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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Maiich 22, 1906. 



joiqt labors is not yet ready for publica- 

 tion. Sufficient to say that 125 fine trees 

 have died since the steel works extension, 

 fifty-five of them during the past year. 

 The list comprises all the varieties of 

 maple, hemlock-spruce, and many other 

 common as well as a number of rare 

 trees. All of them were specimens of 

 beauty. Fern Hill has been ruined as a 

 country-seat. It is a question, however, 

 whether the Midvale Company can be 

 held legally responsible, as the ground 

 was sold to them with full knowledge of 

 the purpose for which it was intended. 



Various Notes. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. state that they 

 have received and unpacked six hun- 

 dred cases of baskets for the Easter 

 business during the past few days. Many 

 of these have already been shipped to 

 their customers. 



Oglesby B. Paul delivered an illus- 

 trated lecture on "Landscape Garden- 

 ing" before the Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society last Tuesday evening. 



Alex. Young, for many years gardener 

 in charge of John Wanamaker's place at 

 Jenkintown, died March 14. 



L. J. Eeuter is sending some excep- 

 tionally fine Chatenays to E. Bernheimer. 



A. B. Cartledge, senior member of the 

 firm of Pennock Bros., believes that 

 there is a good opening in this market 

 for more choice flowering plants. Mr. 

 Cartledge states that while there is not 

 a large demand for this class of stock, 

 it is at times almost impossible to get 

 even a moderate supply. 



Myers & Samtman commenced work on 

 their new range of glass March 1. It is 

 understood that this glass will be de- 

 voted to Beauties, with which this firm 

 has been wonderfully successful. 



Samuel S. Pennock is one of the 

 judges at the rose show held at Boston 

 this week. Phil. 



aNONNATL 



The Market 



You may talk about weather good, 

 bad, etc., but the weather we have been 

 having the past week is about the worst 

 ever. Eain, snow and sleet have been 

 mixed up in about equal proportions. 

 The temperature has been as low as 8 

 degrees above zero. In fact, this month 

 so far has been the worst of the year. 

 The growers report it to be very difficult 

 to keep up heat in the houses and coal 

 piles have been disappearing at a very 

 discouraging rate. These conditions are 

 stm with us, but it is to be hoped that 

 this week will see the last of them. 



Notwithstanding the bad weather, 

 business has been very fair. There has 

 been a very good demand for all kinds 

 of stock and prices have ruled about as 

 high as at any time this season. Go(>d 

 white roses have been in especially good 

 demand. In carnations, the supply has 

 been very good. The demand was first 

 class, also, and they sold out in very 

 good shape. In some cases the price had 

 to be dropped to move them, but this 

 was dOe more to the quality of the 

 blooms than to any other reason. Sev- 

 eral growers' stock has been showing a 

 decided tendency to go to sleep very 

 quickly. As this always occurs with the 

 same growers' blooms, it is undoubtedly 

 due to methods of growing. It is with- 

 out a doubt a sad mistake to think that 

 carnations can be grown in a rose tem- 

 perature. They must be grown cool and 

 any wholesaler will tell you that the 



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Fern Baskets, Plant Baskets, Twig Baskets, 



. . FOR EASTER . . 



Waterproof Paper, Pleated Paper, Stuffed Chickens and 

 Ducks. Tone Ware, all shapes and sizes. 



No bluff, we bave the groods. Small and laree 

 orders alw^aya receive tlie best attentlen : : 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



50, 52, 54 and 56 

 Nortb Fourtb Street, 



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stock of a grower who is known to hold 

 to the lower temperature will be sold 

 first every time. The blooms may not 

 be so large and the plants may not pro- 

 duce quite so heavily for the grower, 

 but they have that staying quality which 

 the retailer is looking for and he is not 

 long in finding out such a grower. 



Bulbous stock continues to be in good 

 demand. Some fine tulips and Dutch 

 hyacinths are being received in this city 

 from the well known bulb forcers, 

 George & Allan. Their stock has never 

 been better than it is this year. They 

 are rapidly getting their forces into 

 shape for Easter and they promsie to 

 have a finer lot of all kinds of bulbous 

 stock for that time this year than ever 

 \wfoTC. 



Some very good lilies, both calla and 



Harrisii, are to be had and they sell 

 first-class. Outdoor daffodils are begin- 

 ning to arrive from the south. As yet 

 they do not take very well, but the 

 weather has been against them. A few 

 springlike days and they will sell fast. 



The price of good ferns has advanced 

 to $2 per thousand. Other green goods 

 of all kinds are scarce. 



Variotu Notes. 



St. Patrick's day was a disappoint- 

 ment to many of the retailers owing to 

 the bad weather, but, nevertherless, those 

 who had stocked up on green dyed car- 

 nations reported that the demand for 

 them was first-class and that they sold 

 out clean at very good prices. 



At the end of this week, E. G. Gillett 

 will leave on an extended trip among 



