days, but the peri- 

 patetic nurseryman is at many a street 

 conler down-town with a fine display of 

 trees and roses and about everything for 

 the garden. The auction sales are in foill 

 blast and the attendance increases. The 

 seedsmen have filled their stores with ad- 

 ditional helpers and are working night 

 and day. There are no exceptions. Every- 

 body is busy. 



A wonderful sight are the greenhouses 

 of the growers these days before the 

 real time of packing, shipping and de- 

 livering begins. To specify would in- 

 clude every plantsman within a radius 

 of fifteen miles of Twenty-eighth street. 

 Bamblers seem to maintain their popu- 

 larity. The new varieties are making a 

 bid for patronage. Dorothy Perkins is 

 here to stay. A beautiful pink grown by 

 M. H. Walsh, called Wedding Bells, is 

 attracting much attention. Wadley & 

 Smythe have secured the entire stock of 

 it. It is indeed a gem. 



It will be Easter, so far as plant sell- 

 ing goes, from now on to April 23. The 

 sale of plants this year will be enormous. 

 The call is more urgent and extensive 

 than ever before. 



The retailers for some time have found 

 funeral work the only sure basis of con- 

 tinuous trade. There has been an abund- 

 ance of it and many very beautiful de- 

 signs have done credit to the artistic 

 taste of the experts. Last week Sie- 

 brecht & Son furnished a very beautiful 

 pall of orchids and Wladley & Smythe 

 two immense standing wreaths peven feet 

 in diameter containing over 5,000 lily 

 of the valley. 



Leikens has had some fine decorations 

 and a large dinner trade during the past 

 month and is greatly pleased with his 

 first season in the metropolis. 



The fiower market is expected to open 

 April 1 and the lease will probably be 



Easter! Easter! Easter! 



10,000 EASTER LILIES. 



1,500 LONG STEM AMERICAN BEAUTIES. 



Brides, Maidi, Gumations, VioIetSt Von Sion, Daf fodUs, Paper 'Whites^ 

 Lily of the Valley^ Tulips, Sweet Peat and all other flowers in season* 

 Ferns, Leucothoe Sprays, Galax and Asparagfus. 



Write for Easter prices, or send in your order, 

 I will not overcharge you. 



E. G. GILLETT, the Wholesale Florist, 



Phone Main 8747, 1 18 East 8rd St., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



completed, Mr. Birnie says, during the 

 present week. 



Louis Siebrecht, of Queens, is reported 

 very ill. 



The ribbon men are very busy with 

 Easter novelties. Rodh, Schloss Bros, 

 and Lion & Wertheimer all announce a 

 very successful season. An orchid ribbon 

 just introduced by Lion & Wertheimer 

 is especially popular. 



Galax is scarce, as well as wild smilax. 

 Prosperity seems to abound with all the 

 "green goods" men. 



Quite a little interest is already mani- 

 fest as to the sumtaer outing of the 

 club. President Traendly has again do- 

 nated $25 for the lady bowlers, B. Suzuki 

 .*10 worth of Japanese novelties, L. B. 

 Craw his usual generous offering and 

 John Birnie a gold-headed cane for his 

 special care, the press bowlers. Holt 

 gives a rubber coat for a bowling prize 

 and Theo. Lang a ball and bag. Kessler, 

 Guttman, Fenrich, Mansfield, Ford Bros, 

 and Will Siebrecht each donate a "V" 

 to the fund, so that already about $100 

 is available in behalf of athletics. 



.Tohn Seligman is established in the 

 wholesale cut flower business at 56 West 

 Twenty-sixth street. In many of its de- 

 partments he has combined an experi- 

 ence of twenty years. He is popular, 

 earnest and highly esteemed and deserves 

 success. 



Walter Eeimels, Jr., has fully recov- 

 ered and is again on deck at the Coogan 

 building. 



Frank Good, of Bowe's force, was 

 called to Boston Monday on account of 

 the dangerous illness of his father. 



Bowling. 



About all that was left of John Bir- 

 nie 's army at midnight on Monday was 

 a memory of better days. The match 



between Hoboken and New York ended 

 with a majority of 465 pins in favor of 

 New York. Phil Kessler gave a Water- 

 man fountain pen to the high score rec- 

 ord and Theo. Lang won it with a total 

 of 234. 



On Friday evening at Newark th» 

 Madison team will take its medicine and 

 then there will be nothing left to con- 

 quer, oxciept Philadelphia. 



The «eores of the Hoboken-New York 



massacre are as follows: 



New York Ut 2d 3d 



O'Mara 122 167 16S 



KesBler 152 179 173 



Siebrecht • 14» LI'S 136 



Ford 155 ].•>« 129 



Fenrich 126 14» 12* 



Lang 160 2.14 198 



TotaU 854 1020 929 



Hoboken. lit 2d 3d 



Hansen 148 142 126 



Fisher 106 128 10« 



nietE 154 133 14a 



Mende 108 123 13«. 



Stelnhoft 120 »2 74 



Totals 



812 781 list 



J. Austin Shaw. 



I THINK the Eeview is the best trade 

 paper, up-to-date in every way. — H. M. 

 Burt, Battle Creek, Mich. 



I AM getting four florists' papers but 

 I must say the Review takes the lead. — 

 A. GoNTRAM, Holmesburg, Pa. 



Please stop my advertisement in yotir 

 paper. The Review did the work, as 

 usual.— J. F. Ammann, Edwardsville, EU. 



We are all sold out of the begonias 

 and still the orders continue to come> 

 We are more than pleased with the re- 

 sults from the advertising in the Review. 

 — W, T. Stephens & Co., Brookfield Mp. 



The Review is just the paper, — C. B. 

 Hayden, Dexter, Me. 



