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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 2, 1906. 



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All Grades, 

 All Shades. 



From 50c to $2.00 per 100. Send in your orders; we will not 

 betray your confidence. Tell us what color and what you 

 want to pay and we will give you your money's worth. We 

 also have a good supply of AURATUIVI LILIES and all other 

 flowers in season. Now is a good time to make up your 

 list of Wire Work and send in your order. All wire work 



Made on Honor* 



A. L Randall Co. RANiKJirasT. Chicago 



L.. D. PHONKS— Cut Flower D«pt., 14M and 1494 Central; Florists' Supply Dept., 5614 Central. 



in the highlands, and Arthur Hunt and 

 family are in Sullivan county near Sho- 

 hola. 



Mansfield, of Lexington avenue, is tak- 

 ing his rest, as usual, in a fishing trip 

 north among the Thousand Islands. 



Patrick Donegau, witli Ford Bros., is 

 away for a couple of weeks of deserved 

 rest in Pennsylvania. 



The Lord & Burnhnni Co. is to be rep- 

 resented at the S. A. F. convention with 

 its usual amount of space and strong dis- 

 play. Fred Lord will be on the ground 

 to show u]» the strong points of the Burn- 

 ham boiler. 



Hitchings & Co. have adopted the 

 rather unique way of letting a sign fif- 

 teen feet long and six feet wide, with an 

 unusual inscription on it, do the con- 

 vention talking for them. As a footnote 

 to the sign, a lad is to be on deck to dis- 

 tribute an interesting bit of printing, 

 giving the florists some good strong ad- 

 vic<^ on the care of boilers and the eco- 

 nomical widths to build greenhouses. 



A. Warendorff, of 1193 Broadway, is 

 quite ill at his summer home at Averne- 

 by-the-Sea. 



Charles Mi Hang has an importation of 

 l)ox trees and evergreens coming in Octo- 

 ber, double that he brought over in 1905. 

 He is turning part of his conservatory 

 into a big ice-box in anticipation of a 

 large season. 



William Starke has two greenhouses 

 and one and a half acres of land devoted 

 to the care and growing of his palms, 

 hardy roses, vincas, ivy and acubas in 

 Astoria, and is fixing up his store on 

 West Twenty-ninth street and enlarg- 

 ing it. 



A. .J. Cnittman is receiving fine Chate- 

 nay and Killarney daily from his green- 

 houses at Summit, N. J., and is handling 

 over 10,000 gladioli every twenty-four 

 hours. May, Augusta. Shakespeare and 

 America among them. H. C. Reidel, his 

 lieutenant, is summering at Homecrest. 



A sister of Clarke Bros., Portland, 

 Ore., long associated with them in their 

 store there, is in the city visiting friends 

 and on her honeymoon trip to Germany, 

 where her husband resides. She has 

 been studying two years in Germany and 

 has a splendid voice, which will be heard 

 in grand opera next season. 



Mi.ss Anna Levitt, of Fenrich 's, leaves 

 this week for a two weeks ' sojourn in 

 the mountains. 



Meptloii The Review when yon write. 



E. F. WINTER80N CO. 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



We Are Now Receiving* 



Fancy, Long Stem ASTERS 



All colors, also Gladioli, Auratum Lilies, 

 Sweet Peas, Roses, American Beauties. 

 Our Carnations are the best on the market 

 and are fine for this season of the year. 

 Fancy Valley and all Greens always on 

 hand. All Cut Flowers in season. 



Leading Florists' Supply House of the West. 



Mention The RctIcw when jon write. 



Percy Kichters, with Ernest Asmus' 

 Son, is holidaying at Asbury Park, N. J. 



Charles Miller, with Walter Sheridan, 

 has returned from his outing in the 

 mountains at Stevensville, N. Y. 



Miss Foran, bookkeeper for the Cut 

 Flower Co., has taken her usual summer 

 vacation at her old home in Canada near 

 Montreal. 



Arthur Nash, son of John Nash, of 

 Moore, Jlentz & Nash, is ill at Denver. 



Sigmund Geller is spending the sum- 

 mer with his family at Rockaway Beach. 



Mr. Smith is building two 200-foot 

 greenhouses at Bound Brook. 



J. K. Allen is off next week for a two 

 weeks' rest in Sussex county, with his 

 family. 



James Hart, the veteran, is rejoicing 

 in the return to the fold of some of his 

 old growers of twenty years ago. 



Jos. Fenrich announces his recupera- 

 tive needs will be attended to by a two 

 weeks ' cruise commencing Monday, 

 during which time he will stay out of 

 sight of land, and the market, and forget. 

 Mr. Fenrich has been revealing some of 

 the mysteries of pony training to his 

 visiting growers during the last week, 

 some of the Madison deacons participat- 

 ing in the investigation. 



Benjamin Dorrance, of Dorraneeton, ' 



Pa., was in town Monday, with rod and 

 reel, clad in fishing toggery, and on his 

 way to the haunts of the elusive finny 

 tribe amid the trout streams of the ad- 

 jacent mountains. J. Austin Shaav. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Many growers are now pulling out 

 their stock and sending in little or noth; 

 ing. Consequently flowers are not over- 

 plentiful, but are amply sufficient for all 

 calls. Business, except for a moderate 

 amount of funeral work, is almost at a 

 standstill. These conditions will prob 

 ably exist for a few weeks longer, 



Roses sell at from 50 cents to $4 pei 

 hundred, a small number of extras sell- 

 ing higher. Carnations remain as a week 

 ago, .50 cents to $2 per hundred. Fair 

 Maid is far the best kind coming in. 

 Asters are now too abundant, at 50 cents 

 to $1.50 per hundred. Good Lilium 

 auratum and L. lancifolium bring $3 to 

 $4. Sweet peas are less abundant than 

 other years, continuous rains ruining so 

 many. Ruling j)rices are 20 cents to 25 

 cent.s ]»er hundred. Gypsophila, valley, 

 feverfew, candytuft and gladiolf com- 

 prise the bulk of other flowers seen. Some 



