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Dbcbmbbb 24, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



Yours will be a Happy New Year 

 and a Prosperous One 



if you start 'it right by ordering your New Year's flowers of us— send us an order now and we will serve 



you so well you will keep it up all through 1915. 



BEAUTIES • ROSES - CARNATIONS - VIOLETS - VALLEY - GREENS 



NEW YEAR'S PRICE LIST st^f- •• «— «• 



Without Notle* 



BKAUTIES Per doz. 



Special long |8 00 



36-inch stems 6 00 



24 to 30-inch stems $4.00^ 5.00 



18 to 20-inch stems 3 00 



12tol5-inch«tem8 2 00 



Shorter 1.50 



• 



ROSES, our selection. 



RICHMOND 



Extra Ions 



Fancy : $10 00 @ 



Medium 6.00 @ 



Snort , 



™{?SpS?;,^- •••• ) Special 12.00 @ 



S^i^-JS^^**^- y Medium 8 00« 



|5^""* J Short 5.00® 



Per 100 



S15 00 

 12 00 



8 00 

 5 00 



15.00 



10.00 



(i.OO 



erood stock, $6.00 per 100 



Per 100 



Carnations, select 13.00 



fancy 5.00 @ 



red 



Violets, double 1.25 



single 1."' 



VaUey.. *■ 



Cattleyas per doz., $9.00 



Callas " 1.50 



Easter Lilies 



Paper Wliites 



Romans 3 00 



BUsnonette 6.00 



$ 4.00 

 6.00 

 8.00 

 1.50 

 1.50 

 5.0() 



15.00 

 3 00 

 4.00 

 8 00 



Per 100 

 $1.50 ® $2.00 

 1.60 @ 2.00 

 .75 

 1.00 



Stevia 



Sweet Peas 



Leucotboe 



Adlantum 



Smllax per doz., $2 00 



Asparaeus, strings each, .75 



sprays bunch, 35c @ 60c 



Sprenseri bunch :^ t @ 602 



G^Uax, green or bronze 1000. $1 25 



Ferns 1000. $2.00 @ 2 50 



Mexican Ivy 



Wild Smilax $4.50 per large case 



.15 

 .•25 

 .75 



A. L. VAIGHAN & CO. 



(NOT INC.) 

 161 N. Wabash Avenue, phones:— Central 2571-2572 



CHICAGO 



M»attos Tb« B«Tfw who yoo wrif. 



ARE YOU PROGRESSIVE? 



The best season for florists' baskets is here. At this time of the year, with 

 almost every cut flower or plant order an appropriate basket can be sold. 



This is the way the progfressive florist doubles his profit. 



RAEDLEIN BASKET CO., CHICAGO 



SPECIALISTS IN FLORISTS' BASKETS 



I 1 713.717 MILWAUKEE AVENUE ■ 



Mention The Review wbeo you write. 



heavily for Christmas, but expects to 

 come ill strong in late January and 

 February, when prices usually are ex- 

 tra good. 



Wendland & Keimel, who have cut 

 lightly during the autumn, had their 

 range in unusually full crop for Christ- 

 mas. Mr. Keimel says it was the larg- 

 est crop they ever cut in. winter. 



Homeyer & Haberkamp, at Mt. Pros- 

 pect, 111., who grow carnations for this 

 market, are planning a dissolution of 

 partnership. The range consists of 

 two houses and is not large enough for 



two. There are obstacles to building 

 additional houses on the present site, 

 80 plans are on foot for one partner to 

 continue the business and for the other 

 to build next spring a separate range 

 at a new location. 



Twenty-one thousand Eichmond, De- 

 cember 18, was the start of Peter Eein- 

 berg's Christmas cut, which Felix 

 Keichling says they expect to run up 

 to 125,000 of this one variety by the 

 afternoon of December 24. 



Herbert Stone, formerly with A. 

 Lange and later with the Bohannon 



Floral Co., is now a member of the 

 staff of the Atlas Floral Co. 



John Mangel says that up to Decem- 

 ber 22 he had not been so successful 

 booking orders for Beauties at $12 as 

 he was last year at $15. 



It is reported James Novak will go 

 into business for himself in the spring, 

 on the completion of his two years' 

 contract with the Weber estate, where 

 he is running the houses on shares. 



The Poehlmann plant cut an un- 

 usually large Beauty crop for Christ- 

 mas; Guy French says it will exceed 



