. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. THE Advance Machine Fleasoji our custuinrrs nr we could not sell 68 machini'S to ; , 17. 16 maJiinis to as many other florists. We cive them bettiT service than aiiyihing they had .MI nei'd is a trial urdiT to convince ynu that we have the best machini- on tlie market. Our prices ate in plain figures. Free esti- mat<-s Icr the .isking. THE ADVANCE CO., RICHMOND. IND. Cut Down Expenses. Syracuse, N. Y. June was a busy month here. There were, in addition to the large numb


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. THE Advance Machine Fleasoji our custuinrrs nr we could not sell 68 machini'S to ; , 17. 16 maJiinis to as many other florists. We cive them bettiT service than aiiyihing they had .MI nei'd is a trial urdiT to convince ynu that we have the best machini- on tlie market. Our prices ate in plain figures. Free esti- mat<-s Icr the .isking. THE ADVANCE CO., RICHMOND. IND. Cut Down Expenses. Syracuse, N. Y. June was a busy month here. There were, in addition to the large number of June weddings with their great de- mand £or cut flowers and potted plants, a large amount of funeral work and considerable call for plants for flower beds. One man reported to the police this week that after he had worked far into the night putting plants in his front lawn he arose in the morning to find that all had been stolen. The local trade took considerable in- terest in an exhibition of rare ferns un- der the auspices of the Onondaga his- torical association at the association's building, the rooms of the lower floor of which are filled with rare species of ferns, coming from all over the world and presented by the local botanical club. Nearly every state in the Union w^as represented and there were ferns from the Hawaiian islands. New Zeal- and and Australia. The gold and sil- ver ferns from California attracted considerable attention. Notwithstand- ing the vast area covered central New York ferns could not be outdone for rarity or beauty, including the walking fern, indigenous to this county. The end of each leaf sprouts into the ground and sends forth a new fern and as many as five continuous growths have been found unbroken. James Barton, a New York Central railroad passenger conductor, is show- ing a moss rose unlike the average. He brought a bouquet of the roses from his garden at Parish and they were generally admired for their beauty and rarity. The blosso


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