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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mat 16, 1007. 



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GARDENIA GRANDIFLORA f^fM.NE 



We began cutting May 10, and have between 

 200,000 and 300,000 flowers to dispose of. Our bushes 

 are in fine, healthy condition and we believe we shall have the 

 best stock ever put on the market. We oversee our own packing 

 and cull out poor, bad foliaged buds. The illustration in this 

 advertisement is 1-16 the real size of the buds. The flowers are 

 waxy white, with a delightful fragrance, which is retained after 

 shipping. The foliage is a dark, glossy green. They carry well 

 to all parts of United States. 



TKRM8. F. O. B. Per 100 Per 1000 



Class A, steins 12 to 18 Inolies $1.00 $9.00 



Class B, steins 6 to 12 Inolxes 75 6.50 



500 Buds at 1000 rat*. 

 The buds in B stock are equally as good as in A, the differ- 

 ence being in length of stems. Either money in advance or C.O.D. 

 Reference, Alvin State Bank. 

 In ordering, please state time you wish flowers to reach you. 



RojB^ular Orders — Special attention is given to regular orders for the season, which lasts three or four weeks. We 

 believe these semi-tropical flowers will be a treat to your customers and pay you well. 



WB WIZ^i; HAVE A BIO BUPPAT OF FBBBK STOCK FOB DBCOBATIOB DAT 



COOK & COOK, Alvin, Texas. 



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Messbs. Cook & Cook, 



Dear Sirs:— Please send me t2 00 worth of Cape Buds, class 

 A., to reach here by May 26, If possible. The flowers you sent last year 

 were the best that ever came here. And oblifire, 



C. O'BulEN, Greenville, Ohio. 



Messrs. Cook & Cook, 

 Alvin.Texas. 



Dear Sirs:— Flowers arrived here today in flrst-class shape. 

 They are very satisfactory. Many thanks for fillinc the order so care- 

 fully. Very truly, 



Wm. Swinbank, Sycamore, 111. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



W. W. Barnard Co. He returned last 

 week, after booking more orders than 

 on any previous trip. 



P. Broadbeck has the gutters up for 

 the range of new houses he is building 

 at Evanston. 



E. F. Winterson has not been his 

 usual jovial self this week, because of 

 neuralgia in his face, but he has been on 

 deck as usual. 



Bassett & Washburn say they cut 15,- 

 000 roses last Sunday. 



At E. H. Hunt's C. M. Dickinson says 

 the demand for To-bak-ine products has 

 become world wide, a large order having 

 been received this week from a leading 

 London jobber in horticultural supplies. 



E. C. Amling says the call for hardy 

 cut ferns is more active than he ever 

 remembers it to have been. All the 

 houses are selling boxwood in large quan- 

 tities. 



E. Fransen reports that Scheiden & 

 Sehoos are sold out of young stock of 

 roses and carnations and have had a good 

 season. 



The Kennieott Bros. Co. is putting in 

 a wood floor to cover the cement one in 

 its new store. 



Mrs. Frank Beu says the annual de- 

 mand for vincas has begun on time. 



George Reinberg has had a represen- 

 tative of the Julius Eoehrs Co., Ruther- 

 ford, N. J., here this week to see the 

 big shipments of orchids after their long 

 journey and to advise as to how to handle 

 this new department of the business. 



Miss Martha Gunterberg, in the Grow- 

 ers' Market, says she thinks too many 

 white carnations are grown. She says 

 she finds that almost always colored sorts 

 bring better prices than white. 



Wietor Bros, will grow a large part of 

 their Lawson carnations indoors all sum- 

 mer this season, having had fine results 

 with those so treated last season. 



The florists ball team found an easy 

 game at Wa.shington park last Sunday. 

 A challenge has been issued to the team 

 of employees of the Poehlmann Bros Co. 



to be played at Morton Grove. The 

 Poehlmann team also won an easy vic- 

 tory last Sunday. 



J. Hamlin, who was with the River- 

 bank Nurseries, at Geneva, has left to go 

 to Denver to go into business with a 

 brother. 



There is a good display of tulips in 

 each of the parks and the beds will be 

 about at their best next Sunday, al- 

 though there is rather more difference 

 than usual in the flowering dates of the 

 several varieties. 



J, F. Klimmer says the cold nights 

 have made him sweat. The reason for it 

 is that he has for more than a fortnight 

 had several thousands of the new varie- 

 ties of carnations, that cost him 10 cents 

 apiece, planted in the field. Several 

 nights the temperature has been down to 

 the danger point. On the worst of the 

 nights he has covered a large part of the 

 stock with flower pots, although it was 

 not possible in a day to put the pots on 

 all of them and get them off again next 

 day. He says the work of bedding out in 

 the cemeteries adjoining his place is 

 about two weeks later than usual in 

 starting this year. 



Leopold Koropp says that business is 

 excellent; in fact, that he has more work 

 than he can do, especially outdoor jobs. 

 He recently has issued a neat booklet for 

 telephone numbers for distribution 

 among his customers, as he finds a large 

 part of his business comes by phone, re- 

 quiring two instruments. 



Robert Newcomb, who came to Chicago 

 from Des Moines, la., and worked for 

 the Central Floral Co. and others, is 

 now located at Oakland, Cal., with 

 Clarke Bros., who recently have opened 

 a fine new store there. 



H. N. Brims says he has had an ex- 

 cellent season thus far. There has been 

 an excellent demand for valley, with only 

 a brief period of oversupply. He looks 

 for good business through May and June. 



O. P. Bassett and Mrs. Bassett sail 



from Liverpool May 22, after spending 

 three months in Europe. 



Bowling. 



The following are the scores made by 

 the bowlers May 14: 



Player— ist 2d 3d 4th 



Balluff 187 122 159 283 



Klunder 108 165 152 164 



Pasternik 137 172 138 141 



Heubner 130 147 163 180 



Asmus 164 165 178 ... 



McKellar 176 153 188 197 



Scott 142 151 169 135 



ladles— ist 2d 3d 



Miss Thompson 56 75 88 



Mrs. Asmus 81 123 87 



Mrs. Hauswirtb 96 99 101 



Mrs. McKellar 124 121 99 



Mrs. Balluff 59 .74 79 



Mrs. Scott 110 94 107 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Business has been slow, with cut flow- 

 ers abundant in all lines. Funerals and 

 a few early commencements for young 

 doctors make about the only work that 

 is going on among the retailers. Of 

 course, the greenh.ouse men are exceed- 

 ingly busy just now, taking care of out- 

 door planting orders which have been 

 piled up, waiting for seasonable weather. 



The wholesalers are having a busy 

 time getting rid of stock that is left 

 over after the morning's sales, and all 

 their ice-boxes are full. Roses are a 

 great glut and there is no stable price. 

 Long, fancy Beauties are so plentiful 

 that a great many have been going to 

 waste. 



Carnations have been scarce for a long 

 time, but are now plentiful and no doubt 

 will soon be a glut. The stock is fine 

 and prices low. Harrisii and calla lilies, 

 too, are many more than the trade can 

 use. Outdoor valley has crowded the in- 

 door valley, as it is much cheaper. Sweet 

 peas are becoming more abundant each 

 day. The lighter shades are selling well, 

 but cheaply. A great deal of outdoor 

 stock is now coming in, such as peonies, 



