. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 86 The Florists" Review July 15, 1915. PROVIDENCE, E. I. The Market. The weather is muggy and disagree- able and business is sluggish. There is no demand for even the stock that is coming into the market, and of this much is extremely poor in quality. Car- nations are on the wane. Roses are off with a majority of the growers and prices are all knocked to pieces. Various Notes. Philip Lavery, of James B. Can- ning's, is enjoying a vacation at Coney Island and New York. O. H. Williams benched nearly 2,000 carnation plants last week, including so
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 86 The Florists" Review July 15, 1915. PROVIDENCE, E. I. The Market. The weather is muggy and disagree- able and business is sluggish. There is no demand for even the stock that is coming into the market, and of this much is extremely poor in quality. Car- nations are on the wane. Roses are off with a majority of the growers and prices are all knocked to pieces. Various Notes. Philip Lavery, of James B. Can- ning's, is enjoying a vacation at Coney Island and New York. O. H. Williams benched nearly 2,000 carnation plants last week, including some of the new varieties. He is an- ticipating an early cut. F. McCarthy, of T. O'Connor's, is in New York on a vacation trip for a couple of weeks. W. A. Bower, for several years with Macnair, became the owner of the flower department at Dimond's last week. The flower show of the Greystone Horticultural Society has been post- poned a couple of weeks on account of weather conditions. Joseph Foster, of Alonzo Vose's, at Culinberland Hill, and a companion, started a few days ago on a daring canoe trip to Harwich Port, Mass. They intend to rough it and expect to be. gone about three weeks. Charles Hunt has purchased a 7-pas- senger Pierce-Arrow touring car for pleasure purposes. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, who conduct the flower stand at the Union station, are leaving in a few days on a several weeks' trip to Alberta, Can. Mr. Ennis, of the Hampden Meadows Greenhouses, reports that 5,000 panes of glass were broken in his range by the recent hail storm. Fry Bros, have commenced the erec- tion of another greenhouse, 25x83, on Radcliflfe street. John J. Kelley is preparing to re- build his greenhouse at Valley Falls. Charles H. Greaton, Joseph E. C. Farnham and Eugene McCarron were drawn last week by the aldermen for petit jury duty. Superintendent James Warren, of the North Burial Grounds, has been granted permission by the city council to attend the annual convention of cemetery superin
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