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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Januabt 12, 1905. 



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VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



60 Wabash Avenue, ^^Sr^7, CHICAGO 



WHOLESALERS aiid JOBBERS 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 8a14«ot to Ohanr* without Votlo« 



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Beauties. 80 to 86 in. per doz $4.00 to $5.00 



Beauties, 20 to 24 In., per doz 2.60 to 8.00 



Beauties, 16 to 18 in., per doz 2.00 to 2.60 



Beauties. 12-in. , per doz 1.60 to 2.00 



Beauties, short, per doz 76 to 1.00 



Liberty, per 100 4.00to 16.00 



Qolden Gate, per 100 4.00 to 12.00 



Obatenay.per 100 4.00 to 15.00 



Bride and Bridesmaid, per ICO. . . 4.00 to 8.00 

 Bride and Bridesmaid, fancy . ...10.00 to 12.00 



Meteor, per 100 4.00to 12.00 



Perle, per 100 4.00to 6.00 



Ivory, per 100 4.00 to 16.00 



Our Selection, per lOO ... 4.00 



CamationB. per 100 $1.60 to 12.00 



Oamations, fanay 8.00to 6.00 



Asparagua Plumosus, per ttrinR.. .40 to .60 

 Asparagus Plumosus, per buncb. .25 to .60 



Sprengeri. buncbes 25to .86 



Adiantum, per 100 76 to 1.00 



Smilax. choice .12^ 



Fancy Ferns, per 1000 2.00 



Galax Leaves, green, per 1000 1.25 



Galax Leaves, bronze, per 1000. . . 1.25 



Leucothoe Sprays, per 100 .76 



OaUas 1.60to 2.00 



Lilium Longlflorum. per dozen. . . 1.50 to 2.00 

 Narcissi, Paper Whites, per 100... 8.00 to 4.00 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Valley, per 100 '....18.00 to $4 00 



Stevia, per 100 1.60 



Mignonette, per dozen .50to .76 



Violets 76to 1.00 



We receive daily siiipMeats of Wild Smilax 



Price List Wild Smilax 



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Weight 

 16 pounds 

 20 



26 " 

 85 •' 

 40 " 

 60 " 



Will Cover 

 100 square feet 

 200 



800 •• 

 400 •• 

 600 " 

 600 ** 



Price 

 $2.60 

 8.25 

 8.75 

 4.50 

 5.00 

 6.00 



at which seeds of the Benthey aster are 

 going out the supply, particularly of 

 pink, will not last long. 



A. L. Sandall Co. is getting very fine 

 •white lilac, for which last year's big de- 

 mand promises to be duplicated this eea- 

 son. 



E. C. Amling is handling quantities of 

 bouvardia. 



Messrs. Dietsch, Moninger an«[ Foley 

 have given special premiums for the car- 

 nation show. The first |tvv6 offer prizes 

 open to growers, the latter a cup for 

 best arranged vase, open only to re- 

 tailers. 



The annual charity ball takes place at 

 the Auditorium tonight and has placed a 

 considerable number of orders In the 

 hands of the leading retailers. Consid- 

 erable stock is used in the decoration, 

 which, however, was planned by an archi- 

 tect. 



C. W. McKellar reports prices on cat- 

 tleyas coming down in sympathy with 

 everything else, and because of large re- 

 ceipts. 



P. J. Hauswirth, who will act as man- 

 ager of the exhilaition of the American 

 Carnation Society this month, reports 

 that every indication is that the show will 

 be the largest distinctly carnation exhi- 

 bition ever held. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. reports a very sat- 

 isfactory business on wild smila^. E. E. 

 Pieser is again on deck after ten days' 

 illness. 



On Friday of last week there was a 

 great deal of funeral work requirea for 

 the service over Theodore Thomas, the 

 world famous director of the Chicago 

 Orchestra. 



Vaughan & Sperry report a very sat- 

 isfactory shipping trade. 



There was a meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society Tuesday afternoon at which 

 reports were presented and a noniinating 

 committee appointed. 



P. J. Hauswirth has been busy this 

 week. Tuesday he had the decoration 

 for the furniture trades banquet at the 

 Auditorium at which there were 7.50 

 guests. Wednesday night he had the 

 Press CTub decoration for its twenty- 

 fifth anniversary. 



