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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



OCTOBBB 26, 1005. 



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The season is now on. Wc can furnish the best stock in the market in great variety. 

 Our roses were never better. RICHMOND and KILLARNEY9 our novelties, are 

 especially fine. Give us a tyial order for these. Carnations, Violets, Orchids, Valley 

 and everything in season at lowest market rates. 



The BENTHEY-COATSWORTH CO. 



35 RANDOLPH STREET, CHICAGO 



Meatlon The Reylew when you write. 



A party of growers went to Eockford 

 on . "Wednesday to inspect the new range 

 of H. W. Buckbee and to see the stock 

 they will exhibit at the Chicago show. 

 Among those who went are James Harts- 

 home, August Poehlmann and J. S. Wil- 

 son. 



Fred Hinks is the city salesman for 

 the Chicago Carnation Co. 



Superintendent Jensen, of the west 

 parks, is preparing for a "before and 

 after" demonstration of what the new 

 west park board is accomplishing. A 

 short time ago he had photographs taken 

 of more than 100 of the bad places in 

 the park system. A little later he will 

 have them transformed into good places 

 and photographed again. 



L. Baumann & Co. report a very good 

 business these days. They are busy ship- 

 ping Christmas goods. 



C. M. Dickinson, of E. H. Hunt's, 

 went to New York Sunday on the Lake 

 Shore Limited. 



C. L. Washburn was at Madison Sat- 

 urday to see the Chicago-Wisconsin foot- 

 ball game with his son, who is in college 

 at the Badger capital. 



The daily papers have given consid- 

 erable space the past week to the elope- 

 ment of Emma Landahl and her return 

 home. She is the daughter of a florist 

 at 810 Hamilton court. 



C. W. McKellar sold 300 cattleyas on 

 Monday. 



Stollery Bros, report mums very late. 

 They have some fine Duckham but say 

 it is not a good grower. For Christmas 

 they have a splendid batch of cyclamen. 

 On Tuesday they received an importation 

 of seven cases of azaleas. 



W. W. Barnard Co. reports the arrival 

 of bouquet green. 



Wietor Bros, cut the first Robinson, 

 BonnaflFon and Appleton chrysanthemums 

 the same day, October 23. They are cut- 

 ting some splendid Beauties. 



Killarney rose is steadily improving 

 with Weiland & Risch and the Benthey- 

 Coatsworth Co. and they are receiving 

 many inquiries as to supplying stock to 

 other growers who want to plant it next 

 season. 



E. C. Amling says that he notes one 

 very decided and welcome change in the 

 demand, a call for better and ever better 

 goods. Customers who a year or two 

 ago bought carnations at $1 a hundred 

 only in limited quantities, now pay $2 

 per hundred (for two-dollar goods) and 

 buy more of them. To Mr. Amling it 

 indicates that all classes of people are 

 in easier circumstances, with money to 

 spend, and that the public is learning 



WILD SM1IL3X 



NOW ON HAND 



Now is the time to buy your season's stock of 



WIRE WORK 



Get our discounts before you place the order 

 for your season's supply. Nobody ever 

 claimed to undersell us on wire work. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS 



V. 



40-42-44 Randolph Street, 



CHICAGO. 



that with cut flowers, as with anything 

 else, a good article is cheapest in the 

 end. 



Visitors: Mrs. Frances Spickerman, 

 Sandwich, 111.; Chas. A. Shaeffer and 

 James Bigham, Kansas City, buying 

 stock; Fred Foster and wife, St. Louis, 

 attending the horse show. 



NEV ORLEANS. 



The Society Meets. 



The New Orleans Horticultural Society 

 had a well-attended meeting last week. 

 The chrysanthemum show will take place 

 November 10 to 13. By special request 

 to the mayor, Lafayette Square, in front 

 of the city hall, was secured. A tent 

 measuring 75x200 feet will we erected. 

 The help of the Sunshiners' Association 

 is assured and also some side attracliions 

 will be secured. The Jackson avenue high 

 school children will present an Indian 

 play and Miss Moilie Blanchard, daugh- 

 ter of the governor of Louisiana, will 

 sing during the exhibition. The school 

 cadets will also have a drill. James 

 Newsham, chairman of the committee of 

 arrangements, resigned and E. Baker 

 accepted his place. For floral designs 

 the judges will be selected by the Sun- 

 shiners from among society ladies. For 

 the plants the following have been elected 



by the society: George Thomas, C. 

 Wilier, John Eblen. 



The idea of a Southern Interstate Hor- 

 ticultural Society was taken up and a 

 letter by Paul Abele, to be sent to all 

 the societies of the south, was read and 

 endorsed by the members of the society. 



Varioui Notes. 



The chrysanthemum crop in New Or- 

 leans, as far as All Saints' day is con- 

 cerned, is going to be poor this year. 

 For some unaccountable reason the plants 

 did not make a good growth at the 

 proper time and they are now too far 

 back to be in perfect shape for Novem- 

 ber 1, which is the only time we need 

 them in abundance. 



Going among the principal growers 

 wo found M. Cook & Son with flowers 

 raised under glass, Mrs. Robinson fairly 

 open, other varieties behind. Their roses 

 are budded stock and they are not satis- 

 fied with it. 



H. Papworth, of Metairie Ridge Nur- 

 series, is also behind, having been extra 

 busy all the summer with the erection of 

 his range of new houses. His roses look 

 healthy, Bride and Maid being the best. 

 Chatenay and American Beauties are 

 good. He is not ready to say anything 

 so far of Richmond. His early planted 

 carnations did not turn out any too well. 



