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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 18, 1905. 



Decoration Day 



Plumosus Strings ^ ^f ^^ \ r^ 



$40.00 per 100 ^^^%^ \P ^V^ 



WILD SM1L3X 



$6.00 PER CASE. 

 EXTRA HEAVY CHOICE 



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Peonies 



^^^^)iy^<> Carnations, 



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^ ' Lilacs and Roses 



Special Prices on Dagger Ferns in Quantity 



Ribbons and Supplies 



HfBadquarters for FXIWCY CARNATIONS and ROSES 



PITTSBURG'S LARGEST XND OLDEST WHOLESALERS. 



PITTSBURG GUT FLOWER CO. ^04 liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 



Mention The Rerlew when yoo write. 



BUFFALO. 



Various G>mment 



Business has been rather quiet of late 

 and, of course, flowers plentiful. Car- 

 nations are cut in great quantities an'l 

 prices have been very popular. Swefet 

 peas of fine quality have been coming 

 in from Wm. Ehmann and David Scott, 

 of C!orfu. The flower beds on our fine 

 resident streets are brilliant with single 

 tulips but we have not yet heard of 

 any thieving. Our police justices soaked 

 (excuse the slang) one or two of these 

 miscreants pretty heavily last spring and 

 the news spread. It/^ the duty of the 

 florists to do all they can to help to put 

 the wretches where the dogs won't bite 

 them for a month, because nothing dis- 

 courages our patrons to plant so much 

 as losing the flowers in their beauty. Open 

 and free to the admiration of all, as the 

 lawns and flower beds are, no complaint 

 is ever heard except with these tempting, 

 handsome tulips and they are something 

 money can't replace. The park beds 

 are gay with pansies planted la.st fall. 



There have not been many strangers 

 within our gates of late, except Arnold 

 Ringier, of Chicago, stopping over Sun- 

 day. He kindly delivered an address at 



the Y. M. C. A., general good advice to 

 young men. 



It is reported that W. J. Palmer & Son 

 had a most flattering offer to dispose? of the 

 lease of their handsome store at Main 

 and Genesee streets. They have, we think, 

 declined the off'er. It is an ideal spot 

 for a florist and under W. J. Palmer. 

 Jr.'s management is an ornament to the 

 city and would be an actual loss to that 

 part of the town. 



How little we easterners know of the 

 many progressive and up-to-date methods 

 of doing business that the westerners 

 devise and invent. Where we would 

 often be stuck, as they say, the western 

 man or woman can climb out tri- 

 umphant. A much traveled and versatile 

 drummer, but a man of great veracity, 

 was telling me of his experience in a 

 growing Texas town that can boast of 

 one florist store. The drummer enters 

 store and presents his card to the young 

 lady clerk. "Oh, you be in the business,-^ 

 be ye?" Jumps up on the undressed 

 board counter and beats a tattoo with 

 her dainty heels. The big drummer 

 jumps up beside her and makes a sale 

 of fifty tuberoses. Enter two society 

 ladies and addressing L. C. : "We want 

 two dozen American beauties." "All 

 right. When do ye want 'em?'' "To- 



morrow evening." "All right, I'll send 

 'em 'round." The drummer thinks, 

 where on earth will she get two dozen 

 American Beauties? There are none 

 within a thousand miles, and asks the 

 question. L. C. jumps on the! counter 

 and pulls down a long box which con- 

 tains several dozen Beauties, petal and 

 color true to life, only made of cloth. 

 "What do you charge for them ?" "Twen- 

 ty-five cents a dozen if they brings 'em 

 back in good order." There, now. Some 

 of us have fretted terribly over such an 

 order and this is so simple, where so- 

 ciety is not too fastidious. W. S. 



Bennington, Vt. — W. G. Richardson 

 has sold out to Thomas H. Phelan, who 

 has for some years been at Gaskill's, at 

 Warren, 0. 



Marlborough, N. Y. — ^F. A. Velie i» 

 building a carnation house 35x175. It 

 will ba run in connection with the Val- 

 ley View Greenhouses now controlled by 

 C. G, Velie & Son. The name of the 

 firm will be changed to Velie Bros. They 

 will have a complete establishment, two 

 large houses containing about 10,000 

 square feet of glass being devoted to 

 violets and about 15,000 feet of glass 

 given to fancy carnations. 



