Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw23amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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S78 The American Florist. Oct. Rhinebecfc, N. Y. PROSPECTS FOR THE VIOLET INDUSTRY.— FEAR OF OVER-PRODUCTION.—SEVERAL NEW GROWERS. The present montli is the ticklish time in violet growing and on it depends largely the story of success or failure the coming season. Last year at this time the plants looked, as they do now, promising, but there came a hot wave which blasted the early crop of flowers and ruined the trade for November. There is no "spot" in evidence thus far and if climatic conditions should continue to favor, the outlook for this year's violet business is exceedingly bright. As a result of last season's experience some of the smaller growers in tnis sec- tion have dropped out and gone into something else but, nevertheless, violet production is decidedly on the increase and it is feared by observant authorities that there are more flowers in prospect for the coming season than the market will take at values heretofore prevailing. This year, shipments of bloom began at least one week earlier than was the case last year. Among the recent additions to the violet growing industry in Rhine- beck are J. Ferris, R. Decker and Chas. Traver, each of whom has erected one house this season. G. A. Saltford is again in charge of his father's place here, having rented his establishment in Poughkeepsie to Mr. Hoffman. Manhattan, Kans.—Assistant Dickens, of the Kansas Agricultural College, has returned from the Pan-American IJxposi- tion at Buffalo, where he had gone to study horticultural problems and land- scape art. Boston Florist Letter Go. MANTJFACTUREBS OF »»«•*- FLORISTS' LETTERS.
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Thin wooden box nicely stained and var- nlslied* 18x30x12 made in two sections, one for each Biz letter, given away nltli first order of 500 letters. Block Letters, 154 or 2-inch size, per 100, $2.00. Script Letters, $4. Fastener with each letter or word. Used by leadinj florists everywhere and for sale by all wholesale florists and supply dealers, N. F. McCarthy, Treas. and Manager, 84 Hawley St., BOSTON, MASS. The Peerless Powder Blower Every Grower Should Have One.

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