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JiNE 7, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



161 



Bassett & Washburn 



GREENHOUSES, 



HINSDALE. ILL, 



Office and Store, 76 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



For Weddings, Commencements, Etc. 



Home-Grown PEONIES 



We have 2,000 dozen to cut this week of the very best varieties of white and pink 

 Peonies. These flowers have been allowed to ripen naturally on the plants and are much 

 superior to the cold storage flowers. Price, 75c per dozen. 



CHOICE ROSES — KAISERIN, CARNOT, CHATENAY, RICHIVIOND, 



LIBERTY, MAID AND BRIDE. 



We are cutting 15,000 to 20,000 Roses per day. Prices vary from $2.00 per 100 

 to $IO.OO per IOO« BEAUTIES* new young plants are now in fine crop with 

 stems 12 to 24 inches long at $1.0O to $2.00 per dozen. 



ASPARAGUS AND SMILAX. Our houses are now in with a very fine crop of light green 

 ASPARAGUS and choice long heavy SMILAX. Write us for prices on large lots. : : : 



Mpiitlon The Review when you write. 



Thursday aftornoon at 2 o'clock, in 

 Htrassbergor 's liall. The trustees have 

 something to report that will interest 

 evefy member of the club. The club's 

 annual picnic for next month will also 

 be put in shape. 



The bowling club was again beaten the 

 past week, two out of three games. Those 

 who played were Kuehn, Ellison, Mein- 

 hardt, Lohrenz and Schreifer. This week 

 Thursday will be the last match, as the 

 season ends in the league. The bowlers 

 will then practice every Monday night, 

 as usual, and it is hoped all the old- 

 time florist bowlers will again show up. 

 J. J. B. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 

 For a few ilays after Memorial day a 

 comparatively small amount of stock aj)- 

 peared and prices ruled high. A better 

 t supply is now forthcoming and lower 

 I quotations prevail. Later Memorial day 

 reports go to emphasize the fact that the 

 business transacted this vear far ex- 

 ceeded that of any of its* predecessors. 

 All outlying cities from which we have 

 had reports state that everything in the 

 nature of a flower was sold and in many 

 cases orders were refused. 



There is a good supply of roses now 

 coming in and values are drooping once 



r^lTm ^ ^''"'■y ^^^' Beauties reach $1.5 

 to JO per hundred. On other roses $6 

 I to ^H are top prices and many go at $1 

 I to .V. Some outdoor .J acqs will appear 

 MMthin a day or two. These will sell 

 p^eii tor .Tune weddings. Carnations are 

 I not now of good quality, $3 being top 



price on these, ordinary grades making 

 only half this price. Sweet peas, too, 

 sell well. Gladioli and lilies are both 

 rather scarce. Outdoor valley is about 

 over, but very good forced stock is ar- 

 riving and makes ip-2 to $3. Such flowers 

 as stocii^s, candytuft, German iris, an- 

 tirrhinum, etc., meet with rather a slow- 

 sale. Pa'onia officinalis is the only variety 

 seen in any number on the market as yet. 

 These sell well. A few double pink ones 

 appeared this weeK. Two or three more 

 days will see an abundant supply, how- 

 ever. 



There is a good call for green goods, 

 asparagus and smilax ^eing in best de- 

 mand. 



Rhododendron Show. 



June 2 was too early for hardy 

 rhododendrons, as the exhibition proved. 

 There will no doubt be a better display 

 of these at the coming peony show. For 

 twelve varieties of unquestioned hardi- 

 ness, Mrs. J. L. Gardner, Wm. Thatcher 

 gardener, was the only exhibitor. For 

 six varieties, Mrs. A. W. Blake, J. L. 

 Smith, gardener, was first and Geo. F. 

 Fabyan, James Stuart, gardener, second. 

 For twelve varieties hardv azaleas, Mrs. 

 A. W. Blake led, lollowed'by Wm. Whit- 

 man, M. Sullivan, gardener, and T. C. 

 Thurlow. For six varieties, Mrs. J. L. 

 Gardner was first and W. Whitman sec- 

 ond. The latter took both first and sec- 

 ond for a single truss and was also 

 first for thirty-six vases German iris. 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner was in the lead for 

 thirty bottles pyrethrums, W. Whitman, 

 second. The latter took first for collec- 

 tion of tree peonies, T. C. Thurlow, 

 second. 



Mrs. J. L. (Jardner had the best col- 

 lection of cut blooms and foliage of 

 ornamental trees and shrubs, W. H. 

 Ileustis, second. Blue Hill Nurseries, 

 as usual, led for thirty bottles of 

 herbaceous plants with a very good lot. 

 J. E. Leeson had the only table of 

 orchids arranged for effect, winning the 

 Applcton silver gilt medal. A new 

 .Japanese viburnum from T. C. Tfiurlow 

 wa,^ awarded honorable mention. 



Jn the way of miscellaneous exhibits, 

 .1. E. Rothwell, Emil Johansson, gardener, 

 received a first-class certificate for 

 La^lio-cattleya Acis (Lslia tenebrosa x 

 Cattleya Mendelii) and a similar award 

 for Lselio-cattleya Marguerite (La?lia 

 purpurata x Cattleya Mossise vestalis>. 

 He also showed several other interest- 

 ing hybrids and a good vase of 

 Phala?nopsis amabilis and Rimestadtiana 

 and Odontoglohsum crispum. Harvard 

 Botanic Gardens uad an extensive col- 

 lection of hardy herbaceous plants and 

 tlicre were displays by Wm. Whitman, T. 

 ('. Thurlow, Mrs.^E. iV. Gill, N. F. Cow- 

 ley, C. W. Parker. Mrs. J. L. Gardner, 

 who filled a large table with rhododen- 

 drons, and others. 



Variouf Notes. 



W^elch Bros, are receiving some superb 

 lily or the valley and Kaiserin roses from 

 Carl Jurgens, Newport, R. I. They sold 

 several thousand peonies for Memorial 

 day and could have disposed of many 

 more could they have procured them. 

 They report far the heaviest Memorial 

 day trade in their history. 



E. .J. Shaylor, of Wellesley Hills, one 

 of our leading peony specisjists, reports 



