March 22, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1221 



WATERPROOF 



Cut Flower and Design Boxes 



Paraffin Lined Paper Boxes 



For Mailing and Expressing Live Plants 



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The Bloomer Bros. Co 



ST. NARYS, OHIO 



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CLT FLOWER BOXES 



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The best, strongest and neatest foldlnfr Cat 

 Flower Box ever made. Cheap, dnrable. 

 To try them once is to use them always. 



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said to use over a million dollars' worth 

 of ribbons yearly and tiie New York 

 houses certainly all have their share of 

 the select patronage. The demand this 

 year is far ahead of any tor the Easter 

 trade ever experienced. 



It is announced that Hicks & Craw- 

 buck have incorporated; authorized capi- 

 tal $lo,000, to handle anu grow flowers, 

 plants, trees, etc. The incorporators 

 are Frank S. Hicks, George W. Craw- 

 buck and John C. Merritt. 



j^nere will be a meeting of the New 



The J. W. SEFTOM MFG. GO. 



CHICAGO, ILL. and ANDERSON, IND. 



FLOWER BOXES, CORRUGATED 



SHIPPING BOXES, CORRUGATED AND 



PARAFFINED LIVE PLANT BOXES 



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York Market Florists' Association at 

 Coleman's restaurant. Canal and Wash- 

 ington streets, Saturday, March 24, at 

 8 p. m., for the purpose of allotting 

 stands for the coming season. Owing 

 to the association having to hire the 

 market site and pay the city in advance, 

 the directors adopted a resolution at 

 their last meeting, that all permanent 

 stands be assessed $25 in advance, and 

 all other stands be charged $1 per day 

 throughout the season. All former 

 standholders will have a preference at 

 this meeting, but they must be present, 

 or represented, as all stands will be al- 

 lotted. George Darsley, Jersey City, is 

 president, H. C. Steinhoflf, West Hobo- 

 ken, treasurer, and Peter F. Daly, New 

 Durham, secretary. J, Austin Sh.vw. 



Brantford, Ont. — The Brantford 

 Horticultural Society is planning to es- 

 tablish a botanical garden in the unused 

 part of the cemetery. 



Homer, III. — C. A. Wright has com- 

 pleted the erection of a greenhouse lOx.54 

 feet, connected with an office 12x32 feet. 

 Ed. Clark, of Lafayette, Ind., has be- 

 come a partner with Mr. Wright and 

 will devote his time to the business. 

 Flowers and vegetables will be grown. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



The wintry weather has shortened the 

 supply of cut flowers to some extent. 

 The demand has improved, business at 

 the close of last week being exception- 

 ally active. It is difficult to say exact- 

 ly how the bulk of the flowers was used. 

 There were a number of good shipping 

 orders, some dinners, and other enter- 

 tainments of fair size in the city, and 

 quite a lot of transient business. Fu- 

 neral orders were sufficiently plentiful 

 to make white flowers more in demand 

 than colored on two or three days. Prices 

 are irregular at times, but everything 

 considered, values on really choice stock 

 of all kinds are well sustained. There 

 are no immediate prospects of an in- 

 crease of the supply until the beginning 

 of next month. 



An Interesting Dispute. 



Some years ago, the famous McKean 

 estate, at Fern Hill, Germantown, parted 

 with thirty broad acres to the Midvale 

 Steel Works. These acres have since 

 been covered with the factory building 

 used in the construction of armor plate, 

 rails, etc. During the last few years, 

 it has been noticed that many of the 

 trees on the old place have been dying. 

 Dr. Persifor Frazer, the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society 's chemist, was en- 

 gaged to discover the reason why. To 

 aid him came Prof. Benjamin, from 

 Cleveland, and another expert from 

 Washington, D. C. Geo. Wharton Pep- 

 per was engaged to care for the legal 

 side of the question. The result of their 



