AUGUST 18, ISaS. 



The Weekly Florists' Revwx* 307 



I Bassett & Washburn 



WHOLESALE DEALERS AND GROWERS OE CIT ELOWERS, ETC. 



WE MAKE A SPECIALTY ALSO OF 



FLORISTS' RIBBONS, WIRE WORK AND GENERAL SUPPLIES. 



For the coming season we are better prepared to supply the wants of 

 the trade than ever before. We have planted 50,000 American 

 Beauties in new houses, built especially to grow Beauties. In Tea 



Roses we have 75,000 planted, including Brides, Kaiserin, 



Bridesmaids, Meteors and Perles. Our Rose plants never looked 

 better than now. 



We have just completed our new Carnation house, 600 x 52 feet, 

 and have planted in the benches 30,000 of the new fancy varieties, 



including Gold Nugget, Pingree, Bradt, Psyche, Painted Lady, 

 WhiteCloud, Evelina, Mary Wood, Flora Hill, Jubilee, Triumph 

 and a few common varieties, Dazzle, Armazindy, Daybreak and 

 Scott. 



In Bulb stock we are the largest growers of Harrisii Lilies in 



the west, having 40,000 now potted up, all Bermuda, no Japanese. 

 200,000 of the finest cold Storage Valley now on hand, -ji ^ ^ 



100,000 Tulips. A large quantity of Von Sions and Hyacinths. 

 In Greens, we have one house of 3,000 Strings of Aspara- 

 gus, also 7,000 strings of Smilax. One house of Asparagus 

 devoted to cut sprays. A 300 foot house of Adiantum, besides 



a large quantity of miscellaneous flowers, including 25,000 Chrysan- 

 themums, all grown to single stems. 



Our cold storage and shipping facilities are the best in the west. We 

 solicit a trial order and make a specialty of regular shipments, making the prices 

 and quality an inducement for such orders. 



BASSETT & WASHBURN, 



Store 88 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. Greenhouses, Hinsdale, 



