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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Jdly 1, 1909. 



FANCY FERN 



FINEST 



MICHIGAN 



STOCK 



FANCY FERN 



"%,m<-..r: 



Per IOOO9 $1.25. Special price on iarge lots. 



Green and -Bronze Galax $1.25 per 1000; $8.50 per 10,000 



Leucothoe Sprays, green $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1000 



Sphagnum Moss per bale, $1.25; 6 bales, $7.00; extra fine. 



Full line Cut Flowers at all limes. 



Michigan Cut Flower Co., 



38-40 

 Broadway 



. Detroit, Mich. 



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Why 



Use 



Galax Leaves If Magnolia Leaves 



Grieen and Brown 

 $1.75 per Basket of 

 1000 Leaves. 



WHEREVER FLORISTS' SUPPLIES ARE SOLD, OR FROM J^ 



Geller Florist Supply Co.,w.,u 



E^6°t."sUt. New York City 



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ferred to in paragraph 449. The assess- 

 ment should therefore be thirty per cent 

 ad valorem under this paragraph. The 

 decision of tlie Board as to the classifi- 

 cation and assessment of this importa- 

 tion is reversed." 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



There is nothing out of the ordinary 

 in the way of business to report; things 

 are moving along much the same as in 

 any other June in the last few years. 



The weather has been extremely hot, 

 with severe thunder showers, and stock is 

 getting worse all the time, so that by 

 July 1 there will not be a great deal of 

 fancy stock to be had. 



The employees of the wliolesale houses 

 are beginning to disappear on their va- 

 cations, and this, with a street car strike 

 to make deliveries inconvenient, gives 

 those who are on duty plenty of work. 



A few asters have made their appear- 

 ance, but are not noticed, as carnations 

 are still pretty good. 



Various Notes. 



The committee having charge of the 

 florists' picnic has about completed ar- 

 rangements and will announce the date in 

 a few days. 



W. Q. Potter, of the McCallum Co., 

 and Miss Da vies, of Hazelwood, were 

 married last Thursday evening and left 

 for Greene county, the old home of Mr. 

 Potter. This is more of the work of 

 that matrimonial bug, whose bite causes 

 people to do funny stunts, as Mr. Potter 

 did not tell his best friends, either be- 

 fore or after the event, but just let them 

 find it out the best they could. And the 

 worst of it is, there is likely to be more 

 to follow in the same firm. Hoo-Hoo. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



On Gentilly avenue there are several 

 growers of chrysanthemums, some using 

 greenhouses and others being satisfied 

 with the open field, covering them in 

 time with cotton cloth or sashea. Xavier 

 Grillot has a large patch of them. He 



has under culture about ten acres of vege- 

 tables, growing nicely in a rich, loamy 

 soil. His father was for a long time a 

 large grower of dahlias; this was before 

 the time of the large mums. There is 

 still a good sale for £ihlias at All Saints ' 

 day, and the culture of that flower should 

 not be entirely disregarded. X. Grillot 

 has given up the Holtz variety of mum 

 for the Mrs. Robinson, which is certainly 

 much superior. His plants have been 

 set out rather early and he is experienc- 

 ing some trouble with disbudding, but no 

 doubt they will be put in good shape in 

 due time. 



The weather keeps quite favorable for 

 the growing of that important crop. 



M. M. L. 



WAYSIDE NOTES. 



Laub oc Wilson is the title of the suc- 

 cessors to the old firm of Adam Laub & 

 Son, at Hughsonville, N. Y. Mr. "Wilson 

 is a son-in-law of Adam Laub, Sr., who 

 steps down, after thirty-five years of good 

 work, to give the boys an opportunity 

 to prosper as he has done. 



Mark Aitken, of Springfield, Mass., 

 took advantage of the lull following the 

 .spring rush to hie himself to Maine for 

 a short fishing trip. He took his clever 

 grower, Morgan, along, and it is safe to 

 say that the pair will make havoc among 

 the finny tribe 'way down east. 



Wm. Schlatter & Son, of Springfield, 

 Mass., are clearing ground for three 

 houses, each 25x100, which will give them 

 a full block of up-to-date buildings. 



J. W. Adams & Co., of Springfield, 

 Mass., report an excellent season in the 

 nursery branch and note an increasing 

 demand for the choice varieties of shrub- 

 bery. They intend adding one house, 

 40x90, for storage purposes. The cut 

 flower branch is increasing. 



L. D. Robinson, Jr., of Springfield, 

 Mass., forces and successfully disposes of 

 an immense quantity of bulbous stock. 

 Many out-of-town retailers depend upon 

 him for their supply. 



N. F. Higgins, of Springfield, Mass., 

 notes an increasing demand for orchids 

 and was one of the first to introduce this 



Log Mosses 



Natural and Perpetuated 



Special prices for quantity lots for future 

 delivery. 



E. A. BEAVEN, Evergreen, Ala. 



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indispensable flower to his better class 

 of customers. 



Osterman & Steele, of Springfield, 

 Mass., are looking for a desirable loca- 

 tion, with a view to building an up-to- 

 date range of glass to supply their in- 

 creasing business. 



Frank Burfitt, at Chicopee Falls, Mass., 

 is favorably located to catch a share of 

 the retail trade in both cities, and in 

 addition disposes of much of his well 

 grown stock at wholesale. 



J. M. Ward & Co., Peabody, Mass., 

 say they have been working full time, 

 which, in the language of this hustling 

 town, means plenty of business and am- 

 ple stock. They were potting up a fine 

 lot of cyclamens into 5-inch pots at the 

 time of my visit, for Christmas trade. 



Wm. T. Walke, of Salem, Mass., says 

 he will bank on giganteums for his 

 Easter crop of lilies. He grows large 

 numbers and makes this a specialty. 



William White, gardener to Winthrop 

 Ames, at North Easton, Mass., has a 

 grand variety of the oriental poppy, 

 Papaver Parkmanni, a beautiful deep 

 scarlet, which is the gem of the species. 



George E. Buxton, of Nashua, N. H., 

 has a batch of seedling carnations which 

 are full of promise. One or two have 

 made their appearance in the Hub mar- 

 ket and are much sought after. 



Otto Keser and family, of Portland, 

 Conn., were extremely busy with funeral 

 work at the time of my visit. The 

 young folks bid fair to follow in their 

 leader's footsteps and perpetuate the 

 name of Keser as king of floral artists. 

 The use of tinfoil has been discarded 

 here and many of our best designers are 

 following suit, owing to its increased 

 cost. 



F. J. Bixby, of Manchester, N. H., is 

 suffering from the latest malady, being 



