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The Weekly Rorists* Review. 



July 6, 1906. 



LILIES 



Plenty of choice Harrisii, an abundance of Candidum, 

 and a few Auratum; Fancy Valley, Sweet Peas and 



All other Cut Flowers and 

 All Seasonable Florists' Supplies 



E. H.HUNT 



Established 1878. ''The Old Reliable." Incorporated 1906. 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BEAUTIES Per dos. 



30 to 3«-lnch 13.00 



24to30-lnch 2.00to 2.50 



15to20-lnch l.OOtO 1.50 



8tol2-lnch 1.00 



KOSES (Teai) Per 100 



Brides and MaidB 13.00 to 16.00 



Richmond and Liberty 3.00 to 6.00 



Perle 3.00 to 5.00 



Golden Gate and Chatenay 3.00 to 6 00 



Roses, our selection 2.00 



CARNATIONS, medium 1.00 to 1.50 



Fancy 2.00 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Peonies 3.00 to 6.00 



Valley 8.00 to «.00 



Harrisii lO.UOto 12 00 



Sweet Peas 50 to .75 



Daisies 75 to 1.00 



Gladioli 6.00 to 8.0U 



Candidum Iillies $1.10 doz. stalks 



GREENS 



Smilax Strings per doz. 1.50 



Asparagus Strings each .40 to .50 



Asparagus Bunches " .36 



Sprengerl Bunches " .36 



Boxwood Bunches " .36 



Adlantum t>er 100 .76 



Ferns, Common per 1000 1.60 



Galax, G. and B " 1.00 to 1.60 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.60 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



Store closes at 5 p. m. 



Mention The RcTiev when you write. 



deniaiul. Pond lilies and gardenias are 

 seen in all the best stores, but are little 

 seen in the market. A few outdoor 

 Lillian candidum appeared this week. 

 Pity iiioie cannot grow it well. 



Club Field Day. 



In spite nf tlie oppressive heat and 

 the tlireatening weather there was a 

 godd attendance of members on the occa- 

 sion of the field day at William Sim's, 

 Clirt'tondale, June 30. Some made the 

 journey on steam carp and others on the 

 fooler electrics. Altogether forty were 

 there. An inspection of tlie large and 

 ii}>-to-date greenhouse plant was first in 

 order. With the exception of one house 

 devoted to a selection of English melons 

 and two to White Spine cucumbers, all 

 the glass is at ])resent devoted to tomato 

 culture, over 2.5,000 plants being now 

 fruiting. These are ])lanted in the 

 ground, trained to a single stem and 

 carry a tieniendoas crop of fruit. Comet 

 is the variety grown entirely indoors. 

 Some five tons per week are now being 

 picked and this will be increased very 

 soon. The pick July 2 was IL'O bushels, 

 all first cpiality. 



Chrysanthemums were last year large- 

 ly planted here, some 75,000 being 

 grown to single stems. These are now 

 entirely discarded and the whole estab- 

 lishment the <oining winter will be given 

 up to violets and sweet peas, the latter 

 being grown for early spring flowering, 

 not winter. Over 100,000 Princess of 

 Wales vi(jlets were noted in the fields 

 and looked well. This, in Mr. Sim's 

 opinion, is the queen of violets and the 

 coming season he will undoubtedly be 

 the largest grower of it in America. 

 Outdoors some l'.j,000 tomatoes were 

 growing trained in a variety of ways. 

 A good many fruits had already been 

 picked from these. Everything on the 

 place was scrupulously clean and re- 

 flected the greatest credit on Mr, Sim. 



The company Mas generously enter- 

 tained by ;Mr. Sim after making a tour 

 of his place and speeches were made by 

 Messrs. Gill, Duncan, Finlayson, West- 

 wood, AVheeler and others, all of whom 

 praised the Iiigli culture seen. The 

 afterncion i>roved a most instructive and 

 ptbfitnble one for the large company who 

 attortded. 



