. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 410 The American Florist. May IS, New |York. Wreaths are the favorite design for grave memorial pieces. Fine roses have been peddled on the streets this week for 50 cents a dozen. The floral embellishment of monu- ments for decoration day observance, will be unusually elaborate this year. Wm. C. Wilson has removed his store to the corner of Fifth avenue and Four- teenth street, where he has very hand- somely fitted iiuarters. Wagou loads of lilacs come in frotn New Jersey. These are sold to street peddlers, who di
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 410 The American Florist. May IS, New |York. Wreaths are the favorite design for grave memorial pieces. Fine roses have been peddled on the streets this week for 50 cents a dozen. The floral embellishment of monu- ments for decoration day observance, will be unusually elaborate this year. Wm. C. Wilson has removed his store to the corner of Fifth avenue and Four- teenth street, where he has very hand- somely fitted iiuarters. Wagou loads of lilacs come in frotn New Jersey. These are sold to street peddlers, who dispose of them at rates that disgust our Broadway florists. Mrs. Langtry has offered a |200 cup for the best dinner-table decoration (with six covers) to be competed for at the fall exhibition of the New York Horticul- tural society. May, being an unfavorable month for weddings, has much to do with slack or- ders, and the preference for fruit-bloom and flowering shrubs interferes with the sale of greenhouse products. The week ending May 7 has been the dullest in thecut-flower trade ever known in New York. An establishment in the best location for transient trade states they never passed a week when receipts were so small. The Flower mission, which ranksamong the standard charities of the metropolis, opens on the iSth inst., and is industri- ously maintained until late in autumn by a large corps of ladies, who assemble semi-weekly, and tie up nosegays and de- signs to be distributed among the sick in hospitals, and the poor in tenements. A petition is annually sent out to those in town and country who grow flowers to send in whatever can be spared. Wild flowers and out-door bloom and foliage is particularly appreciated, it giving much delight to the sick who are deprived of rural sights. The flowers are delivered free by express companies. Members of the mission work hard, but the occupa- tion is an inviting one, and productive of much that is desirable. PHfENix RuPiC0L.\.—A va
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