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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Sefxember 21, 1905. 



WE CARRY 

 THE MOST 

 COMPLETE 

 LINE OF 

 FLORISTS* 

 SUPPLIES 

 IN THE 

 WEST. 



IlluBtrated 



Catalog^ue 



Free. 



A DAILY SHIPMENT "SToroitos 



QUR PROSPECTS for taking care of your 

 ^^ Cut Flower wants durinsr the coming: fall and 

 winter season were never better. We will have 

 plenty of Chrysanthemums, Roses, Vio- 

 lets, etc* and solicit orders from those who want 

 the rigfht kind of stock, prompt shipment, careful 

 packing: and reasonable prices. 



''PERFECT SHAPE'' BRAND WIRE WORK 



Used erenerallT by Florist* who want "Frani«a that wUl Stand 

 np.'^ Illustrated list with discounts free. 



E. F. Winterson Co.'^tllS^cio^. 



CURRENT PRICES 



AM. BEAUTIES Pevdoz' 



36 InchBtemn .1300 



24 Inrhstems ., ^.... ; 3.60 



18 to 30 inohbtems...; $176 to S.OO 



16 Inch stems 160 



12 ncbsttfms I.IO 



Saort 75to 1.00 



R0SB5 Per 100 



Malas $2 00 to KlOO 



Rrldes 20Uto 6 UO 



Klllsrney SOUto 800 



Liberty SOOto 8U0 



Cnatenay 8.00to 600 



Special prices In 1000 luts. 



CamstloiM, iroocl stock... 11 00 to 12 00 



Mlacellaneoua Stock 



Valley S.OOto 400 



Baster Lilies 12 0Uto 16 00 



Asters 76to 200 



DaislfS 100 



Tuberoses, fancy 6.00 to 6.00 



DECOR %TiyE 



Ferns, per lOOU, $1.00 .16 



Sprenreri 2.00 to 4 00 



AsparaguB Strings 26 00 to 60.(0 



Adiantum.. 76 to 1.00 



Oalax. bronze and green.. .16 



Smiiax 10.00 to 12 10 



Leucottioe Sprays 76 to 1.00 



Subject to change without notice. 



Mention The Revtew when you write. 



old daughter, Daphne, who is studying 

 music. The daily papers have recently 

 contained accounts of her progress and 

 the favor she has won with Princess 

 Frederick Leopold, the kaiser's sister-in- 

 law. Mrs. Hilmers is expected home in. a 

 few months. Mr. Hilmers now con- 

 centrates his business enterprises as the 

 Kenwood Floral Co., on Forty-seventh 

 street. 



F. F. Benthey plans to spend a day at 

 the Newcastle plant of his firm the lat- 

 ter part of this week. 



The creditors of M. Winandy have a 

 plan for purchasing the equity in his 

 plant, taking it out of the hands of the 

 trustees and financing the necessary 

 alterations to put it in first-class shape. 



Geo. F. Crabb was over from Grand 

 Bapids again on Saturday, buying more 

 carnation plants. He had to buy 30,000 

 in all to make up for what he lost by 

 floods. 



Albert Fuchs is putting up another 

 large apartment building on the north 

 side. 



The A. L. Bandall Co. has been re- 

 ceiving Hudson river violets daily since 

 September 13. On Saturday they had 

 over 5,000 which sold at from $1 per 

 hundred down. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. is receiving 

 some very fine Perle roses. Eupatorium 

 is a specialty with them. 



* ' All the comforts of a home ' ' are now 

 to be found at Percy Jones' headquar- 

 ters in the Growers' Market, including a 

 Turkish rug on the floor, a leather couch, 

 etc. Mr. Jones spends eleven hours a day 

 on duty and likes to have pleasant sur- 

 roundings. 



C. W. McKellar has just issued his 

 first catalogue, a neatly printed pamphlet 

 listing a big line of supplies, etc. Cable 

 address "Charkell." 



Mons Olson, with Zech & Mann, is on 

 the sick list this week. 



O. P. Bassett has to take good-na- 

 turedly a great many inquiries as to how 

 he likes Aurora now. He is president of 

 the Pictorial Printing Co. which he 

 moved to Aurora just after a series of 

 labor troubles in Chicago — and now the 

 plant is tied up by a printers' strike for 

 an eight-hour day. 



A balcony for office purposes is being 

 built along the east end of E. H. Hunt's 

 store. It will largely increase the facili- 

 ties for the office force and the cut flower 

 department. Hunt's is already doing 



quite a business in wild smiiax, which 

 they will have constantly on hand from 

 now to the end of the season. The fourth 

 shipment arrived this week. 



