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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febuuauy 10, 1910. 



VIOLETS 



For St. Valentine's Dry 



FEBRUARY 14 



We are headquarters on theie in the 



St. Louis Market. 



Fine home grown stock in CARNATIONS in all varieties. 



Wm. C. Smith Wholesale Floral Co. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1316 Pine Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



tew days of Lent was for a decliniug 

 Beauty market. Many houses report 

 Eichmond as hanging fire, and prices 

 have been below those of white or pink 

 roses of equal grade. The rose market 

 is easier, but with no great increase in 

 supplies as yet. Killarney, indeed, con- 

 tinues decidedly scarce. The wholesalers, 

 however, have nearly all come to one 

 mind as to the prospect. They figure 

 that, all the growers having been off crop 

 at one time, it only needs a little bright 

 spring weather to set them all cutting 

 heavily from the new crop now about due. 

 Indeed, the average wholesaler who gives 

 thought to the future is looking for an 

 unwieldy glut of both roses and carna- 

 tions, the date of its arrival depending 

 largely upon the weather. Wintry weather 

 means its postponement, bright spring 

 days its early arrival. 



Lent began February 9, but it no 

 longer cuts much figure in the flower 

 market. Whatever reduction in demand. 

 Lent has occasioned has been more than 

 made up for by the increasing importance 

 ■of St. Valentine's day. There is a large 

 amount of business booked for February 

 11 to 13. Violets, of course, have the 

 largest part of this special demand, but 

 sweet peas, which are in increased sup- 

 ply, also share in this special call. Tulips, 

 jonquils and daffodils also are wanted, 

 while red and bright pink carnations 

 have been ordered freely. Violets have 

 had several weeks of rather slow busi- 

 ness, and the wholesalers hope to make 

 up a little lost time for the growers this 

 week. 



Sweet peas are coming in much more 

 heavily; all it will take is a little bright 

 weather to make the peas both abundant 

 and fine. Jonquils are much more plenti- 

 ful than heretofore. These flowers have 

 sold for $5 and $6 per hundred until the 

 last few days because of the percentage 

 of loss the growers sustained on their 

 first batches. Daffodils are now available 

 in quantity. Tulips have been selling 

 steadily, but not at fancy prices; it has 

 taken special fancy stock to get above 

 $4 per hundred. Easter lilies and callas 

 are abundant and there is plenty of val- 

 ley. Freesia is selling slowly. Not so 

 many Paper Whites are seen. The green 

 goods situation is receiving more atten- 

 tion. There is now not much call for 

 strings of asparagus, but bunches of 

 pluraosus and Sprengeri, especially the 

 former, are in good request and bringing 

 good prices. Smilax of good quality is 

 available in fair quantity. Many of the 

 wholesalers are wondering what they are 

 going to do with their boxwood. Mexi- 

 can ivy also is in large supply. Picking 

 over ferns is a daily occupation. 



Qub Meeting. 



Installation of oflScers drew an excep- 

 tionally large attendance at the meeting 

 of the Florists' Club at the Union res- 

 taurant, February 3. President Asmus 

 began his second term and E. F. Winter- 

 son, who has been treasurer for so long 

 his reelection is taken as a matter of 

 course, started another year. L. H. Win- 



Aphine 



on 



Ferns 



J. F. ANDERSON 



J 000,(00 Ferns Grown 

 Annually. 



Fern Specialist 



500 Varieties of Ferns in 

 All Sizes. 



Short HillB, N. J., January 31, 1910. 

 Aphine Mfg. Co., Madison, N. J. 



Gentlemen:— Kindly ship me at once, by U. S. E:$preaB, two 

 gallons of Aphine. The last gallon received from yon has been 

 thoroughly tested and proved to be a most effective exterminator 

 of all Buch inaects to which ferns are Bubjected. If yonr prepa- 

 rations are of uniform strength, a solution of one to fifteen will 

 be safe on the most delicate ferns. Yours respectfully, 



J. F. Anderson. 



The manufacturers of Aphine g:uarantee a uniform product 

 at all times, and if directions are carefully followed, that it 

 will do all we claim for it. 



A Public Aphine Test 



Will be held in Philadelphia on Saturday, February 12th, 1910 (Lincoln's 

 Birthday), from 2 to 5 p. m., at the new seed store of 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO.. 1018 Market Street. 



You are cordially invited to be present and to submit any plants, shrubs, 

 or stock that may be infested with insects or disease, so that we may 

 demonstrate to you the wonderful merits of this new insecticide discov- 

 ery— Aphine. 



Aphine Manufacturing Company 



Madison, New Jersey 





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JOHN C. MEYER & CO., of LoweU, Mass. 



were the first to introduce the 



Meyer Green Silkaline 



which will not rot or fade while stninK up 

 in greenhouses. It is also used for tying 

 boaauets and general Floiists' use. 



The Meyer Violet Thread 



for tying Violets. 



Price of both. $1.25 per lb., 16 oz. 

 of actual Thread per lb. 



JOHN C. MEYER & CO. 



1445 Middlesex St, LOWELL, MASS. 



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