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SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS 



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St. Valentine's Day Novelties ^ Heart Boxes for Violets 

 for Washington's Birthday 



IVIEF7IC3 4X. 



Cherries 



CATCHY NOVELTIES INITANGO FAVORS 

 HANDLE BASKETS With Liners TUMBLER BASKETS 



CYCAS LEAVES, Best in the World MAGNOLIA LEAVES 



WHEAT SHEAVE;CREPE paper ANDIMATS CREPE FLOWERS 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



Tbi FItrlsIs Supplif 

 House ol America 



1129 A.r-c=»-« S-t:., 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CHICAGO. 



The Wiuterson Seed Store has in Its 

 first car load of faunas. 



Chas. Stewart has again gone into 

 the retail business at 3323 North ave- 

 nue, near his old location. 



Poehlniann Bros. have already 

 booked orders for more than a quarter 

 of a million young plants of .Mrs. Rus- 

 sell rose. 



A. L. Vaughan thinks an unusually 

 good late winter business is likely to 

 follow the rather slow earlier season. 

 A stenographer has been added to the 

 office force here this week. 



Wietor Bros, pronounce the Mrs. 

 Russell rose a success with their 

 house, and will give Hadley another 

 trial before giving it up. He says so 

 far it has a marked tendency to come 

 "blind." 



Frank Oechslin has added another 

 car to his equipment. A light weight 

 machine for quick delivery now sup- 

 plements his two large trucks and car- 

 ries the plants from his range on the 

 west side. 



The Chicago Retail Florists' Associ- 

 ation are trying to put their work on 

 a practical basis and stand for a real 

 benefit to that branch of the trade. 

 George Stollery is president; Geo. 

 Walther, vice-president and Louis 

 Wittbold. treasurer. 



Among the seasonable novelties 

 are heart-shaped baskets for Valen- 

 tine's Day use and green harps for 

 window decorations for St. Patrick's 

 Day at Poehlmann Bros.'s supply de- 

 partment. Some new color effects are 

 shown in baskets for spring flowers. 



Zech & Mann have one shipper who 

 bunches freesia so that it presents a 

 solid even top, more attractive than 

 the loose way. While the stock is 

 large and fine the arrangement has 

 something to do with the extra price 

 it always brings. 80,000 freesia of 

 the Purity variety is grown for this 

 firm. 



Sam Pearse, who is one of Chicago's 

 largest growers of bulbs for cut flow- 

 ers this year, is already sending large 

 quantities of jonquils and tulips down 

 town. He has had many years of ex- 

 perience in this line and with his new 

 range of houses and auto truck for de- 



livery is handling the business very 

 successfully. 



Among the plant offerings this week 

 are seen pans of tulips of La Mattelas. 

 a favorite light pink; the deep rose 

 pink Proserpine, and yellow Montre- 

 sor. With the colder and more season- 

 able weather these latest offerings are 

 meeting with favor. The spring flow- 

 ers also include potted hyacinths of 

 La Junoceuse (white) and Gertrude 

 (pink). 



Paul Klingsporn finds that during 

 the Christmas week his American 

 Heauty roses averaged 80 cents each. 

 They were all produced by local grow- 

 ers. Mr. Klingsporn has also found 

 that his books show the average on 

 Killarney roses for the four months 

 September, October, November and 

 December is but one-half cent each 

 less than last year, while on Sunburst 

 and Milady the difference is still less. 

 .Mr. Klingsporn is manager for the 

 Chicago Flower Growers' Association. 



The lag in flower sales this winter 

 does not seem likely to lessen thi' 

 usual amount of greenhouse building 

 the coming season. The various firms 

 handling gn^onhouse materials report 

 a steady stream of inquiries which 

 means that many are planning to 

 build. Sharp Partridge & Co., who are 

 in position to be good authority on 

 the glass situation say that without 

 question prices will remain firm, with 

 a tendency to go higher on double 

 strength, greenhouse sizes. The fac- 

 tories are all running and supply at 

 this time is normal. 



The Foley Greenhouse Manufactur- 

 ing Co. has landed another of the state 

 contracts. This time it is for the Agri- 

 cultural College at Columbus. O., and 

 work lias already begun on it. It is 

 to be similar to the one Mr. Foley re- 

 cently erected at Urbana, 111., and is to 

 be completed this spring. This firm 

 reports a very satisfactory business 

 and says the outlook for new business 

 is good. The work of enlarging their 

 factory has been going on for two 

 months and is now completed, giving 

 them one of the most convenient and 

 best equipped plants in the state with 

 three times its former floor space and 

 greatly enlarged yards. 



Carnations are receiving a large 



share of attention just now. The price 

 this season is generally conceded to 

 have been below normal up to the pres- 

 «iu time and that flower may be said 

 til be on trial. Here is some of the 

 evidence: Nick Wietor — "Too many 

 carnations have been grown. No price 

 tnr the balance of the season can 

 make up for the loss so far." A. L. 

 \aughan — "There has been no extra 

 (|uality of carnations cut this year. 

 The low price is caused by a decreaa- 

 iiig demand for that flower, the low 

 price of roses being one of the 

 causes." Paul Klingsporn — "The car- 

 nation is the flower of the medium 

 class buyer and the stringency of the 

 times has prevented sales. Too many 

 carnations were grown this year." O. 

 \V. Freese, Poehlmann Bros. Co. — 

 ■ The price of carnations has averaged 

 as high accordingly as the price of 

 roses. Two cents less per rose has 

 been the average." 



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And Neighboring Towns 



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