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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AFBili 1, 1909. 



Western Florists 



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 by buying 



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at Harrisburg, Pa. It is understood the 

 building will be pulled down. 



C. Yost, of Lebanon, was here recently. 



"William P. and Adolphus Gude (Gude 

 Bros.), Washington, D. C, called here on 

 their return from the rose show in Buf- 

 falo. 



H. Bayersdorfer & C&. are getting up 

 some choice "art baskets." This term 

 describes bronze, terra cotta and slate 

 effects, which add a rich finish to the 

 firm's plant baskets. 



Victor Groshens, of Glenside, is cut- 

 ting sweet peas from the first half of his 

 new 500-foot house. The other half will 

 be completed this spring or early summer, 

 when it is proposed to plant the entire 

 house with two-year-old Killarney. 



A. Harvey & Son, Brandywine Summit, 

 will plant 16,000 Winsor carnations for 

 the coming season. 



The Millbrook Lea Greenhouses, Maull 

 & Howell, have some exceptionally fine 

 strings of Asparagus plumosus, not as 

 frequent in this locality as formerly. 



Pennock Bros, made a hit on St. Pat- 

 rick's day with their Irish window, Kil- 

 larney roses, wooden harps and sham- 

 rocks. 



The spring show notes last week failed 

 to mention the beautiful African lily and 

 the handsome vase of Killarney roses ex- 

 hibited by A. Farenwald, of Koslyn, Pa. 



The lily orders for two department 

 stores, Strawbridge & Clothier and Snel- 

 lenberg & Co., are said to be 2,000 pots 

 and 1,500 pots respectively. Walter N. 

 Yates prophesies that lilies will be scarce 

 before Easter. 



M. Eice & Co. are in the midst of a 

 tremendous Easter rush. Phil. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market. 



From beginning to end of last week 

 the tendency of prices was downward. 

 The bottom seemed to be reached Friday, 

 and even Saturday's demand failed to 

 lift the clouds. Beauties fell to 20 cents 

 for the best and Bride and Maid to 5 

 cents. It is the old story of other years 

 repeated. Prices of all kinds of roses 

 are low. Wagon-loads of boxes went to 

 Brooklyn during the week, where the re- 

 tail price was 75 cents a dozen, and the 

 best carnations were offered in the win- 

 dows at 50 cents. Split these prices in 

 two and you can easily decide at what 

 figure the flowers were sold at wholesale. 



Harf s New Bandy Handle 



Cuts Show No. 2. Handle 



Can be shaped by user to fit Pans, 

 Boxes, Pots, Etc. 



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Violets are down to 35 cents for the se- 

 lects, and most of the stock goes to the 

 street men at $1 to $1.50 per thousand. 

 There were flower gardens last week at 

 every street corner. These merchants 

 now handle valley, roses and daffodils, as 

 well as violets, and it is not hard to pre- 

 dict where the wholesale cut flower mar- 

 ket would go without their patronage. 



Orchids are abundant, but prices hold 

 firm, and will until after Easter. There 

 will be a great shipping demand. Lilies 

 are already advancing; 12 cents probably 

 will be the top for Easter. One of the 

 quarter-century experts prophesies 30 

 cents for Beauties, 10 cents for Maids 

 and 75 cents for violets as probable tops 

 for the holiday. There will be plenty of 

 violets, the Khinebeck growers tell us. 

 Of bulbous stock there is enough, and to 

 spare. Trailing arbutus and lilac are al- 

 ready here. 



Everything looks encouraging for a 

 record Easter. Flowering plants were 

 never more numerous, more perfect, or 



more reasonable, and the retail stores are 

 buying freely. 



Various Notes. 



The florists' supply houses never were 

 so busy. The ribbon men announce the 

 largest trade they have ever enjoyed. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club will be held April 12. The 

 decision of the committee to have the 

 annual outing at Whitestone Landing 

 seems to give general satisfaction. 



The bowling clubs are now in full 

 blast. March 30 Astoria entertained 

 Flatbush. The New York Club begins 

 its contest for team honors at Cincin- 

 nati April 19. 



Julius Eoehrs, Sr., with Mrs. Eoehrs 

 and daughter, are traveling in Europe, 

 and will visit the Ghent international 

 flower exhibition while away. 



April 1, W. H. Siebrecht, at Astoria, 

 celebrates his thirty-third anniversary. 



Harry Hoffmeir feels that he has a 

 busy Easter ahead at his Atlantic City 



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