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The Weekly Florists^ Review* »«««» 30. im 



WILMINGTON, 



ELECTRIC HOSE & RIBBER CO., DetAWARe. v. s. * 



•••Rubber Hose Specialists^^. 



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The only manuf acturera 

 devoting their entire time and 

 attention to the manufacture 

 of Rubber Hoae. 



Result: — Better Hose for th( 

 money than can be produced 

 by factories spreading their 

 efforts over many lines. 



MANUFACTURERS OF ELECTRIC GARDEN HOSE 



Made in any continuous length — Vulcanized under pressure — Made with seamless braided fabrics— 

 Cannot possibly unwrap or separate between the plies — Great strength and durability — Will not 

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Florist Specialties. 



New Brand New Style. 

 Hose "RIVERTON" 



Furnished in lengths up 

 to 500 ft. without seam or 

 joint. 



The HOSE for the FLORIST 



ii-inch, perft., 15 c. 



Seel of 500 ft., " mJ4c. 



a Reels, 1000 ft.," M c. 



><-inch, " »3 c- 



Keels, 500 ft., " , "He. 



Couplings furnished. 



HENRY A. DREER, 



714 Chestnut St., 



Philadelphia. Pa. 



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J>ETROIT. 



The Market 



Tired, but happy, are the Detroit flo- 

 rists. Everyone expected to do a big 

 business, but it far exceeded all ex- 

 pectations. A good feature about 

 business this year was that buying 

 was commenced earlier; not that many 

 orders were placed the week before, but 

 along about Monday of Christmas week 

 business opened up nicely. Medium-priced 

 plants were in best demand. Poinsettias, 

 begonias, primroses, acacias, ericas and 

 azaleas seemed most popular and Boston 

 ferns were also in big demand. Many 

 cyclamens were sold, but the call for these 

 did not equal that of other plants. 



The market was almost glutted with 

 carnations of only medium quality on 

 Christmas day, and many went to waste. 

 It is to be hoped that this will serve 

 as a lesson to those growers who still in- 

 sist on pickling carnations. A week be- 

 fore Christmas it was almost impossible 

 to get any carnations in this market, 

 most growers claiming to be off crop, 

 while in reality they were piling them 

 up for the holidays. 



The demand for holly wreaths was un- 

 usually Jieavy this year, and Christmas 

 trees were worth their weight in gold 

 Christmas eve. Last year many dealers 

 lost money on trees; consequently, this 

 year the supply was not nearly equal to 

 the much increased demand. 



Variotti Note*. 



Christmas came pretty close to being a 

 sad one for J. P. Kayl, as a section of 

 his boiler burst Christmas eve. After 

 spending most of the night standing waist 

 deep in water, Mr. Kayl managed to get 

 the leak stopped before any damage 

 was done. 



The local express companies were 

 swamped with Christmas goods, and 

 many of the florists suffered on this ac- 



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Bell Tour Cnatomem Flower Boxes •■ Well 

 •a Flowers. Increase Tour Bales and Please 

 Tour Patrons by Bhowlnc a Line of tlis 



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Tear cnstomerB will not complain of plants which 70a sell them if planted In these 

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 etc., are made in 25 different shapes and sizes for use in all manner of places where gtoyriot. 

 plants are employed. Reservoir has to be flUed with water only about once in two weeks- 

 perfect sub-irrigation provided. Widely advertised in the leading magazines. Tour Jobbev 

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"l^t'J^nTi^iriSuiS"'' ILLINOIS HEATK & MFG. CO. " ''tSJSS'o^'''''' 



Bolglano'B Seed Store, Baltimore, Md., distrlbotors for Maryland, Virginia, W. Va. and D. 



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count. A shipment of orchids for E. A. 

 Fetters came through frozen stiff. A 

 shipment of 5,000 violets for B. Schroeter 

 came through a day too late. 



The Michigan Cut Flower Exchange 

 handled a fine lot of roses for Christmas 

 and filled all orders most satisfactorily. 



Hugo Schroetek, 



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Allentown, Pa. — John P. Medern^ 

 celebrated his eightieth birthday DecoMi- 

 ber 18. He is employed by the Lehij:" 

 Valley railroad as the florist at its C'T- 

 don street depot, and his garden is ^'^ 

 rare a sight that many people come fr""^^ 

 a distance in spring and summer 

 visit it. 



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