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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 14, 1912. 



THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



—LAST CALL BEFORE EASTER— 



Our Goods Are in The Ring! 



Why not pick them up and put them on your shelves ? 



Fine Antique Baskets from little to big, all with tin liners— The 

 basket that will sell a good many plants and flowers. 



White Imperial dllnaware^ very appropriate for Easter, because 



it blends with all shades. 



NOVELTY CREPE PAPER POT COVER 



We are offering for Easter a beautiful Novelty Crepe Paper Pot Cover that will commend 

 itself to you at a glance. It is two-tone with crimpled top, saving the need of ruffling on your 

 part. It comes in four different heights — in long rolls that can be cut as desired. In other 

 words, this Novelty Crepe Paper has the advantages of a pot cover that can be adjusted at a 

 moment's notice without having to secure a variety of sizes. 



Our Crimpled-Top Novelty Crepe Paper comes in all the flower colors. 

 Consult our Silent Salesman for Everything in Florists' Supplies. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



1129 Arch Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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KEEN 8HEEJ MOSS 



»« E* ORIXdlELLy Comxnlsaion Florist, 34-36 3rd AvC, Eut, 



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For Hanging Baskets and 

 Designs 



Per bundle $ 1,00 



10 bundles 9.00 



25 bundles 21.00 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



death was in all the papers. Most of 

 them called for Dendrobium formosum, 

 a few for white orchids, and they must 

 all be delivered early the next day. 

 Telephones to the wholesale houses in 

 the city had brought runners with all 

 the dens in sight; they had evidently 

 not been received that day or the day 

 before, or even the day before that, 

 and they showed it. The market was 

 absolutely bare of stock of the desired 

 quality. How he blessed the advanced 

 education of the public, so earnestly 

 urged on all his salesmen! Had it not 

 been for this the orders would have 

 been for a wreath, a cross or what-not 

 of white or purple and no one would 

 have thought of Dendrobium formosum. 

 A friend called. The situation was 

 explained; he at once volunteered to go 

 to the nearest flower center, a hundred 

 miles away, in search of dens. Ten 

 minutes later this friend was on the 

 Limited with all the manager's spare 

 cash in his pocket. It was an anxious 

 evening; the designs stood mossed 

 awaiting completion, while the floral 

 artist cleared up every vestige of work 

 possible, awaiting the needed stock. 

 jAnother friend dropped in. "Oh! I 

 have been over there," he said, "dens 

 are scarcer than here; you can't get 



them for love or money." The mana- 

 ger was nearly wild. Every form of 

 expedient known in the substituter 's 

 art floated through his brain. The tele- 

 phone bell rang. It was his friend 

 from the distant center. "I have the 

 dens," he said, "all you want and 

 more, at rather less than your limit. 

 I'll be over soon after midnight." 

 The manager felt that life was worth 

 living after all. 



Gathering at Bergers'. 



There was an informal meeting of 

 floral luminaries at the store of Berger 

 Bros, one day last week that is of more 

 than passing interest. It was purely 

 accidental, no invitations being sent 

 out. Those present were W. W. Craw- 

 ford, John C. Gracey, Baymond Kester, 

 Paul R. Klingsporn, M. D. Matthews, 

 Bound Brook, N. J.; Wallace- R. Pier- 

 son, Cromwell, Conn., and William 

 Stevens, Chestnut Hill. Mr. Pierson 

 has the reputation of always saying 

 something worth hearing. On this oc- 

 casion he said that the growers had 

 made greater strides during the last 

 ten years than had been made in any 

 other business, and that the retailers 

 owed it to themselves and their pro- 

 fession to set aside a portion of their 



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earnings each year to be devoted to ad- 

 vertising in order to broaden their 

 field of usefulness. Mr. Crawford and 

 Mr. Gracey thought that they had 

 earned exemption from such a charge; 

 Mr. Kester looked thoughtfully out of 

 the window and pictured that broad 

 expanse of plate glass "up the street" 

 to which Charles Baxter devotes such 

 untiring attention, while somebody said 

 something about what Joseph Josephs 

 is doing. Mr. Stevens made one of his 

 uiianswerable assertions and the meet- 

 ing adjourned. 



Various Notes. 



Philip Freud arranged a pleasingly 

 suggestive window of early spring at 

 Michell's last week. There was real 

 grass, a sweet pea covered fence and 

 a rose arbor in the background, with 



