December 27, 1906. 



The Weekly Horists' Review. 



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We are Western Headquarters 

 for Fancy New York Violets 

 and can supply any quantity 



VIOLETS 



For New Yearns 



Also Carnations, Roses, Mignonette, Paper Whites and all other 

 stock in season at Chicago Market rates. Write, Wire or Phone. 



YAUGHAN & SPERRY 



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58-60 Wabash Avenue, 



L. D. Phone 

 Central 2571 



CHIC4G0 



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Mention The Review wlien .voii write. 



We hope you all had a Merry Christmas 

 and hope you will have a 



HAPPY 



and 

 Prosperous 



NEW YEAR 



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and will need some of our fine Hudson 

 River Violets, Carnations, Valley, Rom- 

 ans, Paper Whites — in large supply. 



E. H.HUNT 



76-78 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. 



New Year's Prices 



BBAUTIKS Perdoz. 



30 to 36-lneh 110 00 to 112.00 



24to28-inch 6.00 to 8.00 



15to20-lnch 3.00to 6.00 



8tol2-lDCb 200to 3.00 



Shorts l.OOto 2.00 



ROSES (Teaa; Per lOU 



Bride and Maid W.OC to 115.00 



Richmond and Liberty 10.00 to 25.00 



Golden Gate and Kalserln 6.00 to 15 00 



Chatenay 6.00 to 12.00 



Roses, our selection 6.00 



CAKNATIONS 4.00 to 5.00 



fancy 6.00 to 8.00 



MISCBLLANKOCS 



Violets, double 1.60 to 2.00 



Violets, single 150 



Harrisll Lilies perdoz. 2.00 



Callas " 2.00 



Valley 4.00 to 5.00 



Paper Whites 3.00 to 4.00 



Romans 3.00 to 4.00 



GREENS 



Smllax Strings perdoz. 2.00 



Asparagus Strings each .40 to .50 



Asparagus Bunches " .35 



Sprengeri Bunches " .36 



Adlantum per 100 .75 



Ferns, Common per 1000 2.00 



Galax, G. and B " 1.60 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.60 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



Mention The ReTlew when .vou write. 



SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 



Ctirrent G>mment. 



The mail order florists are busy with 

 preparations for the issue of their spring 

 catalogues, which have just begun to 

 come from the printers. The work of 

 compiling, setting up and electrotyping 

 the pages, printing, binding and mailing 

 provides employment for a goodly num- 

 ber of persons. This will readily be un- 

 derstood upon glancing at the following 

 figures, representing the actual output of 

 the various concerns in catalogues of 

 from thirty-two to 112 pages: Good & 

 Reese Co., 575,000; Geo. H. Mellen Co., 

 140,000; Schmidt & Botley, 105,000; Mc- 

 Gregor Bros. Co., 100,000; Springfield 

 Floral Co., 65,000; Eeeser Floral Co., 

 65,000, and Fairview Floral Co., 50,000, 

 making a total of 1,100,000. 



The sales of plants, seeds and bulbs 

 which result from the scattering of this 

 floral literature throughout the land, and, 

 in fact, over the whole civilized portion 



of the earth, is something enormous and 

 makes the local floral industry foremost 

 in importance to the post-office and ex- 

 press companies. 



John M. and Frank E. Good recently 

 returned from a southern trip, during 

 which they attended the annual meeting 

 of stockholders of the United States Nur- 

 sery Co., at Rich, Miss., in which a num- 

 ber of other Springfield men are inter- 

 ested. • They report having had 125 

 acres in roses during the last season and 

 the demand for stock such that they were 

 able to fill only forty per cent of their or- 

 ders. The soil had been somewhat ex- 

 hausted from continuous planting of cot- 

 ton, but has been gradually brought into 

 much better condition for the desired pur- 

 pose. 



At the December meeting of the Flor- 

 ists' Club, the subject previously an- 

 nounced was, "Department Stores and 

 How They Affect Our Business. ' ' Charles 

 Unglaub opened the discussion from the 

 standpoint of the local retailers and Le- 

 man Bradford, John Good, Charles 



Schmidt, Opha Jackson and others .spoke 

 in behalf of the wholesalers, after which 

 the discussion became quite general and 

 naturally somewhat spirited. The local 

 conditions are held to be exceptional, in 

 that we have two large, progressive and 

 prosperous department stores, the Irish 

 owners of which are related by marriage 

 and yet at swords' points. When one in- 

 troduces a sale on any particular line, the 

 never-be-downed spirit of the other store 

 is at once aroused and the succeeding 

 morning or evening paper is sure to con- 

 tain a " go-him-one-better " inducement 

 to attract shoppers. Last spring one 

 wholesaler cleaned house by introducing 

 a sale of plants at one store and the 

 other store immediately seeuretl a large 

 supply from another greenhouse and in, 

 the merry war that resulted, retail prices 

 regardless of cost reached a point "unfit 

 for publication," as our friends, the 

 Jackson & Perkins Co., would say. Nat- 

 urally the local retail florists sufferetl, 

 temporarily at least, and are inclined to 

 think the matter should be controlled in 



