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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Jdlt 8, 1909. 



THE Florists' Supply House of America 



Special Announcement 



15 per cent 



reduction for the month of July only, in the price of our own made standard 



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GRAND RAPIDS. 



The weather has been excessively hot, 

 having a depressing effect on the flower 

 market. Eoses, while plentiful, are 

 showing the effects of the heat and car- 

 nations are suffering severely; they will 

 soon be too poor to send out. 



July 3 the heat was varied by the 

 severest storm that ever visited the lo- 

 cality. The washouts in John Ball park 

 did approximately $10,000 damage. 



Spring beading trade has been fine. 

 Everybody sold out close. Vines, towards 

 the close of the season, were an unheard- 

 of quantity, nearly all the florists being 

 compelled to refuse the filling of boxes 

 and baskets largely on account of the 

 lack of vines. We presume next year 

 there will be so many they will be a 

 drug. S. A. Nutt geranium was a good 

 seller and was soon cleaned up, but there 

 are few of even pink or white left. Al- 

 though the call was for S. A. Nutt, the 

 assortment went well. The great draw- 

 back to trade was cutting prices. 



The summer quietness is with us now 

 and the work of planting chrysanthe- 

 mums is progressing rapidly. G. F. C. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



The last few days in June business 

 was quite good, due to heavy calls for 

 Harvard commencement and other exer- 

 cises. Since that time it has been ex- 

 tremely dull and, outside of funeral work 

 and shipping trade to summer resorts, 

 the calls for cut flowers will be light for 

 the next ten weeks. 



Eoses of good quality are scarce. Kil- 

 larneys, Carnots, Beauties and Kaiserins 

 are holding out the best. Small lots of 

 White Killarney and My Maryland are 

 seen. Outdoor hybrids are over. Their 

 season was short, owing to the intense 

 heat. Bunches of various ramblers are 

 arriving, but the demand for them is 

 trifling. Carnations, like roses, are of 

 inferior quality, good blooms being few. 

 Sweet peas sell fairly well. Good flow- 

 ers are not abundant, the bulk being 

 short-stemmed owing to the dry weather. 

 With present cool weather and more 

 moisture they will improve. 



Yellow marguerites are still seen, also 



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a few callas. Easter lilies are sufficient 

 for all demands. Gypsophila sells at 

 25 cents per bunch, sweet sultan at $1 

 per hundred. A good many bachelor's 

 buttons are seen and some nice gladioli, 

 America still selling the best. A few as- 

 ters appeared last week, but it is rather 

 early for the outdoor crop. Peonies are 

 entirely over; their season, owing to the 

 hot wave, was shorter than usual. The 

 call for ferns and other greenery is light, 

 while plant trade is practically nil. 



Varioua Notea. 



The sports committee of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club is hard at work 

 on the program for the picnic, July 28, 

 at Eandolph Grove, and will have an 

 unusually attractive list of track events. 

 To reach Eandolph Grove, any elevated, 

 tunnel or surface car in Boston should 

 be taken to Dudley street, changing at 



Mattapan for a Eandolph, Avon and 

 Brockton car, getting off at Pond street, 

 one-third of a mile from picnic grounds. 

 The running time is about one hour. 



Philip Carbone, the well known Boyl 

 ston street florist, sailed for Europe on 

 the Eomanic, July 3. This makes Mr. 

 Carbone 's second European trip this 

 year, his previous one being after the 

 Messina earthquake. 



Charles E. Eobinson, of the firm of 

 H. M. Eobinson & Co., is in New Hamp- 

 shire for a few weeks' well earned rest. 

 His firm has had an exceptionally busy 

 season. 



William Sim is in New York this 

 week officiating as one of the judges at 

 the sweat pea show. Maurice Fuld, of 

 W. W. Eawson & Co., is also attending 

 the exhibition. 



This section experienced unusually cool 

 but pleasant weather, July 3, 4 and 5, 



