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The Florists^ Review 



March 6, 1913. 



T. Philipps & Co., Toledo, O., seeds and 

 supplies; David Herbert & Son, Atco, 

 N. J., dahlias, cannas, gladioli and other 

 summer-flowering bulbs; Charles D. 

 Ball, Philadelphia, Pa., wholesale list 

 of palms and decorative plants; Wil- 

 helm Pfitzer, Stuttgart, Germany, seeds 

 and plants; Searl & Sons, Sydney, Aus- 

 tralia, bulb catalogue. 



PITTSBURGH. 



The Market. 



* Trade among the wholesalers was 

 highly satisfactory during the month 

 of February. Stock of all kinds was 

 good and there was enough of every- 

 thing to supply all demands, except in 

 roses and Beauties. Boses, however, 

 are getting more plentiful and of bet- 

 ter quality every day, with a good 

 outlook for Easter stock. 



All the retailers are carrying a fine 

 assortment of blooming plants, which, 

 with the forced shrubbery so much in 

 use at this time, enable them to make 

 fine displays. Now that nearly all 

 baskets are made with pans that can be 

 filled with water, there is an unusual 

 display of arranged baskets on exhibi- 

 tion in many of the stores, and pur- 

 chasers are encouraged to buy baskets 

 of all sizes. This makes a demand for 

 a much greater variety of flowers than 

 in former years, and in the case of 

 debutantes one finds many more bas- 

 kets than bunches, which was not true 

 in former years. Even in funeral work 

 certain flowers are used — and most ar- 

 tistically, too — which would not have 

 been thought of a few years ago; such 

 flowers, for instance, as daffodils, red 

 tulips and, in fact, anything that looks 

 like a flower. Nothing is objected to 

 when arranged so that it is artistic 

 and pretty. Of course, there are some 

 who make awful conglomerations, but 

 they should not be classed with the real 

 artists in the business. And there 

 never was a time when it was so neces- 

 sary for a cut flower worker to know 

 his business as just now. 



Various Notes. 



Bandolph & McClements have had 

 some unusually pretty effects in bloom- 

 ing plants arranged in baskets, but 

 nothing more striking than a single 

 specimen Adiantum Farleyense in a 

 basket, with an appropriate ribbon. 



G. P. Weaklen & Co. have in the rear 

 of their store a conservatory which is 

 really a part of the store, and which 

 is ablaze with blooming plants of all 

 kinds. And, judging from the number 

 of plants wrapped for delivery, one 

 would say that the extra efforts are 

 not in vain. 



Mrs. E. A. "Williams, who takes pride 

 in the artistic effects which can be pro- 

 duced in a small room, makes frequent 

 changes in the character of the plants 

 used in her window and store, present- 

 ing at one time some fine color effects 

 in foliage plants, and at another time 

 using blooming plants with cut flowers 

 and other effects to harmonize. This 

 can only be done by the true artist 

 and it shows the advances being made 

 in the profession. 



The A. W. Smith Co., with its im- 

 mense room, at this season keeps one 

 man busy looking after decorative ef- 

 fects for the windows, one of which is 

 nearly always an orchid window of 

 some kind, besides arranging the 

 groups of foliage and blooming plants 



SPRING-FLOWERING BULBS 



BEGONIAS 



Doz. 100 



Single, separate colors $0.40 $2.50 



Double, separate colors ... .60 4.00 



CALADIUMS 



With live center shoots 



Doz. 100 



5- 7 inch $0.30 $1.80 



7- 9 inch 50 3.50 



9-11 inch 85 6.00 



GLADIOLI 



First size bulbs 



100 1000 



America, pink $3.00 $25.00 



Augusta, white 2.25 20.00 



Francis King, scarlet 2.00 18.00 



Light and White florists' 

 mixture 1 . 76 15.00 



CANNAS 

 Two to three-eye roots 



100 1000 



Austria $2.00 $18.00 



Buttercup 3.00 



Chas. Henderson 2.00 18.00 



David Harum 2.50 20.00 



Florence Vaughan 2.00 18.00 



King Humbert 6.00 50,00 



Mme. Crozy. 2.50 20.00 



Queen Charlotte 2.50 20.00 



Richard Wallace 2.60 20.00 



TUBEROSES 



Dwarf Pearl _. _ 



100 1000 



First size $1.00 $9.00 



Second size 60 6.00 



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Indispensable 



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ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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 flower Market Stocks 



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PURE WHITE 



Trade Pkt $0.76 



Ounce 6.00 



Other Colors 



Trade Pkt $0.60 



Ounce 4.00 



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SEEDS 



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 rect to trardeners and florists 

 at wholesale. Big, beautiful 

 catalotrue free. Write today. 

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XXX SEEDS 



AL.YSSUM SNOWDRIFT, finest dwarf, very 



compact, fine for pots, pkt.. 20o. 

 CHBI8TMA8 PBPPER8, very fine. 20o. 

 CU1MK8E PBIMR08E. finest crown, slnsle 



and double, mixed, 600 seeds, $1.00; 1000 



seeds, $1.B0: % pkt, 60o. 

 COVEU8, Mew Hybrids. Best Mew Olaats. 



fine colors, vrand, pkt, 20c. 

 CANDYTUFT. Mew Olant. fine, pkt, SOo. 

 COBABA Bcsndens, extra blue, pkt, 20c. 

 LOBELIA, Bine Ball, Mew Dwarf, dark blue. 



finest of all Lobelias, pkt, 20e. 

 PAM8T. GIAMT. finest crown, critically 



selected. 6000 seeds, $1.00; Vi pkt, 60o. 

 PETDMIA, Mew 8tar, finest marked, pkt, 20c. 

 PETUNIA, Giant Bimfles Frlnsed, extra 



large and fine, pkt, 20c 

 PHLOX DBUMMONDI, Clncere, Mew Dwarf, 



crand for pots, finest colors, pkt, 20c. 

 8HU.AX, Mew Crop, fine, pkt, 20c., oa 40c. 

 SNAPDRAGOM. Olant White, Pink or Yel- 

 low, separate or mixed, pkt, 20c. 

 80LAMUM MELVIMn, the new conical 



fruited Jerusalem cherry; tbe finest red 



berry plant crown. Pkt, 20a 

 THUMBEBOIA, Mixed, (Black-Eyed Susan), 



fine, pkt, 20c. 

 VEBBEMA, eriant-flovrerinK. mixed colors, 20c. 



CASH. Ijiberal Extra Count 



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Tuberoses 



DWARF DOUBLE PEARL 



$12.00 per 1000 



Excellent quality. 



Lily of the Valley Pips 



Cold Storage, Berlin and Hamburg. 



Per case of 1000 f 12.00 



Per case of 3000 32.00 



Write for a copy of oar Florists' catalogue. 



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FLORISTS' FLOWER SEEDS 



CROP 1*12 „^^^ ^ 



Vlnca Rosea, Alba pura, eacb $0.20 $0.39 



Begonia Vernon 40 



Begonia Erfordla .50 



SalvlaBonflre JIO 2.00 



Antirrhinum Olant Flrd., Sep, colors 20 .00 



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