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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



FBBBUABT 1, 1906. 



BRIGHT SUN 



Plentiful Supplies 



PVQti^Iity'has improved materially under the influence of clear, 

 warm weather. We have large cots and would like an opportunity 

 to supply a part of your requirements; then you can compare our 

 treatment with "the other feUow's.** 



Try us now, Avhlle stock is abundant; then 

 we'll take care of you when stock is scarce. 



E. H.HUNT 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



CURRENT PRICES 



B£AVTI£S Per doz. 



80to36-inch 14.00 to 16.00 



24to28-lnch S.OOtO 4.00 



16to20-lnch 1.60to 3.00 



8tol2-lnch l.OOto 1.60 



Shorts .76 



ROSES (Teaa) Per 100 



Brides and Maids S6.00to $8.00 



Richmond 4.00to 10.00 



Liberty 4.00to 10.00 



Perle 4.00to 7.00 



Boses. our selection 4.U0 



CARNATIONS 2.00to 3.00 



Extra fancy 3.00to 4.00 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Violets, double 76to 1.00 



Harrlsli Lilies 15.00 to 20.00 



Callas 12.00 to 15.00 



Valley S.fiOto 4.00 



Tulips 3.00 to 4.00 



Paper Whites S.OOto 4.00 



Romans 3.00 



Mignonette 6.00 to 10.00 



GREENS 



Smllax Strings per doz. 1.50 to 2.00 



Asparagus Strings each .40 to .60 



Asparagus Bunches " .36 



Sprengerl Bunches " .36 



Boxwood Bunches " .35 



Adiantum per 100 .75 to 1.00 



Ferns, Common per 1000 2.00 



Galax, G. and B " 1.25 to 1.60 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.60 



Wild Smllax, 13.00, $4.00, t5.00 per case. 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



lesson to one open to learn. So in com- 

 pany with the Hon. Wm. P. Kasting, 

 we journeyed up the Lake Shore to the 

 city of Erie, a thriving, growing city. 

 The name Erie was familiar to us many 

 years before we ever expected to see 

 the beautiful lake. Campbell, the 

 Scotch poet, says, **Lo, the poor In- 

 dian, on Erie's shore," and ever since 

 that the dusky aborigine has been known 

 as Mr. and Mrs. Lo. 



Mr. Kasting occupies and is prospec- 

 tive owner of a fine place built by S. 

 Alfred Baur. It appears that Mr. Baur 

 built with the best of intentions, but be- 

 fore the houses were fully equipped he 

 ran short of the necessary and collapsed 

 before any benches could be built. The 

 place consists of seven houses, each 

 33x150, well built and well heated, with 

 a shed 210 feet long that you can drive 

 a load of hay in at one end and out at; 

 the other. There is every convenience 

 for an extensive business; a spacious 

 cool cellar and a boiler pit that will 

 hold ten carloads of fuel, with two 

 forty horse-power boilers. John Milley, 

 a Buffalo boy, is the present manager 

 and, though handicapped for want of 

 benches, is doing well. It is essentially 

 a cut flower place, but there are many 

 other crops at present, all of which enter 

 nicely into Mr. Kasting 's businMS. 

 There are twenty-one acres of land, in- 

 cluding every quality of soil, some ideal 

 for roses; two large ice houses and pond 

 to supply the ice, several large bams 

 and stables; altogether a model place 

 for a very large florist's plant. It is 

 situated in a fine growing part and only 

 a few yards outside the city limits. 

 When Mr. Baur gave up possession he 

 left affairs rather tangled up, which it 

 would take a Philadelphia lawyer to 

 explain, but eventually there is little 

 doubt that Mr. Kasting will be the proud 

 possessor of this fine property, which, 

 when fully equipped, would afford a 

 handsome income to any industrious flo- 

 rist. The best Pennsylvania coal can be 

 bought there at $1.45 per ton. We pay 

 $2.45 in Buffalo. Mr. Milley lives on 

 the place, in a very neat house and, with 

 a pretty young wife, should be very 

 comfortable. The day was glorious, 

 mud abundant, ^nd having developed an 

 abnormal appetite we greatly enjoyed 

 the day. 



A Trip to Attica. 



