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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JANUABT 4, 1906, 



A. L. VAUGHAN L. D. Telephone, Central 2571 FREDERICK SPERRY 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



60 Wabash Avenue, Chicago 



WHOLESALERS AND JOBBERS 



BEAUTIBS Per doz. 



36-inch stems $6.00 



30-inch stems 5.00 



24-inch stems 4.00 



20-inch stems 3.00 



18-inch stems 2.50 



15-inch stems 2.00 



12-inch stems 1.50 



Short stems 76c to 1.26 



Prices subject to change without notice. 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



Per 100 



Brides and Maids $4 00 to $12.00 



Liberty and Richmond 6.00 to 12.00 



Golden Gates 4.00to 12.00 



Roses, our selection 4.00 



Carnations, select 2.00 to 3.00 



fancy 4.00 to 6.00 



Violets, double l.OOto 1.50 



single 1.00 



Valley 4.00 to 5.00 



Callas per doz. 2.00 



Harrisii per doz. 2.50 



Per 100 



Paper Whites and Romans $3.00 



Mignonette $5.00 to 10.00 



Stevia 1.60to 2.00 



Leucothoe Sprays .75 



Adiantum 1.00 



Smilax per doz. 2.00 



Asparagus Strings each .50 



" Bunches each .36 to .50 



Sprengeri Bunches each .35 



Galax Leaves, per 1000, $1.25. ... ,15 



Ferns, per 1000, $2.00 .25 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



PHILADELPHIA, 



The Market 



The market conditions were favorable 

 all through Christmas week. The supply 

 was fair, with sufficient demand to keep 

 prices higher than usual during the last 

 days of the year. 



New Year's business was good, espe- 

 cially on fancy stock. There was not 

 enough demand to maintain the high 

 prices on ordinary grades. Tempted by 

 the weather, the street men invested 

 largely in single violets on New Year's 

 day. 



There is much social activity this 

 week. In town there are quite a number 

 of handsome dinners and some large en- 

 tertainments, including the first Assem- 

 bly ball, which occurs on Friday. Out 

 of town there is considerable activity. 



Single daffodils are becoming more 

 plentiful, as is white lilac. 



CXtr Beauty Specialists. 



When it became known on the street 

 that "Marty had hit it again" the Ke- 

 viEW correspondent made efforts to learn 

 something of the great crop of Ameri- 

 can Beauty roses that Myers & Samtman 

 had harvested for Christmas. Through 

 the courtesy of a member of the firm it 

 was learned that the cut had been larger 

 than ever before at the holidays, which 

 is wonderful, as they have been very 

 successful in past seasons. Besides their 

 own customers they supply the Leo Nies- 

 sen Co., of this city, and J. B. Murdoch 

 & Co., of Pittsburg. The firm reports 

 that the demand for fancy Beauties at 

 $1.5 and $18 a dozen was heavy, lasting 

 right up to Christmas morning. The 

 prices in the medium grades reached a 

 new high water mark. Myers & Samt- 

 man firmly believe that the prices paid 

 by the public for flowers at the holidays 

 entitle them to absolutely fresh stock. 

 Their large cut is due to clever manage- 

 ment of the plants and not to salting 

 the flowers. 



Mr, Fox's Views, 



The Review, wishing to give its read- 

 ers some food for thought regarding the 

 possibilities of Christmas, sent Phil to 

 see some of the most prominent of our 



THE Florists' Supply House of America 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



wish to thank every one of their florist friends for 

 their liberal patronage during nineteen-five. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. 



wish every florist in the land a happy and a pros- 

 perous New Year and promise that they will spare 

 no effort to keep THE Florists' Supply House of 

 America in its place — ^far in the lead during 1906. 



January J, 1906. 



60, 68, 64 and 66 

 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Mention The ReTlew when yog write. 



city retailers, men of brains and artistic 

 skill who guide the public taste in no 

 small measure. Among these men Charles 

 Fox, genial, enterprising, resourceful, a 

 man who has made his mark in the 

 world of flowers, expressed views worthy 

 of attention. Mr. Fox believes that the 

 greatest possibilities for development in 

 the Christmas business for the general 

 florist lie in the arrangement of small 

 flowering plants with foliage or foliage 

 plants. There will always be buyers for 

 choice cut flowers, but for the buyer who 

 feels that the life of a cut blossom is too 

 brief to be worth many dollars a dozen 

 the basket tastefully filled with poinset- 

 tias and ferns presents a delightful ave- 

 nue of escape. The demand for small 

 poinsettias in 3-inch and 4-inch pots has 

 never, Mr. Fox states, been satisfied. 

 There are other plants that might, with 

 profit, be more extensively grown in 

 small sizes for this purpose. 



A Grand Ball. 



The ball season commenced the very 

 next day after Christmas, the Benedicts', 

 the Bachelors' and Mrs. Clark's oc- 

 curring on succeeding nights. Mrs. 

 Clark 's is considered the handsomest of 

 the many handsome balls that have taken 

 place in Horticultural hall, the floral 

 artists, J. J. Habermehl's Sons, being 

 highly complimented on their work. The 

 dancing floor was completely surrounded 

 by foliage and flowers. The walls were 

 draped with southern smilax. The tall 

 windows were curtained with the same 

 graceful green brought back by bands of 

 scarlet carnations. In the window seats 

 were Easter lilies and poinsettias taste- 

 fully grouped. On the walls in the space 

 between the windows were placques cov- 

 ered with green plush, studded with elec- 

 tric lights of the same colors, and fur- 

 ther enriched by clusters of flowers. 



Foliage plants were arranged in fes- 



