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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JOLY 5, 1906. 



SUMMER FLOWERS 



We can supply all summer stock of best 

 quality and in any quantity desired. 



WRITE, WIRE or PHONE 



and we will make quick shipment. 



PURE BONE MEAli, per 800-lb. bag, $3.50; 

 per 1000 lbs., $14.00; per 2000 lbs., $27.50. 



VAUGH3N & SPERRY 



L. D. PHONK, 

 2S71LCENTRAL 



58-60 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



SUMMER PRICE LIST. 



B£AUTIE8 Per doz. 



30to86-lnch • W.OO 



24 to30-lnch 12.00 to 3.60 



15to20-lnch 1.00 to 1.60 



8tol2-inch 76to 1.00 



Per 100 



Kalserln $4.00 to $8.00 



Brides and Maids 8.00 to 6.00 



Richmond and Liberty 8.00 to 6.00 



Perie 8.00to 6.00 



Oolden Gate and Chatenay 3.00 to 6.00 



BoBes, our selection 3.00 



CARNATIONS, medium 1.00 to 1.60 



Fancy 2.00 



BUSCELLANEOUS 



Peonies, all colors 4.00to 6.00 



Valley 3.00 to 4.00 



Harrisli 10.00 to 12.00 



Sweet Peas 60 to .75 



Daisies 75t» 1.00 



Gladioli 4.00 to 8.00 



Candidum Lilies, $1.00 doz. stalks. 



GREENS 



Smllax Strings per doz. $1.50 



Asparagus Strings each, .40 to .50 



Asparagus Bunches " .36 



Sprengerl Bunches " .36 



Boxwood Bunches " .36 



Adlantum per 100 .75 



Perns, Common per lUOO 1.60 



Galax. G. and B ' 1.00 to 1.50 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7,50 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



January 1 the accumulated excess is 

 472 degrees. The rainfall was 1.87 

 inches, as against 3.27 inches last year, 

 and an average in thirty-six years of 

 3.57 inches. Since January 1 we have 

 had six inches less than the normal rain- 

 fall. In June we had eleven clear days, 

 twelve partly cloudy and seven cloudy. 



Various Notes. 



The "Wells Fargo Express Co. on July 

 1 took over the business of the Ameri- 

 can and United States companies on the 

 Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Evansville & 

 Indianapolis, and Evansville & Terre 

 Haute railroads. 



A. Li. Eandall went to his fruit farm 

 in Michigan on Saturday to remain until 

 after the Fourth. 



Sam Graff has returned from a visit 

 to the establishment of Graff Bros., at 

 Columbus, O. He spends his leisure 

 with his friend. Kid Hermann, whose 

 fortunes many follow. 



E. S. Ferryman was in town this 

 week. He is the proprietor of the South- 

 ern Floral Co., having bought the green- 

 house establishment of the Texas Seed 

 and Floral Co., Dallas, Tex. 



John Poehlmann went home June 27 

 complaining that he had injured his back 

 in handling some heavy boxes of stock. 

 Nothing more was seen of him for sev- 

 eral days and word came from his resi- 

 dence that he was confined to his bed. 



Peter Reinberg reports an excellent 

 June business, ahead of last year's 

 record. 



P. F. Rentfrew, of St. Joseph, Mich., 

 a grower of candidum lilies, was in town 

 Monday. 



C. "\V. McKellar is getting in fine 

 cattleyas, but says the demand has fallen 

 away noticeably in the last week. 



There has been so much agitation 

 against the unsightly billboards that the j 

 Gunning Co. is to sod in front of its j 

 boards wherever possible, plant flower 

 beds, shrubs, etc. 



E. C. Amling says he is fairly well 

 satisfied with the volume of business in 

 June, but that if prices had averaged 

 as good as a year ago it would have 

 been much better. 



F. F. Benthey looks for a good July 

 trade. The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. is 

 now cutting 6,000 to 8,000 roses a day 



and the market for good stock nearly 

 always is good while growers are replant- 

 ing. 



E. F. Winterson considers this his 

 most successful year with peonies. He 

 will clean up in good shape some time 

 next week. 



Vaughan & Sperry are handling con- 

 siderable quantities of bone meal, just 



Please cut out my present adv. and 

 run this new one. Advs. in 



sell our Nonins all right bttt we keep 



right on making them.| 



W. J. OLDS. 



Union City, Pa., 

 June 30, 1906. 



now in considerable request among the 

 growers. 



E. H. Hunt is preparing for an active 

 fall campaign in the supply department. 



Wietor Bros, are still cutting heavily 

 of carnations of good quality. 



Shasta daisies again are plentiful. 

 Kennicott Bros. Co. is receiving some of 

 exceptional size. 



Chas. N. Page, of the Iowa Floral 

 Co., Des Moines, was in town Saturday. 



George Keinberg is propagating poin- 

 settias. He did quite well with this 

 crop last Christmas and proposes to 

 duplicate his success this year. 



All the big growers report that the 

 call for young rose stock has fallen off 



and it is reported that several will likely 

 be left with considerable quantities on 

 hand when all the growers are planted 

 up. The proportion of stock now carried 

 over from one year to another without 

 replanting has cut down the demand. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Stock continues poor, but there is 

 enough of good quality coming in for 

 the demand, which was reported light 

 the last week, as the florists' business 

 has now reached summer dullness. This 

 condition is expected to remain with us 

 for the next two months. Some of the 

 retailers reported quite a lot of funeral 

 work the last week, and this is about all 

 they can boast of just now. 



The weather has been very hot of late 

 and a good soaking rain would do a 

 world of good to outdoor stock of all 

 kinds. Most of the growers around here 

 are busy replanting and rebuilding. 



Looking in at the wholesale houses, 

 one can readily see that really first- 

 class stock in almost everything is 

 scarce, but second-class stock is more 

 than enough and is not so easy to dis- 

 pose of. Brides and Maids are still 

 badly mildewed. Kaiserins, Richmonds 

 and Carnots have fine clean foliage and 

 sell well. Perles, too, are looking good 

 in flower and foliage. 



Carnations are not any too good just 

 now. Prosperity and Enchantress are 

 the best of the lot. Lawson is very 

 poor. Sweet peas are a glut and good 

 long were selling at $1 per thousand 

 with shorts at 50 cents. Feverfew, corn- 

 flowers, hollyhocks and tuberoses are 

 among the outdoor stock that comes in. 

 Fancy ferns are easy. 



Various Notes. 



II. M. Schisler, of the Schisler-Cornelli 

 Seed Co., and Mr. Pommer, of D. I. 

 Bushnell & Co., attended the twenty- 

 fourth annual meeting of the American 

 Seed Trade Association at Toledo, O., 

 last week. Mr. Nichols, of the St. Louis 

 Seed Co., owing to a busy week, could 

 not spare the time to attend. 



Miss Belle Miller, of Springfield, 111., 

 is sending a fine lot of Carnot, Perle 