Some of the aster growers are putting 

 sash over their plants to prolong the 

 season. 



J. A. Budlong cut his first blooms of 

 Fiancee September 18, fine flowers but 

 very light in color. 



P. J. Hauswirth and wife returned on 

 Monday from their trip to Nashville and 

 Louisville. ' 



Peter Neppon, 4633 Murphy avenue, is 

 building greenhouses costing $3,000. 



A little son has arrived at the home of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meyer, at Morton 

 Grove. 



Among the week's visitors were Mrs. 

 Wm. Dittman, New Castle, Ind., and Mrs. 

 A. H. McDonald, Logansport, Ind. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market 



Mondays are keeping up their repu- 

 tation for storms. The third in succes- 

 sion swept over the east the beginning 

 of the present week. This week will see 

 the end of the September gales and the 

 good ship ought to have smooth sailing 

 from now on until November. Everybody 

 in the wholesale and retail cut flower 

 line seems to have set the opening day 

 ahead to October 15. 



Nevertheless, violets, those harbingers 

 of society's advent, are already in the 

 market, thousands of them, colorless, un- 

 scented, abnormally early and unsalable 

 because of large shipments. The next 

 thing will be the commonplace distribu- 

 tion by the street merchants and their 

 prestige will be gone for the year. "With 

 the enormous additions made this sum- 

 mer to the violet factories, overproduc- 

 tion seems inevitable. The market gives 

 promise of a flood. One expert prophe-. 

 sies that within a few weeks the flow- 

 ers will be sold at $1 a thousand, in 

 which case the funeral of the goose that 

 laid the golden egg will be celebrated 

 and another chapter in human ambi- 

 tion closed. "Too much of a good 

 thing" is bad and there will undoubt- 

 edly be too many violets. 



Oncidiums, dendrobiums in several 

 varieties and Cattleya labiata are arriv- 

 ing freely and the retail windows on 

 Broadway and Fifth avenue are using 



them to advantage and beginning again 

 to look attractive after months of com- 

 parative neglect. 



Carnations are improving rapidly. 

 Some excellent stock is now in the mar- 

 ket and prices are encouraging. Asters 

 and gladioli show no diminution in 

 quantity, but the rains have played 

 havoc with their quality and only the 

 perfect stock brings a profitable price. 

 The best Beauties are advancing. Boses 

 of all kinds are rapidly improving in 

 merit and slight advances are noted in 

 prices for the selected stock. 



Dahlias are abundant. Grand stock 

 from Peacock, of Atco, N. J., comes 

 daily to W. H. Gunther, who controls the 

 output from this section and reships to 

 all prominent cities in New England. 



Varioos Notes. 



The state of Pennsylvania has just 

 placed an order for a greenhouse 33x116 

 with the Bumham Hitchings Pierson 

 Co., to be placed in the grounds of the 

 Hospital for the Insane at Warren, Pa. 

 This firm is also building a fine house at 

 South Braintree, Mass., for E. H9llings- 

 worth and several at Syracuse for F. E. 

 Hazard and at Pittsburg for E. B. Lord. 

 They have also designed and vrill build 

 a spacious conservatory in the rear of 

 Fleishman's new Fifth avenue store at 

 the corner of Forty-third street. Cbas. 

 Dietz, of West Hoboken; H. J. Stem, 

 of Highwood, N. J.; Peter Koemer, of 

 Woodlawn, and H. G. Eyres, of Ogden, 

 N. Y., are also building and everywhere 

 increased activity in greenhouse con- 

 struction is evident. 



John A. ScoUay, Brooklyn, is install- 

 ing four 200 horse-power Invincible 

 steam boilers for the city of New York. 

 This firm reports a very rapidly increas- 

 ing business, far in excess this season 

 of any in its history. J. W. Crowell, of 

 Hartford, is building a greenhouse this 

 fall, up-to-date in all respects, and among 

 others reported are E. D. Jaques, of 

 Lynbrook, L. I.; John T. Pirie, of Sea 

 ClifiF, N. Y.; L. C. C^rlsen, of Long 

 Branch, N. J.; Myers & Son, of Scott- 

 dale, Pa., and L. C. Harris, of Perry- 

 opolis. Pa. All of the above are using 

 the ScoUay boiler. 



The employees of the wholesale cut 

 flower houses are making arrangements 

 for a grand ball, to be held on the 



I evening of January 13 at the American 



; Opera House. 



