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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1261 



Head quarteis for Easter Plants 



E have a Saperb Stock of all the Leading Va- 

 rieties of Easter Plants in splendid condition, 

 which will be shipped direct from our Nurseries 

 to purchasers, lightly and carefully packed. 



Order Early as the Stock is Limited 

 QUALITY GUARANTEED 



EDWARD REID PH^A^lLPmA'pA. 



Wholesale Florist. Everything Seasonable in Cut Flowers. 



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NEir YORK. 



TheMaricet 



History repeats itself sometimes. It 

 has been exactly nineteen years since 

 the great blizzard knocked out New 

 York. The anniversary -was a repetiton 

 of the storm on a smaller scale. All 

 day Sunday and far into the night the 

 beautiful came down, but next Friday 

 the ground-hog prediction will have been 

 fulfilled and the winter over. Judging 

 by the opening of the week, it might 

 last a month longer and yet Easter is 

 only a little more than a fortnight 

 away. Little enough time to prepare for 

 the great festival. 



The sunlight of the latter part of 

 last week filled everyone with hope. A 

 few more days like Saturday and there 

 will be no further complaint of short 

 supply of roses. In fact, the growers 

 now assert that there will be enough and 

 to spare of everything for Easter and 

 that prices cannot advance to unrea- 

 sonable figures. Just now 40 cents 

 looks large for violets and thousands of 

 fresh ones go at 25 cents per hundred. 

 Over the cleaning up process the morn- 

 ing after it is better to cast the veil of 

 silence. Anybody could have afforded 

 a pall of violets last week. There was 

 not a funeral piece made that did not 

 have violets in it. Most of the designs 

 were- violet wreaths and crosses and on 

 the streets the Athenians certainly did 

 their share in popularizing the modest 

 flower. . 



The street merchants were offering 

 valley in large quantities Saturday. The 

 best was sold no higher than $2 and fine 



stock fell to $1.50. Narcissi were every- 

 where. The outdoor display made the 

 corners of the principal streets very 

 springlike. 



Carnations show no improvement in 

 price, though the quality grows con- 

 stantly better. On Saturday the green 

 carnation will close its career. At best, 

 it is a mongrel, but there must be a 

 call for it else the supply houses would 

 not dispose of such quantities of dye. 



All roses, except Beauties, displayed a 

 downward tendency last week and yet $3 

 per hundred was about the bottom for 

 the shortest. The best American Beau- 

 ties held strong at $9 per dozen. They 

 may double this for Easter if the short 

 supply continues. 



With such a supply of blooming- 

 plants as is already assured there can 

 be no abnormal rise in cut flower prices 

 and the picklers, if there be any left, 

 will get what they deserve. It won 't 

 pay this year to ship aged goods of any 

 kind to the New York market. 



Club Meeting. 



The club meeting Monday evening was 

 one of the best. Over fifty members were 

 present and many visitors. President 

 Totty occupied the chair. Mr. Sheridan 

 made the report for the dinner commit- 

 tee. The outing committee announced 

 progress, with a palatial steamer secured 

 and the date fixed, July 2, for the sum- 

 mer festival. A motion to appropriate 

 $100 for contests at the outing, after a 

 discussion participated in by Messrs. 

 O'Mara, Atkins, Weathered, Scott, Gutt- 

 man and others, was defeated. Four gen- 

 tlemen proposed at the last meeting were 

 elected to membership and Messrs. Geo. 



Baldwin and Mr. Bolles were proposed. 



Mr. Wallace, in behalf of the club, 

 presented a handsome diamond pin to the 

 retiring president, Mr. John Scott, as a 

 token of the appreciation of his fellow 

 members and a tangible recognition of 

 his faithful service. Mr. Scott was com- 

 pletely surprised and spoke feelingly of 

 the loyalty and appreciation of the club 

 during his occupancy of the chair and of 

 the pleasure it had afforded him. 



The resignation of John J. Phelps was 

 accepted with regret. 



Julius Koehrs, Jr., the recently elected 

 trustee of the club, made his maiden ad- 

 dress, promising devotion and good 

 service and expressing apijreciation of 

 the honor. 



A. J. Guttman proposed that the board 

 of trustees and the oflScers of the club 

 be empowered to devise ways and means 

 for providing a suitable home for the 

 club. He was seconded by P. O'Mara 

 and by President Totty, whose ambition 

 is the comfortable and permanent hous- 

 ing of the club during his incumbency. 

 C. B. Weathered also spoke in behalf of 

 the enterprise. 



John Birnie gave a practical and in- 

 teresting address on * * The Needs of New 

 York as Regards a Plant Market, in 

 which he referred to the remissness of 

 the city and the "crying need" of a 

 market in New York, declaring it is 

 of vital importance to the florists' busi- 

 ness and dwelling upon the missionary 

 influence of plants in every household. 

 He said 10,000 square :^eet of space is 

 needed and a place where seasonable 

 plants can be displayed and sold all the 

 year around. 



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