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September 7, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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What Do You Pay For? 



You pay for service, proper packing and the prompt suipment of your orders. 



What Do You Get ? 



Do you get it ? 



A new customer said last week: "I didn't know what service was until 

 I dealt with you." 



Give us a chance to show you the secrets of our success. 



Weiland & Risch 



Leading Western Growers and Shippers of Cut Flowers 



61 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



LofiK Distance Phone, Central 879. 



AMERiC 4N BK ACTIBS- Per Doz. 



30-lnch stems »•"" 



24 " " 2.60 



18 " " 1-T5 



12 " " IW) 



Short " 6" 



ROSES— Per ^^■ 



Maids $2.00 to $6.00 



Brides 2.00 to 0.00 



KUlarney S-W to fOO 



Liberty... 3U0to 8.00 



GoldenGate 3.00 to 6.0i 



Chatenay >^U0 to 6.00 



CARNATIONS- , ,„, . ^„, 



Good Stock l.OOto 2.00 



AU8CRI.L/1NBOUS STOCK- 



Valley 4.00 to 5.00 



Auratum Lilies 12.00 to 15.00 



Easter Lilies 12.00 to 15.00 



Asters 1-OOto 2.00 



Daisies 75 to 1.00 



Gladiolus 2.00to 4.00 



Tuberoses 5.00 to 6.00 



DECOR ATI Vr— 



Ferns, per 1000, $1.26 .15 



Sprengerl 2.00 to 4.0O 



Asparagus Strings 25.00 to 50.00 



Adlantum 1-00 



Galax -lo 



Smllax lO.OOto 16.00 



Leucothoe Sprays 75 to 1.00 



Subject to change withoat notice. 



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ing particularly fine for so early in the 

 season. Eoses, after a short period of 

 rest, are making strong breaks. A few 

 hundred Gen. MacArthur are extra fine. 

 Carnations could not look better, being 

 an exceptionally healthy lot of plants, 

 full of buds and flowers. The varieties 

 are Lawson, Boston Market, Enchantress, 

 Crane, Flora Hill and the old stand-by, 

 Francis Joost. Nephrolspis in variety 

 are -well done. The new Scottii is a little 

 beauty and should be in good demand. 

 Piersoni is hard to beat, but needs to be 

 a large plant to show off its fine quali- 

 ties. Bostoniensis is still the best seller 

 and is most in evidence. A fine batch of 

 Lilium lancifolium, both rubrum and al- 

 bum, have produced a very profitable 

 crop. Mums are always a factor on this 

 place and are in prime condition. Here 

 we found asters outdoors in perfection, 

 being the Semple variety at that. Hand 

 picking is the only remedy for the 

 beetle. Mr. Hart has had a vary suc- 

 cessful year's business and many 

 changes and improvements are being 

 planned for the next year. 



Isaac Kennedy, of West Park, while 

 visiting a neighboring florist and raturn- 

 ing home, had a very narrow escape with 

 a runaway horse. He was laid up for 

 several days, but I am pleased to report 

 he is able to attend to business and in- 

 cidentally manage his campaign for 

 councilman. Here's hoping ho gets 

 there. 



The J. M. Gasser Co. had the C. F. 

 Emery golden wedding decoration at the 

 Roadside club. Yellow and white were 

 used exclusively. It was a vary neat and 

 pretty arrangement. 



.1. M. Gasser and C. F. Darnell have 

 returned from the east, much recuperated 

 and eager for the busy season to opsn. 

 B. S. Robens, of the same firm, has re- 

 turned from a sojourn in the country. 



H. B. Jones is on an extended trip up 

 the lakes. Forest City. 



HoLYOKE. Mass. — H. W, Field and 

 (}- H. Sinclair have leased the Ilowland 

 (ireenhouscs and will conduct them un- 

 der tho name of Field & Sinclair. Mr. 

 Sinclair has been head florist at this 

 jdace for a number of years. M. L. 

 Graves, formerly with the Northampton 

 (ireenliouses, will be manager and Rob- 

 ert Childs will be the grower. 



