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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 11, 1906. 



SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, 



Wll f) CIHII A Y $6.00 The Wholesale Florist 

 TT ILII JlTlllyAA, Case . of Philadelphia ''•^" "^ ** 



HMitlbii Tlie B«Tiew when 7on write. 



tings, $16 per 1000. 



THE CLEVELAND CIT ELOWER COMPANY, 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS, FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, WIRE DESIGNS. 



AGENTS FOR THE EVERLASTING 52 AND 54 HIGH STREET, 



GREENHOUSE TILE BENCH. ! CLEVELAND, OHIO. 



Ifentlon Hie Berlew when yVa write. 



Headquarters for FANCY CARNATIONS and ROSES 



PITTSBURG'S LARGEST AND OLDEST WHOLESALERS. 



PITTSBURG CUT FLOWER CO. soTllberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



The warm weather of the past week 

 gave the wholesalers plenty of work, if 

 it did not increase their total of sales. 

 Stock of all kinds came in immense quan- 

 tities, especially roses, lilies and sweet 

 peas, much of which went to the garbage 

 man. The wholesalers say business has 

 been all that could be expected, but that 

 they have been receiving about three 

 times as much stock as this market can 

 possibly use. However, it provided stock 

 for the street boys who sell Saturday 

 night and there were a half dozen in 

 every block. They bought roses at about 

 25 cents per hundred, all had large stocks 

 and sold them very cheap. 



' Variottt Notes. 



A number of the boroughs and sub- 

 urban towns have started civic improve- 

 ment clubs which are working toward the 

 improvement and beautifying of their 

 respective towns and it will be to the 

 interest of the florists and gardeners to 

 encourage them whenever possible, as it 

 will be the means of making a great deal 

 of new business. "W. A. Clarke, of the 

 Pittsburg Cut Flower Co., is president 

 of such an organization in his town, 

 Sheraden, and reports that there are more 

 beds being prepared for plants and more 

 grass seed being sown than ever known 

 in the history of the borough. 



The drenching rain which fell Satur- 

 day night, followed by cooler weather 

 Sunday, was a blessing to the growers 

 who had worked all week to finish plant- 

 ing carnations. 



Inquiry as to what had become of 

 Ernest Fischer revealed the fact that he 

 is moving his houses and stock to the 

 new property he bought on the Browiis- 

 ville road. We presume he is rushing 

 this to get in that early cut of mums of 

 which he is so proud. 



This kind of weather makes things 

 lively with John Bader, as his place is 

 headquarters for all who are looking for 

 porch plants and bedding stock. 



The Florists' Club met last Tuesday 

 night and, while it was not a large 

 meeting, it was one of the mort inter- 

 esting for some time, with bedding plants 

 the subject of discussion. Abraham Hos- 



Mentlon The Review whtn yea write. 



LET ME TAKE CARE OF YOUR ORDERS FOR 



DECORATION DAY.AND JUNE WEDDINGS 



CattUya Mossiae, per dozen $6.00 to $7.50 



Cattle^ Skinneri, per dozen 3.00 



Asst. Ordhld Sprays, etc., per box 5.00 to 25.00 



Fancy Cut Flowers 



X SPECIALTY. 



It yoa waat ClMke Cut Flowers at my tIaM or all the tlaM, aead to 



CHARLES W. McKELLAR 



61 Wabash Avanua, CHICAGO. 



Woatora Hoadqaartars for CiMica 



nD#*HinC& r«HCT VALLEY. BMUTIKS, TU ROSIS, CARHMTIOIS. 



V'K^llll'tSf AaparagMS, AdlantaM, Snllax, Paaoy Paras always in abund- 

 ance. Also a complete fine o7 aU Plorlata* SapfrNas, ■•««ltl*« afd ••'"•^'SSr'*' 

 Saad for pries list. I. D. Hmm Ceainl UN. litNUtte Nil. 



tetter and E. P. Hostetter, of Manheim, 

 sent cut blooms of pansies and daisies. 

 Ludvig Mosbaek, of Onarga, 111., sent cut 

 pansies, all of which were very fine. H. 

 A. Deer, Philadelphia, exhibited a couple 

 of novelties, Alyssum saxatile flore pleno 

 and Euphorbia pilisa major. The Val- 

 ley Greenhouse Co., Sewickley, Pa., God- 

 din & Sons, Bridgeville, Pa.; Schenley 

 park greenhouses and Blind Brothers 

 showed some splendid bedding stock, all 

 of which was criticized with much inter- 

 est. HOO-HOO. 



MILWAUKEE. 



In common with all other markets, 

 Milwaukee is having its spring glut. 

 Beceipts are largely increased and the 

 demand from the stores does not serve 

 to clean up even all of the good stoek, 

 so that job lot sales have to be resorted 

 to, and these at such low prices that 



there is protest from the growers. Par> 

 ticularly do belated lilies suffer. Since 

 Easter it has been almost impossible to 

 sell them and the supply has been large. 

 One grower reports taat the week after 

 Easter he had 1,500, which were fine, 

 but by the time the returns were in the 

 average was just 2 cents a flower. Bat 

 in spite of the present depression, the 

 growers are getting ready to turn ont 

 more stock next season. Fred Schmel- 

 ing is building four more big houses. 



WnJJAMSPOET, Pa. — ^Daniel E. Gor- 

 man is putting up more rose houses to 

 meet the requirements of his steadily in* 

 creasing retail trade. 



KAT.AMA200, MiOE. — Mrs. Dunkley, the 

 proprietor of the Dnnkley Floral Co., one 

 of the oldest greenhouse establishments in 

 this section of the country, died April 

 25 of heart failure. 



