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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 7, 1907; 



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NOW BOOKING 



Orders for Easter 



£et ng hear from yon as to yonr 

 probable needs, especially on 



LILIES 



WE shall have the ffoods— can compete with any house on 

 quality and price. Write us today. 



Plenty of all stock now in market except possibly Beauties. 

 Quality fine and prices reasonable. 



E. H.HUNT 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



76-78 Wabash Avenue, 



£. S. Phone 1761 



CURRENT PRICES 



BBAUTTBS Per doz. 



30to36-lnch $5.00 to $6.00 



24to30-lnch 4.00 to 5.00 



15to20-lnch 2.00 to 3.00 



8tol2-lnch 1.00 to 2.00 



ROSES (Teas) Per 100 



Bride and Maid. $6.00 to $10.00 



Bichmond, Chatbnay 6.00 to 12.00 



Golden Gate and Uncle John 6.00 to 10.00 



Perle 6.00 to 8.00 



Roses, our selection 5.00 



CARNATIONS 1.50 to 



" fancy 2.00 to 



" extra fancy 



MISCEIiliANEOUS 



Violets, double 75 to 



Violets, single 60 to 



Harrisll Lilies per doz. 



Callas " 1.50to 



Valley 3.00 to 



Paper Whites 



Romans 



Tulips 3.00 to 



Daffodils, Jonquils 3.00 to 



Sweet Peas 1.00 to 



OREKNS 



Smllax String's per doz. 



Asparagrus Strines each 



Asparag-us Bunches " 



Sprengeri Bunches " 



Adiantum per 100 



Ferns, Fancy per 1000 



Galax " 



Leucothoe Sprays " 



Boxwood per 50 lb. case, 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE 



1.50 to 

 .50 to 

 .35 to 



1.00 to 



2.00 

 S.OO 

 4.00 



1.00 

 .75 

 2.50 

 2.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 4.00 

 4.00 

 1.25 



2.00 



.60 



.50 



.35 



1.00 



2.60 



1.50 



7.50 



7.50 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Sweet j 

 Peas I 



Best Roses ^ 



Also all other Stock in Season* We have large supplies of special fancy 

 stock and should like to supply your needs. Book orders noW tor Easter* 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. 



Wholesale Cut Flowers, Room 202, 35 Randolph St., Chicago 



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Mention The Review when yon write. 



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dred being recorded on not a few and 

 only fancies reach the 50-cent mark. 

 Street fakirs are selling bunches of fifty 

 at 10 cents. 



Bulbous stock is too abundant and 

 prices erratic. Sweet peas even have 

 been a glut and almost unsalable. The 

 quality of these is splendid and it seemed 

 too bad to see such large quantities un- 

 sold. Lilies and callas are abundant 

 and much lower. Quite a variety of 

 other spring flowers are seen, for which 

 the demand is a little uncertain. 



Presentation Banquet. 



About sixty members of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club assembled at the 

 banquet room of the Boston Club, 22 

 School street, on the evening of March 

 6, the occasion being a complimentary 

 banquet and testimonial to ex-Presidents 

 J. A. Pettigrew and James Wheeler. A 

 generous response was the result when 

 an appeal was made to the club mem- 

 bers for small contributions toward a 

 fund for recognizing in some way the 

 services the two esteemed past presidents 

 had rendered to the club. F. E. Palmer 

 had charge of the arrangements and 

 these were well carried out. The deco- 

 ration committee had seen to it that the 

 tables were tastefully adorned and the 

 room presented a very attractive ap- 

 pearance. 



After dinner had been served and 

 cigars passed, Edward Hatch, the genial 

 treasurer of the club for the last thir- 

 teen years, assumed charge of the post- 

 prandial exercises and called on a num- 

 ber of those present for remarks. Pat- 

 rick Welch, in his own inimitable way, 

 in the name of the club spoke of the 

 way ex-President Pettigrew had re- 

 galvanized the club into life and the 

 earnest work he had done as presiding 

 officer for two years, also of the earnest 

 and enthusiastic work of his capable 

 successor, James Wheeler, during his 

 tenure of office and amid applause pre- 

 sented each in turn with a handsome tes- 

 timonial in the form of a handsome 

 bronze group, suitably inscribed. The 

 two recipients gracefully and feelingly 

 responded, speaking of their terms of 

 service being made especially pleasant 

 by the willingness of the members to aid 

 them in every way. A musical program 

 of songs, readings, etc., was interspersed 

 and the whole evening was a very en- 

 joyable one. 



Various Notes. 



J. A. Pettigrew lectured at Horticul- 

 tural hall March 2 on trees for streets 

 and waysides before a good audience. 

 An animated discussion followed the lec- 

 ture. 



Fire of unknown origin caused heavy 



damage at the establishment of Elijah 

 Cartwright, in Needham, on the morn- 

 ing of February 28. Efforts to subdue 

 the flames with small hose were inef- 

 fective and before help came the head 

 house was almost gutted and the ends 

 of several connecting houses burned out. 

 The stock in these houses was almost a 

 total loss, carnations being mostly 

 grown. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. 

 Cartwright, whose loss would not have 

 been so great but for the fact that on 

 the morning in question the thermometer 

 was 10 degrees below zero. 



Boston's big annual automobile show 

 opens March 9, the whole of the immense 

 Mechanics' building^ as well as Horti- 

 cultural hall, being utilized for the show, 

 which equals in size and number of ex- 

 hibitors the two recent New York ex- 

 hibitions combined. The decorations are 

 elaborate and unique. Mechanics' build- 

 ing is a representation of a New Eng- 

 land apple orchard with the trees in 

 full bloom. 



Entries are coming in from the spring 

 exhibition of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society. While the fine ex- 

 hibits of the American Eose Society will 

 be missed this year, there will be an 

 abundance of other attractive features. 



Sidney Hoffman had an effective win- 

 dow of Ghent and mollis azaleas at his 

 Massachusetts avenue store last week. 



