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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 10, 1906, 



GARDENIA GRANDIFLORA 



= CAPE JASMINE - 



We expect to begin cutting about May lo, and shall have 

 between 200,000 and 300,000 flowers to dispose of. Our bushes 

 are in fine, healthy condition and we believe we shall have the 

 best stock ever put on the market. We oversee our own packing 

 and cull out poor, bad foliaged buds. The illustration in this 

 advertisement is 1-16 the real size of the buds. The flowers are 

 waxy white,, with a delightful fragrance, which is retained after 

 shipping. The foliage is a dark, glossy green. They carry well 

 to all parts of United States. 



TERMS, r. O. B. Per ICO Per 1000 



Class A, stems 12 to 18 Inolies $1.00 $0.00 



Class B, stems 6 to 12 Indies 75 6.50 



500 Buds at 1000 rate. 



The buds in B stock are equally as good as in A, the differ- 

 ence being in length of stems. Either money in advance or C. O. D. 

 Reference, Aivin State Bank. 



In ordering, pl6ase state time you wish flowers to reach you. 

 Regular Orders — Special attention is given to regular orders for the season, which lasts three or four weeks. We 

 believe these semi-tropical flowers will be a treat to your customers and pay you well. 



COOK & COOK, Alvin, Texas. 



Messrs. Cook & Cook, 

 Alvin, Texas. 



Dear Sirs:— Please send me tZ.OO worth of Cape Buds, class 

 A., to reach here by May 26, if possible. The flowers you sent last year 

 were the best that ever came here. And Oblige, 



C. O'BiUKN, Greenville, Ohio. 



Messrs Cooe & Cook, 



Dear Sirs:— Flowers arrived here today In first-class shape. 

 They are very satisfactory. Many thanks for flUinr the order so care- 

 fully. Very truly, 



Wm. Swinbank, Sycamore, III. 



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Mention The Review when you write. 



TWIN QTIES. 



The Market. 



Trade in general has been somewhat 

 quiet. Stock is abundant. Boses are 

 coming in nicely, but most of them are 

 weak-stemmed and not choice by any 

 means. Nearly all of the stores are 

 handling seeds and shrubbery in a small 

 way. The stocks carried by the retailers 

 who buy their flowers are not heavy, but 

 the growers who have stores are of 

 course carrying heavy supplies. Minne- 

 apolis seems to he favored by fakers, the 

 street dealers in St. Paul doing little. 

 Carnations are small, especially the 

 home-grown stock; the warm weather is 

 , no doubt the cause of it. Trailing ar- 

 butus is handled quite extensively by the 

 leading stores, also gardenias, which, 

 from reports, sell very well. Spring 

 openings the past week have called for 

 quite a number of palm decorations. 



Minneapolis. 



Otto Will & Son are very busy put- 

 ting up their new range of houses and 

 will have one of the finest plants in this 

 section. 



Up to this season they have been 

 growing only carnations and violets, but 

 now intend to grow a complete line, 

 which can be used to good advantage in 

 this section. 



Rice Bros, say that business is keep- 

 ing up fairly well, but do not expect 

 much in a wholesale way for some time. 

 Decoration day will, no doubt, make a 

 ripple, but that is only for one day. 



The Eosary reports a fair trade, but 

 nothing large. A good stock is always 

 on hand and the place is prepared for a 

 brisk demand at all times. 



0. Swanson is doing very well and 

 selling quite a number of the new rose, 

 Minnehaha. 



St. PauL 



The Swanson Floral Co. have had a 

 neat window, display in the shape of a 

 large plateau filled with green sheet moss, 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



Wholesale Cut Flowers 



and Florists* Supplies* 



From now to the end of June we shall 

 be able to fill all orders for PEONIES. 



For state of the supply see Chicago 

 Market Letter in The Review. 



40-42-44 Randolph St. 



L. D. Phone 

 Central 466. 



CHICAGO 



in which there were about 200 blooms 

 on long stems of the new rose, Minne- 

 haha, which were artistically arranged 

 by Gust Colberg. They report trade 

 fair. 



L. L. May &; Co. say that business in 

 the cut flower line is not heavy, but they 

 are having a heavy retail seed trade. 



C. F. Vogt says trade is only fair in 

 cut flowers, but is well satisfied with 

 shrubbery sales. Felix. 



Knoxville, Tenn.-^ Charles W. Crouch 

 is building six new houses, each 22x200 

 feet. 



Owosso, Mich. — Hermann Thiemann 

 has sold out and will shortly return to 

 his old home at Belchertown, Mass. 



NORTHERN TEXAS. 



The hail loss of Mr. Munson, of Deni- 

 son, chronicled in last, week's Review, 

 is covered by insurance, but Mr. Farley 

 had no protection and has a total loss. 



In sections where no hail fell every- 

 thing is looking fine. Stock is selling 

 at least as well as at any time this sea- 

 son. Carnations, where they have re- 

 ceived the right kind of care, are doing 

 finely, but some places show signs of 

 going to pieces. 



The bedding season is about over for 

 the simple reason that the local stock is 

 all planted. Another year will see a 

 much larger amount grown. 



The funeral trade is divided between 

 the two firms in Sherman. Hannah & 

 Son had some large orders the first of 



