MABCH 10, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



31 



The Florists' Supply House of America 



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Florists 



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£aster 

 Baskets 



A stands for anchors, air-plants, too, 



B is for baskets, all brig^ht, fresh and new. 



C, crosses, crepe, chiffons so fair, 



D is for doves, you'll need a few pair. 



E stands for Easter, best time of the year, 



F, ferneries, to housewives so dear. 



Q for grasses and grass heads so strange, 



H, hampers in which plants you'll arrange. 



1, immortelles, Italian wheat in neat sheaf, 



J for jardinieres to hold flower and leaf. 



K is koral letters to use on design. 



Laurel, beech, cycas, magnolia leaves are fine. 



Metallic designs and mosses, too. 



N is for novelties, we have quite a few. 



O is Orlando, a wreath of great beauty, 



P, pot cover, to hide clay is its duty. 



Quick service we give, we're proud of the fact, 



R is for ruscus, this wreath will attract. 



S is for stands, statice, sea-moss, silkaline, 



T is toneware, the best vase ever seen. 



U is for Uva, the decorator's friend, 



Violet hampers you surely will send. 



W, wax flowers, of kinds we've a score. 



Of fine wreaths of metal we make more and more. 



X, Y, Z is that extra wise head. 



Who orders as soon as these lines he has read. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 



1120 Arch Street, 



PHILADELPHIAt PA. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market. 



Everything ^eems to promise an early 

 spring. There is no frost in the ground, 

 the robins and crocuses have appeared; 

 the weather has been warm and sunny 

 for a week. The shipments of all kinds 

 of flowers must be large, therefore, from 

 now on, but a shortage around Easter 

 may result, and better prices seem in- 

 <>vitable. 



Beauties have maintained their price 

 ■when everything else has fallen. Apart 

 from this, there is little to add to the 

 report of a week ago. Boses, violets and 

 carnations all had a lower average last 

 week. Of bulbous stock there is no limit. 

 Southern daffodils are arriving. Lilies 

 show no sign, in price, of the approach 

 of Easter, now little more than two weeks 

 away. Valley is in great oversupply. 

 There was a grand clean-up Saturday 

 morning, March 5, when the depart- 

 ment store and other bargain sale buyers 

 took whole van loads out of the market. 

 The street salesmen are everywhere; no 

 subway entrance is without them. Every 

 Street corner has its walking floral ad- 

 vertisement. On Forty-second street and 



Fifth avenue they have conducted them- 

 selves so that several have been ar- 

 rested. Necessary as they are to the 

 wholesale market, their importunity some- 

 times becomes unbearable and if carried 

 too far the end may be their suppression 

 altogether and then the surplus will go 

 to the ash barrels and the river. 



Violets at times last week fell to 35 

 cents per hundred for the best. The 

 leading stores bought them at this for 

 the fresh selected stock. Imagine the 

 price the speculator paid for 100,000 

 twenty-four hours old! The best gar- 

 denias hold up fairly well, as do orchids, 

 while Easter promises a large shipping 

 demand for cattleyas. 



Various Notet. 



Next week is rose week. With proper 

 publicity there should be record crowds 

 at the exhibition of the American Rose 

 Society and the Horticultural Society of 

 New York. The aggregation of prizes is 

 formidable. There is no charge to the 

 public for admission. The great build- 

 ing where the show is to be held is the 

 finest for the purpose in the country. 

 Good weather alone is required to make 

 this convention and, exhibition the great- 



est of its kind ever given in this coun- 

 try. The banquet, Thursday evening, 

 St. Patrick's day, will be a notable af- 

 fair, with the visitors from afar, the re- 

 turning gardeners from Philadelphia, the 

 New York Florists' Club, the host of the 

 evening, and the members of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society. Mr. Sheridan says the 

 applications for tables are numerous and 

 that those desiring them reserved should 

 send their acceptance at once, the allot- 

 ment being made in the order of "first 

 come, first served. ' ' 



As a suitable opener for rose week the 

 Florists' Club will hold its March meet- 

 ing Monday, March 14. This will be rose 

 and sweet pea night. Exhibits may be 

 sent to Walter Sheridan, at 39 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. Many early visitors 

 to the rose convention are expected, and 

 one of the modest members of the club 

 will give an address on "Sweet Peas," 

 and an account of his recent trip to Csdi- 

 fornia. Secretary Bunyard, of the Sweet 

 Pea Society, will also have some interest- 

 ing news of the young and prosperous 

 organization. 



Tuesday, March 15, the first auction of 

 the year will be held by William Elliott 

 & Sons. The early spring and the 



