February 22, 1006. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



929 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



Regular Ship- 

 ments from 

 THE SOUTH 



60 Wabash Avenue, Chicago 



WILD SMILAX 



BEST STOCK, 



$6.00 



PER CASE. 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Kaiiey $6.0<» 



iW-iiicli ."^.OO 



•JO to •_'« inch il.hO to 4.00 



15i«i miiich I 50 to -J 50 



SiKirt l.uOto 1.25 



Per 100 



Bride ami Ma'd $5.00 to $12 00 



LibtTtj and Richmond ti.OO lo 12.00 



(4oldL'ii (iate 5.00 to 12.00 



Per 100 



Kopea, our selection $r>.00 



Carnations, beiert $2.00 to 3.00 



fancy 4.00 to 5.00 



Violets, double, sintfle .75 



Valley 3.00 to 4.00 



Paper Whites and Romans 3 00 



Mignonette 3.00 to 8.00 



Callas per doz., $1.50 



Daffodils, Golden Spurs 3.00 to 4.00 



Per 100 



Tulips, all colors $3.00 to $1.00 



Harrisii per doz.. $1.50 $2.00 



Smilax per doz , 1.50-2.00 



Leucothoe sprays .75 



Adiantum i.oo 



Plumotus, Strings each. 30c 



Bunches, each, 35-fiOc 

 Sprengeri, ' ....each, 35c 



Galax Leaves per 1000, $1.25 



Fancy Ferns per 1000, 2.00 



Write for prices on Rooted Carnation Cuttings 



^felltl"n The Review when ycu write. 



shall be thankful if they respond, any- 

 way. Send flowers addressed Florists' 

 Club, care W. F, Kasting. We also 

 expect a gentleman from the east who 

 will discuss the aivine flower, its many 

 phases and attributes. 



A spread will be provided for those 

 blessed with appetites and we particularly 

 wish the attendance of all country flor- 

 ists, especially those who did not have 

 the opportunity or energy to visit Boston. 



W. S. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



The vagaries of the New York cli- 

 mate are remarkable. We have had 

 snow, zero temperature, rain and spring 

 all within the last seven days, and at 

 the beginning of the week it is balmy, 

 building going on as in midsummer, and 

 Easter less than eight weeks away. The 

 retail windows are already beautiful 

 with primroses, acacias, lilacs, snow- 

 balls, camellias, azaleas and forsythia. 

 One cannot feel chilly long while stand- 

 ing in front of these delightful remind- 

 ers of the fast approaching vernal sea- 

 son. 



Now that Mrs. Longworth has de- 

 parted on her honeymoon, American 

 Beauties and white orchids will ' ' go 

 away back and sit down." The short- 

 ness of the supply was marked, and all 

 other first-class rose stock had no diffi- 

 culty in holding at top quotations. 



Old St. Valentine came to life again 

 this year in fine condition and proved 

 that sentimentality is not yet dead in 

 this very practical business center of 

 the earth. There were dinners innu- 

 merable. Fine designs appropriate to 

 the day in silk hearts and baskets were 

 in the windows and golden sedan chairs 

 and trunks and fancy concoctions of va- 

 rious kinds added interest to the day 

 and were largely used in the sending of 

 love tokens. Violets seemed to regain 

 their popularity for the occasion, and 

 75 cents per hundred was willingly 

 paid for the best. A car-load or two 

 was attached to a train headed west 

 from Rhinebeck, with Chicago as its 

 destination, we were informed, and this 

 may account for the sudden spurt. 



which was soon over; 60 cents was top 

 on Monday except for a few specials. 



Bulbous stock is a drug. What will 

 the southern narcissi bring when the 

 native go now at $10 a thousand? It 

 was not very long ago that $4 per hun- 

 dred was the bottom for good stock of 

 viiis kind. The day of abnormal values 

 IS forever past. 



