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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNE 7, 1»M. 



PRICE LIST. 



BOSES. 



Beauties, long per doz., $3 



medium " 1, 



" short ■• 1, 



Brides and Maids per 100, 4. 



Meteor " 4. 



Ferles '■ i, 



Roses, seconds " 3 



CABNATIOirS. 



Standard sorts, select per 100, $1. 



Fancy, select " 2, 



IUISCEI.I.AITEOVS. 



Pieonies per do/,. $ . 



Harrisii IHOO per 100 ; " 1. 



Callas •■ 1 



Migonette " 



Valley per 100, 3. 



Sweet Peas " 



Marguerites 



Pansies " 



Cornflower 



.00 



.50 to $2.C0 



.00 



,00 to 5 00 



.00 to 5.0U 



,00 



,00 



50 to $ .75 



,00 



.50 



.25 



00 to tl.CO 



,50 



.50 



,50 



,23 



DECOKATIVE. 



Asparagus per string, $ .50 



Galax, green and bronze per 1,000, 1.50 



per 100, .20 



Ferns $2.00 per 1,000 ; " .25 



Ferns, Maiden Hair, choice " .75 



Smilax per doz., 2.00 



Prices subject to chang^e without notice. 

 All stock billed at market rates. 



Satisfactory Service in 



Wholesale Cut Flowers... 



depends on a great many details and is hardly to be 

 judged by one shipment, but we are now in a position 

 to reach out for a little more business, and if there 

 are responsible dealers seeking new sources of supply 

 we shall be pleased to hear from them. 



E. C. AMLING, 



Chicag'o Sales Ag'ent for 

 E. G. HILL & CO.'S CHOICE FLOWERS, 



32-34-36 Randolph Street, CHICAGO. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



fraternal sentiment is stronger today 

 than ever before in the history of Am- 

 erican floriculture. Of the past We 

 have a right to feel proud; for our fu- 

 ture we have good reason to feel con- 

 fident. Let us so direct our organized 

 effort that the historian of ten years 

 hence will find in our acts much to 

 praise and nothing to condemn. 



BUFFALO. 



At last we have had a rain that has 

 done some good and we all feel better. 

 Flowers are very plentiful. Our home 

 grown paeonies are not yet in, but 

 Robert Craig & Son are kind enough 

 to send Kasting a few car loads occa- 

 sionally, which keeps the market sup- 

 plied with these showy but short lived 

 flowers. 



The warm weather of a week ago 

 has brought in roses rather plentifully 

 and the quality is correspondingly in- 

 ferior. Carnations are getting rather 

 abundant to be healthy, and some 

 growers have not been able to disbud, 

 which gives them a weedy appearance. 

 It matters not how cheap they are, 

 disbudding pays. Supposing that 

 they bring only 50 cents a hundred 

 when not disbudded, the increase in 

 size will about double them in price 

 when the labor of disbudding is done. 

 and an active man can surely go over 

 three or four thousand a day. It is 

 a tedious job. especially this time of 

 year, when to be out of doors is far 

 more pleasant, but it should be done. 



The bedding plant business goes 

 lively on, and will for another week. 

 A Philadelphia man may smile at this 

 and think we are asleep up here, but 

 .lune 1st is early enough to begin 

 with cannas and coleus, and you can't 

 do it all in two days. 



Prof. Covvell is grading up around 

 the South Park conservatory and will 

 make a fine display of bedding on the 

 east and south slopes. It is truly a 

 grand place to make a display. 



We never remember seeing a finer 

 lot of bedding plants at the North 

 Park. Capt. .lames Braik, with the 

 help of hundreds of sash, has an enor- 

 mous stock in the very best of order, 

 and this week it will be all trans- 

 planted to the many small parks of 

 the city .and the half-dozen places 

 where our parks make a large display 

 of flower gardening. 



It is strange how people in their old 

 age, and sometimes young age, will 

 alter their mind. There is our friend 

 George Troup, the splendidly able and 

 eificient superintendent of Forest 

 Lawn Cemetery, the cemetery that J. 

 Horace McFarland immortalized by 

 such poetic praise during one of his 

 honeymoon trips, and it deserved it 

 all. Well, this Mr. Troup had a few 

 flower beds some fifteen years ago; 

 then he traveled to Boston and there 

 saw bedding plants overdone in one 

 of their fine cemeteries, so he came 

 back disgusted and sodded his few 

 beds over. Then after a lapse of two 

 years he opened his soul again and 

 made half a dozen beds. A few years 

 ago he increased them to a dozen or 

 two, and last year built two fine little 

 houses, "just to raise a few bedding 

 plants, you know." And so it goes, 

 and some of the very best samples of 

 pood flower gardening were seen in 

 Forest Lawn last year and this year. 

 We expect the record will be beaten. 



But Mr. Troup was largely r'ght in 

 his first ideas, and now he keeps his 

 flower garden display near the lodges 

 and chapels, and by no means scatters 



them through the beautiful grounds. 

 A bed of scarlet geraniums stuck 

 among a lot of beautiful shrubs, lawn 

 and trees looks like a ten-cent brooch 

 on a beautifully dressed woman. They 

 actually look common and give you 

 an unpleasant jar, like a man present- 

 ing a bill that you only "thought" was 

 paid. 



Never have I seen the hardy shrubs 

 more beautiful than this year. Many, 

 in fact, most all, of our residence 

 streets have no fence or stone wall 

 to mark the property line, but from the 

 sidewalk the grass runs to the house, 

 perhaps 50 and perhaps 100 feet. And 

 there is the place for the display of 

 our best hardy shrubs and small trees. 

 The season opened with gorgeous 

 bushes of forsythia and Japan quince 

 (cydonial. and since we have had the 

 spiraea and lilac and Judas tree, and 

 we have now the viburnums, the haw- 

 thorn, and, if planting has been care- 

 fully done, there is always something 

 in bloom or with beautiful tints of 

 foliage. I am not going back on my 

 bread and cheese, but can you blame 

 the residents of these splendid streets 

 for decorating their lawns with these 

 glorious shrubs in preference to the 

 gaudy colored tender exotics that too 

 many florists depend upon for a liv- 

 ing? Perhaps it's old age, perhaps 

 it's a more mature taste, but what- 

 ever it is, I am in love with the flow- 

 ering shrub, and when you ride down 

 a street and admire them you are a 

 better man for the pleasure they have 

 given you. W. S. 



THE Review's classified advs. are a 

 great convenience is the verdict of the 

 buyers. "It is so easy to find what you 

 want." 



