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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Fbbruaby 22, 1912. 



niGHELL'S Seed House Is HEADQUARTERS Tor 



RUBBER HOSE 



Revero, the kind that doesn't 

 kink, is light handling and, better 

 than all, is a wearer for years. Let 

 us mail you a sample. In lengths up 

 to 500 feet. 



^-inch I6I2C ft. 



>^-inch \4^c ft. 



APHINE 



The modern remedy for fighting 

 aphis, red spider, green fly and other 

 greenhouse pests. "Look at the 

 price." 



$L00 per quart. 

 2.50 per gallon. 



LEHMAN 

 WAQON HEATERS 



will deliver your plants and cut flow- 

 era just as they come from the green- 

 house. No freezing in transit. 



No. 



6—14 in., 1 coal compartment. .$L75 

 10—14 in., 3 coal compartments . 6.25 



Lehman CoaL 70c dozen bricks; 

 100 bricks, $5.00. 



WHILLDIN 

 FLOWER POTS 



are everywhere recognized as the 

 standard ; well made, carefully burned 

 and packed to reach you in good 

 order. Send us a list of your wants ; 

 will quote rock-bottom prices. 



MUSHROOM 

 SPAWN 



Lambert's Pure Culture is indis- 

 putably the best ; crops bigger, better 

 and quicker than any other. 



Dox. 



Direct bril;k8..$2.15 

 StandardJbricks 1 80 



100 1000 



$13.00 $127.60 



11.00 105.00 



T(S=BAK=INE 



is the best nicotine preparation made 

 for either spraying or fumigating. 1 

 Greenhouse pests can't live where it 

 is used, and it won't hurt flowers. 



i2-pint $ 1.10 



Pint 2.00 



^2-gallon 7.75 



Gallon 15.00 



1912 WHOLESALE PRICE LIST NOW READY-WRITE FOR A COPY 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 518 MARKET ST.. PMILA. 



MepOoD The Review when you write. 



Roses, Beauties, Orchids, VaDey, Violets, Carnations, Paper Whites, 

 Lilies, Sweet Peas, Daisies, Trumpets, Mignonette, Decorative Greens 



PITTSBURGH CUT FLOWER COMPANY 



Wholesale Growers 



121 Seventh SIm Pittsburgh, Pa. 



MeatloD The Rp'-ipw when vou write 



now his La Reine tulips are unusually 

 fine. W. N. Craig. 



Thomas M. Nash, a florist 's employee 

 who resides at 341 Columbia street, 

 Cambridge, has been awarded a silver 

 medal by the Massachusetts Humane 

 Society for bravery in saving the life 

 of James Callahan, of Somerville, in 

 the Charles river basin the night of 

 June 10, 1911. The medal is engraved: 

 ' ' To Thomas M. Nash, for bravery in 

 saving life. Boston, June 10, 1911." 

 Mr. Nash is 29 years old and married. 



BOCHESTEB. 



The Market. 



Business is the best it has been since 

 the holidays and all the florists have 

 been kept busy with weddings, funer- 

 als, receptions and transient trade, 

 funerals being especially numerous dur- 

 ing the week. The trade for Valen- 

 tine's day was good all over the city, 

 both in cut flowers and plants, and 



IT^VERY now and then a well- 

 >IS pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a 

 new advertiser to 



it\K^ 



Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. "We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florisPs use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Gucton Bldg. Chicago 



stock was plentiful. Milder weather 

 also makes business much better. 



Carnations continue to come into the 

 market in great quantities, while the 

 quality and quantity of all roses are 

 improving. Mignonette is more plenti- 

 ful, narcissi are abundant and cut lilacs 

 are almost a glut. Sweet peas are fewer 

 in number, while valley is greatly im- 

 proved but in slight demand. Gardenias 

 are not so good as they were and cat- 

 tleyas are beginning to diminish in 

 size and quantity. 



Club Meeting. 



At a meeting of the Rochester Flo- 

 rists' Association February 13, a com- 

 mittee of twelve, headed by Charles 

 H. Vick, was appointed to consider the 

 advisability of holding a flower show 

 next fall and instructed to report at 

 the next meeting. 



Fred Vick and E. R. Fry were named 

 as delegates to attend the meeting of 

 the florists of New York state soon 

 to be held at Ithaca, and W. T. Logan 

 and C. B. Ogston were named as alter- 

 nates. A. Edwin Crockett and George 



