. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 78 The Florists' Review DUCEMBIIB 19, 1918. boxwood and other greens constitute their stock in trade. After five months' service at Camp Diz, N. J., John Demas is expected to return soon to his position with Harris Bros. The members of this firm are his uncles. Louis Minsky, former manager of the Grand Flower Shop, has resigned to lo- cate with the Philadelphia Florists, in the Fifth avenue arcade. James L. McCarthy has returned to the salesroom of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Inc., after a three months' course in the motor transport work at the
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 78 The Florists' Review DUCEMBIIB 19, 1918. boxwood and other greens constitute their stock in trade. After five months' service at Camp Diz, N. J., John Demas is expected to return soon to his position with Harris Bros. The members of this firm are his uncles. Louis Minsky, former manager of the Grand Flower Shop, has resigned to lo- cate with the Philadelphia Florists, in the Fifth avenue arcade. James L. McCarthy has returned to the salesroom of the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Inc., after a three months' course in the motor transport work at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Mr. McCarthy was ready to leave for Camp Greenleaf when the war ended. The John Bader Co. donated 20,000 vegetable plants to the War Gardens Commission, according to the report of J. H. Weisman, field secretary, which states that the lands supervised by the commission included 719 plots and the returns from crops totaled $42,000. E. E. S. BUFFALO, N. Y. The Market. The weather during the week has been mild and cloudy, more like spring than early winter, and the report is prevalent that if the coming week should bring clear days, the cut of carnations will be all that the growers could expect. Of course this will not alter the shortage of stock for Christmas. That is too de- cided. The demand is beginning to be evident. Orders for cut flowers already are being booked. Among the working classes the demand will be great for plants. The cut flower market is out of reach of the average buyer, but plants selling from $1 to $ are popular and will be profitable to the retailer who handles them to advantage; for instance, a primrose, a cherry plant or a common begonia, with pot cover and a tie of attractive ribbon for $2 or $ It is evident that if the retailer do- ing $5,000 to $20,000 yearly business wants to get his share of the profits the trade is due to make, he must be re- sourceful and get good prices for plants. The larger retailers alw
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