

OCTOBEB 26, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1481 



CHRYSANTHEMIMS! 



FOR ALL SAINTS' DAY— Alio Before and Attor 



PRIZE-WINNING STOCK 



Shorter Grades for all who want them. 



17 Firsts on 19 Entries at Illinois State Fair 



We are now cutting heavy on Mums, Roses* 

 Beauties, Carnations, Valley, Lilies, 

 Asparagus (extra long strings), Adiantum, 

 Sprengeri and Smilax. The quality of 



our Eoses was never so good as this season. 

 Richmond are especially select long stem. 



MUMS, fancy ....doz., $8.00 to $4.00 



Good medium " 1.60 to 2.50 



Small per 100. 6.0Oto 10.00 



AMERICAN BXAUTIKS 



Select, long $3.00 to $4 00 per doz. 



Select, medium $1.50 to 2 00 per doz. 



Select, short 50 to 1 .25 per doz. 



Maid, Bride, KlUamey, Cliatenay, 



Perie, select $6.00 per 100 



Medium 4.00 per 100 



Short $2.00 to 8.00 per 100 



Per 100 

 Rlohmond, Kaiaertn, select. $6.00 to $8.00 



Medium....; 4.00 



Short v.. 2.00 



Carnations.. S.OOto 4.00 



Valley, select 4.00 



Llliee $16.00 per 100 



Violets I.CO per ICO 



AsparaKUS 50c per strinK 



Sprays 25c to 85c per bunch 



Sprenareri 25c to S5c per bunch 



Smllaz $1.50 per doz. 



Adiantum 76c to $1.00 per 100 



Ferns $1.50 per 1000 



POEHLMANN BROS. CO. 



WHOLESALE GROWERS OE CUT ELOWERS 



33-37 Randolph St. phone. centra 3573 Chicago, 111. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



who were attracted to them were really 

 the people we wanted to reach in order 

 to do the most good to the business at 

 large^ owing to the location of our cluft 

 room. For the above reasons it Was de- 

 cided to discontinue our nidw^ but it 

 is not our intention to do away with 

 them altogether. For the present, 

 though, matters will be allowed to rest 

 until a definite plan can be settled upon. 

 It is' our intention to give our shows 

 hereafter in such a locality that the best 

 class of flower buyers will be attracted 

 to them. In this way we hope to edu- 

 cate them in what is the best, in both 

 flowers and plants. At the next meet- 

 ing of the society, the members are 

 expected to come prepared to give their 

 opinion of what they consider to be the 

 best method for holding the shows in 

 the future. In this way we hope to ob- 

 tain the general views on the subject. 

 The one which is the most practicable 

 will be selected. The society will not 

 hold a mum show this year. 



Various Notes. 



Louis, the four-year-old son of Otto 

 Walke, one of our Vine street florists, 

 died last week of diphtheria. 



A retail game and fish store, located 

 on Sixth street, had an opening last 

 week, and among the floral offerings 

 were a few that were surely novelties. 

 Among the collection were to be seen a 

 lobster, a turkey, a frog, a turtle and a 

 fish, all made of fresh flowers. The 

 various likenesses were easily recogniza- 

 ble, and it goes to show that our flo- 

 rists will make you any old thing, from 

 a threshing machine down to a house 

 and lot, and nothing in the visible world 



is barred from reproduction. But it 

 would seem that flowers were not made 

 for such things. 



There were three mums sent to this 

 city to be judged by the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society's committee. Two of them 

 were from the E. G. Hill Co. The first, 

 called Fusee, was a lemon yellow of 

 large size with good stem and foliage. 

 The second was called Director Gerard 

 and was of a golden yellow color. It 

 was a globular-formed flower, with pet- 

 als hanging down underneath. It was 

 built somewhat after the order of Pride. 

 The other was exhibited by Nathan 

 Smith, & Son, It was called Comoleta, 

 and was of a good yellow color. Its 

 build and habit was very much after 

 the manner of Bergmann. 



Julius Baer and Chas. Jones went to 

 Chicago, October 22. They intend look- 

 ing over the wholesale market there, and 

 it is expected that they will place large 

 orders. 



E. G. Hill was a visitor Saturday. 



C. J. Ohmer. 



NEV YORK, 



The Market 



Saturday and Sunday the fall of rain 

 was continuous; the speed of the wind 

 as fast as that of the autos in the great 

 race of the week before. The flood of 

 •chrysanthemums without this other was 

 quite sufficient to unsettle the market 

 and undermine it. All last week it de- 

 clined gradually, as the tide of mums 

 rolled in, until on Saturday the inevi- 

 table result was consummated and the 

 bottom fell out. 



It is interesting to look at the record 



of other years and draw comfort from 

 this condition of things, for it is simply 

 a repetition of the old, old story. Every 

 year at this time the price of mums 

 ranges from $2 to $25 per hundred. The 

 top price will buy about the best now 

 coming and grand stock was sold Mon- 

 day in white and pink at $1 a dozen. 

 Eugene Dailledouze was exhibiting some 

 President Loubet on Saturday at the 

 New York Cut Flower Co., sent by the 

 E. G. Hill Co., of Richmond, Ind., that 

 he declared were worth $1 each and they 

 were as large as pumpkins. They cer- 

 tainly were beautiful and stood the long 

 journey in fine condition. 



Violets are doing better. Really good 

 ones touched 75 cents per hundred at 

 times last week. They begin to show 

 their real character. The second crop 

 must have started. George Schuneman, 

 of Baldwin 's, who was in town Saturday, 

 says it will be November 15 before he 

 begins shipping his prize flowers. Long 

 Island is a warm climate compared with 

 Rhinebeck, but, though a little late, he 

 "gets there just the same." It's a 

 yearly lesson in shipping violets, that 

 one might think should wake up these 

 early demoralizers and stop the practice 

 hereafter. There's no use sending vio- 

 lets to the New York market before the 

 middle of October, so say the experts, 

 the wholesalers and the buying public. 

 Far better to wait until prices are stable 

 and remunerative. 



All the roses have turned their steps 

 backwards. I saw boxes of them as 

 they ran closed out at loss than $1 a 

 hundred on straight slips, firsts, seconds 

 and fancies and some specials, and the 

 whole box of 2,000 for $20. Fifteen 



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