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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Jvm 10, 1900. 



XatabUshed 1802 



Lilium Harrisii 



True Stock from most reliable 

 growers. 



Freesia Purity 



Send for special advance prices 

 for early orders. 



J. N. THORBURN it CO. 



88 Barclay Street, through to 

 88 Park Place, NEW YOKK. 



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great extent disappointing, because the 

 usual advance rush which is experienced 

 after a spell of a few days of spring 

 weather did not take place. The cold 

 continuously kept on until May. Coun- 

 ter trade was exceedingly slow during 

 the preceding months, until the warm 

 days in May, and then the rush started 

 which has never abated until this present 

 day. 



' ' The season this year is later than we 

 have ever experienced it, and we believe 

 that the month of June will be a better 

 one than the month of April was, so far 

 as counter trade is concerned. 



"The demand for certain articles this 

 year has been a great surprise to us. 

 Dahlias, for instance, are now at a 

 premium. Our stock consisted of 75,000 

 roots and these have been cleaned up to 

 the very limit. Some of the late comers 

 are willing to pay from $5 to $8 for a 

 dozen good dahlias, regardless of variety. 



"The choicer varieties of gladiolus are 

 much in demand, and what surprises us 

 most is that such high-priced varieties at 

 $1 each can be sold so readily. In our 

 opinion the gardening public of America 

 is only now awakening to the beauties in 

 the newer and more improved forms of 

 flowers and is willing for the sake of 

 possession to pay any price asked for 

 them, provided it is iairly reasonable. 



"The demand for tomato plants has 

 been phenomenal this season, and there 

 must be a regular famine for them in 

 this city within a few days, for all the 

 large growers are entirely cleaned up and 

 what the small growers possess does not 

 amount to anything. 



"We are confident that when the sea- 

 son closes, this year will be the banner 

 year of any so far in the seed business 

 in Boston." 



A GOOD SEASON. 



The catalogue houses, and those doing 

 a large counter trade in seeds, all report 

 a good season, some of them an increase 

 over 1908, which was generally the best 

 ever. March with many fell below last 

 year, due to the unfavorable weather 

 conditions, and April was off with some, 

 but the aggregate is satisfactory. Here 

 is what a few leading houses say: 



Paul F. Richter, of the Henry F. 



■»■■■ RCl CUT PRICK TO aOSE OUT 



^J^l i-lF^J I MUST MOVE THBM 



V||nrn|%#|p#| Very fine bnlbs. Good bloomers. lOO looo 



I IlKrllllVtV Fine, 4 to 6-inch 10.60 $5.00 



I UlJL.niJllL.IJ Monster, 5 to 7-incb 75 6.50 



■ ^riP^ii^r^r^^r spotted Leaf Oallas SOcperdoz.; 3.00 



CYCA, .t™^-.» .M..«™._^_ ^^ Tuberous-rooled Begonias 



8POTTKD UBAF CALLAB Look at this price t Fine Btdbs I 



Per doz., 80c; per 100, $5.00 Single mixed, $1.50 per 100; $12X0 per 1000 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus Seed 



Fresh and fine per 100 seeds, 25c; per 1000 seeds, $2.60 



dlOKCS 9660 dLOr6 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



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LILIES... 



Cold storage Glganteum, 9/11, 200 bulbs 

 to the case, $22.00 per case. 

 F. O. B. Milwaukee or Chicago. 



Milwaukee, Wis. 



Currie Bros. Co.,^'!ld^^ 



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