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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



November 22, 1906. 



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51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



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OBOHZDS, a specialty Per doz. 



Cattleyas $6.00 to $7.50 



Dendrobium J'ormosum 4.00 to 6.00 



Assorted Orchids per box, 5.00 to 25.00 



Beauties, Extra Fancy 5.00 to 6.00 



24 to 36-in. stems 3.00 to 4.00 



15to24-in. stems 2.00 to 2.50 



8 to 12-in. stems 1.00 to 1.60 



Per 100 



Brides, Maids $5.00 to $8.00 



Chatenay, Kalserin.... 5.00 to 8.00 



Liberty. Richmond 5.00 to 10.00 



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KSGIVING PRICE 



Per 100 



Perles, Sunrise. G^tes $6.00 to $8.00 



Roses, my selection 4.00 



Carnations, large fancy 6.00to 6.00 



medium, good stock- 8.00 to 4.00 



Valley 3.00 to 4.00 



special 5.00 



Chrysanthemums, fancy 25.00 



good grade ... 16.00 to 20.00 



Small Mums 8.00 to 12.00 



Violets 1.60 to 2.00 



Mignonette 4.00 to 6.00 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



LIST 



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Harrisii and Oallas $16.00 to $20.00 | 



tireens, Smilax 8tring8,per doz. 1.50 



Asparagus strings each, .40 to .60 



Plumosus Sprengeri, 



bunch 25 to 50 



Adiantum 1.00 



Ferns, common per 1000 1.50 



Galax, Green " 1.00 



" Bronze " 1.50 



Leucothoe Sprays .75 ■ 



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else when more than $4 is asked. How- 

 ever, shipments of eastern valley already 

 are being received and the scarcity is 

 likely to be of short duration. New pips 

 already are in for early forcing. 



There are a few sweet peas, bouvar- 

 dias and other specialties in the market. 

 Paper Whites are plentiful. Green goods 

 are abundant. 



Chicago^s Great Train Service. 



A compilation by the Travelers', Ship- 

 pers' and Mail Guide shows that 1,537 

 trains — passenger, mail and freight — 

 daily arrive in and depart from Chi- 

 cago. It is stated no other city in the 

 world can equal this record. The total 

 number of through passenger and mail 

 trains arriving and departing is 455, of 

 suburban trains 807, and of freight 

 trains 272. 



The Deering FuneraL 



On Monday the E. Wienhoeber Co. had 

 what was possibly the largest funeral of 

 the season, that of the only daughter of 

 the Deering who founded the great har- 

 vester works. The casket cover was 

 made of orchids, valley and adiantum 

 and represented $400. McKellar sup- 

 plied for the day orchids to the value of 

 nearly $200. Practically all the valley 

 in town was used. Three of Wienhoeb- 

 er 's wagons were required to take the 

 flowers to Graceland. 



Incidentally, it is worth noting that 

 Chicago retailers are charging for their 

 teams, usually $5 each, when called for 

 for service at funerals. 



Violets. 



The receipts of New York violets fell 

 off noticeably last week. There are vary- 

 ing opinions as to the cause. One whole- 



saler says it was the horse show in New 

 York. Another avers that there is no 

 crop on at Ehinebeck. A buyer suggests 

 that the growers have had an intimation 

 that Thanksgiving is coming. At any 

 rate, prices advanced on an otherwise 

 weak market, and practically all the 

 houses are asking more money on orders 

 offered for Thanksgiving. There may be 

 plenty of violets, but the wholesalers do 

 not wish to be caught. If this market 

 does not return as good prices as are 

 realized in New York, that is the end of 

 the violet supply, at least for a time. 



Boxwood. 



There are varying reports as to the 

 sale of boxwood sprays, but it begins to 

 look as though the boxwood business is 

 likely to be overdone. A couple of ener- 

 getic gentlemen from the east took large 

 orders trom practically all the wholesal- 

 ers and then supplied the leading retail- 

 ers, so that everyone has boxwood. Some 

 of the small florists who have not used it 

 until this season have been introduced 

 and are consuming considerable quanti- 

 ties in funeral work, but the market 

 looks to have boxwood to last until the 

 cows come home. 



Carnation ^insor. 



J. E. Fotheringham, of the F. B. Pier- 

 son Co., Tarry town, N. Y., has spent the 

 time since the flower show in visiting the 

 growers around Chicago. Nearly all the 

 growers attended the show, but Mr. 

 Fotheringham says it surprised him that 

 so few of them saw the new varieties of 

 carnations. His vase of Winsor was the 

 marvel of all observant ones, for, shipped 

 from New York Monday, the flowers 

 were in fine shape Saturday, as fresh as 



any in the show. Shipments leccived 

 last week also came through finely. The 

 color pleases and most of the growers on 

 whom he called gave Mr. Fotheringham 

 orders for stock. Poehlmann Bros. Co. 

 took 5,000; Anton Then, 2,500; Jensen 

 & Dehema, a good bunch, and many 

 others. Mr. Fotheringham says the 

 house recently received an order from 

 England for 5,000 cuttings of Winsor. 



A Good Glue. 



The small detail of pasting the labels 

 on boxes of cut flowers is one that has 

 many times assumed importance through 

 the label soaking off or becoming illegi- 

 ble because of rain blurring the address. 

 E. C. Amling, who always watches the 

 little things that count, has discovered a 

 glue that he thinks should be used by 

 every shipper. It is called Magnet glue, 

 and was sold to him by R. Y. Bradshaw 

 & Co., 15 "\i^est Madison street, Chicago. 

 The glue is transparent, so that it may- 

 be spread right over the address label,, 

 hardens quickly and is waterproof, so 

 tnat the label is safe as long as the 

 wrapping stays on the box. 



VariotM Notes. 



Donald Scott will open a retail store 

 at 3265 South Park avenue December 1. 



Fred Klingel now is bookkeeper for 

 Kruchten 6c Johnson. He formerly kept 

 the books for Peter Eeinberg, but last 

 winter went to Mexico for his health, 

 returning not much improved. A young 

 local doctor removed his appendix and 

 now he is feeling fine. 



Sam Graff, the local representative of 

 Graff Bros., of Columbus, states that hi» 

 sister, Mathilda, is shortly to become the 

 bride of his chuir, Herman Landfield, 