The Florists' Club holds its regular 

 meetingr tonight. Carnation Society mat- 

 ters will be the principal subject tor dis- 

 cussion. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



The week just ended was not a satis- 

 factory one in the wholesale section. The 

 miserable weather was a great factor, 

 unsettling the market, depressing prices 

 and maintaining the record of all the 

 years for the weeks immediately succeed- 

 ing the holidays^ that of dullness, sacri- 

 fice and general pessimism. Violets, es- 

 pecially, felt the strain. Great reduc- 

 tions were necessary at times to Astrib- 

 ute them and the mild days gave the 

 sidewalk merchants their opportunity and 

 saved the markets from utter demoraliza- 

 tion. 



The tendency all the week was down- 

 ward. Snow storms up the state de- 

 laved shipments and L»ong Island also 

 suffered from the drifting blizzard, the 

 worst since the great storm of 1888. 

 There seemed to be no limit to the car- 

 nation supply. But this is only the resting 

 spell before renewed activity and as the 

 year progresses the old-time enterprise 

 and prosperity will sweep over the mar- 

 ket and re-establish the conditions of 

 other years. We look for a decided 

 change for the better by the middle of 

 the month. 



Various Notes. 



The Madison smoker took place on 

 Wednesday of this week and the annual 

 dinner of the Tarrytown Horticultural 

 Society the same evening. A similar 

 coincidence occurred last year. This is 

 one of the times when one would gladly 

 occupy two places at the same time. 



Phil Kessler has, as assistant manager 

 of his department in the Cut Flower 

 Exchange, Wm. C. Duncan, of Astoria, 

 L. I. 



Victor Dorval is sending some superb 

 jonquils to the Exchange and Wm. 

 Adam, of Great Neck, K I., maintains 

 his reputation as an expert grower of 

 freesia. 



The Cut Flower Co. and the Cut Flower 

 Exchange, both of the Coogan building, 

 have some expert bowlers on their lists 

 and a match game is on the tapis next 

 week between their representatives. 



John Donaldson has been on the sick 

 lidt during the past week. His son, 

 Alexander, has charge in his father's 

 absence. 



Mrs. E. C. Matthes, of Woodside, who 



has been visiting Germany for her health, 

 has returned greatly benefited by the 

 journey. 



Mrs. Charles Ulrich, of Astoria, L. I., 

 died last week of pneumonia. 



Julius Eoehrs, Sr., is rapidly recov- 

 ering from bronchial pneumonia and 

 John N. May, of Summit, is reported 

 much better and out of danger. Both 

 were dangerously ill. - .» '- 



Pqter Eiedel, of the old firm of Rie- * 

 del & Spicer, and lately with Fleischman, 

 is now in the employ of Alex. J. Gutt- 

 man. 



The meeting of the board of directors 

 of the Cut Flower Exchange on the first 

 Saturday of each nvdnth will hereafter 

 be held in Boom 105 on the first floor 

 of the Coogan building. 



Mr. Nash announces, to the credit of 

 the Road Wagon Summit E'xpress, that 

 through all the storms and severe cold 

 of the holiday weeks it was never a min- 

 ute behind its schedule time. 



Mr. Moore, of Summit, of the firm of 

 Moore, Hentz & Nash, is ill with the 

 grippe and his expert grower, Mr. Stol- 

 lery, is also hors du combat from a sim- 

 ilar cause. 



Mr. Dacre, vnth Young & Nugent, 

 will leave for old Point Comfort on 

 January 21 for two weeks of well 

 earned recuperation. 



A fire at Warrendorf 's, 1193 Broad- 

 way, caused quite a commotion on Twen- 

 ty-eighth street and in the wholesale 

 district last Tuesday and at the Third 

 avenue theatre, which is next door to 

 his store. The loss was small. 



Geo. Burnett has opened a seed and 

 bulb business in Jersey City. He has 

 been in the service of Weeber & Don 

 for many years. 



Robert Craig, of Philadelphia, was in 

 the city on Saturday, looking younger 

 and happier than for many years. He 

 says he "has a new stomach" and he 

 looks it. We could ill spare "the sil- 

 ver tongued orator" and his friends 

 hope his new lease on youth may have 

 the privilege of renewal for many a year 

 to come. 



BowIin£. 



The New York Bowling Club com- 

 menced business again on Monday after- 

 noon. A conununication was read from 

 John Birnie, secretary at Hoboken, an- 

 nouncing the evening selected for the 



