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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 3, 1906. 



E. F. WINTERSON CO. 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



Wholesate Cut Flowers and Florists' Supplies. Shipping orders our Specialty 



Leading Florists' Supply House of the West 



BOSTON FERNS 



We have contracted for a large supply of Borons this year, with a specialist on Bostons, who will 

 grow our entire output for this year. Nice, bushy stock, cool-grown, 



5-inch per dozen, $5.00 7-inch - per dozen, $10.00 



6-inch per dozen, 8.00 8-inch baslcets per dozen, 8.00 



Will have a full line of all sizes later from 4 to 10-inch. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



lated for subscriptions in behalf of the 

 San Francisco fire sufferers. 



A. I. Simmons has closed his branch 

 store in Hyde Park. 



A. L. Eandall has been absent from 

 business for a couple of days this week, 

 suffering with a severe cold. 



At Peter Eeinberg's the benches and 

 gutters are up and they are now setting 

 the bars on eleven new rose houses. 



Chas. Schneider, the Central Floral 

 Co., is moving from Wabash avenue to 

 168 State street. This is directly across 

 the street from the stand in Central 

 Music hall so long occupied by this firm 

 during the time Andrew Miller was 

 identified with it. 



George Eeinberg has had some phe- 

 nomenal crops of Beauties the past year 

 or two, but is just now breaking all 

 records with the size of his cut. 



John Sterrett, recently with C. W. Me- 

 Kellar, is now salesman for the Chicago 

 Rose Co. 



Edgar Sanders is entertaining his 

 daughter, Mrs. Edward Smith, who ar- 

 rived from New York on Monday. 



L. Baumann reports his safe arrival 

 at Hamburg, Germany, April 29. He 

 will spend several weeks buying sup- 

 plies. 



The wholesalers have been called upon 

 for donations of flowers to several San 

 Francisco benefits. For the lake front 

 tent affair last Thursday Peter Eein- 

 berg put up forty fancy boxes and gave 

 a large quantity of loose flowers. Baa- 

 sett & Washburn also helped out and 

 at the same time sent a couple of boxes 

 of stock to a customer at St. Louis who 

 was giving for the same purpose. This 

 latter lot realized over $200, the flowers 

 being sold by actresses at the entrance 

 to the theater. No change was the rule, 

 and Bassett & Washburn 's best stock 

 never brought better prices. 



The carnation growers have begun 

 field planting and several have already 

 nearly completed the task. 



Last Thursday Walter Hoyt, son-in- 

 law of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Hauswirth, 

 lost his son, aged seventeen months. 



Fritz Bahr and his foreman,. Knox, 

 at Highland Park, have adopted a fam- 

 ily of five orphans. They were at- 

 tracted to the children's plight by a 

 story in the newspapers. They have 



raised over $600 and bought the family 

 a little home at Winnetka. The father 

 was formerly employed by the Albert 

 Dickinson Co. 



The J. B. Deamud Co. is still handling 

 very good plants of Crimson Eambler 

 roses. 



L. Coatsworth spent the past week at 

 New Castle. Good progress is being 

 made on the new greenhouses. 



The J. A. Budlong rose crops are not 

 now at their heaviest, but the quality 

 averages rather better than at any time 

 all season, and they have been cutting 

 good stock regularly. 



Klehm 's Nurseries is beginning to 

 send a heavy crop of Liberties to Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co. This house had the first 

 two dozen peonies April 30. 



C. W. McKellar reports orchids com- 

 ing in crop with everything else. 



E. F. Winterson Co. reports satis- 

 factory business the last week. They 

 are still handling very large quantities 

 of the Arendt Bulb Co.'s outdoor spring 

 stock. 



C. S. Ford was in town on Monday and 

 Tuesday. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market. 



After the storm of the first of the 

 week, which has now become a habit of 

 the weather, real spring conditions pre- 

 vail. The trees are * ' opening their 

 thousand leaves, ' ' the gardens are ablaze 

 with magnolia and forsythia bloom, and 

 all nature is alive again. The seedsmen 

 and the nurserymen rejoice, and with 

 good cause, for no such season in vol- 

 ume of business has ever been expe- 

 rienced. The plant market, and the 

 auctions, too, are booming. 



But with the wholesalers in the cut 

 flower market this spring time is "the 

 winter of their discontent. ' ' Values 

 retrograde rapidly. Violets are out of 

 the running. Their glory has departed. 

 They have had a checkered year and a 

 new basis of prices has been established, 

 but, even so, the growers have made 

 money, lots of it, and building goes on 

 as enterprisingly as ever in the Ehine- 

 beck region. What are a million violets 

 lost by reason of rain at Easter, com- 



pared with the million dollars lost by 

 the florists of San Francisco? 



The tendency of everything last week 

 was toward lower prices. Eoses did not 

 escape. Beauties fell to $15 per hun- 

 dred for the best, and so on down to 

 summer rates; Brides and Maids to $4, 

 and all the specialties, Eichmond, Kil- 

 larney, Chatenay, Liberty, etc., joined 

 the procession. 



Lilies are abundant and lower. Bul- 

 bous stock is plentiful; southern is com- 

 ing in a flood. Arbutus is now the popu- 

 lar street flower. Lilac — there is no 

 limit to it; the south must be covered 

 with it, judging by the shipments. Some 

 lilac reaches New York that is "found" 

 by the searchers in the country places. 

 This stock is all velvet to the fortunate 

 handler. 



Business will doubtless progress on 

 the present level until Decoration day. 

 Plantsmen are preparing for this with 

 greater variety and quantity than ever 

 before. The Flatbush growers find this 

 day the best of all the year. I hear 

 Davy Mellis, with his big range, is ready 

 for double the usual demand. His Crim- 

 son Eamblers at Easter were fine. 



Variotts Notes. 



When it is completed .John Scott will 

 have one of the finest plants on Long 

 Island. The enterprising president will 

 not rest until he has 100,000 square feet. 

 Scottii is as much in demand as ever. 

 There is never enough of it. 



The club will meet Monday, May 14^ 

 and many matters of interest will be con- 

 sidered, a fine exhibit arranged and final 

 reports given as to the outing. 



Night and day work continues at Bod- 

 dington's. Over 300,000 cannas have 

 been sold by this house this season. 

 Harry Buuyard has fully recovered from 

 the severe cut that nearly put his hand 

 out of commission. 



Jos. Fenrich is now handling Anton 

 Schultheis' fine valley and gardenias. 

 Miss Levitt, of Fenrich 's staff, has re- 

 moved her residence to the seashore for 

 the summer. 



The W. F. MeCord Co., of Tarrytown, 

 reports a big business, especially in the 

 nursery line. Mr. McCord closed a large 

 contract on Saturday in Westchester 

 county. 



