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The Weekly Florists^ Review 



NOVEMBElt 11, 1909. 



JOHN SCOTT, Flatbnsh, N. Y. 



Every variety of Plant and Palm and Fern for Thanksgiving 



A SUPERB COLLECTION. COME AND SELECT THEM. 



Kentias, Scottii, Araucarias, Pandanus, Gardenias, 



Dracaenas, Lilies, Etc. 



t»-'A Free Tip' 



-Book Tour Christinas Orders Early, "^t 



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can grow and sell a8 cheap as the other 

 fellow, «r indeed go him one better, can 

 yre expect anything but meager returns, 

 or none? Are not the cut rates, reduced 

 lists and cheap offers that flood our mails 

 late every season, simply an admission of 

 our incapacity to dispose of our stock at 

 fair and reasonable profits? ' "" 



What about grades? Perhaps no one 

 «tandard will be adapted to every section, 

 but is it beyond the capacity of this body 

 of men to fix and put in operation a sys- 

 tem of grading that any man can learn 

 and apply, and that will make us reason- 

 ably sure of what we shall find in our 

 xsars and boxes when delivered? 



Who Are Entitled to Trade Rates? 



What about buyers at wholesale? Who 

 are entitled to trade prices? Would it 

 not be possible to have a list of actual 

 wholesale traders, revised from year to 

 year? Is the man who occasionally buys 

 a few trees from his neighbor, or who 

 «very year disposes of the products of a 

 few acres of small fruits, entitled to 

 trade rates and surplus lists? 



Take our own state, Ohio. Last year 

 567 applications were made for certifi- 

 .cates, 509 issued. Of these eighty-seven 

 cultivated ten or more acres; one, one- 

 eighth of an acre; eighty-two, one acre 

 or less. The large majority are small 

 fruit growers and sell nothing but their 

 surplus plants, yet their names find their 

 way into our mailing ILsts as nurserymen. 



Are the public institutions, parks, etc., 

 who buy one to three large bills for the 

 planting of their grounds, entitled to the 

 •fiame rates as fellow nurserymen? Why 

 not decide and have some ruling that wc 

 could all know and understand, instead 

 of, as at present, allowing everyone to be 

 a law unto himself? What about the 

 man who buys an estate and pays the 

 landscape architect a large price for 

 planting plans and supervision? Should 

 we supply the stock at lowest trade rates, 

 assuming, as we must, all the risk and 

 rebates expected by the retail purchaser? 

 Ought not we to fix our own terms and 

 methods of handling this business, in- 

 stead of allowing another organization to 

 dictate them to us? 



We trust each other in every way until 

 we come to the marketing of our prod- 

 ucts, when \v(> usually act as though we 

 thought every competitor had the prin- 

 ciples of a Sioux Indian and was out 

 with his little tomahawk to do us up, 

 and hang our bleeding scalps in the 

 ■Bacred precincts of the bankruptcy court. 



Wide Scope for Co-operation. 



No nurseryman can live to himself 

 alone ; anything that hurts one firm hurts 

 all; any method adopted by one or more 

 that elevates the business and standing 

 of one firm elevates all. Should we not 



DOROTHY PERKINS 



Several thoasand strong plants, 6 to 8 branches, 5 to 8 feet, fine for forcing, 

 at $10.00 per 100; also a few hundred WM. C. E6AN, at $12.00 per 100. 



Hoopes-, Bro. & Thomas Company, West Chester, Pa. 



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MIM STOCK PUNTS 



In our ezcellent rsoll it has not been neceBBary 

 to use any BtronK liquid or other fertilizers and 

 plants are perfectly free from disease of any 

 kind. 



Monrovia, Oct. Frost, Roslere, Kalb, 

 Touset and Wblte and Pink Maud Dean, 

 at 3c each: $2.50 per loo ^ 



Snapdragon, fine for cutting, white, pink, 

 yellow, red. 2*fl-in., 3c; 4-ln.. 6c. 



Queen Alexandra Daisies, a tine strain 

 for cuttlDK. 'i^iti , 4c; 3-ln . 6c 



Extra plants to cover express charges. Cash. 



The Swan Floral Co. 



LIMA, O. 



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PEONIES, IRIS, PERENNIALS 



Evergreens, Ornamental Trees and 

 Shrubs, Rhubarb, Asparagus 



WILD BROS. NURSERY CO. 



Established 1875. SARCOXIE, MQ. 



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Flfteeii Acres Devoted XxcInslTely to 



PEONIES 



Our 16th Year Prices Right 



Write for List Today 



GILBERT H. WILD, Sarcoxie, Mo. 



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1000 Peonies 

 500 Japan Iris 



Must be sold to make room for 

 Greenhouse extension. 



J. MURRAY BASSEH, ^"^^to^^N^'j. 



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Peonies a Specialty 



Write us for latest price list 

 PETERSON NURSERY, 



stock Kxoliana:* Bnlldlnc. CHICAGO. 



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Plioenix Roelielenii 



HARDIEST DECORATIVE 

 PALM 



Finest Sturdy Plants on Market 



EloBBXit Speclmena, 9-ln. tubs, 1^ to 2 ft. 

 spread. 12 to 1) character leaves, $3.00 each; 

 934.00 per doz. 



Have also other sizes. 



CHAS. EBLE, Florist 



121 Baronne St., NEW ORIEANS, U. 



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Ca^lifomisk. 

 Privet- " 



Grown 

 Right and - 

 Graded 



I 



have 

 mad« a 

 specialty 

 of growing 

 Privet for fif< 

 teen years, and am 

 now offering the lar- 

 gest and best stock I 

 bave ever grown. There 

 is no doubt about the stock 

 pleasing you. I am growing 

 'privet to SELL. Let me quote 

 ^u prices before you order. 



"C. I. BENNEH, Box 66. Robbinsiille. N. J. 



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Viburnum Pllcatum 



Spiraea Prunifolia, Deutzia Le- 

 moinei, Berberia Thunbergii, Al- 

 theas and other shrubs. Send for list. 



The Conard & Jones Co. 



WEST GROVE, PA. 



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LARGE TREES 



OAKS AND MAPAES. PINES 

 AND HEMLOCKS 



ANDORRA NURSERIES. 



Wm. Warner Harper, Prop. 

 Chestnut Hill, Phlladelpbla, Pa. 



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