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The Weekly Rorists' Rtview. 



Afbii. 13, 1905. 



rmE WILL BE IN OUR NEW QUARTERS, the entire 

 IaI four-itory building:, located at 228 Diamond Street, 



and will be better able than ever to look after your interest. 



Give us your EASTER ORDER and we are poiitive you will not be 

 disappointed. We are headquarters for the finest line of home-8:rown CARNATIONS 

 in Western Pennsylvania, also carry a large variety of ■ 



Fancy Beauties, Liberty and Tea Roses. 



HUDSON RIVER VIOLETS that are unsurpassed, 

 Lily of the Valley and Bulb Stock 





IN LARGB 



VARIKTY. 





We are making a specialty of Potted Plants and at present have a large quantity of 

 AZALEAS, LONGIELORUM LILIES, CYCLAMEN, blooming ROSE BUSHES, etc., 



to dispose of. G>nsignments solicited. Write for our weekly price list. 



Pittsburg Florists' Exchange, 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS. 



228 Diamond St., PITTSBURG, 



Store open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. week days. Saturday, all ni; 

 Sunday, 8 a. m. till noon. p. J, DEM AS, Proprietor, 



FKOVS8 — BB&Ii lase COUST p. A. 1547 XAZV. 



on "West Twenty-ninth street shortly, 

 with F. and S. Richards and C. Geller as 

 directors and Sigmund Geller as man- 

 ager. The Sigmund Geller stock was 

 sold at auction last weeBlT 



At Miller's auction rooms last week 

 ten shares of the Fleischman Co. were 

 sold at $5 a share. 



A small tornado visited Westfield, N. 

 J., on Friday and in its path were the 

 greenhouses of J. D. Woodruff, through 

 two of which it cut an opening fifteen 

 feet wide. 



Quite a ripple in the retail sea came 

 on Friday in the Barney-Alexander wed- 

 ding, the most elaborate of th3 month. 

 The Eosary and Thorley did the church 

 and home decorations. 



The retail stores are already beautiful 

 with the profusion of Easter stock. There 

 is one thing sura. If ever there was a 

 plant Easter this one will b3 pre-eminent, 

 and never was there a grander supply to 

 select from than is afforded by the 

 skilled plantsmen in and around New 

 York. Hardly a thing of value in bloom 

 has been left unsold. Lilies are still a 

 problem, so much depending on the 

 weather and the supply. The top price 

 seems fixed at 12 cents. 



R. Dreyer's new plant between Wood- 

 side and Corona already covers 25,000 

 square feet and is yet in its infancy. 

 In the center of twenty acres of splen- 

 did land, only four miles from Thirty- 

 fourth street ferry, there is no telling 

 where this enterprise will end. The 

 stock of Easter plants here and at Wood- 

 side, in the old place, is enormous. 



Moore, Hentz & Nash are again receiv- 

 ing fine Queen of Edgely roses. 



Only four bowlers showed up for prac- 

 tice last Monday. J. Austin Shaw. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



There was some improvement in busi- 

 ness the past week and the cooler 

 weather cut down the supply slightly. Car- 

 nations seem to have shortened up con- 

 siderably and today, Monday, there 

 seems to ba a shortage. 



Heavy HaiL 



We had a severe hail storm Monday 

 which seems to have covered this whole 

 section and did a great deal of damage. 

 It sounds like a big story but the hail 

 looked like snowballs when they broke on 

 the ground. Most of our greenhouse 

 men suffered some loss. A. W. Smith 

 lost about 4,000 lights. Geddis & Blind 

 Brothers lost tfiost of tha glass in a 100- 

 foot house attached to their south side 

 store. At Schenley conservatories about 

 one-fifth of the glass is gone, with some 

 damage to the &ster flower show. Ran- 

 dolph & McClements report about 6,000 

 lights gone in the Forbes street houses 

 and some in the Highland avenue houses. 

 John Bader reports a slight loss. Among 

 the private places hit are those of H. C. 

 Frick and A. R. Peacock. It was the 

 worst storm since May, 1893, when a 

 number of our people were wiped ent 

 of existence. E. C. Reineman lost all of 

 his glass at that time. 



Various Notes. 



One of Mr. Burki's drivers was too 

 clos^ to a post that was struck by light- 

 ning the morning of the storm and the 

 hors3S and driver were knocked down, but 

 excepting the shock were not injured. 



The Florists' Club met last Tuesday 



evening; subject for discussion, Easter 

 plants. It was a very interesting meet- 

 ing. H. Blind & Brothers had pans of 

 tulips and some other Easter plant ar- 

 rangements which were very attractive. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., of Philadelphia, 

 made a grand display of baskets and Eas- 

 ter novelties which attracted consider- 

 able attention. The Valley Greenhouse 

 Co. had some very fine pot lilies. John 

 Bader had a specially fine display of 

 azaleas. Supt. Geo. Burke, of Schenley 

 park, sent in a grand display of bulbous 

 stock which covered one entire side of 

 the hall. Our club meetings are very 

 well attended and every meeting is an 

 interesting one. Members who cannot 

 find time to attend anything but the 

 smokers and social affairs are missing 

 much and are liable to get behind the 

 times. 



The Pittsburg Florists' Exchange, 

 which has been located on the second 

 floor at 228 Diamond street, has leased 

 the entire building and has remodeled the 

 street floor for its occupancy. They 

 have built a new and very large refrig- 

 erator. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. reports 

 a good call for green goods, which are 

 none too plentiful in this market at 

 present. Hoo-Hoo. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Fla., plants; 

 Peter Henderson & Co., New York, every- 

 thing for the lawn; W. Baylor Hartland 

 & Sons, Cork, Ireland, tulips; American 

 Horticultural Distributing Co., Martins- 

 burg, W. Va., insecticides; Henry Dehm, 

 Eureka, Cal., seeds and plants; A. Eobi- 

 chon Fils, Orleans, France, roses. 



