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The Florists^ Review 



Sbftbmbeb 17, lOJj 



SPBmOFIELD, MASS. 



The Market. 



During the last six weeks business has 

 been practically at a standstill. Funeral 

 work and special sales on Saturdays at 

 reduced prices are the only means of 

 getting along at all. Those having ho- 

 tels to supply are fortunate. Collections 

 are poor and about all one can get is 

 promises. 



Stock is plentiful and good. Asters 

 are the best in years and sell for 35 

 and 50 cents per dozen. Gladioli are 

 excellent and sell for $1 a dozen. Roses 

 are fair. Carnations are not on the 

 market yet. 



Lilies, both giganteuni and speeiosum, 

 are good, but florists find sale for them 

 only in funeral work. A few Golden 

 Glow mums are coming in. The rest of 

 the outdoor stock is plentiful and good, 

 but there is not touch sale for it, and 

 much finds its way to the dump. 



Carnations are all planted and for the 

 most part are looking fine. Some grow- 

 ers are having bad luck with stem-rot 

 on stock that was bought from out of 

 the city. Mums, on the whole, are look- 

 ing better than they did last year, but 

 if business does not improve in the fall, 

 there will be some hard times for the 

 growers. 



Various Notes. 



Mark Aitken opened a new store Sep- 

 tember 5, at 418 Main street. The 

 store is to be known as Aitken 's Cash 

 Branch Store. It is handsomely finished 

 in white, with mirrors and marble coun- 

 ters. Specials in fancy boxes of cut 

 flowers are for sale on Saturdays and 

 ten per cent discount is allowed at all 

 times on regular prices for cash.- The 

 store is in charge of two young men 

 of well known ability in the art of sell- 

 ing and making up floral pieces. Mr. 

 Aitken has remodeled the front of his 

 other store on Main street. His green- 

 houses in Agawam are full of stock and 

 it is looking fine. A large number of 

 asters are grown under cloth. A large 

 number of annuals and perennials are 

 grown for cut flowers. 



William Schlatter is installing a new 

 Kroeschell boiler and repiping some of 

 his houses. He had a large trade in 

 cemetery bouquets for Flower day at 

 Oak Grove cemetery. 



N. F. Higgins' greenhouses show some 

 fine mums, giganteum and speeiosum 

 lilies. The asters are quite good; a late 

 sowing of seed was made, plants from 

 which are just coming into flower, and 

 the earlier ones are in their prime. 



The Springfield Cemetery Association 

 has added a new greenhouse to the 

 range and built a new ofiice opposite the 

 houses. F. J. C. 



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