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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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Apbil 6, 1905. 



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ANNOUNCEMENT! 



E desire to announce to the Trade that we have purchased the Michael Winandy 

 Wholesale Store and shall do a 



General Commission Business 



with a full line of Cut Flowers and "Greens," backed by fourteen years' experience 

 in this line. Every attention paid to shipping business. 



ZECH & MANN, 51 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



Mr. Zech hopes that the many friends who have favored him in the past will give the new firm an 

 opportunity to show what it can do. 



Mi'iitloii Ttip RpTtcw when you write. 



ness at the old stand. They expect to 

 get into their new quarters very shortly. 



Jas. Eadie is making a prominent 

 decorative effect with Beauties sent in 

 from his East Cleveland plant. 



C. M. Wagner reports an abundance 

 of funeral work, which keeps him busy. 



The Cleveland Cut Flower Co. is re- 

 ceiving some fine Beauties from the Es- 

 sex Greenhouses. 



Robt. Kegg is still bringing in some 

 fine Lawson carnations. 



Isaac Kennedy, of West Park, is cut- 

 ting the finest tea roses near Cleveland. 

 His sport of Bride is a wonder. 



The Ohio Floral Co. is sending to its 

 Cleveland store some choice roses with 

 stems from two to three feet. 



The F. K. Williams Co's. cut of roses 

 is quite heavy and color magnificent. 

 This concern is compelled to discard Met- 

 eor, owing to the small fly which was so 

 disastrous in and about Chicago. A 

 house of Kaiserin 50x150 is a wonderful 

 sight, thousands of buds developing. 



It is with sincere regret that we learn 

 of the death of Mrs. Casper Aul. The 

 sympathies of the craft are extended to 

 Mr. Auk 



Jas. Eastwell is visiting the east, look- 

 ing up Easter novelties. 



Forest City. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The market has shown some improve- 

 ment, but may still be termed dull and 

 irregular. The warm weather has short- 

 ened the supply of violets, which bid 

 fair to be out of the market by Easter. 

 Sweet peas are taking their place to 

 some extent and on several days the sup- 

 ply has not equaled the demand. There 

 were hardly as many flowers used at the 

 opening of city councils on Monday as 

 last season. Beauties, Liberties, Me- 

 teors and potted plants were the popu- 

 lar offerings. The supply of southern 

 daffodils, while hardly as large as a 

 week ago, appears more than suflScient, 

 tliere being virtually no price for them. 

 Indications point to a good supply of 

 Easter lilies and an exceptionally fine, 

 lot of Easter plants. Wild smilax is 



scarce. 



Mr. Stokes* Easter Plants. 



. Walter P. Stokes, of the well-known 

 seed firm of Johnson & Stokes, has a 

 range of glass adjoining his attractive 

 home at Moorestown, N. J. He makes 

 a specialty of Easter plants, which are 



now making a fine show. The lilies are 

 largely longiflorums, short, stocky 

 plants, with good foliage and buds de- 

 veloping nicely. There are a nice lot 

 of azaleas in medium sizes, two good 

 batches of spiraeas and a goodly number 

 of Hydrangea Otaksa, both pink and 

 blue, with large heads of bloom. Mr. 

 Stokes has partially solved the difficult 

 problem of securing an Easter and a 

 spring crop from the same set of houses, 

 by filling two large buildings with his 

 Easter plants, now almost ready, and 

 potting up the spring plants in the space 

 thus made. These comprise a general as- 

 sortment of geraniums and soft-wooded 



I do not want to miss a single 

 issue of your valuable paper. Every 

 number of 



contains much valuable information, 

 often of value beyond the cost of a 

 whole year's subscription. 



JOHN T. TAYLOR. 

 Rome, Ga. 



stock, also some vegetables, two houses 

 of carnations, some rubbers propagated 

 from stock planted out and a nice lot of 

 tulips. The feature of the place is the 

 valley, which is forced in quantity 

 throughout the year. There is quite a 

 heavy cut now of sturdy looking flow- 

 ers with good foliage, with prospects of 

 a still larger supply at Easter. 



Various Notes. 



Hugh Graham has, in addition to the 

 fine collection of Easter plants described 

 last week, a very nice lot of Hydrangea 

 Otaksa. 



The scene at Bayersdorfer & Co. is 

 one of great activity. The big ware- 

 house is full of cases packed, and par- 

 tially packed, for shipment. Clerks are 



hurryiiig about, completing orders, and 

 big drays below are being loaded with 

 cases of supplies for all parts of the 

 country. 



M. Rice & Co. received a few days ago 

 a large shipment of the popular twig 

 ware, consistii\g of nests, hampers and 

 baskets, which kept them busy for sev- 

 eral days filling their back orders, which 

 were very large. 



The Modem System. 



Through the courtesy of J. G. Whill- 

 din, of the Whilldin Pottery Co., the 

 Review is able to present its readers 

 with the following original and clever 

 lines : 



Oh, Isn't It great to be np-to-date. 



And live in thla year of grace, 

 With a system and place for everything. 



And — nobody kn<>w8 tbe place! 



We've an Index card for each thing we do, 



And everything under the sun; 

 It takes so long to fill out the cards, 



We never get anything done. 



We've loose leaf ledgers for saving time, 

 The Lord knows what they cost. 



When half our time is spent each day 

 Hunting for leaves that are lost. 



Stenographers who spell like "H " 



And make us swear and cuss; 

 When we are not dictating to them 



Why — they're dictating to us. 



And sectional this, and sectional that; 



We'll soon have sectional legs; 

 I dreamt last night that I made a meal 



Of sectional ham and eggs. 



I dreamt that I lived In a sectional house. 

 And rode on a sectional "boss," 



And drew my pay in sections from 

 A sectional "section boss." 



Oh, isn't it great to be np-to-date. 



And live In this year of grace. 

 With a system and place for everything, 



And — nobody knows the place. 



Phil. 



London, Ont. — Wm. Gammage is ac- 

 tively interested in the approaching an- 

 nual exhibition of the Western Fair As- 

 sociation. Wm. Scott, of Buffalo, has 

 accepted an invitation to judge the floral 

 display. 



Kenton, O. — H. E. Rosenberger has 

 gone into business with Carl Gilmore and 

 the firm will trade as Gilmore & Rosen- 

 berger. They have begun the erection of 

 two houses 28x100 and later another one 

 will be put up. A hot water heating 

 plant will be installed. 



Alliance, O. — The Lamborn Floral 

 Co. has been incorporated by Leroy L. 

 Lamborn, Mary W. Lamborn, C. C. Wey- 

 brecht, H. C. Koehler and Ruth Burdge. 

 The capital stock is $25,000. New green- 

 houses to cover a space 120x300 feet will 

 be put up at once, the material coming 

 from Chicago. 



