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ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



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DO IT NOW 



You will never know what you have been misungf all these 

 yean until you lee how we handle your tbippiaz business. 



We know that we can give you better flowers for the same 

 taoaty or the same flowers for less money. 



up that trial order that you were goinz to give us; do it 



now. 



Weiland & Risch 



Leading: Western Growers and Shippers of Cut Flowers 



59-61 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Long Distance Phone, Central 879. 



AMERICAN BBAUT1B8- Per Dp*. 



Extra lonsr •S'SJ 



ao-lnch Btems fg; 



24 44 44 X*UU 



1g 44 44 ,,.,.,, .....••• 1.76 



JO 44 44 ^ 1.00 



Short " '.'.'.'....., , •" 



RnaiPB ^©r 100. 



MlldB |3.00tol6.00 



Brides ••• '^-^^^ *•" 



KU^eV .... 3.00 to 8.00 



Ubertf . SWto 8.00 



GoKGate... 300to 600 



Pgrie 3 DO to 6 00 



Chateiiay .'.'.'..' SMto 6,00 



Special prices in lOOJ lots. 



Good Stock 1.00 to 2.00 



Special prices In 1000 lots. 

 BOSri: LLAH IC008 STOCK- 



Valley 3.00 to 4.00 



Easter Ulies 12.00to 15.00 



Violets (Eastern only) JW 



Daisies 1™' 



Ferns, per 1000. $1.26 M 



Spren^erl 2.00 to 4.00 



Asparagus Strlntrs 26.00 to 60.00 



Adlantum 1-™ 



GnlAX •*" 



SillaiV.V.'. lOOOtO 16.00 



Leucothoe Sprays "6 to 1 .«i 



Subject to chance without notice. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



ing fine Enchantregs and single violets 

 to the Flower Market. 



I am indebted to M. Eice for the 

 "new ideas" given last week. 



Wm. C. Smith expects to build a store 

 and show house in front of his green- 

 house establishment at Sixty-first and 

 Market streets. Mr. Smith finds the re- 

 tail business in West Philadelphia is 

 rapidly increasing. 



Dumont & Co. have completed im- 

 provements in their wholesale commis- 

 sion house. • New counters conveniently 

 arranged, new Welsbach lights, very 

 powerful, and a new ice-box 12x12x10 

 feet, ingeniously arranged with a 

 movable partition, windows admitting 

 outside air, an economy in winter, a 

 double entrance and two-ton ice capac- 

 ity, are among the advantages. 



Hugh Graham decorated the exposi- 

 tion haU in West Philadelphia on Mon- 

 day for the Street Railway Convention. 



Charles Leisy has 10,000 carnation 

 plants benched at his new place at We- 

 nonah, N. J. Mr. Leisy is manager for 

 Stephen Green. He is a grower of abil- 

 ity and considered quite an acquisition 

 of the Flower Market growers. 



Herbert Steinmetz has joined the 

 forces of J. J. Haberm^l's Sons at the 

 Bellevue-Stratford. 



Berger Bros, are receiving nice flowers' 

 of the new rose, Bichmond, from the 

 United States Cut Flower Co., at Elmira, 

 N. Y. John Berger speaks highly of 

 this rose. 



The quality of dahlias from Atco, N. 

 J., is improving. Some of the finest sorts 

 can now be had in quantity. 



Joseph Callahan is now with Frank L. 

 Polites in the Haseltine building. 



Visitors to the Whilldin Pottery Com- 

 pany 's office on Wharton street who are 

 fahown the inner sanctum will find there 

 a very clever picture of Bardolph and 

 Falstaff, the characters being imper- 

 sonated by W. K Harris and the late 

 fturt Eddy. Next to this picture is an- 

 "ther taken at Ventnor, N. J., in 1893, 

 ^vhen the convention was held at Atlantic 

 ^-ity. On the other side is a photograph 

 which Mr. Whilldin will show you with 

 pardonable pride. 



B. Eschner, of M. Bice & Co., has re- 

 turned from a very' successful western 

 flip. 



The H. F. Michell Co. reports an 

 unusually heavy demand for tulips and 



choice narcissi, one mail order running 

 as high as 50,000 of the former. 



Paul Berkowitz, of Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., returned a week ago from his west- 

 ern trip. He was cordially received 

 everywhere and was more than pleased 

 with the results. 



