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Mat 23. 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



25 



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 The elieap«at and best letter on the market. 



BOMS OF OCR LATKST MOVXLTIK8 



Script lettera, $1.60 per 100. 



Send at once for 



a aample hundred. 



Bamboo Screens, S}^ feet x 30 inches, three wings, $4.50« 



Bamboo Pedestals and Taborettes, 30c and up. 

 Bamboo Rods for Cornucopia Glasses, any length, 5c a hole. 



REED & KELLER, 



120 and 122 West 25th Street, 

 NEW YORK 



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NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Sunday, May 19, was the first perfect 

 summer day of 1907. Life was worth 

 living, after all the months of chill and 

 disappointing delays. Coney Island 

 opened with an attendance of nearly 

 200,000, and every one was greeted with 

 a lesson in floricultural display in the 

 big ocean parks there that could not 

 fail to impress favorably and helpfully 

 those who see but little of nature dur- 

 ing the week and make this their only 

 outing day. Monday night the tempera- 

 ture had again fallen, so that overcoats 

 were again in . evidence. Straw hats 

 looked sadly out of place, and it took a 

 * natural bom optimist to realize that 

 summer had actually arrived. We have 

 concluded to do no more boasting as to 

 warm weather till the dog days come. 



One result of last week's erratic 

 weather is seen in mildewed roses. They 

 began to arrive May 18. But a com- 

 parison with laat year's business at this 

 date leaves no cause for complaint or 

 pessimism. The whole season, in fact, 

 _ since faster has been well in advance of 

 1906, both as to quality and prices. 

 Both have held wonderfully, and in these 

 respects we have had much to be thank- 

 ful for. If summer prices come now, 

 we have no cause for wonder or discour- 

 ~ agement. 



Violets, even, have felt the effect of 

 the prolonged spring, and the cool 

 weather has maintained their quality, so 

 that those still arriving are rapidly ab- 

 sorbed at good prices. Few in the whole- 

 sale section can remember shipments ex- 

 tending so far into the summer. 



The balance of May will show a con- 

 siderable depression from the prices of 

 last week and already one may safely 

 assert that summer prices prevail. 



Beauties, the best of them, were down 

 to 12 cents May 20, and in large quan- 



Please accept my check for ad- 

 vertising to date. 



P 



did well for me this spriog and 

 you will hear from me again 

 next fall. 



CARLMAN RIBSAM. 



Trenton, N. J. 

 May 20, 1907. 



titles were even lower. Probably 10 

 cents will be top before this week is 

 over. The quantity of short-stemmed 

 Beauties is enormous. At times these 

 have been disposed of as low as 50 cents 

 a hundred. Bride and Maid go no 

 higher thaA 4 cents and when complete 



boxes are taken a uniform rate of $2 per 

 hundred is accepted. 



Carnations, too, have joined the pro- 

 cession and are selling at from 50 cents 

 up to $3 per hundred, the higher price 

 only for the novelties. 



Orchids are abundant and slightly be- 

 low the average of the last few weeks. 

 Of all else, lilies, valley, sweet peas, etc., 

 there is enough and to spare. Every- 

 body is well supplied with> lilac. Wagon- 

 loads reach the market daily from the 

 nurserymen in this vicinity, and thou- 

 sands of bunches are gathered in the 

 country over night and find their way in, 

 with no questions asked, and no sure 

 method of determining their source. 



Various Notes. 



Frosts have done much damage to the 

 market gardeners. There wUl have to 

 be an enormous amount of replanting. 

 The busy season with the seedsmen shows 

 but little sign of diminution. Night and 

 day the work goes on. To the nursery- 

 men the season has been one of un- 

 adulterated good fortune. Even yet, the 

 shipments of trees, vines and shrubs con- 

 tinue and with perfect safety and assur- 

 ance of a satisfied patronage. 



The Newport branch stores will open 

 about June 1. Siebrecht & Son, Leikens, 

 Wadley & Smythe are making for the 

 usual society events, which promise to 

 be as numerous as ever. 



The exodus to Europe continues. The 

 gayety of those who remain is confined 

 largely to the country houses. In the 

 city the principal decorations have been 

 those of the Canadian Club banquet, and 

 at the many dinners and receptions ten- 



