The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . gameof increasing the popularity of thisbeautiful idea was worthy of the an-tedeluvian ancestors of the more orless esteemed signers of this proclama-tion. They put the wholesale price ofwhite carnations up to four, five, sixand eight cents, put it up to the high-est figure they thought the publicwould stand, in order to educate themin the use of flowers. Ten cents each,retail, was asked for carnations and.$, and .$ by ? the need hereafter wonder whatmost of the fools are doing. The an-swer is easy. They are
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . gameof increasing the popularity of thisbeautiful idea was worthy of the an-tedeluvian ancestors of the more orless esteemed signers of this proclama-tion. They put the wholesale price ofwhite carnations up to four, five, sixand eight cents, put it up to the high-est figure they thought the publicwould stand, in order to educate themin the use of flowers. Ten cents each,retail, was asked for carnations and.$, and .$ by ? the need hereafter wonder whatmost of the fools are doing. The an-swer is easy. They are going into thewholesale florist liusiness. At a timewhen flowers Ayere scarce there mighthave beeen some justification for suchproceedings, l>ut there was none onthis occasion. It is doubtless a factthat the excellent lady who originatedMothers day was prompted by thepurest motives, and she is worthy ofall praise. It would have been a grace-ful act for the florists to have madeprices so low that the day would infact have been popularized. A. F. F. LOOK! BARGAINS IN Bedding Plants For Immediate ia:ADY. Godfrey Aschmann, the busy bee, is ^t^^^^^S^^lkMu/FiKX^Sf^- more active than ever. Come and look atwhat he and his son and employees havedone in four weeks time. Inspect it your-self, jndge it yourself, and yon will say Isit possible? Sixty-three greenhouses andequally as many frames are filled with choicebedding plants of all descriptions. Cannas, Alphonse Bouvier. Florence Per 100 Araucaria Exbelsa Glauca and Robusta Com- Vaughan, Pennsylvania, Queen $ pacta, 6-7 in. pots, fine bushv plants, $, $ Cannas, M me. Crozy, 4-in $ each. King Humbert. 4-in Araucaria Excelsa, new importation, arrived per Hardy or English Ivy, made up of 3 plants, steamer Lapland, in fine condition, out of 5, 5H 4-in., 10c: 15c. and 6-in. pots, 2 to 3 years old, 3,4 and 5 tiers. Begonia Ertordl, our well known strain, our ]2,14, 16, 18 and 20 i
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