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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 23, 1007. 



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XBTABLISHKD 1878 



INCORPORATED 1906 



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THE OLD RELIABLE, 76-78 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO 



DECORATION DAY PRICE LIST 



Market price of Cut Flowers taking effect Sunday, May 86, 1907 



BEAUTIES Per doz. 



30 to 36-inch 14.00 



24to30-lnch $2.50 to 3 00 



16 to 20-lnch 2.00 



8tol21nch 1.00 to 1.50 



Shorts 6.00 



ROSES (Teal) Per 100 



Bride, Belect ': $6 00 to 17.00 



" medium , 4.00 to 5.00 



special 8.00 



Maid, select 6.00 to 7.00 



" medium 4.00to 5.00 



" special 8.00 



Richmond 4.00 to 10.00 



Perle 4.00 to 7 00 



GoldenGate 4.00 to 8.00 



Chatenay 4 00 to 8.00 



Roses, Our Selection 4 00 



CARNATIONS 



Medium 



Fancy 



Kxtra Fancy. 



3.00 

 4.00 

 5.00 



BIISCELL.ANEOUS 



Per 100 



GREENS 



Harrisil Lilies doz., $2.00 



Callas " 1.60 



Valley $3.00 to $4.00 



Peonies 600 to 8.00 



Jasmine $15.00 per 1000 2.00 



Sweet Peas l.OOto 1.50 



Daisies l.OOto 1.60 



Smilax StriagB ; $2.00 to $2.50 per doz. 



Asparag-iiB StrlDKS 50c to 60c each 



Asparagus Bunches 35c to 50c each 



Sprengerl Bunches 35c to 50c each 



Boxwood Bunches each 25c; 50 lb. case $7.50 



Adiantum $1.00 per 100 



Ferns, Common $3.50 to 4.00 per lOOU 



Galax, Green 1.00 per 1000 



Galax, Bronze 1.50 per 1000 



Leucothoe Sprays .'.*, 7 50 per 1000 



LARGE SUPPLIES IN ALL LINES AND PLEASED TO SERVE YOU 



I 



ings of Joe Hill and Kate Moulton roses 

 for next season, N. J. Wietor reporting 

 that this year regular orders have taken 

 all they cut of these varieties at first- 

 class prices. 



Adolph Anthes, at Milwaukee avenue 

 and Addison street, has not enjoyed good 

 health this season and the doctors tell 

 him that to get rid of his kidney troubles 

 he must give up business, at least for a 

 time. He has three greenhouses, built 

 two years ago, and everything in good 

 shape, but will sell out and retire for a 

 time. 



Wm. Arnold, foreman for " George 

 Reinberg, was on the market Monday. He 

 said all the rose growers north of town 

 have been busy fighting thrips and that 

 they all want rain for the carnations in 

 the fields. 



L. Coatsworth is at the Benthey-Coats- 

 worth establishment at New Castle this 

 week. 



John J. Kruchten is getting, ready to 

 store a big lot of peonies. Last year he 

 held them into the middle of the sum- 

 mer. 



John Zech, of Zeeh & Mann, says all 

 stock is moving well except white car- 

 nations. 



H. Payne, at Hinsdale, has, as a side 

 crop, a lot of vegetable plants grown for 

 the Fair. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. says that 

 Saturday, May 18, was the heaviest day's 

 business since the seed and plant depart- 

 ment was opened. John Degnan says he 

 looks for the demand to keep up well into 

 June, because of the lateness of the 

 season. 



Andrew McAdams has one bench of 

 cattleyas on his place on Fifty-third 



street which he says has paid him better 

 than any other bench in the establish- 

 ment for tlfte last two years. 



Bassett & Washburn say they look for 

 a decided decrease in the now heavy rose 

 cuts after Decoration day. 



Weiland & Bisch always can say a 

 word for Killarney. John P. Bisch points 

 out that it is less affected by thrips than 

 is any other variety. 



The George Wittbold Co. says that the 

 overdue spring has operated greatly to 

 their advantage. They have been busy 

 for weeks with outdoor work and think 

 that the activity in this department will 

 continue until warm weather comes. The 

 season always winds up with a brief rush 

 in the first days of actual summer. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market. 



Trade conditions have not changed 

 much in the last week, except that stock 

 of all kinds is getting more plentiful 

 every day. The weather continues cold, 

 and plantsmen are complaining about 

 business dragging. The only people 

 who are really happy are the fakers; 

 they can get everything tliey want at 

 their own prices. Violets have disap- 

 peared entirely. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. Ernest Zieger and his brother, 

 Herman, will sail June 27 on the steam- 

 ship Deutschland for Hamburg, Ger- 

 many, where they go to visit their father 

 and other relatives. 



Charles Crall has the sympathy of his 

 host of friends in the trade in the loss 

 of his mother. Hoo-Hoo. 



TELEGRAPH RATES. 



After the adjournment of congress, 

 when it was too late for immediate ac- 

 tion to be taken, the telegraph companies 

 raised their rates in most instances from 

 twenty to twenty-five per cent. Their 

 action was concurrent, indicating a com- 

 plete understanding between them. 



The standard rate is that from Chi- 

 cago to New York. It was increased 

 April 1 on day business precisely twenty- 

 five per cent. The day rate was for- 

 merly 40 cents for ten words; it is now 

 50 cents. The night rate, which was 30 

 cents, is now 40 cents. 



A corresponding increase was made in 

 the rates to Washington and Philadel- 

 phia and most eastern cities, exclusive 

 of Boston and other New England points. 

 There the old rate, which was 50 cents 

 for ten words, is unaltered. The rates 

 were also increased to most southern 

 points, the advance in some instances 

 being thirty-three and one-third per cent. 

 Between Chicago and Milwaukee there 

 was no increase, but the rates from Chi- 

 cago to Cincinnati, St. Louis, Minne- 

 apolis, St. Paul, Omaha and other such 

 points were largely increased — in many 

 instances thirty-three and one-third per 

 cent or more. No change was made in 

 Pacific coast rates, which were already 

 excessively high. 



Sterling, III. — The Sterling Floral 

 Co., in addition to completely remodeling 

 its plant, will erect a new concrete chim- 

 ney fifty feet high. The chimney will 

 have a flue thirty inches square. This 

 is done so that it will accommodate two 

 boilers. 