A movement is on foot to close the 

 wholesale houses at 6 o'clpck. The ma- 

 jority already favor it. There seems 

 i.o good reason for the long hours which 

 prevail. 



Various Notes. 



The annual tlinner of the New York 

 Farmers' Club took place this week 

 Tuesday, February 20. 



Thursday, February 22, Washington 's 

 birthday, will be celebrated by the 

 Dutchess County Horticultural Society 

 at Poughkeepsie, where the annual ban- 

 quet takes place. This is one of the 

 events of the year. The best local tal- 

 ent, including the city officials, always 

 takes part, and several New Yorkers 

 will be there. 



Arthur Merritt has a large stock of 

 wreaths and his storehouse is made ar- 

 tistic by their arrangement. These 

 wreaths are patented and are novel and 

 practical, and they will doubtless be in 

 demand as the season progresses for 

 outdoor decorative purposes. 



Joseph Fenrich will move to 110 W^. 

 Twenty-eighth street on March 1. The 

 now store is just beyond that of the vet- 

 eran, J. K. Allen, and in size and con- 

 venience is far in advance of Mr. Fen- 

 rich's old quarters on West Thirtieth 

 street. 



G. T. Schuneman, of Baldwin's, was 

 in the city last week and made his 

 usual display of violets at the Ameri- 

 can Institute exhibition. He has a 

 sport from Enchantress which he is 

 keeping dark until next season, of rare 

 size and not for sale * * even at Aristo- 

 crat 's figure." 



Starke & Klein dissolved partnership 

 on February 14, Mr. Starke continuing 

 the business at the same address. 



Wm. H. Gunther celebrated his forty- 

 fifth birthday last week. For twenty- 

 six years he has been in the wholesale 

 flower business. The years sit lightly 



on him. If he could live as many years 

 as he has sold boxes of violets, Methu- 

 selah wouldu 't be in it with him. 



The Geller Florists' Supply Co. has 

 many novelties for the Easter celebra- 

 tion and reports a rapidly growing busi- 

 ness in the new quarters on West Twen- 

 ty-ninth street, 



V, H. Pilat, formerly with the New 

 York Cut Flower Co., as salesman,, and 

 now in the growing business on his own 

 account at Ossining, is shipping superb 

 carnations and freesia to George Salt- 

 ford. The freesia has 30-inch stems. 

 Mr. Saltford calls the supply of yellow 

 tulips a "flood" and values have gone 

 as low as $10 a thousand. 



Reed & Keller have some more inven- 

 tions for the coming Faster. It's a 

 poor week when some convenient and 

 seductive ''florists' supply" is not 

 evolved from Mr. Reed s productive 

 brain, 



John Miesem, of Elmhurst, has 

 been sending grand azaleas to Charles 

 Millang, just advanced sufficiently fpr 

 the New York market and of all the 

 popular varieties. Louis Dupuy, of 

 Whitestone, is sending his fine stock of 

 Scottii and Boston ferns to the same 

 house and Mr. Millang thinks they are 

 unequaled. 



Van Praag has had a unique window 

 decoration at 1207 Broadway during the 

 past week, representing an old-fash- 

 ioned farm, with lake, house, barn and 

 domestic animals, that kept the crowds 

 interested. Ed. Ladiges is the artist at 

 this establishment. 



Thorley had a large decoration at the 

 Royal Palm hotel at Miami, Fla., on 

 February 5 for one of his New York 

 customers. McKenney was in charge, 

 and American Beauties, violets and val- 

 ley were used profusely, as well as the 

 home-grown orange blossoms. Thorley 

 and Small were under the Beauty mar- 

 ket for the last ten days and together 

 used everything they could lay hands 

 on. 



J. H. Troy, of the Rosary, is enjoying 

 a trip south. 



Julius Roehrs returned from Porto 

 Rico last week and on Thursday took 

 passage on the Savoy for Europe and 

 his annual visit to his foreign shippers. 



Anton Schultheis is recuperating at 



