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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBBB 25, 1006. 



All Saints' Day 



IN THE SOUTH 



HORSE SHOW WEEK 



IN CHICAGO 



For these times of Active Demand we have Large 

 Supplies in all departments, but especially in Chrysan- 

 themums and Fancy New York Violets, the two items 

 most called for. YOU send the orders; WE do the rest. 



VAIGHAN & SPERRY 



58-60 Wabash Ave. hnt^%7i Chicago 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BBAUTIK8 Per doz. 



Stems, 86to481nohe8 18.00 to 94.00 



----- --- 8.00 



2.00 



1.S0 



100 



.76 



Stems, 34 to 80 inches 3.60 to 



Stems, 2U Inches 



Stems, 18 Inches 



Stems, 12 to 16 Inches 



Short stems (10 to 



R08B8 ' Per 100 



Bride and Maid 1300 to $600 



Kalserln 800to 800 



Richmond and Liberty 8.00 to 8.00 



Golden Gate and Chatenay .... 3.0U to 6.00 



CARNATIONS 



Good, select 2.00 to 8.00 



MUMS 



Large per doz. 8.00 to 4.00 



Medium perdoz. 1 60 to 2.60 



Small per 100, 6.00 to 10.00 



Violets, Fancy New York. " .75 to 1.00 



HarrUll per doz., t3.U0; per 100, 18.00 



Valley per 100, W.OOto 4.00 



OREBN GOODS 



Asparatrus per stringr, 10.86 to 10.50 



Sprengrerl per 100, 2 00 to 6.00 



Boxwood ner bunch, .86 



Galax, grreen. . .1000, tl.OO; per 100, .16 



bronze.. 1000, 1.25; per 100, .16 



Leucothoe per 100, .75 



Ferns 1000, tl.60; per lOU, ;») 



Adlantum p«>rlOO, .50to .75 



Smilax per doz., fl.50; per 100, 13.00 



Priees Subject to Change Without Notice. 



Mention The Beylew when you write. 



for the time being. Mr. Brix has a re- 

 tail store at Fifteenth street and St. 

 Louis avenue. 



The Beyers had the plant decoration 

 for the bankers ' convention last week, 

 which kept the boys on the jump. 



Fred H. "Weber made a fine decoration 

 of. chrysanthemums at the Jefferson 

 hotel last Saturday, in honor of the de- 

 parting bankers. 



A. Jablonsky has been doing jury, 

 duty. Frank Fillmore is on this week. 

 It is a bad time of the year for florists 

 to do jury work. 



Miss Armstrong, daughter of Luther 

 Armstrong, who has been sick for some 

 time, has recovered. She will soon be 

 back to her place with Miss Newman, on 

 Olive street. 



Martin Beukauf, representing H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., is 

 in town this week on his way east from 

 the coast. 



Adolph Fehr, of Belleville, was a 

 caller last week. Mr. Fehr reports busi- 

 ness good so far this season. 



All of the local banks have been hand- 

 somely decorated with plants and cut 

 flowers, mostly Beauties, the occasion 

 being the bankers' convention. 



Conrad Bergesterman, at Grandow 

 and Arsenal streets, has a fine show 

 of plants and fancy cut stock in his 

 big showhouse. Business is good. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden, No- 

 vember 12 will hold a free public chrys- 

 anthemum show, at which some fine spec- 

 imen plants will be shown. J. J. B. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 



At a meeting of the Illinois State 

 Florists' Association held at th,e Dome 

 building during the state fair, plans 

 were formulated to cooperate with Rob- 

 ert O'Dwyer, superintendent of floricul- 

 ture, to make a fine exhibit at the next 

 fair. The display of plants and cut 

 flowers in this department of the fair 

 thia year was the finest in its history, as 

 growers from the principal cities and 

 towns of the state- were represented. 

 The interest of the growers of flowers 

 throughout the state has been greatly 

 aroused during the two years' adminis- 

 tration of Mr. O'Dwyer as superin- 

 tendent of the department, and it is the 



intention to make this display one of 

 the features of the exposition next year, 

 provided the necessary appropriation 

 can be obtained. 



Much of the success of the display 

 was due to the efforts of J. F. Am- 

 mann, of Edwardsville, president of the 

 association, and Albert T. Hey, of this 

 city. 



CINCINNATI. 



ThcMai^ct 



A stretch of fine fall weather has 

 been our lot during the last week, but 

 it did not tend to do business any good. 

 Trade started out first-class, and the 

 early days of the week were all that 

 could be desired, but on Thursday and 

 Friday business went to pieces, and the 

 price on almost everything with the ex- 

 ception of carnations was cut in half. 

 This tended to make stock move a little, 

 and I don't believe much found its 

 way into the ash-barrel, but still it 

 brought down the general average. On 

 Saturday and Sunday there was a gen- 

 eral shortening in all lines, and prices 

 jumped back to what they ought to be. 

 There are many orders booked for the 

 coming week and it looks as if it would 

 be a good one. 



Mums now are being cut by the local 

 growers, and it will not be long till 

 there will be enough on the market to 

 fill all orders. Last Saturday there 

 were great numbers of them to be seen 

 in the Jabez Elliott flower market, and 

 they sold out at good prices. In the 

 wholesale market the earlier varieties 

 are about used up, and the mid-season 

 and better varieties making their ap- 

 pearance. They are receiving good wel- 

 come this year and selling well. It 

 looks as if the mums are going to aver- 

 age a better price than last year. Of 

 course it is a little too early to know 

 definitely as to the above; but judging 

 from the way the mums are looking in 

 the greenhouses, and the way they will 

 come in,, it would appear that there will 

 be but just about enough to fill all 

 orders for them. "With this state of 

 affairs all through the season, it will 

 undoubtedly be a good one. The quality 

 of roses is good now. Beauties are doing 

 first-class. Other red roses are more plen- 



A Good Many 



OLT-OF-TOWN 



BUYERS 

 CALL ON US 



ana make thdr entire selections 

 from our complete lines of 



Florists' Specialties 



AHD 



fireenhoose Requisites 



For the Season. 



If you can't come, write us. 



Mall 

 Orders 



Pilled 

 Promptly 



Mention The ReTlew trhrn yoo write. 



tiful and sell well. Carnations are still 

 in the sAme way, that is, scarce; and, 

 what is worse, there is little hope that 

 there will be enough of them to go 

 around until after the holidays. Violets 

 sell well, but are scarce. Good smilax 

 is also in demand. 



Qub Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society was held 

 last Saturday evening, with quite a good 

 attendance. The principal topic for dis- 

 cussion was whether it would be ad- 

 visable to continue our flower shows 

 on the same lines as they have been 

 run in the past. It has been our custom 

 in the past to give three shows a year, 

 holding* them in our club room. These 

 shows always have been successful, but 

 it was a question whether the people 



