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948 TheWccfcly Florists^ Review* 



SlABCH 16, 1905. 



tK)R.. 

 NEIGHBORS 

 TELL US 



WILD SNILAX 



IS SCARCE. 

 WE HAVE IT IN 

 ABUNDANCE. 



Galax Leaves 



''iSSo!-' Fancy Terns J'^^ 



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



TEA ROSES, per I00» $3.00 to $8.00. CARNATIONS, per f 00, $f .00 to $3.00. 



ALL OTHER OUT FLOWERS IN SEASON AT CORRESPONDING PRICES. 



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



60 



Wabash 



Ave. 



Vaughan & Sperry,*5T;f Chicago 



but the last two weeks have been a lit- 

 tle quiet, 



P. J. Foley went to Montana last week 

 to spend a fortnight in looking after his 

 mining and lumbering interests there. 



Mangel has attracted a great deal of 

 attention this week with windows filled 

 with good stock, the central features be- 

 ing green carnations and green roses, 

 dyed. 



John Lang has returned from his trip 

 to Germany and is again in possession 

 of his old place, having secured it from 

 one Steining, to whom Peter Reinberger 

 recently sold it. 



H. E. Philpott, of Winipeg, has been 

 in town this week for one of his brief 

 periodical visits. 



Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Bassett returned 

 Tuesday from a month 's stay at Atlanta, 

 Ga. 



A. L. Vaughan is on a business trip 

 through Michigan. 



Howe & Taylor Mfg. Co. has opened 

 its wire work stand at the Growers ' Mar- 

 ket and reports business starting in well. 

 They have a factory on the west side, 

 and are energetic young men, well quali- 

 fied to make the business a big success. 



W. H. Hilton is planning to spend the 

 summer on the Pacific coast, at Spokane 

 and Portland. He will sell his store on 

 Sixty-third street if a buyer turns up. 



A. Siegel, of St. Louis, a large buyer 

 in this market, was in town Tuesday. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



The market has changed appreciably 

 since the advent of Lent. Prices have 

 fallen from ten to twenty per cent all 

 along the line, with no increase in the 

 volume of flowers coming into town. It 

 is a buyer's market, with occasional 

 dull days to make the dealers eager to 

 accept fair offers for quantity. Beau- 

 ties are more numerous. The specials 

 sell fairly well and will sell better when 

 they get lower in price. There are hard- 

 ly any mediums but plenty of shorts. 

 Fancy carnations have suffered more 

 than the ordinary grades, the Greeks dis- 

 posing of many at curbstone prices. The 

 —demand for violets i* weak and irregular.: 

 Tulips, especially fancy sorts, and daffo- 

 dils are far less plentiful than before 

 Ash Wednesday. Both callas and Easter 

 lilies are increasing^ in number, wMle 

 really good valley is decreasing. Greens 

 are quite plentiful. The southern brand 

 of asparagus is good enough to make the 

 home growers a trifle uneasy. Dendro- 



Mcntton Wie B«vl«w when yoo wrtte. 



PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY 



A list of PLANT NAMES and the Botanical Terms most frequently met with 



in articles on trade topics* with the CORRECT PRONOUNQATION for each. 



' Tbe PrononncloR Dictionary is jast what I have wanted." 

 "The PronouncinK Dictionary tills a long-felt want." 



"We bave missed two Reviews and want tbem; we want to keep tbe Pronouncing 

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A Booklet Jast tha siia to fit a daak plgrcon-liola and ba 

 aluaya avallabl*. Bant postpaid on raoalpt of flSc. 



Florists* Publishing Co. ^S^^^i,. Chicago 



bium Wardianum is the feature of the 

 orchid list. 



Wm. K. Harris' shamrocks had a 

 great run this week in the retail and de- 

 partment stores. One of the latter, Litt 

 Bros., alone used 10,000. At least four 

 of these department stores had millinery 

 openings, which gave Hugh Graham, J. 

 J. Habermehl's Sons and the Wm. Gra- 

 ham Co. quite a little decorating. Wild 

 smilax plants and spring flowers were the 

 chief material. 



The Dingee & Conard Co. 



The Review, as all its readers know, is 

 a modern paper, wide-awake and progres- 

 sive, BO it happened that when P. J. 

 Lynch made his maiden address before 

 the Florists' Club of Philadelphia last 

 week, a representative of this paper was 

 straightway sent to West Grove to see 

 the things whereof he spoke. So quickly 

 did this newspaper man reach his desti- 

 nation that he got there before the now 

 famous secretary and treasurer of the 

 Dingee & Conard Co. had returned, 

 whether from that Philadelphia trip or 

 some other was not stated. His brother, 

 Henry Lynch, vice-president of the cor- 

 poration, was there, however. His cour- 

 tesy and his explanations made the visit 

 one of great pleasure and interest. 



Baby Kambler planted out in the 

 bench is a mght, a sheet of small-leaved, 

 deep green foliage, full of vigorous 

 shoots from which cuttings by the thou- 

 sands are continually being taken and 

 scarcely, missed^ These euttiags a r e s aid 

 lo root readily and surely grow fast. 

 Souvenir de Pierre Netting is a beautiful 

 bud, somewhat resemUing Golden Gate 

 in coloring bat richer. The plant is very 

 free and vigorous. But P. J. Lynch has 

 told about the newer sorts, far better 

 than I can, so with a passing glanee at 

 the hybridizing, with good old Bon 

 Silene as seed parent, and the cuttings 



which are rooting nicely in a pure white 

 sand from the quarry nearby, I will go 

 on to the systems. 



First in point of interest is that of 

 catching the rain water on the roofs, 

 storing it in tanks and pumping it 

 through the pipes with good pressure by 

 means of Ericsson hot air pumps eco- 

 nomically run. Only in a summer drought 

 is a spring called in to help the rain 

 water. Then there is the system of devot- 

 ing one house to all the varieties ready 

 for shipping, each variety labeled and 

 partitioned with lath, one man's duty be- 

 ing to keep each compartment filled 

 ready for the men in the shipping de- 

 partment. Then there is the ofl5ce, with 

 its drawers and drawers of letters classi- 

 fied, its order books, account books, cata- 

 logues and what not, all bespeaking 

 thought and system. It is a great place, 

 chiefly devoted to roses, but with houses 

 of chrysanthemums, geraniums, begonias, 

 nice little Latania Borbonica and other 

 things to help the roses go all over this 

 great world of ours. 



Various Notes. 



Fred Ehret has received a new white 

 rose, resembling but superior to Bride. 

 The bud is fully three inches long, very 

 full and it has a perfect stem and good 

 foliage. It came from John F. Andre, 

 of Doylestown. 



The Henry P. Michell Co. has a hand- 

 some and unique window decoration, 

 composed of shamrocks in tiny pots and 

 shamrock pans" oir pale green ground 

 with green sash and sweet pea seed in 

 many varieties, the idea being to remind 

 the passers-by of the popular fancy that 

 sweet pea sown on St. Patrick's day will 

 surely thrive. 



Jasper H. Lorimer, of Croyden, Pa., 

 is sending some choice white atad yellow 

 daisied to tbe F]<ywer Market. 



G. C. Watson, seedsman, 259 8. Jtlni- 



