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OCTOBEU 5, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Close Don't Count 



You have to give your customers exactly what they want. No matter 

 how close you come to it, if you don't do it, you are as badly off as if you 

 didn't try. 



The only way that you can be sure of giving your customers the best 

 flowers for their money, is to make sure that you are getting the best flowers 

 for your money. The best way to make sure of that is to buy from us. We 

 can be sure of that ourselves because we grow them. 



We know just what condition they were in when they were cut ; and we 

 know just how old they are when we ship them to you. 



Weiland & Risch 



Leading Western Growers and Shippers of Cut Flowers 



59=61 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Lona: Distance Phone, Central 879. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



Per Doz. 



Extra longr •*•*• 



3U-luch attorns 2* 



24 " " 2.50 



18 " " 1-T5 



M '. » 1.00 



Short " «• 



ROSES Per 100. 



MaldB $3.lMi to 16.00 



Brides 3.00 to 600 



KtUamey a.OO to 8.00 



Liberty 3.00 to 8.00 



OoldeaOate 3.00 to 600 



Perle 3«0to 600 



Chatenivy 3.00 to 6.00 



Special prices In 100 J lots. 



CARNATIONS 



Good stock..... l.OOto 2.00 



Special prices In 1000 lots. 



Miscellaneous Stock 



Valley 3.00to 4.00 



Easter UUes 12.00 to 15.00 



Longlflorums. per doz 2.00 to 3 00 



Violets (Eastern only) 1.00 



Daisies 100 



DECORATIVE 



Ferns, per 1000, »1.26 .16 



Sprengeri 2.00 to 4.00 



Asparagus Strlugrs 25.00 to 50.00 



Adlantum 100 



Galax .16 



Smllax 10.00to 15.00 



Leucothoe Sprays 75 to 1.00 



Subject to change vtithuat notice. 



Ali'iition Tlie Uevlew when .voii write. 



a fi)ie lot of Begonia Gloire de Lorraine 

 and other holiday plants thia year. 



Here are some facts that as a club 

 member must interest you: The next 

 meeting will take place next Thursday 

 afternoon nt 2 o'clock in Odd Fellows' 

 building. President Amma/in will be in 

 the chair. The flower thow committee 

 will make a report as to how matters are 

 progressing. The trustees will report as 

 to essays for the winter meetings and 

 on a change of meeting place. A vote 

 will be taken on incorporation. The 

 committee on * ' crape pullers ' ' will re- 

 port with lesolutions which are to be 

 voted upon. The above should interest 

 every member of the club. 



C. Young & Sons Co. was busy Monday 

 and Tuesday, decorating the big Mer- 

 chants' Exchange hall for the Veiled 

 Prophets' ball, which was the event of 

 the f-eason. 



Pilcher & Burrows, commission brok- 

 ers, have moved their office to 1316 Pine 

 street, in the wholesale district. 



The florists' league team was again 

 defeated two out of three games by the 

 Union Soda team on Tuesday night. Elli- 

 son was high, with 496; Capt. Beyer and 

 R. Meii.hardt, 478; Kuehn, 461; Beneke, 

 4.')5. For three games 2368 is poor bowl- 

 ing and the boys promise to redeem 

 themselves in this week's match. 



Visitors: Martin Beukauf and C. S. 

 Ford, Philadelphia. J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



"The warmest first day of October in 

 thirty-five years." Such was the offi- 

 cial record and it is not difficult to draw 

 the inference. Everybody and every- 

 thing, including the wholesale cut flower 

 market, was depressed. Some used 

 stronger words to express their opinions. 

 There was no denying the fact, however. 

 The premature cool wave of prosperity 

 of a week ago had subsided. There was 

 not a ripple on the sea. It was ' dead 

 quiet" and it will be until "the frost 

 is on the pumpkin." 



Plenty of stock is arriving. Orchids, 

 roses, carnations, violets; the stapled are 



all abundant and some of tlie arriv.ils 

 are extra fine. The lower grades go at 

 the buyer's option, or go elsewhere. 

