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The Weekly Florists* Review: 



Uat 18, 1911. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



The particular feature of last week 

 was the heat. It was certainly a case 

 of "good old summer time." Every- 

 thing outdoors took a start that was 

 marvelous and stock shot ahead so 

 rapidly that you could almost see it 

 grow. Business was normal, with some 

 funeral work. Arbor day. May 12, 

 gave a slight impetus for flowers, but 

 not sufficient to cause any special 

 flurry. Everything and everybody is 

 ready for Memorial day and it is evi- 

 dent from early orders that the de- 

 mand for small and medium pots of 

 plants will be in excess of any previous 

 year. 



Mothers ' day received more atten- 

 tion than it has ever done before and 

 the wearing of carnations was quite 

 general. Many of the retail florists, 

 who as a rule are slow to take advan- 

 tage of special days and accelerate 

 (trade by advertising, had cards -in 

 their windows and special decorations 

 calling attention to the event, with 

 the result that much stock was moved. 



One of the largest department stores 



Surchased 10,000 carnations for free 

 istribution on Saturday and this 

 added to the attention drawn to the 

 day. 



Various Notes. 



John F. Wood had a narrow escape 

 from fire a few days ago. A blaze in 

 the basement smoked his place con- 

 siderably, but fortunately did little 

 damage. 



Joseph Kopelman was a visitor to 

 Boston several times last week. 



S. J. Eeuter & Son, Inc., of Westerly, 

 have purchased a Thomas touring car. 



The Burke Eose Co. recently shipped 

 several large pieces to Springfield, 

 Mass., on special orders. 



Charles Carr, of the Cedar Park 

 farm, Somerset, is shipping a large 

 number of strawberry plants by mail 

 and express. 



The Eiverside Greenhouses, of Har- 

 risville, furnished the decorations for 

 the recent Odd Fellow anniversary 

 services at the Universalist church in 

 that village. 



John Cirwein, who has been with 

 Conrad Schultz, of Elm street. West- 

 erly, for the last three years, has sev- 

 ered his connection with that firm and 

 is about to enter into business for 

 himself at Wakefield, where he will 

 build a range of modern greenhouses 

 that will cover 10,000 square feet of 

 land and will be in running order by 

 October 1. He will grow for both the 

 retail and wholesale trade. 



The several firms of this city who 

 are engaged in the seed business report 

 an unusually active demand last week, 

 largely from small buyers. One con- 

 cern states that more than 1,000 pur- 

 chasers were waited on Saturday after- 

 noon. W. H. M. 



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0ND that's the way it goes! Of course, it would be laying it 

 on pretty thick to say a U-Bar house sells itself, but it is a 

 fact that a goodly lot of our business each year comes 

 through U-Bar owners tooting our horns for us. As one man 

 put it: " Why, just look at the house and you can see how 'way 

 ahead of other curved-eave houses it is ! " And the beauty of 

 it is, you can see it. It's self-explanatory. 



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 it tells things. 



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