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The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



November 23, 1905. 



BASSEH & WASHBIRN 



store and Office 



76 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



Growers and Whole- 

 sale Dealers in 



Cut Flowers 



Oresnhouaes 



Hinsdale, III. 



THANKSGIVING PRICE LIST 



Beauties per doz. 



36 to 48-inch stems $5.00 



;iO-inch stems 4.00 



20 to 24-lnch stems 3.00 



15 to 18-inch stems 2.00 



12-inch stems 1.50 



Liberty and Richmond 



A— All long stems 



No. 1— Good length stems 



No. 2— Medium length stems 



No. 3— Short stems 



Perles 



A and No. 1— Good length stems 

 No. 2— Fair length stems 



10.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 



6.00 

 4.00 



Kaiserins and Carnots Per loo 



A— All long stems $10.00 



No. 1— Good length stems $7.00 to 8.00 



No. 2— Fair length stems 4.00 to 5.00 



Chatenay, Bridesmaid 



and Bride per lOO 



A— All long stems $8.00 



No. 1— Good length stems 6.00 



No . 2— Short and medium 4.00 



Carnations 



Fancy and extra fancy $5.00 to $6.00 



Good large flowers 4.00 



No small stock grown by us. 



Lily of the Valley 



Very fine flowers ' 



Per 100 

 $4.00 



Chrysanthemums Per doz. 



White and Yellow $1.00 to $3.00 



Depending on size. All guaranteed to 

 arrive in good condition. 



Greens 



Asparagus, fine long strings... per string, 40c 



Asparagus Sprays per 100, $2.00 



Sprengeri Sprays per 100, 2.(i0 



Smilax, long and heavy per doz. 1.50 



Maidenhair Perns per 100, 1.00 



Galax, Green or Bronze per 1000, 1.25 



Common Ferns per 1000, 1.50 



"We grow all of our stock and you will find it a great advantage to buy direct of the growers. A cordial 

 invitation extended to visit our greenhouses, 800,000 square feet, all in best possible condition. 



. Mention The Review when you write. 



VICTORY 



The best scarlet carnation— being remarkably prolific 



are always wanted. Enchantress seems 

 to have been most plentiful this fall and 

 of splendid quality. Deeper colors are 

 scarce. I notice Flamingo is much 

 earlier than last year. 



On a recent visit to Neighbor 

 Christenson, a few days ago, I was much 

 impressed with a small bench of Car- 

 nation The Queen. For quantity of 

 flowers and buds it carried me back to 

 the old days of President Degraw. ' * My 

 dear boy, there is only one house and 

 one bench on this place that will grow 

 that fine carnation, and that is on this 

 spot, where I can get abundance of ven- 

 tilation and 42 degrees at night." It 

 certainly looked at home. 



Mr. Christenson 's place looked well. 

 A fine lot of Bermudas will be in plenty 

 of time for the holidays; several fine 

 tables of mignonette and the carnations 

 are in excellent order. He goes light on 

 mums, only growing a few to give him 

 room when cut for spreading his pot 

 stuff. He had but three varieties (sensi- 

 ble man) Halliday for an early vari- 

 ety, Maud Dean and a fine white 

 which he calls Mrs. Weeks. I think 

 there is a slight confusion of names 

 here, for it looked identical with the 

 variety Adelia. It is a grand commer- 

 cial white. Mr. Christenson 's place is 

 always a pleasure to visit, not only to 

 see good culture, but to realize the 

 beauty and comfort of perfect order and 

 cleanliness. Oh, what a multitude of 

 sins these virtues do coverl "Come, my 

 boy; let's go to the shed and have an- 

 other snoozer." 



Some of our young blood has been 

 traveling of late. President-elect Kast- 

 ing is a very young man, but a much 



traveled one. He has been visiting the 

 big cities of the west, much as he 

 needed the rest, for the week previous to 

 his departure he and his good wife 

 passed through a most strenuous time. 

 Mrs. Kasting had charge of the flower 

 booth at the German Hospital bazaar 

 and Billy was chairman of the commit- 

 tee on ways and means. 



The other traveler was David, of 

 Corfu. How delighted we are to see 

 the boys travel and see what older heads 

 and longer experience are doing, but if 

 you have the faculty of observation and 

 tact to listen and converse with your 

 brother florists, your time and money in 

 travel will be well spent. Never in the 

 history of this great country, or of hor- 

 ticulture, has there been a brighter 

 future than there is today, and young 

 men should realize and rejoice in the 

 fact. The measure of your success will 

 be in exact proportion to your applica- 

 tion and ability for business. We almost 

 all of us reap what we sow. I feel our 

 profession is only in its infancy and a 

 great future is before the rising genera- 

 tion. 



We recently had a call from Mr. Gil- 

 rtian, a violet specialist of Ehinebeck, 

 the locality that produces those sweet 

 little flowers for New York and sev- 

 eral other states. Mr. Oilman's violets 

 are superb and all come to Buffalo and 

 are handled by Mr. Kasting. I think it 

 was the product of Mr. Gilman that 

 captured first prize at Chicago's great 

 show. 



I am sorry to announce that Charles 

 Foss, proprietor of the Central Park 

 Greenhouses, has recently made an as- 

 signment. The published statement of 



his affairs gave his liabilities at $8,000 

 and his assets at $800. 



It is seldom we have any news of the 

 florists' national game of bowling, but 

 I want to tell you that we have a full- 

 fledged florists' bowling team and they 

 bowl weekly and stand third in a 

 tournament of eight teams. The team 

 consists of George Kathron, Sam Wal- 

 lace, Wm. Weber, Carl Beish, Charles 

 Sandiford and "Old Hoss" George Mc- 

 Clure. They are all bowling strong ex- 

 cept McClure. He falls down below 150 

 occasionally. He suffers slightly with 

 stage fright and admits that he cannot 

 shake off the feeling that John Westcott 

 is watching him. Several of the old and 

 young boys go down to root for them, 

 and if they practice until spring they 

 will be a dangerous quintet in the town 

 of the cash register, Altickville. 



W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Although there was a little improve- 

 ment in the cut flower trade the past 

 week, the retail business is not what it 

 should be at this time of the year. 

 Funeral orders and weddings have mon- 

 opolized the time for the past two weeks. 

 Cut stock of all kinds is piled high in 

 the wholesale houses, with very little 

 demand except at cheap prices. The 

 wholesalers claim that prices and demand 

 are far behind the average for the season 

 but Thanksgiving day is only a week 

 away, when prices are bound to go up, 

 regardless of the glut that is on at this 

 writing. 



