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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 7, 1907. 



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OIR SPECIALTIES 



ORCHIDS 



Pink and White Sprays 



WHITE LILACS CATTLEYAS SINGLE DAFFODILS 

 TULIPS PANSIFS FREESIAS 



FANCY BRIDE, BRIDESMAID AND RICHMOND 



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Phoenix Ecebelenii. The F. E. Pierson 

 Co., Tarrytown, offered a silver cup for 

 twenty-five Windsor carnations, to be 

 competed for at the coming autumn ex- 

 hibition. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Risine Eastern Market. 



The days when everything sold at good 

 prices hav« passed for the time being, 

 and it is now oftentimes diflScult to mar- 

 ket flowers at anything like satisfactory 

 prices. The oversupply of daffodils is 

 past, with daily expectations of southern 

 shipments, now overdue. Tulips are, 

 however, sold at distressingly low prices; 

 really fine stock has been retailed on the 

 street at less than cost of bulbs. This 

 is merely an indication of the depres- 

 sion in the tulip market. The stock is 

 excellent in all colors. Violets, while 

 abundant in supply, are selling well at 

 moderate prices. Sweet peas are also 

 extremely plentiful. The best sell, but 

 the medium and shorter grades are hard 

 to market. Carnations are lower in price 

 than a week ago, quality excellent, de- 

 mand only fair. The situation in roses 

 remains unchanged, excepting that teas 

 are more plentiful. Smilax has advanced 

 in price. 



The Washington Convention. 



Those intending to exhibit at the Wash- 

 ington convention of the American Rose 

 Society can obtain the premium list with 

 all the latest additions by applying to 

 Benjamin Hammond, Fishkill-on-Hudson, 

 New York, or Charles McCauley, Eight- 

 eenth and Kearney streets, N. E., Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The exhibition will open 

 Wednesday, March 13. All those inter- 

 ested in roses are cordially invited to be 

 present. 



Recent Importations. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., has 

 shown me two extremely pretty Easter 

 novelties which his firm is distributing. 

 One, an improved plant mat, i^ in every 

 way superior to the old mats so largely 

 used. It comes in all flower colors, is of 

 tine quality, and very durable. The other 

 is an exquisite little birchbark fernery, 

 rectangular in shape, ornamented with 

 mushrooms, mosses and other growing 



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things so natural that one could hardly 

 believe they are not real. The leading 

 ret.iiler3 have greatly praised this fern- 

 ery, which has the additional recommen- 

 dation of being moderate in price. 



Among the Growers. 



The average quality of the Easter 

 plants at Godfrey Aschmann's is decid- 

 edly higher year by year, showing the re- 

 sult of hard, painstaking work. The lil- 

 ies are nicely budded, averaging five 

 flowers to the plant, clean and healthy. 

 They are already being hardened off in 

 some of the houses. The spiraeas, the va- 

 riety is Gladstone, are well grown and 

 full of buds. Azaleas are here in great 

 quantity, the varieties noted being 

 Deutsche Perle, Vervteneana, and Mme. 

 Vander Cruyssen. Hydrangeas, cinera- 

 rias. Ramblers, primroses, begonias and 

 bulbous flowers make up the assortment. 



What especially impresses one about God- 

 frey Aschmann's place is the care he has 

 given to studying the wants of his mar- 

 ket (all the sizes are the best selling 

 commercial varieties) and the large 

 quantity of stock that he disposes of 

 each season. 



Carnations at Craig's. 



Robert Craig showed me as pretty a 

 lot of carnations as one could wish to 

 see. His Enchantress paid him 93 cents 

 a plant last season, a remarkable yield, 

 and this year promises to do as well or 

 better. White Perfection and Vesper are 

 his whites, Robert Craig his scarlet, 

 while for crimson he has a fine seedling 

 of C. W. Ward's 'as yet unnamed. A 

 whole house of seedlings in their second 

 year is a fine sight. A pink of good size, 

 brighter than Daybreak, is exceptionally 

 promising. 



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