May 30. 1912. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



VARIETY SPICES LIFE 



Do not keep on making up Cycas Leaves with or without flowers in exactly the same way you 

 have been doing all winter, but try our 



FLEXIBLE CYCAS LEAVES 



You can bend or tie them into any position you want or you can let them follow their own 

 graceful curve. You can have them in purple, lavender, pink, yellow, red and green, electrically 

 prepared. 



We have shown our startling novelty, flexible colored cycas leaves, to a few florists, who at once 

 saw the advantage of this opportunity for variety and ordered. 



Will you try them? 



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 CENTRAL 466 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



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PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Business last week was a trifle more 

 active than during the two preceding 

 ones, due largely to the stimulation 

 from the demand for cut flowers and 

 corsage bouquets for the social func- 

 tions incidental to the Junior week at 

 Brown University. Funeral work also 

 contributed to the activities, several 

 deaths of prominent people calling for 

 numerous pieces of considerable size. 

 The latter part of the week saw an 

 added stimulation through the demand 

 for cut flowers and potted plants for 

 Memorial Sunday and everybody did a 

 good business. All kinds of stock were 

 in jilentiful supply, the prices were nor- 

 mal and the quality generally was up 

 to standard. In potted stock gerani- 

 ums, verbenas, hydrangeas and small 

 rose bushes commanded the best sale. 



Ma^ 



the prices began to rise in an- 



ticipation of Memorial day and it is 

 expected that they will rule one-third 

 to one-half above normal. There ap- 

 pears to be no fear of a shortage of 

 any kind. Great demand has been 

 made for galax and magnolia leaves 

 and .Japanese wax flowers made up into 

 crosses and wreaths, retailing at $1.50 

 to ,$.■) each. 



Various Notes. 

 Eui:ene .\. Appleton, president of the 



Florists' and Gardeners' Club of Ehode 

 Island, was one of the speakers at the 

 last meeting of the Ehode Island Hor- 

 ticultural Society. His subject was 

 "Making and Keeping a Lawn." 



The annual excursion of the Rhode 

 Island Horticultural Society will be 

 held July 5. The steamer Sagamore 

 has been chartered for the occasion. 



The Garden Association of New-port, 

 made up of members of the summer 

 colony at the City-by-the-Sea, is dis- 

 tributing a large number of bulbs and 

 seeds through the Civil League to the 

 school children. Prizes have been of- 

 fered by the association and already 

 more than eighty entries have been 

 made in the class for window boxes. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 Rhode Island held an open meeting 

 May 20, which was largely attended. 

 Through the efforts of Secretary John 

 J. Dunn, of the Rhode Island State 

 Board of Agriculture, Prof. A. E. 

 White, of the Department of Horticul- 

 ture, Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, gave a lecture with stereopticon 

 views on "Flowering Perennials and 

 Hothouse Plants. ' ' 



D. N. Potter, of Auburn, has given 

 the King Construction Co. a contract 

 for an iron frame greenhouse 41x185. 



Timothy L. O'Connor and wife were 

 in New York last week, where their 

 daughter. Miss Madge, graduated from 

 a fashionable private school May 22. 



^ Budlong's 



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Johnston Bros, had a number of 

 pieces for the funeral of Judge Chris- 

 topher M. Lee, of the Superior Court, 

 May 22, including an immense wreath 

 of pink and white roses on a standard. 



Miss Lottie Smith, for several years 

 with Johnston Bros., was recently mar- 

 ried and she has been succeeded by 

 Miss Anna O'Connor, as bookkeeper 

 and assistant. 



Wadley & Smythe are having new tile 

 flooring and other improvements made 

 at their store at the Casino entrance, 

 Newport. Ralph Armstrong is super- 

 intending the work. \V. H. M. 



Hampton, la.— The Curtis Floral Co. 

 has just placed an order with the Foley 

 Mfg. Co., Chicago, for material for 

 three greenhouses, each 14 x 150, to be 

 erected at its establishment at Webster 

 City. The company has greenhouses at 

 Hampton and at Webster City, and a 

 store at Eagle Grove. As with other 

 Iowa florists, this is the big week of 

 the year. 



