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The Weekly Florists' Revkw. 



Mabch 30, 1906. 



WE CARRY 



THE MOST 



COMPLETE 



LINE OF 



FLORISTS' 



SUPPLIES 



inth«WEST 



ILLUBTHATED 

 CATALOGUE 

 FREE. 



A DAILY SHIPMENT FROM 40 TO 60 



GROWERS 



u'to'Ly "We can and will fill your Cut Flower wants to advantage." 



Siora optn from 7 1. m. is 7 p. m. m wtik ivn aad fram 7 1. m. to 1 p. m oa loilai*. 



Teles raph at our expense for latest quotations on any Cut Flower Supplies. 



SPECIALS FOR THE COMING WEEK 



SHASTA DAISIES. 



Extra Fancy Hudson River Double Violets 

 Extra Fine Single Jonquils 



W* ar« Xurafhotarsri of 



"PERFECT SHAPE** BRAND WIRE WORK 



Used g9n»r»lly liy Flo rlsti who w»nt "FxamM thM wUl Stand Up." lUas 

 tzatod Hat with dlaoonnts firae. 



E. F. WInterson Co. 



CHICAGO 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave. 



OVBBENT PBI0B8 

 For WMk of Mavoh 80 to AprU 6, 1905. 



BOSKS. Perdos. 



Am. Beauty— 80 to 88 iochei. . . .$2.00 to $ 4.00 



24 Incliea a.OO 



aoinctaes 1.60 



IS ioobet 1.00 



Uinobea .76 



Short eoto .76 



Per 100 



Brides, Maids. Gates $3.00 to $6.00 



Boaes, our selection 2.00 



Liberty 4.00to 8.00 



Chatenay 4.00to 8.00 



OABMATIONS. 



Fancy 8.00 



OoodaTerage l.eoto 2.00 



Fair atock, for barxain sales. 



( our aeleotlon) per lOCO. 10.00 



Valley 2.00to 8.00 



Violets 40to .76 



Callas.^ 8.00to 12.00 



Paper Whites. Romans 8.00 



Harrlsll 10.00 to 12.00 



Tulips. Daffodils 2.00 to 4.00 



SweetPeas 76to l.oo 



Hismonette 40to .76 



Adlantom l.ooto 1.26 



Oreen Leucothoe Sprays .75 



Bed Leucotboe Sprays 1.00 



Asparagus Plumoaus Sprays... 2.00 to 6.00 



Asparagus Sprengerl 2.00 to 6.00 



Asparagus PlumoBus, per string .26 to .60 



Common Ferns per 1000. 2.60 



Galax Leaves, bronze.. " 1.26 



Galax Leaves, green... " i.oo 



Smilax perdoz.. 1.60to 2.G0 



Jonquils. $6.00 per 1000. 

 All Prices anlOeet to ehaige wlthoBt aottce. 



Mention The Review when yon write 



large, light pink seedling rose raised by 

 George Hopp, of Grand Bapids. It has 

 the same blood as La Detroit but is not 

 at all like it except in color. It is a 

 great keeper. 



George Asmus says that he thinks 

 bulbous stock in pans is going to be 

 very hard to get for Easter. Sis own 

 stock he has had to bring in. 



O. W. Frese has resigned his position 

 as salesman for George Eeinberg. 



C. W. McKellar is getting regular 

 shipments of gardenias. This flower has 

 never had the popularity here it enjoys 

 in the east but all the leading retailers 

 are using a few. 



WJiile at St. Louis the other day, J. 

 S. Wilson was elected as honorary mem- 

 ber of the St. Louis Florists' Club. He 

 was a charter member when the club was 

 organized there, twenty-three years ago. 



Visitors: J. A. Evans, Richmond, 

 Ipd.; Prof. A. S. Beal, Champaign, HI.; 

 W. A. Hartman, South' Haven, Mich. 



BOSTON. 



Tlie Market 



On some days we have had a rather 

 ^™&gy market, but taken on the whole 

 it has been very good for Lent. On 

 March 25 something of a boom took 

 place and hardly a flower remained in 

 the ice-chests. Roses are coming more 

 plentifully. Prices remain about the 

 same. Some extra good hybrids are com- 

 ing in. Too few of these are now grown 

 as compared with a few years ago. Car- 

 nations have sold as high as $4 on some 

 occasions. The price for good stock 

 seems to be $1.50 to $3, poorer grades 

 going lower. Violets are in lessening sup- 

 ply and improve somewhat in price. All 

 good flowers bring 50 cents, extras going 

 to 60 and 75 cents. Bulbous stock re- 

 mains about the same, clearing out re- 

 markably well. There is no particular 

 change in lilies, callas, valley, sweet peas 

 and green goods. 



