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1164 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEK 12, 1906. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



ALL COLORS 



Price^ $J.OO to $3,00 per dozen. Special prices on lots of 

 too and over. We grow 100,000 Mums and can fill any 

 order on short notice. No order too small and none too 

 large. The best stock in the Chicago market. 



Our Roses never looked better and are coming in fine. 



Our Carnations as usual are the best in Chicago. 



Let us convince you with a trial order. 



WIETOR BROS. 



51 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO. 



AMBBTCA V BBAUTT Per doz. 



Extra long stemB $3.50 



30-inch stems 3.00 



24-inch steins 2.50 



20-inch stems 1.50 



15-inch stems 1.25 



12-inch stems 1.00 



Short stems 60 



i;OVa BTBMS Per 100 



Kaiserln, fancy $7.00 



good $4.00 to 5.00 



Brides, fancy 6.00 



" good 2.00to 4.00 



Bridesmaids, fancy 6.00 



good 2.00 to 4.00 



Liberty, fancy 7.00 



good 2.00 to 5.00 



Richmond, fancy 7.00 



good 2.00to 5.00 



Meteor, fancy 6.00 



" good 2.00 to 4.00 



Chatenay, fancy 6.00 



good 2.00 to 4.00 



Golden Gate, fancy 6.00 



" good 2.00 to 4.00 



Perle 4.00 to 5.00 



Carnations, fancy 2.00 



good 1.00 to 1.50 



Mention The Ryylew when you write. 



ket. Inquiries as to stock have already 

 been made. 



The bowlers will play this winter in 

 the Illinois league, at Anson's. The first 

 session was on Tuesday night. The team 

 at the start is the same as at the Wash- 

 ington convention but is open to change 

 if new talent develops. Last Thursday 

 night the florist bowlers to the number 

 of nearly a dozen were the guests of 

 Capt. A. I. Simmons and the Seventh 

 Begiment bowlers at Tattersalls. It was 

 a merry evening. 



The regular quarterly meeting of the 

 Horticultural Society was held at the 

 Auditorium Annex Tuesday afternoon. 

 The executive committee had a session 

 of several hours, acting on routine mat- 

 ters for the approaching show. 



Edgar Sanders celebrated his seventy- 

 eighth birthday October 10. A coterie 

 of his friends and relatives helped him 

 pass a very enjoyable day and evening 

 at his home, where refreshments were 

 served. 



Visitors. 



Visitors the past week included: E. 

 6. Hill, Richmond, Ind., who was taken 

 ill while here and forced to hasten home; 

 N. R. Swan, Lima, O., who will con- 

 centrate his efforts; J. J. Waaland, 

 Findlay, 0., who recently bought N. R. 

 Swan's place there; Mr. Sullivan, of 

 Galvin's, Boston, who was "just look- 

 ing around;" C. E. Lindsay, Birming- 

 ham, Ala., who is a son of Wm. Lindsay; 

 John Bertermann, Indianapolis, on 

 flower show business; Fred E. Plagge, 

 Elgin, m., who was looking for sup- 

 plies; C. O. Williams, Batavia, 111., who 

 reports trade good. 



The Review's Pronouncing Diction- 

 ary sent on receipt of 25 cents. 



CoLORA, Md. — George Balderston, of 

 the Colora Nurseries, reports that all in- 

 dications point to a good season. Inqui- 

 ries are already coming in for lettuce, 

 which is wanted nine months in the year 

 by quite an extensive home trade. Car- 

 nations are looking well. Surplus stock 

 is scarce in this section of the country 

 and hard to get to fill vacancies cansed 

 by stem-rot, which has been bad this 

 year. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



The quantity of flowers arriving con- 

 tinue?: to increase steadily, a heavy pro- 

 duction being caused by the splendid 

 weather we have had during the past 

 fortnight. Chrysanthemums are coming 

 in more plentifully and make a notice- 

 able difference to carnations. Very soon 

 they will also affect rose prices seri- 

 ously. The varieties arriving include 

 Bergmann, "Willowbrook, Monrovia, 

 Marquis de Montmort, Polly Rose and 

 Glory of Pacific. Prices vary from $8 

 to $16 per hundred. 



American Beauties continue to sell 

 well and the best grades have shown a 

 slight hardening tendency. Brides, 

 Maids, Kaiserins and Liberty are all 

 coming of good quality. Best Maids 

 have reached $10. Short-stemmed stock 

 of all kinds moves very slowly. 



Cai^ations are much more abundant 

 and have slumped a little in price. Vio- 

 lets, both single and double, are arriv- 

 ing quite freely, 50 cents per hundred 

 being a fair average price. Some good 

 lily of the valley comes in. Prices on 

 this show no change. Some asters and 

 gladioli are still seen and from shel- 

 tered locations a good many dahlias still 

 arrive, selling very well. There is no 

 change in green stock. 



Various Notes. 



Montrose Greenhouses are handling 

 very fine Bride, Maid and Liberty roses 

 at their stall in the Park street market. 

 Herbert C. Tyler is their new salesman 

 and fills his post very eflBciently. 



Malcolm Orr, as usual, led the pro- 

 cession with mums this season. He 

 grows mostly early varieties and follows 

 them with sweet peas, which he grows 

 finely. 



Anderson & "Williams are about the 

 only growers of Bouvardia Humboldtii 

 for the Boston market. It sells well at 

 the stores just now and deserves its 

 popularity, for it is far the best of its 

 family. 



Peonies and sweet peas will form two 

 important shows in Boston next season. 

 Quite a number of new classes are 

 added for each of these flowers. 



The Boston Mycological Club contin- 

 ues to have large and interesting exhib- 

 its of fungi at Horticultural hall each 

 Saturday, which attract many visitors. 



Oakes Ames, R. G. Leavitt and A. 

 Eaton, of North Easton, sailed for Eu- 

 rope on October 9. They will visit 

 botanic gardens, horticultural libraries 

 and noted herbariums in London, Paris, 

 Berlin, Vienna and other cities. 



Houghton & Clark had a prettily ar- 

 ranged window the past week, composed 

 of cattleyas, crotons and adiantums. 



Circulars are out for the meeting of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club on 

 October 17. Superintendent Pettigrew, 

 of the Boston park system, will speak 

 on parks and gardens of Europe and 

 their development as seen in his recent 

 trip. A reception for members of the 

 North Shore Horticnltural Society, who 

 will attend in a body, will be held at 

 7:30, the regular meeting commencing 

 at 8 o'clock. There will be some inter- 

 esting exhibits, tnusic and refreshments. 

 Applications for membership continue to 

 come in and everything points to the 

 club having the largest membership of 

 any similar organization in the country 

 ere the year closes. The attendance on 

 October 17 will break all records. 



It is many years since we had such a 

 magnificent fall. For over a fortnight 

 cloudless skies have been the rule. The 

 tints on trees and shrubs are superb and 

 certainly our New England climate at 

 this season of the year is incomparable. 

 Of course croakers tell us "we will suf- 

 fer for this later on," but we naturally 

 expect some shadow after such a glori- 

 ous spell of brilliant weather. 



Welch Bros, are receiving some excep- 

 tionally fine Beauty and Queen of 

 Edgely roses at present. Their receipts 

 of violets, carnations and chrysanthe- 

 mums are also reaching large propor- 

 tions. W. N. Craig. 



Salt Lake Citt.— Thos. W. Burnett is 

 planning to build three carnation houses 

 20x100. 



LrrTLE Rock, Ark. — J. W. Vestal & 

 Son are building two more houses each 

 25x200 feet, modern in every detail. 

 They have also put in two new boilera 

 in the old range of houses. 



