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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Apbil 2, 1908. 



EASTER LILIES 



$18.60 per 100 



SUPERB LILY OF THE VALLEY, $4.00 per 100 



American Beauties, Riclimonds, Kiiiarneys, Brides and Bridesmaids, Vio- 

 lets, Carnations, Daffodils, Tulips, Narcissi, Hyacintiis, Sweet Peas and all 



seasonable flowers for Easter Decorations. 



Southern Wild Smilax, Laurel Festooning, Leucothoe Sprays, Hardy Cut 

 Dagger and Fancy Ferns, Bronze and Green Galax. 



ALL ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT AND PERSONAL ATTENTION 



Henry N. Robinson & Co. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



Telephones 2617-2618 Main 15 Province Street, 9 Chapman Place, BOSTON, MASS. 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



West Twenty-eighth street May 1, the 

 big store directly above Walter Sheri- 

 dan's. 



The rose cut daily at Coddington's big 

 range reaches well into the thousands, 

 the output being handled by H. E. Fro- 

 ment. 



N. Lecakes & Co. say their cut flower 

 and smilax department has grown rap- 

 idly during the last year and they will 

 also handle flowering plants this year. 



J. K. Allen has fully recovered from 

 his tussle with the grippe and finds time 

 to do some house building in his home 

 town as well as maintain his city 6- 

 o 'clock-every-morning reputation. He 

 declares in his twenty-one years' experi- 

 ence he has never seen the New York 

 rose market so utterly demoralized as 

 now. 



Clarence Saltford has been recuperat- 

 ing for a week from an injured ankle. 



BowUag, 

 The bowling club had its second spasm 

 Friday, March 27, and made consider- 

 able progress, as the scores will demon- 

 strate. Fenrich bowled 234, and Manda 

 also qualified in the 200 class. For busi- 

 ness purposes the bowling club will meet 

 at 7 o'clock on bowling nights at Presi- 

 dent Marshall's, 146 West Twenty-third 

 street. The last scores were: 



Player. 1st 2d 3d 4th .^th 



Incognito 131 J57 180 



Totty 130 125 114 



Youii'r 105 191 104 196 



Manda 123 148 157 125 213 



Sohrelncr 157 136 181 193 199 



Fenrich 150 103 166 1.38 2.34 



Marshall 116 159 180 157 106 



Shaw 95 155 170 123 145 



The contest commences this week for 

 the Traendly transportation. Bowling 

 begins promptly at 8 o'clock. Two 

 games will be rolled each evening for 

 the club 's convention team standing. 

 Twenty members have qualified. Mr. 

 Traendly thinks he put the average too 

 low, after studying the results column. 



J. Austin* Shaw. 



Hodgson's flower store, an establish- 



ment which for nearly four decades was 

 in Fifth avenue, has disappeared. Its 

 last stand on the southwest corner of 

 Fifty-sixth street has been closed and its 

 a£fairs are being conducted from an 

 apartment house in Fifty-eighth street, 

 near Eighth avenue. 



John M. Hodgson, an English florist, 

 started the business in 1865, and speedily 

 won the favor of New York society. The 

 Astors, the Vanderbilts and other mem- 

 bers of the four hundred generally 



That bench of slow-movins stock can 

 be promptly turned into Gish (it comes 

 with the order), if offered in the Classi- 

 fied Department of the REVIEW. It 

 costs only 10 cents a line. 



were his customers. The original store 

 was at Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth 

 street, where it remained for twenty- 

 five years. It was moved to Thirty-sev- 

 enth street, on the present site of Tif- 

 fany's, where it was for four years. The 

 Fiftv-sixth street store had been occu- 



pied for nine years. It was leased short- 

 ly before the death of the founder of 

 the house. 



The corporation which succeeded to the 

 business in 1902 went into bankruptcy 

 September 27, 1907. A new corpora- 

 tion has been formed and Mrs. Spalding, 

 daughter of the founder, says that prob- 

 ably a new location on The Avenue will 

 be found by fall. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



There is little that is new to report 

 of cut flower conditions. On some days 

 there is a fair call, but on the majority 

 trade remains extremely dull. The near 

 approach of Easter, it is hoped, will 

 give the market a little fillip after the 

 present week. Roses are abundant and 

 cheap. Nice Bride, Maid, Chatenay and 

 other varieties are selling for a mere 

 song, and returns must be discouraging 

 to the growers. Carnations show, if 

 anything, a slightly better tone, but are 

 in heavy supply. While the best grade 

 flowers may clean out fairly well, no 

 reasonable offer is refused for much of 

 the balance. Violets are still quite 

 abundant. The singles are deteriorating 

 and the doubles are also of smaller 

 size. 



Bulbous stock is still plentiful and 

 not selling at profitable prices. Lilies 

 are not in much demand, nor are callas. 

 Mignonette and antirrhinum continue to 

 come in of excellent quality. English 

 primroses are plentiful, as are pansies, 

 forget-me-nots and marguerites. Lily 

 of the valley is only in light demand 

 at present. Sweet peas sell well. 



Trade in pot plants is still somewhat 

 sluggish, but another week will see a 

 more active trade. Lilies tye making 

 10 to 12^4 cents per bud; more will 

 probably bring the first named price, 

 from present indications. Rambler 

 roses, azaleas, genistas, acacias, mar- 

 guerites, spiraeas and other seasonable 



