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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



A^BIL 9, 1908; 



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Washington's New Commission fiouse 



WILL HAVE 



CARNATIONS, KILLARNEY ROSES 



and LILIES 



in good supply 

 -^for 



EASTER 



ORDER EARLY. You Will be well taken care off. 



J. J. HARTY & CO., 1312 street. N.W.. Washington, D. C. 



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taining their flowers was unfortunately 

 delayed in transit until too late to be 

 judged in the regular classes. 



M. Eice, of M. Eice & Co., has joined 

 the list of suburbanites, and will shortly 

 move to Oak Lane, where he has bought 

 a handsome home. 



The Century Flower Shop has been 

 having special sales each Saturday at at- 

 tractive prices. Last week daisies were 

 offered. The week before it was Carna- 

 tion Mrs. T. W. Lawson, 3,000 being sold 

 at 45 cents a dozen. 



J. Murray Bassett, of Hammonton, 

 N. J., who has earned an enviable repu- 

 tation as a grower 'of fine dahlias and 

 hardy perennials, is also a collector of 

 native plants. 



The friends of E. G. Palmer will be 

 glad to know that he is comfortably set- 

 tled on a farm above Doylestown. Mr. 

 Palmer, who was ill, bore the journey 

 well. • Phil. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market. 



Now is the winter of our discontent 

 made glorious spring. The week opens 

 with delightful weather. The grass is 

 green, the tl^es are budding and Easter 

 18 so near we can see the spring bon- 

 nets and the floral display without any 

 stretch of the imagination. Over at 

 Will Siebrecht's, in Astoria, the tree 

 peonies are far advanced and the mag- 

 nolias showing color, but, like all the 

 bulb forcers, Mr. Siebrecht gives the 

 season closing some hard knocks and 

 declares raising and selling valley at $1 

 that costs $1.25 is neither profitable nor 

 amusing. 



There is little to say of the cut flower 

 market this week that has not been said 

 of its condition during the last forty 

 days. Talk about Lent! It has been 

 Lent all winter in the New York whole- 

 sale district, but the patient is con- 

 valescent. Next week he will sit up and 

 take notice, and the week before Easter, 

 as Charles Millang sings, "Sunshine 

 will come again." You can enter, as 

 the one best bet, that there will be a big 

 Easter, excelling all past records in the 

 quantity of stock sold. Why not, with 

 wholesale prices most reasonable, cut 

 flowers abundant, the plant supply per- 

 fect and enormous, business looking up 

 all over the land and even in scared 

 New York, where the millionaires are 

 as thick as Jersey mosquitos, all the 

 busted banks reopening their doors f 



Everything looks good from the flori- 

 cultural viewpoint. The seedsmen are 



DAHLIAS 



Strong 21-2-in. pot plants. 



Professor Mansfield per 100, $3.00 



Winsome " 2.50 



KeynesWhite " 3.00 



Mrs. Jones " 2.00 



Catherine Uuer " 3.00 



Exquisite " 3.00 



Bruton " 2.00 



Matchless " 2.00 



Mrs. Bennett " 2.00 



Island Queen " 2.00 



Frank Bassett ", 3.00 



Nymphea " 2.50 



HARDY PINKS. Strong 2Vin. pot plants. 



HerMajesty per 100. $2.00 



May Gray ;... '..: " 2.00 



Homer " 2.50 



Juliette " 2.50 



Brunette " 2.50 



W. R. GRAY, OAKTON, VA. 



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Chrysaathemams! 



First-class rooted cuttlngrs of all the best com- 

 mercial varieties, $2.00 per 100; $15.00 per 1000. 



THE MUNK FLORAL CO. 



COLUMBUS, OEUO 



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working night and day. The nursery- 

 men are swamped with orders, many of 

 them reaching into the thousands. The 

 auctions are crowded with eager sub- 

 urbanites and these embryo gardeners 

 are paying good prices and paying cash. 

 The florists' supply men have not a 

 word of fault to find with business and 

 most of them are v^orking nights. So 

 are the ribbon men. The men who build 

 greenhouses have more than they can 

 do. Guess there isn't anything that 

 can stop this country in its upwara 

 progress. 



What of the cut flower growers, the 

 wholesalers and the retailers of their 

 products! That seems to be the only 

 serious consideration. The growers have 

 certainly had a discouraging season. 

 Often it seemed an utter impossibility 

 to close out the enormous supplies at 

 any figure. Wholesalers faithfully 

 toiled, schemed and planned to meet the 

 abnormal condition, often without avail. 

 The retailer suffered least of all, for 

 with values so low the margin of profit 

 on the business done was satisfactory. 

 The low range of prices means much to 

 both grower and wholesaler and creates 

 uneasiness, distrust and impatience. 

 Some growers come and see for them- 

 selves. Lots of them have this year, 

 and return to their labors realizing it is 

 an off year and that we must take the 

 bitter with the sweet. Others are con- 

 sidering concentration systems and 



Dahlias 



To close out my surplus roots 

 I will quote low prices on 



LTNDHURST, MAID OF KENT, 



KRIEMHILDE, SYLVIA, A. D. LIVONI^ 



TWENTIETH CENTURY. ARABELLA, 



JOHN WALKER, etc. . 



Also 



HEMEROCALLIS, THUNBEROII 

 and FLAVA, and otiier perennials 

 and collected native plants. 



J. MURRAY BASSETT, 



Packard Street, -- HAMMONTON, N. J. 



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WHITMAN! 

 = TERNS = 



Good strong plants ready for a shift 

 at bargain prices. 



Per 100 Per 1000- 

 2-inch $3.50 $3o.oa 



2>i-inch ...... 5.00 45.00' 



Cash with order. 



RANDOLPH & McCLEMENTS, 



Baum and Beatty Streets, PITTSBURG, PA.. 



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r^hrysanthemnm 



^^ Roofed Cuttings 



Monrovia, M. Dean, J. Nonin, $1.60 per 100. 



ANT. C. ZVOUNEK, Bound Brook, N. J. 



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plans of distribution out of the beaten 

 track. Growers of carnations and vio- 

 lets have been especially afflicted. 



I note that in 1906 Beauties sold at 

 50 cents each and violets at $1 per hun- 

 dred for Easter, but for this particular 

 week the general average was close to- 

 the current quotations. Lilies were 10 

 cents and Beauties 20 cents. You see 

 one sometimes can get solace by com- 

 parisons. In 1907, conditions were- 

 about the same. Tor the corresponding 

 week to this the record was the lowest 

 of the year. Lilies had been booked at 

 12 cents and late orders were filled at 

 15 cents. Beauties and violets were- 



