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The Weekly Florfsts' Review, 



Septbmbbb 10, 1908. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



There is not much change in the cut 

 flower trade — one day good and two days 

 bad, with much more stock than can 

 be disposed of. This makes it rather 

 unsatisfactory for the wholesaler who has 

 to handle the unsold stock. The retail- 

 ers are not doing much, but are taking 

 things easy, waiting for the trade to 

 come. 



Qub Meetui£. 



The Florists' Club had an enthusiastic 

 meeting Tuesday, September 1. 



P. S. Randolph, of Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements, had a fine exhibit of crotons. 

 Mr. Randolph is enthusiastic about this 

 class of plants and did not hesitate to 

 give all information asked for by the 

 growers regarding the propagation and 

 growing of his stock. 



Nathan Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., 

 showed a fine collection of asters, which 

 were examined separately and were very 

 favorably commented on. 



The W. C. Beckert prize of $10, for 

 best collection of ten vegetables, went 

 to Mr. Price, gardener for Mr. Bains- 

 dale, with Jas. H. Park's gardener a 

 close second. 



The committee appointed to make a 

 design for a float for the sesquicentennial 

 showed designs, but the whole thing was 

 turned over to the committee for settle- 

 ment. 



Schenley park, as usual, was there with 

 a good exhibition of asters. 



There were reports from the members 

 who attended the convention and they 

 were all complimentary. Even the fact 

 that Mr, McParland, in his views of 

 Pittsburg, showed only unsightly things 

 from our city when he might have shown 

 some of the grand improvements which 

 have been made, is considered all right 

 if they will help him teach the lesson 

 be desires, and we have been working in 

 this city for a long time trying to get 

 rid of the very things which he showed 

 in his pictures. In one case we went into 

 <5ourt to have certain signs removed, but 

 failed. 



Various Notes. 



Randolph & McClements are putting a 

 plate glass side in the greenhouse adjoin- 

 ing their store, next to Baum street, 

 and when it is finished it will add another 

 100 feet of show windows, making actu- 

 ally over 200 feet of show windows on 

 that one corner. 



Mr. Zieger was also very busy put- 

 ting his place in phape for the coming 

 season, with good results. 



Frank Faulk says the cut flower busi- 

 ness is anything but satisfactory, but 

 he is working night and day in taxidermy, 

 and the only thing bothering him now is 

 whether it would be better to open a store 

 in the city and take up this line as a 

 business, or stick to his first love, flowers. 



The Pittsburg Rose & Carnation Co. 

 is sending the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. 

 some fine yellow chrj-santhemums, Kaiser- 

 in and Killarney. Hoo-Hoo. 



Marion, Ind.— Slack & Butterworth 

 have succeeded to the business of Gun- 

 nar Teilmann, who has taken a govern- 

 ment position. 



We are completely sold out of carna- 

 tion plants, thanks to one insertion of 

 our advertisement in the Review. — Clin- 

 ton Falls Nuksery Co., Owatonna, 

 Minn. 



The Garland Concrete Bench 



THE BectioDS can be made during the dull season and set up in a hurry. The outflt'is 

 inexpensiye and it is the cheapest and best bench on the market. It can be made at 

 about the same cost as a Kood wooden bench. It can be used with cement posts, 

 wood stringers, cement or tile bottoms and wood or cement sides. Complete mola outfits 

 sold, or the mold for any part. Every florit^t should have at least one of these post molds, as 

 the cement posts are cheaper than cedar and easier set, no hole being required ; they are 

 everlasting and can be used for complete cement construction if in the first place used with the 

 balance of the bench made of wood. One of our largest giowers has adopted this bench 

 construction and now baa 600 barrels of cement on the place to be used in this construction 

 this winter. 



For prices of the molds or other Information, address 



GEORGE N. GARLAND, Des Plaines, III. 



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