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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



April 23, 1908. 



WIETOR BROS/'A^ell'r Chicago 



No charge for paeklnf^. 



AMIRICAN BKAX7TT— 



Extra long stems 



36-iiich steins 



Prices subject to chang^e without notice 



Per dox. 



HOO 



3.00 



2.50 



2.00 



1.50 



1.25 



1.00 



.75 



.50 



Per 100 



$8.00 



good HOOto 6.00 



Bridesmaids, fancy 8.00 



♦♦ good 4.00to 6.00 



30-inch stems . 

 24-inch stems. 

 20-inch stems. 

 Ift-inch stems. 

 15-inch stems . 

 12-inch stems. 

 8-inch stems . 



Brides, fancy 



Kate Moalton, fancy 



good $4.00 to 



Per 100 



$8.00 

 6.00 



Richmond, f i 



lancy 



good 4.00 to 



KiUamey, fancy 8.00 to 



** good 4.00to 



Chatenay, fancy 



" good 4.00to 



Uncle John, fancy 



** good 4.00to 



Perle 4.00 to 



Roses, our selection 



CARNATIONS, fancy 



« good 



8.00 

 6.00 

 10.00 

 6.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 1.50 



All otker stock tt lowest narkat rstai. Tke sboro prieei are for select stock, btra select or iaferlor stock billed sceordiatlr. 



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be .ioined by Alex B. Scott and Mrs. 

 Scott. 



State Treasurer Berry spoke in a Lans- 

 downe church on Palm Sunday. Edward 

 Reid motored him back to Chester. 



.Tohn Burton will tear down several 

 old houses this spring, replacing them 

 with one broad house. 



J. Murray Bassett, of Ilammonton, 

 N. J., has had five attractive views of his 

 dahlias and other flowers taken. He dis- 

 tributes these on postal cards. 



T. N. Yates & Co. had a fine stock of 

 lilies, spiraja, and other Easter plants, 

 which were in demand. 



Charles J. Wister, vice-president of 

 the Germantown Horticultural Society, 

 celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday April 

 6. President Heyl and Secretary Eedles, 

 of the society, called on him on behalf of 

 their fellow members. 



Frank Gaul, the popular manager of 

 the Century Flower Shop, has been ill 

 the past week. 



Mark B. Mills says that this is his 

 thirtieth Easter with "William K. Harris, 

 and he has never seen a poor one. 



Frank Gould, gardener to John T. 

 Morris, addressed the Germantown Hor- 

 ticultural Society's April meeting on 

 * ' How to Prepare the Garden. ' ' He was 

 listened to with deep interest. In the 

 course of his remarks Mr. Gould spoke 

 of a plant, hardy in Siberia, which could 

 not survive here, owing to the thawing 

 and freezing to which it is subjected. 



Myers & Samtman, of Wyndmoor, will 

 have a heavy cut of Beauties next week. 



In the article headed "Overbrook 

 Nurseries" last week the variety of 

 weigela forced into bloom should have 

 been Eva Rathke, not Eva Harte. 



M. Rice & Co. report having received 

 several large orders last week for wed- 

 ding outfits. 



Lacroix & Rainbault, Buena, N. .L, 

 had a good crop of lilac for Easter. They 

 will continue cutting until May 1. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. had no sooner 

 shipped their last Easter order than they 

 turned with redoubled energy to prepar- 

 ing for Memorial day. 



Walter P. Stokes spent the early days 

 of this week in Washington on business. 



When asked about Easter, Samuel S. 

 Pennock said with emphasis that he had 

 no complaint to make. 



Atlantic City bought freely in this 



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market for Easter, violets and Beau- 

 ties being popular with the seashore 

 buyers. 



Arthur Zirkman, with M. Rice & Co., 

 believes the demand for flowers has in- 

 creased all over the country, 



Phil, 



Ashland, Ky. — Wm, H, Carp says the 

 Easter trade was at least twenty-five per 

 cent ahead of any previous year, the 

 weather being fine and the demand es- 

 pecially heavy for flowering plants, car- 

 nations, lilies and roses. 



DETROIT. 



The Market 



Many of the florists of this city pre- 

 dicted a poor Easter business, but these 

 were doomed to pleasant disappointment. 

 The total number of the sales was con- 

 siderably greater than in any previous 

 year, but the individual sales did not 

 bring as much as in some former years. 

 The florist who had a nice line of plants 

 averaging from $2 to $4 did the biggest 

 business. The market was fairly flooded 

 with lilies and many more were disposed 



