November 30, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



95 



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Best Beauties 



If you want them, the judfl^es at Chicag^o, 



The Greatest Flower Show of the Year 



Have told you where to get them. We were 



FIRST ON 100 BEAUTIES 



Large Supplies of Tea Roses and Carnations 



We produce Prize Winning 8tocl( In such great quantltiei that we can fill shipping orders 

 for Select Stocli at any time. 



WIETOR BROS.,. J ..Chicago 



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PRICE LIST. 



1 



AMERICAN BEAUTY Per doz. 



Extra long stems $4.00 to $5.00 



30-inch stems 3.00 



24-inch stems 2.50 



20-inch stems 2.00 



15-inch stems 1.50 



12-Jnch stems 1.2.5 



Short stems 1.00 



LONG STEMS Per 100 



Kai.serin, fancy $6.00 



good $3.00 to 4.00 



Brides, fancy 6.00 



good 3.00 to 4.00 



Bridesmaids, fancy 6.00 



good S.OOto 4.00 



Liberty, fancy 0.00 



good 3.00to 4.00 



Richmond, fancy 6.00 



good 3.00 to 4.00 



Meteor, fancy 6. CO 



good 3.00to 4.00 



Chatenay, fancy 6.00 



good 3.00 to 4.00 



Golden Gate, fancy 6.00 



good ,. 3.00 to 4.00 



Perle 3.00 to 4.00 



Roses, our selection 3.00 



Carnations, fancy 4.00 



good 3.00 



Chrysanthemums, fancy, perdoz. 2.50 



good " 1.00 to 2.00 



All other stock at lowest market rates— no 



charge for packing. Prices subject to change 



without notice. 



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WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



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BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



"We heard from some quarters that 

 business was rather quiet. "We still think 

 with the majority that the aggregate 

 for the month will be found quite satis- 

 factory. Good, sensibly formed, mod- 

 erate-priced mums are in good demand 

 and will all go. This is always the case 

 and we notice several benches occupied 

 with Thirkell and Nellie Pockett and 

 Ben Wells that the owners would like 

 very much to trade for Bonnaffon, white 

 and yellow, and Jerome Jones, even if 

 they were only one-half the size. 

 Surely you small growers, you have had 

 a lesson taught you this year and should 

 profit by it. 



Visitors. 



We have calls this week from several 

 florists who were a long way from home, 

 among them Mr. McBurney, Atlanta, Ga. 

 Mr, McBurney is a clean cut, shrewd, 



up-to-date business man who would make 

 a success in any line. Mr. McBurney 

 just ran over from New York, a dis- 

 tance of 450 miles, to interview Alex J. 

 Scott, whom he eventually engaged to 

 take charge of his extensive southern 

 place. We hope that unqualified suc- 

 cess will crown the efforts and industry 

 of Aleck J., for we feel sure they will 

 meet with every encouragement and ap- 

 preciation from the proprietors. 



Al. Mauff blew in on the way from 

 Denver. There is just enough of the 

 wild west left about Al to make him 

 distinct and out of the common, yet he 

 is very much up-to-date in the business. 

 He reported a great time at the Kansas 

 City show and a very pleasant visit at 

 Milwaukee. 



Chas. Eoney, of the Lake View Kose 

 Gardens, was here, calling on his cus- 

 tomers and friends. He reports all crops 

 except carnations in fine order. One of 

 the items was 15,000 lilies for Thanks- 

 giving. 



M. Bloy, manager of the Ohio Floral 

 Co., Cleveland, 0., made a flying visit 

 to his old home. He reports this brand 

 new establishment as thriving and every- 

 thing promising for an increase of 

 glass. 



Still farther than any to travel east 

 was Mr. Hopkins, of Seattle, Wash., a 

 bright young man, who seemed to be 

 making this trip of 7,000 miles purely to 

 see what older establishments were do- 

 ing. What an example to some I know, 

 who are too lazy to go ten miles to see 

 things well done. 



Connie Forbach. 



We jumped on a Genessee car last week 

 and rode out to see Connie Forbach, of 

 the firm of Collins & Forbach, who are 

 running the old Bapin houses at Pine 

 Ridge. Mr. Collins is a busy man at 

 another business, so Mr. Forbach is the 

 whole thing at the greenhouses. The 

 houses are very old and awkwardly built, 

 but poor as they are, their architecture 

 is superb compared with their heating. 

 When severe winter sets in they are 

 little better than cold-storage and Connie 

 cracks many a joke over his difficulties. 

 Yet it is remarkable what he does with 

 these houses up to Christmas. He has 

 as fine a bench of Begonia Lorraine as 

 can possibly be seen anywhere. About 

 800 in 6-inch pots are wonderful, many 

 of them now perfection and others 

 pinched for Christmas. He also has a 

 fine lot of cyclamens in various degrees 

 of earliness. 



But Connie himself is the principal ex- 

 hibit, modest, taking no credit for what 

 he does to perfection, but giving credit 

 to those who do things well that his poor 

 houses cannot. He is a student and 

 shows the result of it in anything he at- 

 tempts to grow. W. S. 



Eed Oak, Ia.— The Eed Oak Green- 

 house property and business has been 

 purchased from H. F. Clarke and S. G. 

 Hersman by Miss Lillian B. Currelley, 

 from St. Mary 's, Ontario, for $2,500. 



Washington. D. C. — The Bureau of 

 Plant Industry at the Department of 

 Agriculture is preparing to make an ex- 

 tended series of experiments in the use 

 of electric light in accelerating tlis 

 growth of plants. 



