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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 9, 1911. 



Dress Up 



your Easter plants and flowers. Put on the added touches that give 



the bright cheerfulness and joy of the Eastertide— a streamer here, 



a bow there, and always a Raedlein imported basket or pot cover to hide the ugly clay pot and 



give that air of distinction that everyone wants. 



Your plants may be far superior to any others in town, but unless they are set off with the 

 proper accessories the sales are apt to be unsatisfactory. It's really surprising what a big 

 difference an artistic basket makes. Try it this year — we have baskets in all sizes, brought 

 direct from our own factories in Germany, and can supply 



Good Easter Assortments from $5.00 up 



Send us your check for the amount you wish to spend — we 

 will promptly ship a representative line of Easter plant bas- 

 kets to you. If you don't like them, send them back and we 

 will promptly refund your money. These baskets are all 

 newly imported stock, no left-overs. We do our best to please 

 you, because we want your future as well as present orders. 



NO TIME TO LOSE, SO WRITE TODAY TO 



THE RAEDLEIN BASKET CO., .awA^LvE. Chicago 



Mention The Review when vou write. 



some thousands of flowers weekly, of 

 the earlier batches. They have also an 

 excellent lot of azaleas, with fine 

 faouses of Asparagus Sprengeri and 

 adiantum. Pink Delight is a favorite 

 among carnations. Gardenias and cat- 

 tleyas are each looking well. 



J. H. Hale's lecture at Horticultural 

 hall will come March 25 and no doubt 

 many 8. A. F. visitors will be glad to 

 hear it. Mr. Hale, by the way, has just 

 been appointed one of the railroad 

 commissioners for Connecticut. 



Henry S. Dawson, of the Eastern 

 ' Nurseries, Hollister, states that advance 

 orders for nursery stock are this sea- 

 son heavier than ever and he is im- 

 patiently waiting for the passing of 

 snow and frost to start digging. At the 

 Bay State Nurseries of W. H. Wyman 

 I found great activity prevailing and 

 many shipments were being prepared 

 for southern parts. Orders here point to 

 a record-breaking spring trade. 



Carnation Dorothy Gordon is now 

 arriving of fine quality at the markets. 

 Those from S. J. Goddard, handled by 

 Thomas Pegler, are extra fine. 



The Halifax Garden Co. has just fin- 

 ished cutting a 300-foot house of sweet 

 K»as, which have been cropping since 

 te September. They have two other 

 iar^e houses just coming into crop and 

 their pick averages 6,000 daily, which 

 are handled by H. T. Capers. 



John McFarland, of North Easton, 

 has some thousands of giganteum lilies 

 in just the right condition for Easter 

 flpwering. He is cutting 2,000 valley a 

 dfty at present, also nice lots of gar- 

 denias and calendulas. 



Huge hampers containing purple and 

 white lilacs of large size and others 



Stick Your Labels 



Shipping Tags, Etc.y 



on your packages with. . . • 



Cold Water Paste. It is a powder, which, on the addition of cold water, becomes ft 

 THICK, STICKY PASTE. 



1 lb. Instanter + 9 lbs. cold 'water does the work. 



From 1 to 26 lbs., 8c per lb. ; 25-Ib. drum, 5^ p«r lb. ; 50-lb. drum, 5^c per lb. ; 100-Ib. bag, 

 5c per lb.; 800-lb. bbl.. 4*80 per lb. Larger quantities, price on application. 



F. O. B. Ettston. Pa. Samples free— try it. 

 Ask for Catalogue of " Shippers' and Business Specialties." . 



BINNEY & SMITH CO., 83 rulton St, NEW YORK, N. Y. 



Mention Tbe Review when you write. 



with specimen forsythias were telling 

 features in P. L. Carbone's windows 

 last week. 



Fritz Berkhahn, of Wellesley Hills, 

 returned on the steamship Amerika 

 February 27, after an enjoyable Euro- 

 pean trip 



Much credit is due to George M. 

 Anderson, of Milton, for the exceeding- 

 ly tasteful decorations he carried out on 

 the occasion of the late successful ban- 

 quet of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club. Mr. Anderson has donated his 

 services for several years and they are 

 thoroughly appreciated. 



According to the weather bureau the 

 February just gone was the warmest in 

 over forty years, with a mean tempera- 

 ture of 34 to 40 degrees. 



W. N. Craig. 



Des Moines, la. — H. Lozier will erect 

 a three-story building of enameled 

 brick on his East Sixth street property. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The first few days of Lent did not 

 seem to aflfect trade much, as most of 

 the leading retailers report business 

 good all of last week. There were a 

 number of downtown openings and con- 

 siderable funeral work was put up by 

 the downtown florists. They have also 

 had a big run of transient business of 

 late and are disposing of thousands of 

 bunches of violets and carnations. 



TheoMreather has been fine all tile 

 week and stock of all kinds and in all 

 grades has become so plentiful that the 

 wholesalers have been unable to dis- 

 pose of it all. Prices, too, have come 

 down considerably during the week. A 

 lot of roses of extra good' qiMtHty are 

 coming in, especially Killarney, White 

 Killarney, Richmond, Maryland and 

 Ivory. 