Florists' Qob. 



At the meeting on March 21, in spite 

 of the snowy weather, sixty-five mem- 

 bers were present and nine new members 

 were elected during the evening. Ken- 



neth Finlayson spoke of the way in 

 which American carnation names were 

 being changed in Europe and thought 

 the club might take some action toward 

 preventing it. J. W. Duncan reported 

 that E. N. Peirce & Son would like the 

 club to visit their establishment about 

 three weeks before Easter. The matter 

 was referred to the executive committee. 



W. H. Elliott spoke at length on his 

 recent West Indian trip, where he cov- 

 ered over 6,000 miles by water and a 

 considerable distance on land. Bermuda, 

 800 miles from Boston, was first visited. 

 Little patches of liliums were dotted all 

 over the island. Stevens & Co., the big- 

 gest growers, produce 1,200,000 bulbs. 

 They are growing stock now on St. 

 David's Island, where they expect to be 

 able to keep them clear of disease. A 

 good deal of disease was noticed on the 

 main island. Strawberries were ripe 

 early in February and would continue to 

 produce until May. The people of the 

 island are very progressive. 



In Porto Eico the vegetation in the 

 mountains is most luxuriant, reminding 

 him of a big show house, the variety of 

 plants being immense. Two hundred 

 acres of Sumatra tobacco grown under 

 canvas by the American Tobacco Co. was 

 an interesting sight. In Jamaica the 

 Castleton Garden and Hope Garden at 

 Kingston were remarkably fine. Arau- 

 caria excelsa eighty feet high was noted 

 and cotton trees with a spread of over 

 250 feet. Santiago-de-Cuba was the 

 hottest place visited, the temperature in 

 the shade there being 93 degrees. He 

 was disappointed with San Juan hill. 

 For florists Havana seemed to offer a 

 good field. Very poor roses were selling 

 at 50 cents per dozen on the streets and 

 wretched little pansies at 35 cents per 

 bunch. Nassau was last visited and was 

 a vei^ interesting place. 



Various Notes. 



With the Carnation and Rose Societies 

 both meeting here next spring Boston is 

 getting its full quota of conventions. 

 The peony people no doubt will want 

 to meet with us in June, 1906, and ru- 

 mor has it that the S. A. F. will be next 

 in line. 



The visiting members paid visits to 



the flower markets and Welch Bros.' em- 

 porium. They highly complimented the 

 new market people on their location. 



Edward Powell, who was a regu- 

 lar exhibitor at the Boston shows until 

 two years ago, died at Bedlands, Cal., on 

 March 22. He was a Welshman and 

 came to America in 1891. He leaves a 

 widow and three children. 



Robert Miller, recently at Butte^ 

 Mont., and at one time at the Waban 

 Conservatories, has bought two green- 

 houses and started in business at East 

 Bridgewater, Mass. 



One of our out of town growers 

 shipped a quantity of carnations to one 

 of the markets on March 20. They came 

 off color and in poor shape and nothing 

 over 50 cents per hundred was offered 

 for them, so they went into the ice-chest. 

 Five days later, with a brisk market, 

 they were trotted out, $1 per hundred 

 readily secured and no questions asked. 



At the recent banquet a story was 

 told of a prominent local hybridist who 

 recently took the good wife for a visit 

 to a fellow craftsman and met with a 

 curious accident. In the "wee sma' 

 hoors ayout the hoor o' twal" an awful 

 crash awoke the hosts. Investigation 

 found the bed in sections all over the 

 room and the former occupants awake 

 on the floor and wondering what had 

 hit them. W. N. Craig. 



Winona, Ind. — Tony Kelker has been 

 appointed gardener for the Pennsylvania 

 railroad here. 



LocKPORT, N. Y.— D. T. McCarthy & 

 Sons are building two connected houses 

 26x100 with material from the King Con- 

 struction Co. 



Urbana, III. — F. M. Webster, who 

 has been for some years at the State 

 Agricultural College and who has done 

 much insect investigation work for flo- 

 rists, including a study of the minute 

 white worm which inflicted so much loss 

 on rose growers about Chicago three or 

 four years ago, has resigned. He will 

 go to Washington to take charge of 

 field crop insect investigations for the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



