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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 5, 1908. 



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HERE ARE 



THREE STRONG REASONS 



Why it will pay YOU . 



MR. EASTERN FLORIST 



to advertise any stock you find slow to 

 move, in the Classified Department of 



SfpSTS' 



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Nashua, N. H., Jan. 13, 1908. 

 Please discontinue my classified adv. and 

 send bill. I have orders now for all the cut- 

 tings I can furnish this season. 



Stephen Chase. 



Clarence, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1908. 

 The vincas are all sold; the classified adv. 

 was a good investment. E. A. Muchow. 



Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 11, 1908. 

 You may discontinue my classified adver- 

 tisement of flower pots for awhile, as I have 

 all the orders I can fill for about two months. 

 The advertisement helped to get them, and I 

 am very well satisfied with the results. 



Geo. a. Swope. 



And one for g:ood measure, makes four: 



Hinsdale, Mass., Feb. 19, 1908. 

 Your valued Review is read, often when I do not read the others. It has greatly improved since 1 first saw it and 

 I am sure 1 wish it well. H. J. Smith. 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING, 10 CENTS PER LINE, NET, PER INSERTION 



as 0. branch business a series of auction 

 sales of plants every day at 7 a. ni. dur- 

 ing the spring planting season. Elabo- 

 rate arrangements are made for the con- 

 venience of customers. Two lower floors 

 of the immense building are to be used, 

 and the amphitheater seating 500. The 

 sales will begin this month. They will 

 be specially for the trade. Many grow- 

 ers have already signified their approval, 

 the veteran Birnie among them. Buy- 

 ers will be delighted to find their old 

 friend, John P. Cleary, on the rostrum. 

 The concern is well established, handling 

 all branches of the produce business. 

 These auctions will not interfere with 

 the old established market on Vesey 

 street. They are for the florists' trade 

 exclusively. 



Trepel, over at Losier 's, in Brooklyn, 

 has been a market benefactor lately. He 

 has had bargain sales every day. Many 

 thousands of carnations go over by the 

 wagon-load ever morning. He sells at a 

 small margin of profit and has had to 

 double his force to meet the rush. Mrs. 

 Trepel is now manager of his uptown 

 store. He handles an enormous quantity 

 of plants and cut flowers daily. 



Ralph M. "Ward & Co. declare business 

 to be all that can be expected, with the 

 volume growing yearly and the outlook 

 optimistic. 



Arthur T. Boddington has outgrown 

 his ground floor facilities and added an 

 entire upper floor to his space for office 

 and other conveniences. Mr. Bunyard is 

 home from a successful trip and sees only 



?rosperity ahead. Nowhere but in New 

 'ork has he found any lack of enterprise, 

 because of the prevailing financial con- 

 ditions. 



George M. Geraghty, formerly with 

 Thos. Young, Jr., and for years with a 

 prominent department store's horticul- 

 tural interests in Denver, is anticipating 

 a residence in the Queen City of the Do- 

 minion of Canada, and the retail man- 

 agement of one of its greatest flower 

 stores. 



The Parker Bruen Manufacturing Co. 

 is busy at the factory in Harrison, N. J., 

 where facilities are increased every year. 



Business has commenced to boom with 

 .Jacobs & Sons, Brooklyn. The new fac- 

 tory is working overtime. 



David Clarke's Sons have been dispos- 

 ing lately of a surplus stock of large 

 kentias for hotel and conservatory use, 

 from their overstocked greenhouses in the 

 Bronx. 



Mr. Baldwin, of Secaucus, is back 

 from a successful trip through New Eng- 

 land. The demand for orchids, he says, 

 is growing all the time. 



The Julius Koehrs Co. report a wide 

 inquiry for their new rambler rose, New- 

 port Fairy. If Julius, Jr., had called it 

 the Flatbush Fairy, we would not have 

 wondered. ,T. Austin Shaw. 



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BOSTON. 



The Market. 



If anything, conditions show some im- 

 provement from a week ago. Prices 

 remain about the same, but rather bet- 

 ter clearances have been effected. A 

 good deal depends on the weather. On 

 clear days trade is fairly good, while 

 a change to rain or snow causes a slump. 

 No decided improvement appears to be in 

 sight. Roses are coming in larger quan- 



tities. Beauties are fine but in little de- 

 mand, the call being better for Killamey 

 and Richmond. Of these two roses there 

 were probably never finer samples seen 

 than are in the Boston market today. 

 Brides and Maids move slowly. Carna- 

 tions are about the same, and still too 

 abundant. Violets continue to sell better 

 than anything else and have not weak- 

 ened any as yet. Sweet peas are fine 

 and meet with fair sale. Bulbous stock 

 still sells at unprofitable prices, although 

 the quality never was better. Some fine 

 mignonette and antirrhinum are coming 

 in. Lilies, both longiflorum and specio- 

 sum, are in good supply. Asparagus is 

 selling better. Smilax is in light demand, 

 but adiantum sells well. Funeral work 

 in other cities causes a large demand for 

 flowers. "Without this support the market 

 would be in a bad condition. 



Market Exhibition. 



The promoters of the Park Street mar- 

 ket show are to be congratulated on the 

 success of the exhibition held Febru- 

 ary 29, which filled the market and 

 drew a record attendance of growers and 

 dealers, many coming from considerable 

 distances. It was much to be regretted 

 that such a fine lot of exhibits had to be 

 staged in such cramped quarters, where 

 it was simply impossible to properly 

 examine them, and another year it is to 

 be hoped that the show will be held in 

 Horticultural hall, where the exhibits can 

 be properly staged, seen and examined. 



The star features of the show were 

 Elliott's marvelous Killamey roses and 

 Sim's sweet peas, although there were 

 many fine carnations and other exhibits. 



W. H. Elliott staged what was prob- 



