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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEB 19, 1905. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



ALL COLORS 



Price, $ I ♦00 to $3.00 per dozen. Special prices on lots of 

 J 00 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. 



AMBBZOAH BBAUTT Per doz. 



Extra long stems $8.50 



30-inch stems 8.00 



24-inch stems 2.50 



20-inch stems. > 1.50 



15-inch stems 1.25 



12-inch stems 1.00 



Short stems 60 



&OVO BTBM8 Per 100 



Kaiserin, fancy.. $7.00 



good $4.00to 5.00 



Brides, fancy 6.00 



" good 2.00 to 4.00 



Bridesmaids, fancy 6.00 



good 2.00 to 4.00 



Liberty, fancy 7.00 



good 2.00to 5.00 



Richmond, fancy 7.00 



good 2.00 to 5.00 



Meteor, fancy 6.00 



" good 2.00to 4.00 



Chatenay, fancy 6.00 



good 2.00to 4.00 



Golden Gate, fancy 6.00 



" good 2.00 to 4.00 



Perle 4.00 to 5.00 



Carnations, fancy 2.00 



good l.OOto 1.50 



Menmiu The KeTlew when yon write. 



Monday only a very few touched the 

 high-water mark, $3 a dozen. It looks 

 to me as if, as with the violet, there are 

 too many of them and with such an 

 early and beautiful start the race is 

 likely to degenerate into a rout, and the 

 Lord pity the "lame, the halt and the 

 blind" among them. 



Roses have all siiflfered this week. On 

 Monday the best Beauties could be 

 bought for $15 and Brides and Maids 

 for $4 per hundred. This is bottom, 

 though, I am sure, for this season and 

 before long they will all begin to climb. 

 Some splendid Killarney and Kichmond 

 are reaching the market and sell well, 

 as do Kaiserin and Carnot. Most of the 

 carnations are still short-stemmed and 

 below the mark. The novelties are com- 

 mencing to arrive, however, and really 

 good stock sells readily. The best re- 

 tailers are very particular, however, and 

 are making the best of their power as 

 arbiters of values. 



Violets are on the street and as com- 

 mon as the sunflower in Kansas. This 

 is due to the warm weather, doubtless, 

 and with the breath of winter will come 

 perfume and depth of color and associa- 

 tion again with the diamonds upon the 

 palpitating bosoms of society. Some ar- 

 riving are still good enough for 50 cents 

 a hundred. But the rest, well, it is an- 

 other case of * ' buyer 's option. ' ' 



Strange to say orchids are over-abun- 

 dant. This does not happen often. But 

 when you find cattleyas in every retail 

 window in the city you do not need to 

 be told there are ' * enough and to spare. ' ' 

 It would be the ' ' irony of fate ' ' if some 

 day the demand for orchids should not 

 be equal to the supply. This hardly 

 seems possible in our generation. 



Some fine dahlias, the single and cac- 

 tus varieties, still maintain their popu- 

 larity and grace the retailers' windows. 

 Lilies are increasing and weddings are 

 running light, or else orchids are the 

 thing for brides, considering the present 

 surplus of valley. 



Variolic Notes. 



One wedding last Saturday, the Wil- 

 son-Marten nuptials at the church of the 

 Heavenly Eest, was an orchid dream. 

 Over a thousand cattleyas were used, 



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 LINE OF 

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 SUPPLIES 

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 WEST. 



A DAILY SHIPMEHT from 40 to 60 GROWERS 



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We are ready to take care of your needs with liberal supplies of all 

 grades of stock, packed in a manner to reach you in good condition. A 

 trial order will prove that we can and will supply you to advantage. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



We have them by the doEen or thonsand, 

 all grades, 76o to $3.00 per dozen. 



BEAUTIES, RICHMOND, KILLARNEY, MAIDS, etc. 

 CARNATIONS, ORCHIDS, VALLEY, VIOLETS, etc. 



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 to send us your name for a regular copy. It is absolutely free. 



E. F. WINTERSON CO. 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yog write. 



most of them cut from the great con- 

 servatories of Mr. Wilson, at Great Neck 

 and Philadelphia. Bowe had charge of 

 the decorations and was ably assisted by 

 that dean among artistic artificers in 

 flowers, Arthur Merritt. This was the 

 first all orchid decoration ever made in 

 this country. Bride and maid carried 

 orchid bouquets and orchids graced the 

 manly bosoms of the groom and his as- 

 sistants. Fifth avenue looked like a 

 moving orchid garden after the cere- 

 mony was over. 



Another great wedding at Shelburne, 

 Vt., the Webb-Pulitzer affair, which oc- 

 curred on Saturday, called for quite a 

 little stock from here. 



The big automobile race on Saturday 

 enticed many of the wholesale florists 

 and a good many of the Long Island 

 growers over to the course near Garden 

 City. Prominent among the millionaire 

 florists in his own auto was W. H. Sie- 

 breeht and family, of Astoria. Next 

 year he will be one of the racers, if a 

 sharp eye is not kept on him. In fact, 

 at the present rate of growth in value of 

 land on tiong Island every florist over 

 there will be bringing his goods to mar- 



ket in his automobile before the robins 

 nest again. 



J. T. Lovctt's dahlias and herbaceous 

 flowers are handled by A. J. Guttman. 

 Inadvertently an error was made as to 

 this in our report of the exhibits at the 

 New York club meeting a week ago. 



John J. Perkins is handling some fine 

 cattleyas at his headquarters on west 

 Thirtieth street. 



Charles Millang received twenty large 

 cases of evergreens and other stock from 

 Holland on Monday, his second ship- 

 ment, and will have another large im- 

 portation before the season closes. The 

 stock is excellent and is disposed of al- 

 most as rapidly as assorted. Many of 

 the big New York stores are using these 

 goods and one Brooklyn house took a 

 thousand plants on Tuesday. 



Starke & Kleine, of 52 West Twenty- 

 ninth street, have leased a large green- 

 house in Astoria for the care of their 

 palms and ferns, their present quarters 

 being limited and their business grow- 

 ing rapidly, so that a permanent source 

 of supply on which to draw at short 

 notice became a necessity. 



An explosion of gas in the basement 



