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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabcu 22, 1906. 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



Reg^ular Ship- 

 ments from 

 THE SOUTH 



60 Wabash Avenue, Chicago 



WILD SMILAX 



BEST STOCK, 



$6.00 



PER CASE. 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BEAUTIES 



Per doz. 



Fancy «5.00 



30-inch 4.00 



20 to 24- inch $2.60 to 3.00 



15 to 18-inch 1.00 to 2.00 



Short 60to .75 



Per 100 



Bride and Maid $t.00to $ 8.00 



Liberty and Richmond 4.00 to 8.00 



Golden Gate 4.00to 8.00 



Per 100 



Roses, our selection $4.00 



Carnations, select $1.50 to 2.00 



fancy 3.00 to 4.00 



Violets, double, single .75 



Valley 3.00 to 4.00 



Paper Whites 8 00 



Mignonette 3.00 to 8.00 



Callas per doz., $1.25 



Daffodils, Golden Spurs 3.00 



PerlOO 



Tulips, all colors $2.00 to $4.00 



HarrisU per doz., $1.50 



Smilax per doz. , $1.50- 2.00 



Leucothoe Sprays 



Adiantum 



Plumosus, Strings each, 30c 



" Bunches,each, 35-50c 

 Sprengeri, " ....each, 35c 



Galax Leaves per 1000, $1.25 



Fancy Ferns per 1000. 2.00 



.76 

 1.00 



PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE 



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Mr. Reinberg because of his vote for 

 high license, but his re-election is cer- 

 tain if those who worked for high li- 

 cense are equally as active in defense of 

 the aldermen who carried out their 

 wishes. 



The J. B. Deamud Co. has this month 

 added several shippers. One in partic- 

 ular has a crop of as fine roses as are 

 coming into this market. Alex. Newett, 

 of this firm, is ill with lumbago. 



Bassett & Washburn have been trying 

 the new style of fumigating, with hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas. It has worked so well 

 that they are preparing to fumigate the 

 whole range of connected houses, a 

 ground area of 168x600. These being 

 high-gutter houses with no partition 

 walls, it is almost necessary to fumigate 

 them all at once. As something like 250 

 jars of the fumigant will be required, 

 it is a problem how to set them off prac- 

 tically simultaneously and get the men 

 out of the^ house before there is danger. 



The Chicago Rose Co. has received a 

 big lot of caladium bulbs. They have 

 100,000 fancy ferns in the ice box which 

 are opening up in exceptionally good 

 quality. 



G. E. Pieser, secretary of the Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., is on the sick list. 



W. W. Randall, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., is taking his turn at "West Baden 

 this week. His brother returned from 

 there a few days ago. 



L. Baumann, the supply man, was at 

 his office Monday for the first time in 

 two months. He says he is lonesome 

 without his appendix, but feeling first- 

 rate after his experience in the hospital. 



The landscape department of the 

 George Wittbold Co. is figuring on a 

 job which will necessitate the supplying 

 of 360 car-loads of black soil. There is 

 no order too large for the Wittbolds, 

 nor is there anything in a trade way 

 they are not prepared to tackle, from 

 supplying a boutonniere to converting a 

 desert into a garden. 



Sam Pearce has seven houses of lilies 

 coming on for Easter. His plants are 

 about the tallest in the neighborhood, 

 but in common with many other local 

 growers his flowers are only fair. 



E. H. Hunt's first Easter order was 

 booked March 19 and came from West 

 Virginia. 



J. G. Crozier, of Cedar Rapids, la., 

 whose recent injury under a railroad 

 train was chronicled, is in town after an 

 artificial foot. 



E. H. Hitchcock, Glenwood, Mich., is 

 in town. He has a million ferns in stor- 

 age here and next year proposes to store 

 practically his entire crop here and es- 

 tablish a wholesale agency. 



C. W. Ward passed through Friday 

 evening on his way home to Queens after 

 spending a fortnight in Arizona. 



W. W. Coles, of Kokomo, blew in with 

 the blizzard on Monday. 



TWIN QTIES. 



The Market. 



Trade tlie past week has been only fair, 

 and on account of the heavy cuts of 

 some of our larger growers, it has taxed 

 them to dispose of the stock. The first 

 part of the week, on account of the very 

 cold weather, business was not any too 

 good, but by Wednesday it changed and 

 most of the leading dealers did very 

 well the balance of the week. We have 

 an abundance of stock coming in daily 

 and most of it is very good. Roses have 

 been fine and we have some carnations 

 which would be hard to beat, especially 

 Enchantress. Growers who have not had 

 very good ones are now cutting some of 

 the largest yet seen in this locality. All 

 bulbous stock is plentiful and the pros- 

 pects are that we are all going to be 

 well supplied for the Easter trade. The 

 department stores are disposing of large 

 quantities, particularly on sale days. 

 The violets which our local growers have 

 been cutting are excellent and very few 

 have been shipped into this market this 

 season; a few of our growers have been 

 very successful in raising them; it seems 

 that they have been either very success- 

 ful or an absolute failure. 



Minneapolis. 



Friends of Ralph Latham are glad to 

 see him back at his post. He has been 

 in Indiana, taking the mud baths, which 

 seem to have done him considerable good. 

 He reports good business since his re- 

 turn. 



The Rosary reports good business, 

 taking everything into consideration. 



They have been carrying a complete 

 stock of all cut flowers, but claim it is 

 hard to get select roses. 



Geo. S. Murtfeldt reports an increas- 

 ing demand and is satisfied with the out- 

 look. His store is indeed a very neat 

 one and well kept up. 



St. Paul. 



Vogt Bros, are moving into their new 

 location on Selby avenue, and will be 

 able to handle much more trade. 



Aug. S. Swanson has been cutting 

 some of the flnest bulbous stock brought 

 into this market, particularly tulips. 



L. L. May & Co. report trade very 

 good. On Monday ^ their record was 

 twenty-six large floral emblems, a large 

 portion of them being shipped to St. 

 Peter, Minn., to the funeral of the 

 mother of Governor Johnson, of Minne- 

 sota. Felix. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Despite the cold weather and Lent the 

 market keeps firm. The bulk of the 

 business in the retail stores is funeral 

 work, and of this there seems to be a 

 plenty in all parts of the city. There 

 is neither overstock nor scarcity in any 

 one line. The wholesalers, too, report a 

 goodly amount of shipping trade. The 

 growers' talk at present is about Eas- 

 ter, and they have great hopes for big 

 trade at this festival. The dark, cloudy 

 weather of late has kept the blooming 

 stock back. They say there will be plenty 

 of fine stock for the expected heavy de- 

 mand. 



Friday and Saturday there was a de- 

 mand for white carnations and every- 

 body was busy with the green dyeing 

 process. These sold well. The big pa- 

 rade was postponed a week owing to the 

 bad condition of the streets from the re- 

 cent snow storm, so next Sunday green 

 carnations will again be seen in abund- 

 ance on the streets. 



Prices remain about as the week pre- 

 vious, only that on Friday and Satur- 

 day white carnations went up to $5 per 

 hundred for fancy stock. Of Enchan- 

 tress, Lawson and other colors the best 

 sold at $3. Roses are more plentiful 

 I than they have been for some time, and 