 Roses were especially abundant. Carna- 

 tions improve in quality and incrt^se in 

 numbers daUy. -^he very best 4o not 

 easily realize $2^^' 



Orchids are plentiful. Almost all the 

 retail windows utilize them for decora- 

 tive efl'ect. Prices are lower, but their 

 popularity and the rapidity with which 

 the best buyers are returning to the city 

 will soon boost them to normal values 

 again. One big orchid wedding in the 

 near future will use 1,000 cattleyas. The 

 oucidiums are much used for window 

 decoration. Violets are improving in 

 color, but the already large shipments in- 

 crease. The top price is 50 cents and 

 the "left-overs" often go as low as $1 

 per thousand. Violets should never be 

 sent to the New York market before 

 October, unless the weather justifies the 

 risk. Now it will take many weeks to 

 restore their prestige. I question if vio- 

 lets will touch $1 before Thanksgiving. 



The heralds of the chrysanthemum 

 flood are arriving. As usual first prices 

 are high and the novelty of the early 

 shipments and their scarcity ensure good 

 prices, $2 to $4 a dozen for the best. 

 There were not many shipments up to 

 Monday evening, but before the week is 

 over there will be enough and to spare. 

 Gladioli this week gracefully retire from 

 the field. The Childs output is over. 

 Cowee is still shipping, but Saturday will 

 see the end. Asters, too, are retrograd- 

 ing in quantity and quality and are on 

 their last legs. 



If the frost delays the dahlia has still 

 a chance to assert itself. No better 

 stock has ever reached the New York 

 market. Gunther says the city can use 

 it all and there is no necessity for ship- 

 ping it out of town. The big stores all 

 use the fine cactus varieties for window 

 effect and are creating a demand for the 

 new kinds that is unusual. Lilies are 

 improving in price and valley hoHs its 

 own, the best maintaining a $3 value 

 with ease. 



A Visit to Miller's. 



A. L. Miller, of Brooklyn, entertained 



the officers and trustees of the New York 

 Florists' Club, with members of the dif- 

 ferent committees, at his Jamaica place 

 on Friday and at an elegant banquet 

 at the Piel dining hall in East New 

 York in the evening. The thirteen acres 

 Mr. Miller has purchased on the Free- 

 port turnpike are finely situated and can- 

 not fail to grow rapidly in value. The 

 electric road passes the door and school 

 and other facilities make this an ideal 

 place for a home. Mr. Miller is devot- 

 ing considerable land to nursery stock 

 and has already several acres in ever- 

 greens, roses and deciduous trees. The 

 trip was arranged especially to see the 

 grand new dahlias controlled by Mr. 

 Miller, the Pearl of the Park and Kai- 

 serin Augusta Victoria, two of the finest 

 whites, of which he has now an immense 

 stock. Other varieties of merit grown 

 here are Countess of Lonsdale, Penelope, 

 Camaeliaflora, Grand Duke Alexis and 

 Livoni. Several houses have been erected 

 here by Mr. Miller and are devoted to 

 carnations. He is able to dispose of his 

 outj)ut easily at his retail establishment 

 in Brooklyn. A hearty vote of thanks 

 was given Mr. Miller for the delightful 

 afternoon and evening. Among those 

 present were Messrs. Patrick O'Mara, F. 

 H. Traendly, Ijoechner, of Suzuki & 

 lida; Lenker, Bimie, Zeller, Dummett, 

 Wiltshire, Neilsen, Scott, Hiltman, Sie- 

 brecht, Penuelton, Langjahr and the 

 newspaper men. 



Various Notes. 



I In the announcement of the first an- 

 I nual convention of the National Associa- 

 i tion of Gardeners, to be held in Herald 

 Square exhibition hall, October 31 to 

 November 2, it is said that all gardeners 

 who send their names to the secretary at 

 1 Montgomery street, Jersey City, will 

 be forwarded free tickets of admission 

 to the big institute exhibition. Dir. 

 Hexamer announces that more space than 

 ever has been contracted for and that 

 everything indicates one of the best and 

 largest shows ever seen in this country. 

 F. Gomer Waterer, of John Waterer 

 & Sons, Bagshot, Surrey, is in the city. 

 This firm has a world-wide reputation ns 



