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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Fbbbuabt 16, 1906. 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



R«>i^lar Ship- 

 ments from 

 THE SOUTH 



60 Wabash Avenue, Chicago 



WILD SMILAX 



BEST STOCK, 



$6.00 



PER CASE. 



BKAUTIE8 Per doz. 



Fancy $6.00 



30-inch 5.00 



20 to 24 Inch $2.50 to 4.00 



15tol8-incb 1,50 to 250 



Short 1.00 to 1.26 



uirf Per 100 



Bme and Maid $5.00 to $12.00 



Liberty and Richmond 6.00 to 12.00 



Golden Gate S.OOto 12.00 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



Per 100 



Roses, our selection $6.00 



Carnations, select $2.00 to 3.00 



fancy 4.00to 5.00 



Violets, double, single .75 



Valley 3.00to 4.00 



Paper Whites and Romans 3 00 



Mignonette 3.00to 8.00 



Oallas per doz., $1.50 



Daffodils, Golden Spurs 3.00 to 4.00 



Per 100 



Tulips, all colors $3.00 to $4.00 



Harrisil per doz., $1.50-$2.00 



Smilax per doz., 1.60- 2.00 



Leucotboe Sprays .76 



Adiantum 1.00 



PlumoBus, Strings..,.. each, 30c , 



" Buncbes,each, 36-50c » ■ • ■ ■ 

 Sprengeri, " ....each. 35c 



Galax Leaves per 1000, $1.25 



Fancy Ferns per 1000. 2.00 



Write for prices on Rooted Carnation Cuttings 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



getting information which in many cases 

 would take him years to learn. 



Cottage Gardens, Long Island, N. Y., 

 sent a box of Eobt. Craig, which arrived 

 one day late and were kept on exhibition 

 at the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. All 

 who saw the display were of the opinion 

 that if the grower will turnish such 

 stock, it will be good enough for them. 



The Botanical Society of Western 

 Pennsylvania held its regular meeting 

 Thursday evening, February 8, at 8 

 o'clock in the Fifth avenue high school. 

 The program was devoted to the En- 

 vironment and Adaptation of Plants, 

 with special reference to arctic plants, 

 the subject being presented by Prof. D. 

 R. Sunstine, president of the society. 

 The other officers of the society are O. E. 

 Jennings, secretary, and M. A. Lewis, 

 treasurer. lIoo-TToo. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Business remains about the same. 

 Cold, clear weather has improved stock 

 in general, and roses especially show a 

 marked improvement. Lawson carnations 

 are a glut on the market, while other 

 varieties are still quite scarce. 



Qub Meeting. 



The subject for the evening. Whole- 

 sale House Criticisms, was very openly 

 discussed at the last regular meeting of 

 the Detroit Florists' Club. 



Speaking from a general viewpoint it 

 was shown that the commission houses 

 take a great deal of worry off the re- 

 tailers' bands. In former years if a 

 retail florist had an order for several 

 hundred violets he would call up every 

 grower for miles around, but now we 

 simply call up our commission man, and 

 if there are any violets to be had in our 

 vicinity we get them. 



The remark was made that while fifteen 

 per cent commission was all right for 

 handling flowers it was too much com- 

 mission on plants. Manager Wm. Dilger 

 responded to this by saying that if the 

 plants could be left at the growers', who 

 also looked after the packing and de- 

 livering, the commission house acting 

 merely as agent, then a lower percentage 

 would be all right, but when the whole- 



sale house has to store the plants, pack 

 them and see to their safe delivery, and 

 that maybe in zero weather, it is an- 

 other matter. 



In speakmg of prices, it was shown 

 that the matter lies to a large extent in 

 the growers' hands. W^hen a retailer 

 buys a bunch of carnations at 4 cents 

 and he is sure of twenty-live 4-cent 

 flowers in that bunch, you will never 

 hear a kick, but when he gets four or six 

 2-cent blooms in every twenty-five, then 

 no one can blame him for protesting. If 

 every grower ran a retail store for a 

 time he would soon learn to grade his 

 stock more carefully. If you haven't 

 twenty-five 4-cent white, then put in 

 cnougli 4-cent pink to make up the 

 bunch, but don't stick in L'-cent or 

 2VL>-cent stock; keep that separate. 

 Taking the convenience into considera- 

 tion, there is no complaint of paying a 

 local supply house a few pennies more 

 for an article than the out of town houses 

 ask. 



Soiiicoiie suggested that the local house 

 could carry a complete line of baskets 

 and supplies. This is impossible; be- 

 sides, then our styles would remain the 

 same from year to year and customers 

 would soon tire of baskets, etc. 



In speaking of our local commission 

 houses one fault, hard to be remedied, 

 is the late arrival of goods, the bulk ar- 

 riving at 11 a. ni. inis holds everyone | 

 back on some of the morning's orders, 

 and then when the stock arrives there is 

 so large a number of buyers waiting that 

 it is a wonder any of the regular orders 

 are taken care of at all. 



The result of the whole meeting was 

 that a committee of two was appointed, 

 namely, Tom Browne and James Taylor, ; 

 to arrange for a meeting of the growers, 

 the object being to get more, if not all, 

 to ship to the commission houses; also 

 to fight the peddler who sells a lot of 

 flowers to some store man for a little be- 

 low the prevailing market price, pockets 

 his money and goes home rejoicing. 



It was suggested that a scale of retail 

 prices be set each week, but the difficulty 

 with this is the man on the outskirts can 

 always afford to sell cheaper than thj 

 down-town store man, who has double 

 the expenses and more particular cus- 

 tomers. 



The committee on cement construction 



awarded the first prize, a box of cigars, 

 to Ed. Beard. The Cleveland Cut Flower 

 Co.'s exhibit was well thought of, but 

 being a tile and not a cement bench, it 

 was in a class by itself. 



Herman Knope is back in harness 

 again and is expected to be at the next 

 meeting. 



The questions in the box were held over 

 until the next meeting. 



A. J. Stakelin was given favorable 

 mention for a fine vase of white liawson. 

 Mr. Stakelin is still young in the busi- 

 ness, but judging from his fine stock one 

 would think differently. 



VariotM Notes. 



Wm. Brown had charge of the decora- 

 tions for the Junior hop at Ann Arbor. 

 The ceilings in the two large halls were 

 draped in bunting of the college colors, 

 and the walls were trimmed with southern 

 smilax over a white bunting background, 

 ^n the gymnasium garland was used. 

 The prevailing flowers carried by the 

 ladies present were Beauties and violets. 



Visitors: George F. Struck, of Lager 

 & Ilurrell, Summit, iN. J.; Wm. Hage- 

 manii and his representative from New 

 York. H. S. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



winter at last and lots of it. The 

 retailers have no complaint to make, 

 .^usiness has been steady and satisfac- 

 tory. The grumblers are insincere; 

 some kick, as a matter of habit, and 

 complain on general principles, but it 

 has been a good year for all and most 

 of them have the grace to say so. 



The wholesale rates for the best Beau- 

 ties, Maids and novelties, including 

 Ricnmond, have not been higher since 

 Christmas. The supply is insufficient 

 for the demand. It is becoming fash- 

 ionable for a millionaire's family to lim- 

 it the florist to no set sum for a piece 

 of work and as New York is now a city 

 of millionaires it is little wonder the 

 retailers are not only all making money, 

 but many of them putting it away. A 

 lot of them paid $1 apiece for their 

 iieauties Saturday. Some stock came 

 to town frozen during the extreme weath- 

 er of last week. 



All bulbous stock is cheap and abun- 



