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The WccHy Florists' Review. 



Mabch 0, 1906. 



» WILD SMILAX 



Is Scarce. 

 We have it in 

 Abundance 



Ckkme on with your Orders ( No. I Case $2.50 



at the followins Prices: I No. 2 Case 3.25 



No. 3 Caw $3.75 



No. 4 Case 4.50 



No. 5 Case $5.fO 



No. 6 Case 6.00 



Galax Leaves 



$1.00 per 

 1000. 



Fancy Ferns 



$2 to $2.50 

 per 1000. 



SWEET PEAS, 75c to $(.00 per lOa VIOLETS, 50c to 75c per 100. 



TEA ROSES, per )00, $3.00 to $8.00. CARNATIONS, per 100, $1.00 to $3.00. 



ALL OTHER CUT FLOWERS IN SEASON AT CORRESPONDING PRICES. 



Have you ordered yoor CUT FLOWER BOXES for- Easter? We sell them. Send for catalogue at once. 



Vaughan & Sperryrs?:!' Chicago 



Mention The Berlew when yog write. 



a cut of Beauties although light by com- 

 parison with what he had at Christmas. 



Vaughan & Sperry report plenty of 

 wild smilax right along. 



The A. L. Bandall Co. reports having 

 shipped out 30,000 carnations on Friday. 



A. C. Spencer, of Peter Reinberg's, 

 says that it is not that trade in carna- 

 tion cuttings is dull but that the busi- 

 ness in this line has been so very heavy 

 in the past couple of years that a re- 

 turn to normal seems like dull times. 



Howard B. Hollis, a well-liked young 

 man who sells many of the wholesalers 

 paper for Hollis & Duncan, was one of 

 the seriously injured in the Lake Street 

 "L" wreck Tuesaay. 



FOR TWO NEW HOUSES. 



I am ready to build two houses for 

 general . purposes, roses, carnations, etc. 

 "Would you advise to commence building 

 at once or wait until frost is out of 

 ground, about April 1? Posts are to 

 be used. Each house is 20x100, one glass 

 gable in each and two feet of glass on 

 the sides. I want to heat by steam. 

 How many runs of pipe, and what 

 size will be needed to heat each house 

 to 60 degrees in the coldest Wisconsin 

 weather? Side walls, including glass, 

 are four feet ten inches high, ridge 

 ten feet. "What size of boiler should 

 I purchase? Any other hints you could 

 give would be appreciated. E. H. O. 



I do not think it would be economical 

 to begin the construction of your houses 

 until the frost is out of the ground. 

 Workmen cannot accomplish as much 

 outdoors at this season as later and 

 there is more liability to loss from bad 

 weather. Glass cannot be handled to 

 advantage during cold weather. The 

 joints will not be as good as in warm 

 weather because of the difficulty of 

 working putty and glass when cold. 



I believe it would be a good plan to 

 pipe both houses alike. Place a 2-ineh 

 flow under the ridge and return it 

 through eleven 1^4 -inch returns to boiler. 

 "Valves should be placed on about four 

 returns in each house, so that they may 

 be thrown out of commission during mild 

 weather. "Unless it is your intention to 



increase the area of the plant in the 

 near future a boiler with 150 feet of 

 heating surface will be sufficient for 

 your work. A boiler thirty inches by 

 eight feet, rated as ten horse-power, if 

 of the type of the one illustrated in the 

 Florists' Revievt, February 16, page 

 705, will be ample. If more houses are 

 to be added soon it will be economy to 

 install a larger boiler. L. C. C. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The pre-lenten season has closed with 

 a heavy rush of business. There were 

 many entertainments in town, requiring 

 quantities of choice flowers, besides an 

 exceeding brisk out-of-town demand. 

 Immense quantities of flowers went to 

 Washington for the inauguration and to 

 other cities for events of social, not na- 

 tional importance. Beauties continue 

 scarce, the medium grades being almost 

 unobtainable. Tea roses have become 

 more plentiful, Brides being hard to 

 sell. Carnations are plentiful, of fine 

 quality and lower in price. Violets are 

 splendid and very popular. A Greek 

 bought $60 worth (not $600 worth) at 

 prices above those being paid by the 

 stores, offering the flowers on the streets 

 in Washington. Bulbous flowers have 

 been selling fairly well at low prices, 

 fancy varieties being most in demand. 

 Dendrobium nobile has made its appear- 

 ance. Sweet peas are improving in qual- 

 ity, the Eeid brand of pink being the 

 finest in s^e, color and stem that I have 

 ever seen. "White lilac is not so plenti- 

 ful. Lily of the valley is in good supply 

 and in demand. ••; 



The Rose Meeting. 



President Wescott called a fairly good 

 sized Florists ' Club meeting to order on 

 Tuesday evening, March 7. The only 

 novelty on exhibition was a cross from 

 American Beauty, color a rose pink in 

 center, shaded to pale pink on the outer 

 petals, somewhat resembling Queen of 

 Edgely in appearance. It is free bloom- 

 ing and of robust habit. The growers, 

 Myers & Samtman, have cut twenty-five 

 blooms so far from the only plant in 

 existence. 



P. J. Lynch, of the Dingee & Conard 

 Co., West Grove, Pa., read a very clever 

 paper on "The Newer Varieties of 

 Eoses, " which was heartily applauded. 

 In the discussion that followed Mr. Lynch 

 said he was inclined to believe Souvenir 

 de Pierre Notting would prove hardy in 

 this latitude. 



The Second Assembly. 



The last Friday evening, or to be more 

 accurate, the last Saturday morning of 

 the pre-lenten season, always marks the 

 last Assembly ball. It was a sight worth 

 going miles to see. A broad marble 

 stairway leads from the Chancellor street 

 entrance of the Bellevue to the spacious 

 corridors and dressing room on the floor 

 above. Then, again, by another half 

 circular curve, we reach the ballroom 

 above and, again, the gallery that encir- 

 cles the dancing floor. The elevator is 

 quicker, but those brilliantly lit 

 stairways, with their perfect curves 

 and wide, easy steps, are a pleas- 

 ure to ascend. The view from the 

 gallery is impressive. Rows of seats 

 behind a tier of boxes look down on a 

 perfectly proportioned ballroom of good 

 size, the floor polished till it shone, the 

 walls and pillars decorated with artistic 

 simplicity, the stage a mass of color 

 relieved by a background of green, the 

 whole effect charming. 



It is seldom that the flojal artist has 

 such an opportunity. Everything fresh, 

 new and in perfect taste, nothing to hide. 

 The decorators, J. J. Habermehl's Sons, 

 grasped the idea, turning it to the full- 

 est advantage. A perfect specimen palm, 

 a kentia, at the head of the stairway, a 

 few more here and there, a semi-circular 

 bower nearby, with a few easy chairs, 

 and the stage effect enhancing the beauty 

 of the scene. The stage arrangement 

 was carefully planned and executed. A 

 bank of color ran across the entire front, 

 half white, the other yellow. The for- 

 mer consisted of La Reine tulips in flats, 

 azaleas and lilacs; the lattm* of yellow 

 tulips and daffodils, in flats, and genis- 

 tas. Behind this mass of color came the 

 orchestra seated in full view and behind 

 them a high bank of palms. The plants 

 used were all of good Quality, two fine 

 specimens of Bougainvillea spectabilis 

 being especially handsome. The ladies' 



