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The WecHy Florists' Review. 



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March 29, 1006. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



Conditions continue fair. A good 

 many flowers are sold at good prices, 

 some at poor prices, and some are not 

 sold at all. But the volume of business 

 is fully equal to the average at this sea- 

 son of the year, with indications that an 

 improvement will be here by the end of 

 the week. Violets, sweet peas, and 

 Golden Spur narcissus are selling well. 

 Beauties are lower in price. The qual- 

 ity is very fine. Gardenias are in over- 

 supply, the best long stemmed flowers 

 bringing only the listed prices. Kaiser- 

 ins have made their appearance. The 

 quality is exceptionally fine. 



Philadelphia Beauties. 



Last Thursday evening was a gala 

 occasion in this city. The Florists ' Club 

 entertained the wives and sweethearts of 

 the members with a reception, games 

 and refreshments. On the same evening, 

 a little band of Philadelphians journeyed 

 to Boston to the annual meeting of the 

 American Eose Society, where on the 

 following day they captured cups galore. 

 Briefly summarized, they took every- 

 thing in the shape of a Beauty prize, 

 bar one, that was offered, demonstrating 

 more conclusively than ever that Phila- 

 delphia produces the finest Beauties in 

 the country. To go into details, George 

 Burton captured the Lord & Bumham 

 cup and a first, with fifty Beauties. 

 Adolph Tarenwald captured the MacMul- 

 kin cup, with fifty Beauties, also the El- 

 liott with fifty Liberties, and the Penn 

 cup, with twenty-five Liberties. The 

 Floral Exchange captured first with 

 Queen of Edgely. J. Henry Bartram 

 was second in the ]Liord & Bumham 

 competition, with fifty exceptionally fine 

 Beauties. 



♦♦Smith— FlofisU" 



A very large sign, bearing the above 

 words, greets the passerby at Market 

 and Sixtieth streets, a sign so imposing 

 that it reminds one of the famous sign 

 at Sixteenth and Ludlow streets. En- 

 tering, the visitor is cordially received 

 by the original William C. Smith (not 

 of North Carolina), who cheerfully dis- 

 plays a very fine lot of Easter plants, 

 also a very choice lot of well budded 

 rhododendrons in variety. His lilies, of 

 the variety called giganteum, are very 

 robust, healthy, and well flowered. He 

 has three thousand pots. His Spiraea 

 Gladstone is a picture, beautifully 

 shaped plants, remarkably well fur- 

 nished with flower spikes. He also 

 grows azaleas, both specimens and me- 

 dium sizes that were well timed and in 



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nice condition; hyacinths and other 

 Dutch bulbs that will be brought in in 

 good time; besides a variety of other 

 plants. Mr. Smith is a specialist with 

 Ficus elastica, which he grows in quan- 

 tity for orders. Boston ferns in all sizes 

 are a specialty here. He has discovered 

 a clever means of propagating which 

 greatly facilitates his work with these 

 plants. Carnations Vesper, Enchantress 

 and Fair Maid were vigorous and full of 

 bloom. 



The Street is Starded. 



The street is agitated by a strange 

 story, which if it be true will convulse 

 our floral world. It is that a combination 

 of growers has been formed so strong 

 that it comprises every shipper of note 

 supplying this market. That the com- 

 bination has secured a charter under the 

 laws of the commonwealth of Pennsyl- 

 vania under the name of the Flower 

 Trust. That it has rented the basement 

 of the Eeading Terminal, now occupied 

 by Wyman's restaurant. That every 

 grower is under bond to send all his 

 product to the trust. That the Filbert 

 street side will be devoted to cut flowers, 

 the south side to plants. That the presi- 

 dent is a rose grower of national repute, 

 who has built and is operating three 

 ranges of glass; who owns other real 

 estate; who has been receiver for a large 

 concern and who is certain to achieve 



♦♦ Pardon me, sir, for putting in my 

 appearance here* I have traveled all 

 over the coantry and found Poll- 

 worth's Cut Flower and Design Boxes 

 to be more largely used by the Florist 

 Trade than those offered by any com- 

 peting manufacturer or dealer.** 



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