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1752 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 26, 1907. 



ORDER or POEHLMANN 



TODAY 



AND 



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TOMORROW 



We are especially strong on Long Beauties^ but we have splendid crops 

 of all other Roses and Carnations. Also Antirrhinum, LllleSf and other 

 first-class stock. All stock billed at Current Chicago Market rates. Write, wire or 

 phone for Special prices on extra fancy, or short roses in quantity. 



fi^-REGULAR ORDERS SOLICITED.^^^H 



POEHLMANN BROS. CO. 



33-35 Randolph Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Xong^ Sistano* Fhone, 0«ntnl, 3B73. 



created in a day. Soon, with the re- 

 markable traveling facilities completed, 

 every town in this radius will be in 

 touch with the mercantile center of the 

 great city and only half an hour away. 

 Well may the prophets confidently pre- 

 dict that New York within ten years 

 will be the greatest metropolis of the 

 world. 



The auctions have not yet drawn full 

 houses. Even here the chill has had its 

 influence and prices and sales have not 

 been satisfactory, Ambrose Cleary is in 

 charge at the old stand on Vesey street 

 and conducts the sales twice weekly. 

 John P. Cleary has graduated into the 

 fruit auction section. At Elliott's the 

 importations of hardy roses, shrubs and 

 evergreens are large and the stock quite 

 up to that of former years. The sales 

 will continue, as usual, until June. 



The retail cut flower stores are now 

 among the brightest harbingers of spring. 

 They are a mass of bloom in Crimson 

 Rambler, rhododendrons, forsythia, 

 double flowering plum, heather and prim- 

 rose, while arbutus is in every window. 

 The April weddings grow in number 

 daily. The price of cut flowers is rea- 

 sonable, the quality now superb. The 

 retailer needs no sympathy. He has his 

 share of the general prosperity. 



Beauties at times, toward the end of 

 last week and on Saturday especially, 

 for the selected stock, touched 20 cents 

 and Brides and Maids occasionally re- 

 turned to 8 cents as the limit. Monday 

 the supply of everything was exhausted 

 in the early evening and shipments from 

 the growers for the day were limited. 

 Consequently everybody was hopeful, 

 John Young is cutting an average of 500 



fine Beauties daily from his big house 

 at Bedford. Bichmond commands good 

 prices and Fenrich is dispensing Totty's 

 grand stock daily, with the demand far 

 in excess of the supply. Jacq. roses at 

 Traendly & Schenck's still are arriving 

 in goodly quantity and hold firm at $1 a 

 dozen and as popular as ever. J. D. 

 Cockcroft, one of their expert carnation 

 growers, of Northport, L. I., was in the 

 city Monday. 



Violets have come to the parting of the 

 ways. Only a few boxes came down 

 Monday. Up at Bhinebeck the growers 

 have everything in shipshape already for 

 the coming year, the cuttings made, the 

 old plants out, and the plans completed 

 for just as strenuous a season as ever. 

 The author of "how to grow" them had 

 a detective experience with a native of 

 the Grecian archipelago last week that 

 should have a salutary effect upon the 

 light fingered genlry of the trade. The 

 purloining of a lot of valley and the dis- 

 covery of the theft in time to catch the 

 villain stirred up the atmosphere on 

 Twenty-ninth street. The generous pa- 

 tience of Mr. Saltford permitted the fel- 

 low to escape with a warning. The les- 

 son was needed, and a more severe one 

 than was used, for there has been a lot 

 of pilfering that should be ended at once 

 and forever. 



The supply of lilies is enormous. For- 

 tunately they are largely used for church 

 and wedding decorations. The price con- 

 tinues low. The shipments of southern 

 daffodils and lilac have begun. In a few 

 days the street will be flooded with them. 

 The prospect is for a larger supply than 

 ever. Bulbous stock of all kinds is 

 abundant and prices realized are low and 

 unsatisfactory. 



Various Notes. 



The return of spring has awakened 

 anew the general interest in the club's 

 annual outing July 2. Already over $400 

 has been subscribed in its behalf by the 

 generous membership, with nearly 200 to 

 be heard from. 



The tenth lecture of the American In- 

 stitute course will be given on Wednes- 

 day of this week, by Prof. Edmuutl 

 Bronk Southwick, entomologist of the de- 

 partment of parks of New York City, at 

 the Berkeley Lyceum. The subject, "In- 

 sects Injurious to Trees, Shrubs and 

 Herbaceous Plants," will be illustrated 

 by stereopticon views. The attendance 

 at these popular lectures grows weeklv. 



A. J. Guttman started April .20 for a 

 two weeks' trip to Cuba, by the steamer 

 Morro Castle. George Okkerse, the re- 

 tail florist of lower Fifth avenue, accom- 

 panied him. 



The trade extends its sympathy > 

 Charles See, the popular bookkeeper it 

 Siebrecht & Son for twenty years, in t e 

 loss of his mother. The funeral toi iv 

 place April 20 and the floral oflferin* 

 of his friends attested the regret felt n 

 his bereavement. 



Some new retail stores in the near i i 

 ture will be a surprise to many, some t 

 them promising unique and complete i '• 

 ting up and conveniences. 



The store long occupied by Thon. -^ 

 Young, Jr., at the corner of Sixth a- - 

 nue and Fifty-eighth street, will ^ 

 closed May 1. 



S, Tokuda, one of the directors of t ' 

 Yokohama Nursery Co., sailed April ' 

 for Europe and will be absent until Jui • 

 Mr. Loechner, the popular traveler f' '' 

 this company, is convalescing in the ho ■ 



