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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



July 26, 1906. 



FERNS 



While all Fems are good in summer, ours are a 



little better than the best. If you order 



one shipment, you will use no others. 



$1.50 per 1000* 



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Sweet Peas. Roses, Carnations and, in fact, all 

 flowers in season at lowest market rates. 



ASTERS, $1.50 to $2.00 per 100. 



Bills, m, 



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40-42-44 

 RANDOLPH STREET 



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Chicago 



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Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



•4oc|to*ifig his rheumatlBm. Miss Amanda 

 — "^^wQson, who presides over the "Winter- 

 '-BOIL books, is on a vacation and L. H. 

 Wipterson finds his hands full. 

 '' A- L. Vaughan and family returned 

 on i Tuesday from their outing at Spirit 

 liake, Wis. They report so much rain 

 that the pleasure of the trip was partly 

 spoiled, while Chicago growers report 

 field plants burning up. 



The J. B. Deamud Co. reports ex- 

 cellent business this week, being for- 

 tunate in having quite a quantity of 

 carnations which grade well for the sea- 

 son. 



J. P. Risch and H. W. Rodgers are 

 home from a week's fishing trip, during 

 which they left the store in charge of 

 Mr. Risch, Sr,, and Miss Furlong. 



H. E. Philpott, of Winnipeg, who is 

 partly a Chicagoan, for he belongs to 

 •our Florists' Club, left for St. Louis 

 Tuesday,, having spent a fortnight here. 



L#. Coatsworth plans to take his fam- 

 ily to his old home in Canada for a 

 month's visit, during which he will at- 

 tend the meeting of the Canadian Horti- 

 cultural Association. 



J. P. Degnan is on his western trip. 



Peter Reinberg is beginning to cut 

 the new rose, Mrs. Marshall Field, in 

 considerable quantity. He believes this 

 rose will be in great demand as soon as 

 the fall season opens, for local retailers 

 are taking to it even at its summer 

 quality. 



Wietor Bros, are beginning to cut 

 from a big field of asters. N. J. Wietor 

 reports disease affecting the purples, but 

 white and pink doing nicely. 



John Zech is at LaPorte, Ind., for a 

 few days. 



George Reinberg is cutting some very 

 nice Brides, which go a long way 

 toward keeping up his daily sales record. 



The Pieser brothers, of the Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., are taking their vacation 

 this year a half day at a time. G. H. 

 Pieser has been going home each day 

 in time for luncheon and beginning next 

 week E, E. Pieser will do his day's 

 work before noon. 



At E. H. Hunt's they report the sup- 

 ply department doing a very nice busi- 

 ness, the retailers over a wide range 

 ■of country stocking up with requisites 

 for fall trade. 



The Chicago Rose Co. says the sum- 

 mer sale of wire work is brisk. 



Among the week's visitors were Mr. 

 Porsberg, manager of the J. C. Rennison 

 •establishment at Sioux City; H. F. 

 Pruyer, Baraboo, Wis., getting prices on 

 Igreenhouse building material; Andrew 



Anderson, Batavia, 111. ; Eli Cross, Grand" 

 Rapids; Gus Frederickson, Glen Lord, 

 Mich.; Benj. Bartcher, Denison, Iowa. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



For the dog-day weather, such as we 

 have been enjoying of late, cut flower 

 trade has been fully as good ad could 

 be expected. Some days there is a 

 heavy overstock, but on others flowers 

 clean up pretty well. Receipts are 

 small and many growers are sending 

 nothing in. Carnations are of poor 



Please discontinue our advertise- 

 ment in 





"We are all sold out. Your adver- 

 tising medium is just Great. Send 

 us your bilL 



Yours truly, 



W. C ROCKWELL. 



Bradford, Pa. 



July 18, 1906. 



quality, selling from 50 cents to $1.50 

 per hundred, a few bringing $2. Roses 

 command "any old price," to quote a 

 salesman at one of the markets. Beau- 

 ties are not plentiful, but some very 

 good Kaiserin and Carnot are seen. 

 Chatenay also continues good. 



Sweet peas are arriving in larger 

 numbers and vary from 15 cents to 25 

 cents per hundred. Popular selling va- 

 rieties are King Edward VII, Lady 

 Grisel Hamilton, Miss Wilmott, Count- 

 ess of Radnor and such whites as Emily 

 Henderson and Dorothy Eckford. Out- 

 door gladioli and dahlias are coming in 

 small lots. Asters are becoming much 

 more abundant and sell at from $1 to 

 $2 per hundred. Candytuft, gypsophila, 



perennial phlox, achillea and other out- 

 door material are seen. Adiantum and 

 asparagus remain about the sam^. 



Exhibition, 



Sweet peas were the chief attraction 

 at the exhibition in Horticultural hall 

 on July 21 and, considering the humid 

 atmospheric conditions which had pre- 

 vailed for several days, causing spot 

 on the blooms, the display was good, 

 filling six tables. For thirty varieties, 

 twenty-five sprays of each, W. J. Clem- 

 son, J. O. Kristenson gardener, won 

 with a good selection. For twelve va- 

 rieties Joseph Thorpe led with a very 

 finely colored lot, followed by A. E. 

 Hartshorn and W. Whitman, M. Sulli- 

 van gardener. O. B. Kenrick, A. E. 

 Hartshorn and W. J. Clemson won in 

 order named for fifty sprays white, all 

 showing Dorothy Eckford. For light 

 pink or blush A. E. Hartshorn was first, 

 with excellent Countess Spencer, fol- 

 lowed by E. L. Lewis and W. J. Clem- 

 son with' Gladys Unwin. E. L. Lewis 

 had the best fifty rose-colored, showing 

 American Queen, also the best blue or 

 purple shade, Helen Pierce. A. E. 

 Hartshorn, with fine Mrs. George Hig- 

 ginson, won out on lavender, W. J. 

 Clemson second with Lady G. Hamilton, 

 O. B. Kenrick third with the same va- 

 riety. The last named led with scarlet, 

 showing good sprays of King Edward 

 VII. In a strong class for orange or 

 salmon-pink W. J. Clemson was first 

 with Miss Wilmott; Mrs. A. W. Blake, 

 J. L. Smith gardener, second, with Lady 

 Mary Currie; W. L. Lewis third with 

 Miss Wilmott. For any other color 

 E. L. Lewis took first and second with 

 Maid of Honor and America, 0. B. Ken- 

 rick third with Stanley. 



Additional honorary displays of 

 sweet peas were made by W. W. Raw- 

 son & Co., who had large bunches of 

 twenty of the newest and best sorts; 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill, E. L. Lewis, W. J. 

 Clemson and others. For six pans 

 achimenes Mrs. J. L. Gardner, William 

 Thatcher gardener, was first, also for 

 best tank of aquatics. W. Whitman 

 showed two splendid tubs of Hydrangea 

 Otaksa, carrying over 200 heads each, 

 also some well flowered plants of H. 

 Otaksa rosea. He also had a large 

 general display of cut flowers. Har- 

 vard Botanic Gardens as usual had a 

 fine display of perennials and annuals 

 in over 100 varieties, also two tanks 

 of aquatics. 



R. & J. Farquhar had some superb 

 vases of lilies and other hardy plants. 



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