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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



June 11, 1908. 



on the west side is a solid one and we 

 cannot raise it very well to get the pipe 

 under it. J. H. D. 



I would suggest that you modify the 

 piping of your house as follows: That 

 you use a single 2% -inch flow under 

 the ridge of the house. Connect both of 

 your present 2-inch flows into this single 

 one, carry it to the far end of the bouse 

 and return by the use of fourteen l*^- 

 inch return pipes. The present returns 

 can be allowed to remain as they are and 

 the four additional ones used as a mani- 

 fold on the wall of the west side. 



L. C. C. 



GRAND RAPIDS. 



State of Trade. 



May broke all records for being a hot, 

 wet month. For fourteen days, of twen- 

 ty-four hours each, there was steady 

 rain; nine days more were cloudy, hot 

 and sultry, while the few remaining 

 bright, sunshiny days were red-hots. 

 Flowers were plentiful. Carnations 

 bloomed themselves almost to death, so 

 to speak, but would not keep, and the 

 glut was the worst ever experienced. 

 Large quantities were shipped to the al- 

 ready overloaded commission man and 

 brought barely enough to cover commis- 

 sion and express charges, while whole 

 wagon loads were consigned to the dump. 

 Such is the record of May. 



Decoration day week opened with rain, 

 with the temperature 90 to 100 degrees, 

 the atmosphere loaded with moisture, 

 and flowers keeping in good, salable 

 condition for one day only. These con- 

 ditions continued through the entire week. 



Peddler wagons were in evidence all 

 the week, but on Memorial day, espe- 

 cially, the florists near cemeteries had 

 their troubles. At Valley City cemetery 

 seven peddler wagons lined up opposite 

 Mrs. Goebel's greenhouses, selling cheap. 

 The Goebels hurried a lot of large boxes 

 out in front of the greenhouses, covered 

 them with geraniums, with a large sign, 

 "Geraniums, 5 cents apiece." Custom- 

 ers swarmed around the 5-cent geraniums 

 and the peddlers stood . and looked on 

 until, tired of standing with their wares 

 unsold, they drove away one by one 

 and left Mrs. Goebel victor. James 

 Schols, out at Greenwood, struggled with 

 five peddler wagons. At St. Andrew's 

 cemetery one lone wagon took its stand, 

 but did not stay long. G. F. C. 



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