Various Notes. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club's 

 picnic to be held July 25 at Caledonian 

 grove, is being looked forward to by 

 many. As usual there will be a full line 

 of athletic contests for both sexes and 

 all ages. The committee in charge in- 

 cludes Messrs. Palmer, Heurlin, Duncan, 

 Finlayson and Riggs. 



The demand for Disparene, a form of 

 arsenate of lead, is so great at present 

 that firms can with difficulty fill their 

 orders. It is used for spraying for the 

 gypsy and brown tail moths, elm beetle, 

 canker worm and other caterpillars; also 

 for clearing out the potato bug and quite 

 a few other pests. 



II. H. Barrows & Son are experiencing 

 a heavy call for their new Nephrolepis 

 Whitmanni. They state that they are 

 unable to deliver plants quite as' fast 

 as they would like. W. X. Craig. 



BUFFALO. 



Hot Weather. 



At last we have had some really hot 

 j weather, which has shrivelled up carna- 

 tions and roses. In defense of our cli- 

 j mate I wish to say that the mercury in 

 I the thermometer seldom goes high, al- 

 ways much lower than other great lake 

 cities, yet the humidity was awful. For 

 instance, last Thursday 78 degrees was 

 the highest mark reached, while Chicago 

 , went up to 95 degrees, yet here it was a 

 perfect Turkish bath from sunrise to 

 long after sunset. The primitive and 

 inexpensive attire of our first parents 

 in the famous garden was all that was 

 ', needed for comfort. Perhaps Adam be- 

 lieved that the fig tree was evolved to 

 provide wearing apparel and little 

 ' thought it would become the essential 

 , food of the silk worm and hence the 

 ; introduction of the beautiful fabric that 

 would cover the lovely forms of the fu- 

 ture daughters of Miss Clara Louise Eve 

 Adam. 



Heavy Hail. 



j A violent hailstorm visited the north- 



I ern part of Erie county Sunday after- 



I noon. Cliunks of ice as large as the 



j proverbial hen's egg are reported to 



I have fallen. It was severest in the 



towns of Tonawanda, Amherst anci 

 Genesee, but we have not yet heard of 

 any florist losing glass, and hope that 

 Secretary Esler will never hear of it. 

 We don 't believe in any such nonsense 

 as a hail belt. There is a pie belt, and 

 a divorce belt, also a murder belt at 

 present located in southeastern New 

 York state. These are all the result of 

 the vicious actions of man. The hail 

 is the result of the forces of nature, and 

 all florists who fail to carry hail insur- 

 ance make a big financial error. If 

 you have a million feet of glass and 

 think you can carry your own insurance, 

 you are making an economic mistake, 

 and if you have only 100,000 feet of 

 glass, or less, and all your capital is in- 

 vested in your houses, you are making 

 a much bigger mistake. You are facing 

 the chance of utter ruin. We know the 

 sensation, when not insured, of seeing 

 the dark clouds come up against the 

 wind, the fitful flash, the crack of the 

 atmosphere closing where it was sepa- 

 rated by the mysterious juice called elec- 

 tricity, and then occurs to you "we are 

 not insured." You offer up a prayer 

 of repentance and promise that you will 

 send in your application as soon as the 

 storm has blown over. The hail insur- 

 ance is a most excellent institution, ably 

 and honestly run. It has saved many a 

 man from ruin and it should be sup- 

 ported and encouraged from loyalty to 

 our business and brother florists at large, 

 and we deeply regret that some near 

 relatives of the writer unwisely think 

 they can get along without this insur- 

 ance. It's not my fault, John. 



The Albright Place. 



All florists or gardeners who have 

 occasion to drop off in this slow but 

 beautiful city should visit the model gar- 

 den and houses of J. J. Albright, pre- 

 sided over by Charles Sandiford, who 

 will be found on Cleveland avenue. I 

 have no right to invite the public to 

 visit another man 's private property, but 

 Mr. Albright is such a broad-minded 

 philanthropist and his gardener, Mr. 

 Sandiford, is so kind and good-natured, 

 that neither of them would think a half 

 hour spent with a sympathetic brother 

 anything but a fraction of life well 

 spent. Only a few of the pleasures of 



