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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 8. 1906. 



ABUNDANCE... 



Stock of all kinds and all g^rades to meet the 

 desires of all buyers. Carnations in especially 

 heavy supply and of fine quality. 



Send US Today's Order 



Now is the time to maite sure of 

 your stoci( of Supplies for Easter. 



E. H.HUNT 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



CURRENT PRICES 



BEAVTIBS Per doz. 



30to36-inch 14.00 to 15,00 



24to28-tnch 3.00 to 4.00 



16to20-lnch 2.00to 8.00 



8tol2-lnch l.OOto 2.00 



Shorts .75 



ROSES (Teas) Per 100 



Brides and Maids 15.00 to t 8.00 



Richmond 6.00 to 12.00 



Liberty 6.00 to 10.00 



Perle 5.00 to 7.00 



Roses, our selection 4.00 



CARNATIONS 1.50to 2.50 



Extra fancy S.OOto 4.00 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Violets, double 60 to .75 



Harrlsll Lilies 15.00 to 20.00 



Callas 10.00 to 12.50 



Valley S.i'Oto 4.00 



Tulips 3.00 to 4.00 



Paper Whites 3.00 



Romans 3.00 



VonSlons 3.00 



GREENS ' 



Smllax Strings per doz. 1.50 to 2.00 



Asparagus Strings each .40 to ,50 



Asparagus Bunches " .35 



Sprengerl Bunches " .35 



Boxwood Bunches " .25 



Adlantum per 100 .75 to 1.00 



Ferns, Common per 1000 2.00 



Galax, G. and B " l.OOto 1.25 



Leucothoe Spra.vs " 7.50 



Wild Smllax, 13.00, $4.00, 15.00 per case. 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



E. F. WINTERSON CO. 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



Wholesale Cut Flowers and Florists' Supplies, Shipping orders our Specialty 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



Our Special 

 Easter list of 



Will be ready about March 15. Write us for a copy. 



Mention TUe Review when you write. 



on January 9 (I wonder whether you'll 

 find this anywhere else). One is now 

 full of dahlias, nicely started, with cut- 

 tings in a condition to tempt the propa- 

 gator 's knife. The other has been tem- 

 porarily claimed by the fern man for a 

 few hundred thousand of his seedlings, 

 but its ultimate purpose is the propaga- 

 tion of dahlias and for this purpose it 

 will soon be devoted, 



A farm of seventy acres has been pur- 

 chased halfway between Riverton and 

 Moorestown. The soil is heavier than at 

 Riverton. This farm will be devoted to 

 the growing of dahlias and perennials, 

 80 that in future the Dreer nurseries will 

 grow their own dahlias entirely, instead 

 ef drawing on other sources for their 

 dahlia roots. 



Among the many other things of in- 

 terest pointed out by Geo. A. Strohlein 

 in an afternoon's ramble were Nephro- 

 lepis Whitmanii. The original plant has 

 improved greatly in appearance. There 

 was a batch of young plants of this 

 ▼ariety being prepared for a European 

 trip next month. Cocos Weddelliana is 

 being grown in larger quantities. One 

 long bench will be reserved for speci- 

 men plants in 4-inch to 6-inch pots. This 

 palm makes beautiful specimens in me- 

 dium sizes, for which, it is believed, a 

 «lemand can be created. 



A range of twelve houses, perhaps 

 2t)x200 each, entirely filled with some- 

 thing like 100,000 hardy roses, double 

 decked, all correctly labeled and ready 

 for the opening of spring, was a sight. 



In the houses devoted to miscellaneous 



plants, a myrtle-leaved smilax was very 

 beautiful. Two large flowered varieties 

 of ageratum. Princess Pauline, blue with 

 white center, and a soft blue, called, I 

 think, Incomparable, were pleasing. This 

 collection embraces nearly all of the 

 best greenhouse and bedding plants in 

 general cultivation, the newer varieties 

 of merit being grown instead of old 

 favorites; for instance, in geraniums, the 

 sensational scalloped variety, Telegraph, 

 The packing shed at Riverton has been 

 doubled in size, to give needed room 

 during the rush which is already begin- 

 ning, A neat, labor-saving device is a 

 label rack, each compartment being filled 

 with neatly printed labels of each va- 

 riety of plant to be sent out. The del- 

 phiniums, dahlias and other plants so 

 much sought after in sets by the Ameri- 

 can flower loving public were especially 

 prominent. 



The Source of Supply. 



Everybody wants to know where the 

 Leo Niessen Co, obtained its Beauties 

 during February, when Beauties were al- 

 most unobtainable. Nearly all the big 

 guns were off crop, growers who had 

 been depended upon for Beauties in 

 midwinter, and whose success had made 

 Philadelphia Beauties famous over the 

 entire Atlantic seaboard. This February 

 not one of these growers could boast 

 enough stock to count for anything in 

 the market. It was even said that the 

 large growers were content to divide 

 Beauties in less than dozen lots among 

 their customers, incredible as it may 



I 



seem that a grower of from 5,000 to 

 10,000 plants could have to dole out his 

 specials in threes and sixes. During all 

 this time the aforesaid L. N. Co. was 

 accepting orders for fifties, hundreds and 

 in one case, as mentioned in the Re- 

 view, for 500 fancy Beauties. So Phil 

 was sent out to Wyndmoor to see the 

 plants that had done so much to make 

 this result possible. 



Geo. Burton has worked very hard this 

 winter. He has worked to some pur- 

 pose. Not only was Christmas profitable 

 with him, but he had a good January 

 and a February that so far exceeded that 

 of 1905 and of 1904 that I hardly like 

 to give the figures, lest even Phil's word 

 would be doubted. The place of perhaps 

 40,000 feet of glass is a Beauty place 

 par excellence; about three-quarters of 

 the space is devoted to this grand rose, 

 the remaining quarter being divided be- 

 tween Meteor, which will be discarded 

 this year, through no fault of the rose or 

 its productiveness; Golden Gate, which 

 will be continued, and Uncle John, a 

 pretty sport from Gate rarely seen near 

 this city. 



The Beauties are grown both in 

 ground beds and in benches and are re- 

 markably vigorous, there being little 

 blind wood and many heavy shoots. Mr. 

 Burton believes that the six weeks of 

 Lent will mark his lightest cut since No- 

 vember, but even so, his cut will not be 

 so very light. The stock of coal for next 

 season has been secured. A piece of 

 forethought makes Mr. Burton independ- 

 ent of coal strikes. 



