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June 3, 1915. 



The Rorists' Review 



29 



YELLOW ROSES Our SPECIALTY 



WE ARE HEADQUARTERS / 



BIG CROP OF YELLOW NOW ON 



VERY CHOICE QUALITY-ALL LENGTHS OF STEM 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES- Per doz. 



Specials, extra long stems $3.00 @ $4.00 



Extra long steins, seconds 1 .60 



36-inch stems 2 60 



2Mnch stems 2,00 



12 to 18 inch stems. New Beauties.. 1.00 @ 1.50 



RUSSELL- 



Extra long 1 .50 



Good medium 75 @ 1.00 



Good short 50 @ .60 



OPHELIA. RHEA REID, BULGARIE 



and SHAWTER- Per 100 



Extra long $8.00 @ $10.00 



Medium 6.00 8.00 



Short 4.00 @ 5 00 



YELLOW ROSES-HILLIN6DON 



and SUNBURST- Per 100 



Long $10.00 



Medium $6.00 @ 8.00 



Short 4.00 @ 5.00 



WHITE and PINK KILLARNEY 



and RICHMOND- 



Long 8 . 00 



Medium 6.00 



Short 3.00 @ 4.00 



CARNATIONS- 



Red, White and Pink; extra fancy 3.00 



Lily of the Valley 4.00 



Aaparairus Sprays and Spreng^eri 3.00 



Ferns, New Wis., per 1000, $2.U0 @ $2.50 



Adiantum 1 .CO 



Gbtlajc, bronze and green, per 1000, $1 .00 



CECILE BRUNNER per bunch, 35c 



Roses in lots of 500 or more at the rate of $25.00 per lOOO 



We grow all the stock we sell and wish to remind all buyers of the advantages of buying direct of the grower 



PEONIES AND OTHER SEASONABLE FLOWERS 

 AT LOWEST MARKET PRICES 



Bassett & Washburn 



Offfle* and Stor«» 



iSS N. Wabash Avanua 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



greenhouses: hinsdale and greggs, ill. 



Long Dlstanca Phonaa 



CENTRAL 1457; AUTO^ 47-314 



Mention Th* R«Tlew wben yon wrlta. 



and the sooner the government gets busy 

 building submarines and battleships, the 

 sooner the war clouds will disappear and 

 business conditions become normal. Mr. 

 Vaughan thinks "Be ye also ready" 

 should be the motto of the government 

 as well as the business man. 



The arrival of gladioli from Florida, 

 from Texas and from indoors, all on 

 the same day, is reported by A. T. 

 Pyfer & Co. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission 

 has as yet rendered no decision in the 

 cases of Peter Reinberg, George Rein- 

 berg and other growers whose coal goes 

 to Summerdale station. The commis- 

 sion ordered the Northwestern rail- 

 road to reduce the freight on West "Vir- 

 ginia coal from $2.30 per ton to $2.10 

 ^nd claims were filed for a refund of 

 20 cents per ton overcharge from March 

 1, 1913, to March 1, 1914, when the 

 new rate went into effect. The evi- 

 dence was heard months ago and a 

 decision is expected any day now. 



John T. Muir's aaministration as 

 president of River Forest, into which 



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CHICAGO 



office he was inaugurated May 10, has 

 been attracting much attention because 

 of the open forum held each Saturday 

 evening to get a popular expression out 

 public affairs. The forum put an end 

 to the office of village manager, with 

 its salary of $1,800 per year. 



According to Philip C. Schupp^ J. A. 

 Budlong has dropped the Shawyer, Had- 



ley and Aaron Ward roses, and will 

 grow Russell and Ophelia much more 

 heavily, because of the great demand 

 for them. 



William J. Keimel, of Wendland & 

 Keimel, Elmhurst, 111., says they are 

 throwing out all Hadley rose plants, as 

 the variety has not proved good prop- 

 erty for them. Bulgarie will suffer a 



