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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 16, 1007. 



The Whilldiii Pottery Go. 



STANDARD FLOWER POTS 



Our output ot Flower Pots is larger than any concern in the World 

 Our Stock is always Lars:e and Complete 



Main Office and Factory. 



713 WHARTON STREET. PHILADELPHIA 



Warehouses: JERSEY CITY. N. J. LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. 



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PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Snow, rain and ice in the middle of 

 May are not conducive to good business, 

 and all of these we had last week. 

 Greenhouse men usually are cleaned up 

 by Decoration day, but up to this time 

 have not been able to deliver anything 

 and are wondering how they will be able 

 to handle the stock quick enough to sat- 

 isfy their customers when the weather 

 settles. Vegetation was farther advanced 

 in March than ever was known, but now 

 the middle of May finds it farther back 

 than the oldest inhabitant can remember 

 at this season. The warm March brought 

 shrubbery into leaf and the cold since 

 has killed much of it. , In many places 

 deutzia, weigelia and stock op that kind 

 has been killed to the ground and her- 

 baceous stock has suffered in the same 

 way. One of our prominent gardeners 

 says that there was more stock killed 

 this year than any other year in his rec- 

 ollection, and most of it since April 11. 

 The continued rains have kept the farmer 

 back in his work of getting in spring 

 crops. In some cases oats are not yet 

 planted. 



Among the cut flower growers stock 

 becomes more plentiful every day. There 

 is nothing short and many things are a 

 drug, especially sweet peas. Some of the 

 retailers still complain about business, 

 but they seem to be busy enough and I 

 imagine it has just gotten to be a habit. 



Qub Meeting. 



At the club meeting May 7 bedding 

 plants were exhibited by I. S. Crall Co., 

 of Monongahela, Pa., and by Blind Bros. 

 The discussion of varieties brought out 

 the fact that one successful grower grew 

 only three varieties of geraniums, one 

 red, one white and one pink, and the 

 beat variety of each color. He grows 

 these well and, while he has a large busi- 

 ness, never has any trouble satisfying 

 his customers and always sells out at top 

 prices. 



A paper on credits was read by T. P. 

 Langhans, of the Pittsburg Cut Flower 

 Co., in which he called attention to the 

 loose manner in which florists as a rule 

 conduct their business aflFairs, many of 

 them having only one object: to dispose 

 of their stock, without taking proper 

 care of how they are going to get their 

 money. He also called attention to the 

 way florists let a beat go the rounds and 

 stick everybody before he is found out, 

 and suggested an association such as they 

 have in other trades where competition 

 is greater than ours, showing by figures 

 how their losses had been reduced sixty- 

 five per cent. He also censured the trade 

 for carelessness in making collections, al- 

 lowing accounts to stand for fear of of- 

 fending customers, while the florist 



THE IONIA POT 



Appeals to 



the Aggressive 

 Up-to-Date Florist 



BKCAUSBt It has style and is made on honor. It is made from clay rich in the ele- 

 ments that make thriving: plants. For 36 years it has steadily forged its way to the front. 

 TODAY, it is recognized as the IDKAL POT, packed in an ideal way. 



Shipment made when you direct. IONIA rOTTtnY UU«y lUNIAj IflluH* 



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KELLER POTTERY CO; 



Manufacturers of Florists' Red Flower Pots 

 Azalea Pots, Bulb and Fern Pans, Etc. 



The very best shipping facilities on both Pennsylvania R. R. and Philadelphia and Reading B. B. 



213 to 223 PEARL STREET, NORRISTOWN, PAc 



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When you see 'a 



SYRACUSE RED POT 



you will believe us when 



we say that they are 



a fe**- ^?^ test order. 



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Syraouse Pottery Co. 

 ». Syracuse, W. Y. 



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ruined his own credit because he could 

 not pay his bills. 



The paper was well written and caused 

 considerable Comment. John Bader, ini 

 commenting on it, said the conclusion 

 he had come to was, "get your mone^ 

 or keep your stock"; that he is tired of 

 the class who are traveling around buy- 

 ing here and there and underselling the 

 men they buy :^om because they do not 



pay- 

 There will be several papers read at 



the next meeting. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Dougherty, of McKeesport, is 

 one of the crack checker players of this 

 end of the state, but there are other 

 checker players among the craft. E. L. 

 B. West, of A. W. Smith's; A. W. Smith, 

 Jr., and George Marshall each knows 

 when it is his move. 



J. B. Murdoch & Co. say that stock 

 moves fairly well and that receipts are 

 heavy. 



Mr. and Mrs. Jos. H. Seaman, of 

 Washington, Pa., were visitors last week. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



I WATCH for the coming of the Re- 

 view each week and certainly get much 

 pleasure and profit from reading it. — 

 E. P. Hall, Shelbyville, Ky. 



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Red Standard Pots 



Price per 1000. P. O. B. Harrison: 2-ln., $2.50; 

 2M-in., Il95: 2^-iD., t3.50; 3-ln., $4.50; 8^-in., $5.86^ 

 4- In., $7.20; 5-ln., $11.70; 6-in., $19.80. Cash must 

 accompany order. Price list for largrer sizes. 

 Saucers, Fern Pans, Azalea PO^ts and Hanging 

 Baskets on application. 



HARRISON POTTERY, Harrison, Ohio 



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RED 



Standard Flower Pots 



Price list and samples on application. 



PADUCAH POTTERY CO., INC. 



PADUCAH, KENTUCKY 



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Kramer's Pot Hanger 



For Sale by Wholesale Seedsmen, 

 Florists and Supply Dealers. 



Price, $1.00 per doz. by express. 

 Sample doz. by mail, $1.85. 



I. N. KRAMER & SON, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 



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