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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decbmbbb 20, 1906. 



ft-0 R Bros. 



51 Wabash Ave. 



CHRISTMAS PRICE LIST 



CHICAGO 



AMERICAN BEAUTY— Per aoi. 



Extra louff steins flS.OO 



36-inoli steins lO.OO 



30-lnoli steins 9.00 



a4-inoh stems 8.00 



ao-lnoli stems 6.00 



18-inoli stems 5.00 



15-lnch stems *-0O 



la-lnoh stems 3.00 



8-inoli stems fl.SO to 3.00 



Per 100 



Brides, fancy $10.00 to $IB.OO 



" ffood e.OO to 8.00 



Bridesmaids, fancy lO.OO to 15.00 



'* ffood 6.0O to 8.00 



Uberty, foncy. 



PerlOO 



tao.oo 



" erood $ 8.00 to 16.00 



Blchmond, fancy aO.OO 



" good 8.00 to 18.00 



Chatenay, fancy lO.OO to 16.00 



" good 6.00 to 8.00 



Uncle John, fancy lO.OO to 16.00 



" good 6.00 to 8.00 



Perle 6.00 to lO.OO 



Boses, onr selection 6.00 



CABVATIOHS-Qood 6.00 



Fancy.... 6.00 



" Ex. fancy Enchantress 



and Bed 8.00 



All other stock at lowest market rates. The above prices are for select stock. Extra select or inferior 

 stock billed accordingly. No charge for packing. Prices subject to change without notice. 



Mention Th^ Review when you write. 



C. Gunterberg is the only woman strictly 

 commission-man in the United States. 

 She does business at the Flower Growers' 

 Market, handling the product of some 

 half dozen growers on the usual com- 

 mission basis. Miss Gunterberg is a 

 bright young woman of experience in 

 the trade, having been for some time 

 with J. Bombenger on Sixty-fourth 

 street. Her start in the commission 

 business was with the stock of the Guar- 

 dian Angel Orphan Asylum, but she 

 soon took on other growers. She makes 

 her own credits, supplies the capital to 

 carry her customers and make weekly 

 payment to growers, and does in all re- 

 spects the regulation commission busi- 

 ness. 



There are several other women selling 

 in the Growers' Market, and some of 

 them handle goods on commission, but 

 all are backed by the stock from their 

 own family establishments. 

 Qub Meeting. 



There was a good attendance at the 

 December meeting o'f the Florists' Club. 

 The election of officers was the princi- 

 pal order of business. This should have 

 taken place at the November meeting, 

 which was postponed because of the 

 flower show banquet. Because of the 

 postponement, nomination, election and 

 installation all were handled at one sit- 

 ting. The election resulted as follows: 

 President, H. N. Bruns; vice-president, 

 Leonard Kill ; treasurer, Edgar Sanders ; 

 recording secretary, P. C. Schupp ; finan- 

 cial secretary, E. C. Amling; trustees, 

 F. F. Benthey, C. H. Fisk, J. F. Klim- 

 mer, P. J. Hauswirth and George Asmus. 

 The treasurer's report showed $291.43 

 in the general fund and $179.80 in the 



special fund, which looks like aflauence. 

 A report of flower show results was 

 made. It showed the loss to have been 

 smaller than had been anticipated. 



Visitors were Harry Papworth, of New 

 Orleans, and Harry Bunyard, New York, 



Variotu Notes. 



Carl N. Thomas, who has been farm- 

 ing at West Springfield, Pa., during 

 the last summer, is again on deck at 

 his old stand with the A. L. Kandall 

 Co., of which he formerly was secretary. 

 He looks as though a summer outdoors 

 had agreed with him. 



P. J. Hauswirth plans to go to Bos- 

 ton about January 2 to take over the 

 appurtenances of the office of the secre- 

 tary of the Society of American Florists. 

 Mr. Hauswirth does not hold all the 

 offices devolving upon the Hauswirth 

 family, his son Ed having recently been 

 honored by election to a lieutenancy in 

 the First Cavalry, Illinois National 

 Guard. 



The retailers have been busy looking 

 up stock in the plant line for the holi- 

 day trade. They have discovered little 

 in the way of novelty, but have found 

 in several establishments well flowered 

 azaleas, fine Lorraine begonias and some 

 good oranges. 



Walter Retzer, formerly in business in 

 this city and later on the Pacific coast, 

 is now with Mrs. M. M. Ayers, at St. 

 Louis. 



Jegen, on Madison street, has made an 

 attractive use of the folding Christmas 

 bells for his show window. The sides 

 of the window are mirrors set at an 

 acute angle with the glass. In front 

 of these he has suspended small branches 

 of trees and from each one has suspend- 



ed perhaps twenty-five of the 2%-inch 

 paper bells. The mirror doubles the 

 number of beiis for the person who looks 

 at the display, and the effect of the 

 shower of bells is excellent. 



August Poehlmann says that the 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co. will be in line 

 with a big crop of Harrisii from Christ- 

 mas on. 



Sunday will be the big shipping day 

 for the Christmas business. It is worth 

 while remembering that there is only 

 one chance to get mail, by going to the 

 postoffice between 10:30 and 12:30. Buy- 

 ers should bear this in mind. 



The Chicago Rose Co. is doing a large 

 business this week in greens and holly. 



F. R. Hills, Maywood, 111., has a nice 

 lot of poinsettias, many of them grown 

 in pans and just right for retail sales, 

 not over fifteen inches high. 



Robert Johnstone, of Vaughan & 

 Sperry^, resumed work Monday morning 

 after a week under the doctor's care. 



Emil Buettner is sending large quan- 

 tities of fine Paper Whites to the A. 

 L. Randall Co. ♦ 



Frank Beu cut his last chrysanthe- 

 mums December 17. 



Leopold Koropp, of the Sheridan Park 

 Floral Co., reports the world treating 

 him particularly well in the last year, 

 and he looks it. 



W. L. Palinsky buried his mother De- 

 cember 12. She was 81 years of age. 

 Her death was due to a fall from a 

 couch some three weeks ago. 



Zech & Mann report that Carnation 

 Vesper is one of the best keepers among 

 the whites. 



D. J. Murphy is now in charge of the 