Send the Review 25 cents for Mont- 

 gomery on Grafted Roses. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Business has been rather dull the past 

 week. The asters took a jump in price, 

 extra fine ones bringing as high as $2 

 per hundred, good, long-stemmed white 

 ones being especially scarce. The mar- 

 ket is simply flooded with short roses in 

 all colors, while good, long-stemmed 

 roses are very scarce, particularly pink. 

 Bride and Bridesmaid are very poor at 

 present, the best selling at from $4 to $5 

 per hundred. Some pretty fair carna- 

 tions are to be seen and, although they 

 are small and only medium in length of 

 stem, they find a ready sale at 75 cents 

 and $1 a hundrsd. The outlook is for 

 a busy season and it remains for cooler 

 weather to start business, by killing the 

 outdoor stuff and also bringing the so- 

 ciety people home from the summer re- 

 sorts. 



The State Fair. 



The grounds where the Michigan State 

 Fair is to be held are alive with hundreds 

 of men, most of whom sleep on the 

 grounds. They are getting the new 

 bmldings ready for ths opening day, 

 September 11. Superintendent F. E. 

 Skeels says the fair will really be a great 

 exposition, covering 145 acres. The 

 Michigan state building from St. Louis 

 has been brought here and re-erected to 

 serve as an office and art gallery. The 

 remaining buildings will be mainly of 

 steel and cement construction, including 

 a steel grandstand with a seating cap- 

 acity of 6,000 people. 



Greening Bros., of Monros, as well as 

 other large nurserymen have already ap- 

 plied for space on the grounds for nurs- 

 ery exhibits. Professor L. E. Taft, 

 state inspector of the nursery and or- 

 chard division of tho Board of Agri- 

 culture, has arranged for four lectures 

 a day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday. 



Various Notes. 



Norman Sullivan has returned from the 

 east, but "J. F. " is still at large. 



Sickness entered the home of James 

 Taylor, of Mt. Clemens, causing the loss 

 of a daughter four years old. Mrs. Tay- 

 lor was also very ill, but we are glad to 

 hear she is on her fest again. 



Having had rather cool weather, car- 



nation plants are looking fine. Violet 

 plants also give promise of yielding a 

 good crop this season. 



It has been rumored that we are to 

 have a new commission and supply house. 

 Although we already have two good 

 wholesale houses, there is always "room 

 for one more." 



Miss Clara Schroeter has been , spend- 

 ing the past week at Mackinac. 



Brother florists are very glad to hear 

 that Herman Knope, foreman at Breit- 

 meyer's Mack avenue greenhouses, who 

 has been very sick, is getting well, 

 "slow but sure." 



"Jack" Carey, of Mt. Clemens, paid 

 us a visit last week. When asked how 

 his mums were he replied: "Rotten, 

 but Taylor has three houses of fine 

 plants." That is Carey's way every 

 time. No one ever heard him say his 

 own stock was looking good, although it 

 generally is. 



August von Boeselager, of the Bath 

 City, was also in town last week. 



H. S. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



Plan Interstate Society. 



The florists in this city have given 

 much thought to the plan for the for- 

 mation of an interstate horticultural so- 

 ciety, along the lines suggested by C. R. 

 Panter in his address at the twentieth 

 anniversary banquet August 24. Many 

 of the leading florists were approached 

 and asked for their opinions on the sub- 

 ject and seemed a unit in advocating tho 

 organization of a society which would 

 take in all the southern states and bring 

 this section of the country into closer 

 business relations. 



C. W. Eichling said he was in favor 

 of the idea, as he thought it would be 

 productive of much good. There are no 

 wholesale florists in the south, according 

 to Mr. Eichling, and he was of the opin- 

 ion that if such a society were formed 

 there could be stimulated enough com- 

 petition among the dealers to warrant the 

 larger firms in extending their business 

 and handling the wholesale as well as 

 the retail departments. The plan of 

 action to be followed, in Mr. Eichling 's 

 opinion, was to send out communications 

 to every florist or horticultural society 

 in the southern states, and where there 

 were no societies the individual dealers 



