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APRIL 4, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



154i 



We Want to Hear 



FBOM TOV AS TO 



Your Special Needs 



FANCY SBLECT STOCK OR QUANTITY 

 FOR SPBCIAL PURPOSKS. 



-Writ*. Wire or Phone- 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



58-60 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Jtong Distance Phone 8671 



PRICE LIST 



BBAVTIES Per doz. 



30 to 36-inch $3.00 to J4.00 



24to30-lnch 2.00 to 2.5U 



1.5to20-lnch l.OOto 1.50 



8tol2-lnch 50 to .75 



BOS£8 (Teas) Per 100 



Bride and Maid 14.00 to $8.00 



Richmond, Chatenay 4.00 to 8.00 



Golden Gate and Uncle John 4.00 to 8.00 



Perle o.OOto 6.00 



Roses, our selection 4.00 



CARNATIONS 1-00 to 1.50 



fancy 2.00to 3.00 



BIISCEL.I.ANi;OU8 



Violets, double 60to .75 



Violets, single 50to .75 



Harrisll Lilies perdoz. 1.50 to 2.00 



Callas " 1.25to 1.50 



Valley 2.00to 4.00 



Tulips 2.00to 4.00 



Daffodils, JonQuils 2 00 to 3.00 



Sweet Peas...... 75 to 1.50 



ORKENS 



Smilax Strings perdoz. 2.00 to 3.00 



Asparaarus Strines each .50 to .60 



Asparagus Bunches " .35 to .50 



Sprengerl Bunches " .35 



Adlantum per 100 1.00 



Ferns, Fancy per 1000 3.00 



Galax " l.OOto 1.50 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.50 



Boxwood per 50-lb. case, 7.50 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



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BEAUTIES 



Are in very Heavy Crop and Quality A No. 1. We ciii supply all orders 

 ,1 . ,- for long, select stock. Get our prices for large lots. -'■■■ 



Brides, Maids, Richmond, Gate, Kiilarney and ail R9ses 

 in firil crop and splendid qualify. t>lenty of CARNATIONS 



35 Randolpii Street, 



£. D. Phone, Central 1087. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



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numbers, just sufficient to retain them. 

 When not especially ordered these vari- 

 eties are kept moving through the D. & 

 0. sets, seller's selection, at special 

 prices. Kiilarney is made the rose 

 queen of the year. A fine stock of this 

 sterling rose has been propagated. 

 Next to Kiilarney the Cochets in five 

 colors are presented in quantity, then 

 Anny Muller, Baby Kambler, and so on 

 <lown the list to the rose of our great, 

 great grandmother's day, almost forgot- 

 ten but too good to be quite discarded. 



The narrow house, eleven feet wide, 

 with center walk, two raised benches 

 and a low ridge, is still considered the 

 ideal house for propagating and grow- 

 ing small roses. The steel range erected 

 last summer by the company's own 

 force is built on this plan, the only dif- 

 ference being that the houses are open 

 between, avoiding the expense and wear 

 of partitions. In this range only the 

 legs in the benches are of wood. 



A single bench in one house contained 

 an immense number of China, Bourbon 



and Noisette roses, their roots closely 

 packed in the soil, awaiting shipment. 

 All looked well. We were told that one 

 order for roses from small pots had been 

 forty-four days on the way and the pur- 

 chaser had written from his home in 

 far-oflf Asia to say that the foliage on 

 every plant was fresh and green when 

 received. 



Tempus fugit. An absorbingly inter- 

 esting dissertation on propagating by 

 Mr. Parker ended, Mr. Lynch kindly 

 drove the party over to the Conard & 

 Jones Co. 's place near by to see An- 

 toine Wintzer. There was just time to 

 shake Mr. Wintzer 's hand, see a few of 

 the houses filled with choice stock (Mr. 

 Wintzer is a master of his art) and 

 catch the 5:28 at West Grove. The way 

 home lay through a thrifty-looking coun- 

 try and past many greenhouses in the 

 fertile Chester valley. Mr. Wertsner was 

 heard to remark, ' * How George would 

 have enjoyed it! " Any one who knows 

 Mr. Wertsner knows that this is praise 

 indeed. 



Dreet's Perentiials. 



The Henry A. Dreer Co. has reasoned 

 wisely that a plant, be it hardy or ten- 

 aer, does best when its root action is 

 perfect. This reasoning, when applied 

 to hardy perennials, means that a plant 

 grown in a pot will prove far more 

 healthy and vigorous than a field-grown 

 plant. The latter may be larger, but 

 before it has recovered from the check 

 to its root action through transplanting, 

 the smaller, pot-grown plant has far out- 

 stripped it during the first few weeks 

 of the growing season. For this reason 

 all the Dreer hardy perennials are pot- 

 ted in the fall, usually into .3-inch pots, 

 so that in spring they can be shipped 

 anywhere with the certainty that they 

 will grow well when planted in the 

 open ground. Some idea of the extent 

 to which their business in hardy peren- 

 nials has grown may be gathered from 

 the fact that last fall 140,000 hardy 

 phloxes alone were potted into 3-inch 

 pots for this spring's sales. 



