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Mabch 3, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Florists' Baskets 



Our baskets help make business for you. We manu- 

 facture nothing but baskets, over two hundred styles. 

 The demand for funeral baskets is growing and to 

 get the orders you must have the baskets. 



Order now. Any that do not please you may return. 



Send for Illustrated Catalosue. 



No. 95 Pyramid 



No. 98 Azalea 



adison Basketcraft Co 



NADISON, OHIO 



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Cirt Flower Boxes 



WATERPROOF, Comer Look Style 



The beet and neatest Out Flower box 

 on the market today. 



No. 3x4x20 $1.90 per 100 



No. 1 3x4^x16 1.75 per 100 



No. 2 3x6x18 2.25 per 100 



No. 3 4x8x18 2.60 per 100 



No. 4 8x5x24 2.50 per 100 



No. 5 4x8x22 3 00 per 100 



No. 6 4x8x28 4.00 per 100 



No. 7 6x16x20 4.50perl00 



No. 9 5x10x86 6.00 per 100 



No. 10 7x20x20 6.26 per 100 



No. 11 3Jix5x80 8.25 per 100 



This list will cancel all former lists. 



The above is a complete list of all sizes of 

 bo^es we manaf acture. We cannot furnish 

 other sizes. 



Add 50c for printing; on an order for 100 

 boxes, and 75c for 200 boxes. No charge for 

 printing on an order of 300 boxes or over of 

 assorted sizes. Sample cardboard free on 

 application. Terms, cash with order. Order 

 by number only. 



LIVINGSTON SEED CO. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO 



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Western Florist 



Supply House 



Save freight and ezpreisage by 

 buying near home. 



LARGK SUPPLY OV 



Seasonable 

 Stock 



Now ready for prompt delivery. 

 Write for our new price list 



THE BARTELDES SEED GO. 



DENVER, COLO. 



ness for use. He reports a constantly 

 increasing business, with everything look- 

 ing fine. 



Mr. Willard, of Taunton, Mass., was 

 in the city February 23, taking orders 

 for Irish shamrocks in small pots for 

 St. Patrick's day. 



M. J, Leach & Sons are contemplating 

 the erection of another greenhouse, 40x 

 275, to correspond to the others in their 



Rustic Birch Bulb Baskets 



4, S, 6 and 7-ln.. 20, 25, 80, 85 cents each. 



Manufactured by 



The Zenith Rustic Mfg. Co. 



Makers of full line of birch ware and 



florists' planting novelties. 



1613 Girard Street. CHICAGO, ILL. 



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ranges. They have recently erected a 

 tower fifty feet high, for water .purposes, 

 and a gasoline engine of twenty horse- 

 power is now being installed to operate 

 a dynamo which will light the entire 

 plant, as well as the homestead, with 

 electricity. 



Henry Pierce, at one time one of the 

 proprietors of Pierce's greenhouses on 

 Park avenue, Woonsocket, is now asso- 

 ciated with Thomas H. Greene at the 

 Summit greenhouses, Orchard street, 

 Woonsocket. 



Matthew Macnair sent a handsome 

 bunch of violets, February 23, to all of 

 the young women operators in all the 

 exchanges in Providence, Pawtucket and 

 the neighboring districts. Mr. Macnair 

 thus distributed about 30,000 violets. 



W. H. M. 



Bessemer, Ala. — The Alabama Horti- 

 cultural Society arranged an interesting 

 program for its seventh annual session, 

 held her# January 28 and 29. 



ERIE, PA. 



The Market. 



We are having heavy rains after sev- 

 eral weeks of snowfall. Flowers were 

 scarce while the greenhouses were covered 

 with two feet of snow. Prospects are 

 good for better weather and stock is com- 

 mencing to improve. California violets 

 are fine at present and bulbous stock is 

 making a good showing. Good Beauties 

 are shipped in from Buffalo and Cleve- 

 land. 



Vwioot Notes. 



C. P. Brown, representing Eeed & Kel- 

 ler, New York city, was in this city 

 February 14. 



Miss Hazel Shade has returned to 

 her position at the Baur Floral Co.'s 

 store, after an absence on account of 

 sickness. 



W. O. Baur has taken a position with 

 Eandolph & McClements, Pittsburg, Pa. 



Mr. Irwin, of the Skidelsky & Irwin 

 Co., of Philadelphia, and S. T. Fletcher, 

 representing S. A. Weller, Zanesville, O., 

 were recent visitors in this city. B. P. 



BEVERLY, MASS. 



The first meeting in Essex county of 

 the Boston Market Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion was held here February 19 and was 

 attended by seventy-five members, who 

 came on a special car attached to the 

 8:53 train from Boston. The visitors 

 were met at the station by a number of 

 the local market gardeners. They 

 boarded special electric cars and were 

 carried to North Beverly, where they 

 spent the morning inspecting the green- 

 houses of J. F. Potter, A. H. Kitter, 

 Wilder Caldwell, Frank Woodberry and 

 Charles Caldwell. 



Dinner was served at the North Bev- 

 erly chapel. Following the dinner, the 

 meeting of the association was held, J. 

 B. Shurtleff, Jr., of Eevere, president 

 of the association, presiding. Mr. Shurt- 

 leff gave a history of the association, 

 which was formed twenty-five years ago, 

 and has done great work in the interest 

 of market gardening. 



Prof. Charles Brooks, of the New 

 Hampshire Agricultural College, was the 

 first speaker at the afternoon meeting. 

 He took for his subject "Diseased 

 Ground, ' ' giving advice in regard to the 

 growing of vegetables. C. S. Heller, of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 told of the way tliat market gardening 

 was carried on in Norfolk, Va. 