Johnson & Stokes have decorated their 

 seed store with some fine plants from 

 the Moorestown nurseries, including 

 Ficus elastica, sago palms and Boston 

 ferns. 



The Ideal Salesman. 



The Review realizes that the position 

 of a cut flower and plant salesman is one 

 of importance to the grower, to the 

 wholesaler, to the retailer and to the 

 consumer. The Review believes that a 

 high standard among the salesmen will 

 do much to promote the interests of 

 all those who buy or sell cut flowers or 

 plants, and to promote harmony among 

 them. The Review therefore proposes 

 a prize essay competition similar to that 

 held by the S. A. F. under the follow- 

 ing conditions: 



The snbject of the essay shall be "The Ideal 

 Salesman." 



Each competitor shall mall his essay, un- 

 signed, on or before September 30, 1905, to 

 Phil, care of any of the wholesale cut flower 

 honses in this city. 



Each essay must be unsigned, accompanied 

 by the writer's name and address in a sealed 

 enrelope. This envelope will not be opened 

 until the awards have been made. 



The essays and sealed envelopes will be num- 

 bered when received and the essays will be 

 submitted to a competent Judge. His awards 

 will be announced In the Review of October 12. 



The /first prize will be |10, the second 

 prize |5. 



It is especially desired that the essays be 

 clear, concise and to the point. 



The Chester Valley. 



I will not tire you with a list of the 

 roses that David and Jonathan saw in 

 the houses of the Conard & Jones Co. 

 There were gold medal winners from 

 Lambert, unknown but by no means 

 unpromising.; debutantes from Cook, 

 old favorites of international fame, like 

 Marechal Niel, and of local fame, like 

 Magnafrano. All classes, all ages were 

 there. Antoine Wintzer described them 

 in a way that proved he "had it all 

 there," as Mr. Conard humorously re- 

 marked. Mr. Wintzer was propagating; 

 they are nearly always propagating at 

 Conard & Jones Co.'s. They don't wait 

 for January I or for bottom heat. They 

 don't insist on boarding up their bench 

 or in the virtue of shading cloth of a 



certain thickness. Mr. Wintzer does 

 not, in fact, believe in any "circus," 

 as he naively expresses it. But then, 

 neither would you nor I were we in class 

 A, section 1, as propagators. As long 

 as the thermometer shows 60 degrees 

 there is no heat used. The rose cut- 

 tings are put in clean white sand — 

 rotten rock — in the side bench of an 

 ordinary rose house, with a light lime 

 wash on the glass above, and they root 

 in September and grow like weeds. Jon- 

 athan showed deep interest in the prop- 

 agating arrangements. Chairs were 

 placed at a deal table where the prop- 

 agators worked. "Why make a job 

 harder than need bet" Mr. Wintzer 

 asked. Jonathan confessed to a prefer- 

 ence for the back-number way of stand- 

 ing up at the bench, and hinted at a 

 fear of drowsiness on a warm after- 

 noon, a suggestion that was treated 

 with the scorn it deserved. 



The cannas alone were worth the 

 whole trip ten times over. David and 

 Jonathan agreed on that. There were 

 about 50,000 of them, of some fifty vari- 

 eties of recognized merit, besides any 

 number of seedlings and hybrids on 

 trial. Canna lilies they are well called 

 here. First came a lot of varieties of 

 Mr. Wintzer 's own production, leaders 

 in their classes; then a great triple row 

 of Mont Blanc, dwarf white; Gladiator, 

 medium yellow spotted, and Louisiana, 

 tall scarlet, stretching away down the 

 slope for 600 feet or more, each variety 

 in full bloom. Then followed sort after 

 sort of rare merit, including many still 

 under number. Great progress has been 

 made in the whites, as shown in Mont 

 Blanc and in its seedlings, and in the 

 pinks. A point of interest is that Maiden 

 Blush, one of the softest shades of the 

 latter color, a seedling of Mr. Wint- 

 zer 's, of ten years ago, has not since 

 been improved or even equaled. The 

 greatest advance now is in the orchid- 

 flowering class of canna lilies of the 

 second generation, the pollen of the for- 

 mer class being used on the class with 

 more substantial flowers. The improve- 

 ment is remarkable in every respect. 

 When comparing Austria, Italia and 

 Alemannia with Louisiana, the former 

 varieties are simply not in it. 



David took a deep interest in Califor- 

 nia, a variety that had been condemned 

 by a warm personal friend. David's 



