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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 23, 1906. 



■ 80 Years* Experience has placed us in a position where "w^e 

 know flowers** and that*s "hall the battle** lor the buyer. 



MUMS, ROSES, CARNATIONS 

 VIOLETS, GREENS, ETC. 



, Daily shipments from 40 to 60 growers enable us to 



supply all Seasonable Stock at lowest market rates. 

 "We also have an **up-to-date'' line of 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



/ I A trial order solicited. Catalogue free. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR WILD SMILAX 



E. F. WINTERSON CO. 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BEAUTIBS V, Per dOB. 



S0to36-lnch 18.00 to 14.00 



MtoSO-lnch 3.&0tO 8.00 



16to30-lnch 1.60 to 1.76 



8tol3-inoh 76 to 1.00 



Shorts .60 



ROSES (Tea«) Per 100 



Bride and Maid.. 18.0010 18.00 



Richmond and Liberty 8.00 to 8.00 



Perle 8.00 to 6.00 



Golden Gate and Chatenay 8.00 to 6.00 



Roses, our selection 8.00 



CARNATIONS, select. 3.00 



" fancy 8.00 



MISOBLLANBOUS 



Hums, larre per doz., 18.00 



" medium.per doz., 11.60-12 60 



" small per 100, 6.00-10.00 



Violets 76to 1.00 



VaUey S.OOto 4.00 



Harrisii U.OOto 18.0* 



GREBNS 



Smllax Strings per doz. 1.60 



Asparagrus String's each .40 to .60 



Asparagus Buncoes " .86 to .60 



Sprenererl Bunches " .86 



Boxwood Sprays, per lb., 16c 



Adiantum per 100 .76 to 1.00 



Ferns, Common per 1000 1.60 



Galax, O. and B " 1.26 to 1.60 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.60 



Wild Smllax, 18.00, 14.00, 86.00 per case. 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANOB. 

 Open 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. 



Mention The ReTlew when joxx write. 



WE ARE NOW ON WITH 

 A FINE CROP OF 



ROSES 



BEST IN THE MARKET 



Benthey-Coalsworth Co 



35-37 Randolph St., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



cents each was the general rate for long 

 Beauties. Saturday a few, a very few, 

 sold at 20 cents. Mpnday it looked as 

 if $4 per hundred would be top for 

 Brides and Maids for some lime, cer- 

 tainly while the mums last. "When they 

 are gone, welcome as they may be to 

 the public, the real cause for thanksgiv- 

 ing to the wholesale florist and the 

 grower will have arrived, and that should 

 be just about Thanksgiving day. 



Orchids are abundant and slightly off 

 in price, but not in beauty and variety. 

 It's wonderful where they all come from 

 and go. The fact is they are the fash- 

 ionable corsage of the Four Hundred 

 and even the Four Thousand refuse to 

 be married without their bride's bou- 

 quet of orchids to tell about to their less 

 fortunate sisters. 



The carnations hold up well consider- 

 ing the drop in roses, but they, too, have 

 to retreat a little in sympathy with all 

 else, while daily they improve in quality. 

 Soon all the new varieties that were 

 prize-winners a year ago will be on sale, 

 F. R. Pierson 's Winsor among them. 



Lilies are not abundant and hold firm 

 at $10 to $12 per hundred for selected 

 flowers. Valley, too, at times touches 

 $4 for the "superb brand." Will Sie- 

 brecht, of Astoria, who has valley 365 

 days every year, was in the city Satur- 

 day with his attorney son, the pros- 



pective bridegroom of December. He is 

 still busy building and adjusting since 

 the city shortened his original plant and 

 added to the boulevard on which he 

 lives. 



Smilax is abundant and the wild 

 variety is coming daily from the south 

 in lots of 100 cases. The fern and 

 galas departments of the business show 

 increased activity and especially are the 

 box and retinospora importers over- 

 whelmed. It is wonderful how the 

 hotels and private homes of New York 

 have adopted the delightful habit of 

 winter decoration. These, with palms 

 and bay trees, have had an enormous 

 sale and a good many of the purchases 

 are made on West Twenty-ninth street, 

 where hundreds of cases have arrived 

 and still more to follow. 



Various Notes. 



The club meeting November 12 will 

 be made the most interesting of the 

 year. The ladies and the mums together 

 will make it a display eveping worth 

 coming 100 miles to see. Theii, too, 

 Mr. Nugent will exceed all previous 

 gastronomic surprises as a finale before 

 being told to "go up higher," and 

 music and song and eloquence, and per- 

 chance the bagpipes, will add to thp 

 general celebration. 



On Friday last William White, the 



oldest florist in this section, died at the 

 Methodist home in Brooklyn at the ripe 

 age of 93 years. Mr. White came to 

 this country in 1837. His last private 

 estate was that of Chas. Dana, at Glen 

 .Cove. He was afterwards in business 

 for himself at Bating Hollow, Eiver- 

 head, L. I. He had charge of and laid 

 out Ft. Greene park, Brooklyn, and also 

 assisted in the laying out of Prospect 

 park. At one time, some fifteen years 

 ago, he had a retail store at 924 Fulton 

 street. He was the father-in-law of 

 Wm. Burgess, of Glen Cove, who intro- 

 duced the Marechal Niel rose in this 

 country, and the grandfather of Mrs. 

 Geo. W. Crawbuck, of the firm of Hicks 

 & Crawbuck, Brooklyn. 



The Cut Flower Exchange, on the 

 third floor of the Coogan building, has 

 the ten commandments framed and 

 hung up at the outer portal so that all 

 who come may read. Some of them are 

 more restrictive than the ones Moses 

 wrote, but all are reasonable and if 

 insisted on virill make the Exchange, 

 with its 200 members, a quiet and 

 orderly place, no matter how many 

 crowd it in the early morning. 



Phil Breitmeyer, of Detroit, accom- 

 panied by one of the city fathers there, 

 spent several days in New York last 

 week and a red glow pervades the place 

 ever since. Boddington and one of the 



