. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. May 1. 1918. The Florists' Review 21 MEMORIAL DAY NUMBER M AY 15 Advertisingf orders must reach The Review office in Chicago by 5 p. m., Tuesday, May 13, to be in time for this SPECIAL INTEREST ISSUE boxes filled, waiting to go out, and he ! IS still busy planting more. W. J. 3- SPBINOFIELD, MASS. The Market. A spell of warm weather has brought on an enormous quantity of flowers of all kinds. Boses, carnations, violets, daffodils and sweet peas are all abun- dant and in some cases the prices have dropped almost one-half. The sale of seeds, shru
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. May 1. 1918. The Florists' Review 21 MEMORIAL DAY NUMBER M AY 15 Advertisingf orders must reach The Review office in Chicago by 5 p. m., Tuesday, May 13, to be in time for this SPECIAL INTEREST ISSUE boxes filled, waiting to go out, and he ! IS still busy planting more. W. J. 3- SPBINOFIELD, MASS. The Market. A spell of warm weather has brought on an enormous quantity of flowers of all kinds. Boses, carnations, violets, daffodils and sweet peas are all abun- dant and in some cases the prices have dropped almost one-half. The sale of seeds, shrubs and outdoor plants, such as pansies and hardy herbaceous stock, has been greatly increased. Boxwood trees are selling now. All vegetation is advancing fast. Forsythias, magnolias and outdoor bulb- ous stock are in full bloom. Violets are still plentiful, but the quality is get- ting poorer right along. Most of the single violets are raised outdoors in coldf rames and, the color is good. Car- nations are getting somewhat smaller and the supply is falling off to a marked degree. Yellow marguerites and snap- dragons continue to come into the mar- ket in great quantities. Sweet peas are plentiful and are cheaper now. The quality is nothing extra. A few Spen- cer peas from Boston, however, have come to this market and they are extra fine, with unusually long stems. Daf- fodils are almost a drug on the market; needless to say, the price is low. A few of the florists here are handling trailing arbutus, but it does not pay, as there are but few calls for it and it does not keep well. In flowering plants there is scarcely anything to be had except a few ram- blers, potted deutzias, Dutch hyacinths and geraniums. Various Notes. The Flower Mart reports that busi- ness is increasing each week. The firm had a good window display of Dutch hyacinths recently. The growers at M. Aitken's green- houses in Agawam attended the open- ing performance of the Broadway the- ater on Monday evening, A
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