. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 80 The Florists^ Review Junk 7, 1917. back into the system through the vacuum valve. PROVIDENCE, R. I. The Market. Everybody reports an exceptionally good Memorial day trade. The back- wardness of the season caused a short- age of outdoor plants and flowers, and this stiffened the market oil indoor stock. Never in the history of the trade has there been so large a demand for potted plants, geraniums being the lead- ers. Some of the downtown stores made a feature of rustic baskets filled with plants. These took well, the prices ranging from $2 to $5
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 80 The Florists^ Review Junk 7, 1917. back into the system through the vacuum valve. PROVIDENCE, R. I. The Market. Everybody reports an exceptionally good Memorial day trade. The back- wardness of the season caused a short- age of outdoor plants and flowers, and this stiffened the market oil indoor stock. Never in the history of the trade has there been so large a demand for potted plants, geraniums being the lead- ers. Some of the downtown stores made a feature of rustic baskets filled with plants. These took well, the prices ranging from $2 to $5 at retail. Mag- nolia wreaths with wax flowers found a ready sale, in large numbers. Various Notes. ' * The Empire Flower Co. store, at 9 Empire street, has been closed for the season. Miss Gladys Williams, daughter of George F. Williams, of the W. E. Bar- rett Co., is to be married Wednesday,. June 20. Johnston Bros, furnished an immense shield in national colors for the recent banquet to the commander of the United States military district of the north- east. Frederick McKenna, of the O'Connor store, has enlisted in Battery A of the Ehode Island light artillery. The Westminster Greenhouses are be- ing overhauled, and extensive altera- tions are being made to some of the buildings. Charles Smith was a business visitor to Boston last week. He was looking for novelties. Richard Hogan disposed of several thousand potted geraniums during the week. Daniel A. Clarke, of the Red Oak Nurseries, of Fiskeville, has presented 500 Rose of Sharon bushes and 1,500 flowering currant shrubs to the pupils of the public schools of Coventry. William A. Bowers maintained a store annex at 144 Washington street last week, with good results. F. A. Geisler, of Bristol, had an ex- ceptionally fine assortment of potted flowers for Memorial day. W. H. M. Lansing, Mich.—The store of the Lansing Floral Co. has been sold to a party of two, who will continue it under the name of Atlas Floral Co. The gree
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