The following week, and on a day 

 more like June than January, we ran 

 out to see Mr. Stroh, of Attica. His 

 place consists of about 60,000 feet and 

 is almost entirely devoted to carnations. 

 His latest addition is two houses, each 

 40x200 feet, up-to-date in every respect, 

 divided in the middle by a house occu- 

 pied with material for local trade as- 

 paragus, smilax and adiantum. The 

 houses are fiUed with Lawson, Flora Hill, 

 White Cloud and Morning Glory. Mr. 

 Stroh has not been carried away with 

 every late introduction and sticks to 

 what suits his ground and skill. Morn- 

 ing Glory has been a sight. Lawson 

 is now a sight, but best of all is White 

 Cloud. With all the wonders lately in- 

 troduced, it would be scarcely reason- 

 able to expect a grander or more per- 

 fect house of carnations and I begged 

 for a photograph of this house. 



The gravity system of steam heating 

 is here adopted and aa there is facility 

 to put the boilers down twelve feet, no 

 other system would be advisable; still 

 there is the ashes to hoist out. The 

 boiler house is arched with steel and ce- 

 ment and the loads of coal drive on and 

 above it and the coal drops from the 



gjagon into the boiler house. It is as 

 iandy a way of handling fuel as I have 

 yet seen. 



Attica ia the home of Mr. Stevens, 

 a prominent senator of the New York 

 legislature, and he has a princely farm 

 with palaces for his fancy stock of high 

 steppers that have carried off so many 

 blue ribbons at Madison Square. He has 

 a nice range of glass at his summer 

 home, but unfortunately the houses were 

 locked and the gardener where he should 

 be, at his home. 



Then Mr. Stroh drove us through the 

 beautiful estate to the home of Mrs. 

 Stevens, the elder, in the village. Here 

 we found Mr. Copsey, the gardener. 

 Four small greenhouses and a warm 

 grapery reminded us vividly of olden 

 days. There were many familiar plants 

 that it was interesting to see for a 

 change, in a land whew vou see nothing 

 but roses and carnations by the acre. 

 Mr. Copsey and the venerable Mrs. 

 Stevens are great admirers of the Re- 

 view and it was pleasant to hear of such 



mutual trust and kindness between em- 

 ployer and gardener. Mr. Copsey 's hos- 

 pitality was both timely and welcome 

 and fully appreciated. 



The principal object lesson at Mr. 

 Stroh 's place was that you should never 

 discard a variety that does well and 

 pays well for any variety for which you 

 have only another man's word as to 

 merit. The day was well spent and we 

 kept on learning, the more so because 

 we had with us the genial, unassuming 

 but wise Barney Myers, manager of W. 

 J. Palmer's place at Lancaster, where 

 the now famous Bed Lawson originated. 



Various Notes. 



Speaking from personal experience, 

 business for January has been greatly 

 better than January, 1905, no particu- 

 lar feature, but good all along the line. 

 The weather may partly account for this. 

 Don't let anyone persuade you that 

 snow and ice are conducive to brisk 

 business. Far different. When people 

 can with comfort promenade the side- 

 walks or take a carriage ride without 

 freezing to death any retail business 

 will thrive. W. S. 



Springfield, III. — Thomas Peaker 

 has started to build a greenhouse 20x32 

 and hopes to enlarge soon, as business 

 increases. 



Guthrie, Okla. — ^Furrow Bros, will 

 soon begin the construction of two 300- 

 foot houses to be used in connection with 

 their present place. The addition will 

 comprise 16,000 square feet of glass. 



Louisville, Ky. — Jacob Schulz took 

 full advantage of the opportunity af- 

 forded by McKinley day. He published 

 in a Saturday evening paper, January 

 27, one of the strongest possible adver- 

 tisements, printed in three colors and 

 surrounded by reading matter. The ad- 

 vertisement was three columns wide and 

 nine inches deep. In the center was a 

 portrait of McKinley in black, sur- 

 rounded by a wreath of carnations in 

 red and green. At the bottom was a 

 card stating that Mr. Schulz would have 

 a full line of the finest carnations. He 

 felt the effect in largely increased trade 

 on Monday and the general effect of so 

 good an advertisement will be lasting. 



