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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May" 28, 1908. 



MONEY 

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 grown by installing the 



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holds out the best, but even this is 

 small and not of much value. Some 

 fair roses are to be had, but by far 

 the majority of them are small and pop 

 right open. The red varieties, such as 

 Bichmond, are awfully poor property. 

 And where has the demand for flow- 

 ers gone? There is practically none. 

 The buyers stroll around, visiting the 

 commission houses, and pick up a little 

 here and a little there and the total 

 Bales hardly make an impression on the 

 quantity of flowers on hand. It appears 

 to be a fact that the number of flow- 

 ers that found their way into the dump 

 last week was greater than at any time 

 so far this year. There was no de- 

 mand. It was impossible to move the 

 stock at any price. The wholesale men 

 had to pay out gogd money to have 

 a great portion of it hauled away. 



But Decoration day is upon us and we 

 are hoping for a good business. The 

 wholesalers report many advance orders. 

 Every indication points to a good, lively 

 demand. Many are predicting a great 

 glut of stock. But from the way that 

 orders are coming in I believe that we 

 all will have a good business. Peonies 

 will be the main crop, and there will be 

 thousands of them. Never has there been 

 a greater profusion of outdoor flowers 

 in bloom at this time. The country is 

 a mass of bloom, and those who have 

 access to this almost unlimited supply 

 surely will have no occasion to visit a 

 florist. But there will be thousands of 

 others who will not have this good for- 

 tune, and to them the florist will be a 

 necessity. Flowers will be cheap and 

 this will bring trade from a class of 

 people who otherwise would not buy any 

 flowers at all, so I believe that it is 

 about as broad as it is long. I believe 

 that this will be one of the greatest 

 Decoration days in the history of the 

 flower business. 



Smilax is beginning to be a trifle 

 scarce, but there is plenty of Sprengeri, 

 also asparagus. New ferns from the 

 south are in, but we are still selling 

 the winter eastern ferns and the buy- 

 ers prefer them, even at the higher 

 price; they hold up so much better. 



Lilies are good property, especially 

 longiflonims, which are not equal to the 

 demand. 



Various Notes. 



L. H. Kyrk narrowly escaped a serious 

 injury to his right eye. He was putting 

 in the screens at his home when one 

 of them slipped, the corner s,triking 

 his eye. 



Fred Weltz, of Wilmington, O., was 

 a caller. C. J. Ohmer. 



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