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August 2, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



647 



Boxwood 



Green Wreaths are very popular in summer, 

 and profitable to the maker. We have Box- 

 wood, Galax and Leucothoe. 



All seasonable Cut Flowers in large supply. 



E. H.HUNT 



Established 1878. *ahe Old Reliable.'* Incorporated 1906. 



76-78 Wabash Avenue, 



CHICAGO 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BEAUTIES Per doz. 



30to36-inch 13.00 to 14.00 



24to30-lnch 2.00to 3.00 



15to20-lnch l.OOto 1.50 



8tol2-lnch 1.00 



ROSES (Teas) Per 100 



Brides and Maids IS.OOto te.OO 



Bichmoud and Liberty 3.00 to 6.0C 



Perle 3.00to 6.00 



Golden Gate and Chatenay 3.0U to 6 00 



Roses, our selection 2.00 



CARNATIONS, medium 1 00 to 1.50 



Fancy 2.00 



BUSCELLANEOCS 



Asters, common 60 to 1.00 



fancy 1.60 to 2.00 



Valley S.OOto 4.00 



Harrlsil lO.OOto 12 00 



Sweet Peas 60 to .76 



Daisies 76to 1.00 



Gladioli 4.00to 6.00 



GREENS 



Smllax Strings per doz. 1.60 



Asparag-us Strinsrs each .40 to .50 



Asparagus Buncnes " .36 



Sprengeri Bunches " .35 



Boxwood Bunches " .36 



Adlantum per 100 .76 



Ferns, Common per 1000 1.60 



Galax, G. and B " l.OOto 1.50 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.60 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 

 Store closes at 5 p. m. during August. 



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SPECIAL TRAIN 



Chicago Fforists' Club 

 BIG FOUR ROUTE 



...CHICAGO TO DAYTON, OHIO... 

 AUGUST 20th, 1906 



Leave Chicago Illinois Central Depot, 12(b and Michigan Avenue, 12:45 p. m. Monday. 

 August 20tb. Arrive Dayton about 8:55 p. m. Elegant coaches and dining car. A 

 general good time is assured enroute. Send your name at once to the committee if 

 you contemplate joining the party. J. C. Vaughas, W. N. Rudd, Geo. Asmus, 

 Oommittee on Transportation. 



Ticket Office, 288 Clark Street, 

 CHICAGO. 



I. P. SPINING, 



General Northern Agent. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



stem and price. Thousands of the lower 

 grades, small and short-stemmed, go. 

 however, as low as 50 cents per hundred. 



Dahlias, asters and gladioli are abun- 

 dant and prices low. Both a.sters and 

 gladioli were selling Saturday as low 

 as 50 cents per hundred. America, 

 Child's specialty, held firm at $.3. It 

 is. greatly admired and very popular. 



Fine orchids and plenty of them fully 

 meet the demand to date. Newport is 

 expected to wake up in August. So far 

 the season there has been ' ' stale and 

 unprofitable." Lilies arc firm, hut not 

 overabundant. ("arnations are improv- 

 ing and prices are satisfactory. 



The violet outlook is not encouraging. 

 Reports of damage to the growing ])lants 

 are many and fears are entertained that 

 there may be a shortage this sea.son. 



Variou* Notes. 



The ' * sweet singers ' ' of the New 

 York Florists' Club, W. C. and A. J. 

 Rickards. can now change the title of 

 one of their popular songs, ' ' There 's 

 a new coon in town," to "There's a 

 new seed firm in town." They have pur- 

 chased the business of the Bridgeman 



See<l Co., of 37 West Nineteenth street, 

 and began business August 1. The name 

 of Bridgeman is a household word in 

 the seed business of this country. For 

 thirty-seven years Edward A. Peth ha.s 

 been at its head and splendidly main 

 tained its reputation, and for eighteen 

 years Frank M. Duggan has been asso- 

 ciated with him. There is no doubt 

 the Rickards Bros, will add luster to 

 the honored name and they have acted 

 wisely in retaining it. W. C. Rickards 

 has been twenty-two years connected 

 with the firm of J. M. Thorburn & Co., 

 and A. J. Rickards for ten years with 

 the Stumpp & Walter Co. Few youny 

 men are Ijetter known or more popular. 

 Their success is already assured. 



George Saltford is enjoying his an- 

 nual holiday at Oswego and among the 

 Thousand Islands with relatives. He is 

 revising and rewriting his valuable little 

 book, "How to Grow Violets." 



John J, Perkins spent the week among 

 his growers. His son, John J., Jr., was 

 married on Sunday. His bride was Miss 

 Glass. Miss Hall, the bookkeeper, is 

 spending a month at Pittsburg, Pa. 



Boddington has just received a fine 



importation of Oncidium varicosum 

 Rogersii. He, in common with all seeds- 

 men, -regrets the shortage in large sizes 

 of Harrisii bulbs. 



The ice slTortage is a menacing propo- 

 sition. One house averages over $26 

 a week for ice, and doubtless many of 

 the large firms show an equal drain. A 

 fair store rental for a wholesaler to pay 

 is $1,200 a year, though some of the 

 wholesale houses pay rent close to $2,000. 

 When the ice bills run a dead heat 

 with the rent, it is time to look serious 

 and to remind the growers who are some- 

 times impatient that ' ' all is not gold 

 that glitters." Ice costs $7 a ton and 

 is still soaring. 



The excessive exjjress rates to Jersey 

 are still a source of great annoyance. 

 J. B. Nugent had a complaint on Satur- 

 day that indicated no surrender on the 

 j)art of the independent company and 

 gives no hope of a change for the better 

 for the approaching season. 



C. E. Critchell, the wholesale florist, 

 of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Critchell are en- 

 joying a few weeks in the cast and, hav- 

 ing done Atlantic City an<l Pough- 

 keepsie, are now with triends in New 

 York. His visit to the violet growers 

 up the Hudson completed arrangements 

 for daily shipments during the winter. 

 He called on many of the wholesalers 

 iiere and was much impressed by their 

 number and the immense stores devoted 

 to the business. He is predicting a big 

 crowd at the Dayton convention and 

 says Cincinnati will send a car-load and 

 that the pioneer S. A. F. city is already 

 planning for the anniversary in 1908. 

 It may be well here to remind New 

 Yorkers who go to Dayton this year that 

 lower berths are not numerous in the 

 special cars engaged, and that those who 

 have not secured them should at once 

 arrange with the committee, ^fessrs. 

 Traendly, Sheridan and Nugent, or they 

 will have to climb. The selection of the 

 New York Central and the stopover at 

 the Falls give general satisfaction. Sev- 

 eral of the exhibitors leave in advance 

 of the special. 



J. K. Allen has beeu off on a fishing 

 trip and shows results Vhat indicate con- 

 siderable skill and luck. Nick Schreiner, 

 one of his lieutenants, with his family, 

 has returned from a two weeks' holiday 



