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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mat 30, 1907. 



Have all season been fully at Kood as, and usually better than, 

 any others in this market. 



BRIDE = MAID, 

 KILLXRNEY === RICHMOND 



Our ROSES 



CARNATIONS, PEONIES, SWEET PEAS, VALLEY 



and all stock in season. 



The Benthey=Coatsworth Co. 



Or«enhons«s, 

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WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



°^V>;.i.^ 35 Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



shippers are canvassing the trade and 

 making shipments direct. There was a 

 time when any Decoration day order 

 which could not be filled in full with the 

 flowers ordered could be pieced out with 

 jasmines. These no longer go as a sub- 

 stitute. Some fair lilac is seen. 



There is a good supply of lilies, and 

 of sweet peas and of the smaller flowers, 

 such as daisies, pansies, etc., there is an 

 abundance. Some fine Parrott tulips 

 are coming in, but are being picked up 

 by the local retailers. Many fine ten 

 weeks' stocks in several colors are on 

 hand but are slow sale. 



The local buying for Decoration day 

 will be on Wednesday, for in the rush 

 of shipping local business is pushed to 

 one side. The retailers expect to do a 

 big business Thursday morning. 



A great, deal of boxwood has gone 

 out in the last week and, as usual, Deco- 

 ration day calls for large quantities of 

 ferns. Good ferns are scarce, except 

 the new stock from the south, and this 

 the buyers do not want so long as the 

 cold storage supplies hold out. 



Get Colisetun. 



There is an old saying that "it is 

 always darkest just before dawn," and 

 so it was in flower show matters. 



A week ago, because of the lack of 

 interest in a September exhibition, it ap- 

 peared that Chicago would have no flower 

 show this year, but on May 23 it was an- 

 nounced that the horse show people had 

 abandoned their annual exhibition and 

 that the horse show week at the Coliseum 

 was open. At a meeting of the executive 

 committee of the Horticultural Society 

 May 24 it was decided to proceed with 

 the annual autumn exhibition in the 

 Coliseum. The date is the week of Octo- 

 ber 31 to November 6. Committees were 

 appointed to begin immediate prepara- 

 tion and a premium list shortly will be 

 issued. 



The dates selected are for a show open- 

 ing Thursday and running until the fol- 

 lowing Wednesday night. 



The Building Boom. 



The John C. Moninger Co. supplies 

 additional evidence of the big boom 

 that is going on all through the country 

 in the matter of building greenhouses. 

 They have figured up the amount of 

 business done to April 30 of this year 

 and find that they had at that date 

 shipped material for houses, to be built 

 according to their plans, aggregating 

 634,292 square feet. In addition they 



THE HHOIGEST TDLLEY 



Silver Mkdal Wobld's Fair Flower 

 Show. J 904, and 



First Prize Wherever Exhibited. 



BK8T CUT VALLKT FOR 



Jane Weddings 



AND — 



Commencements 



W«at«m HeadQuartera tor 



COLD STORAGE 



Valley Pips 



$1.75 per 100; $14.00 per 1000 



Wk Ship All Over The United States 



Return at Oar Expense if 

 not Satihfactory on Arrival. 



H. N. BRUNS 



1409-11 W. Madison St. 



Long Distance 

 Plione 



CHICAGO 



had furnished material for 204,875 

 square feet where no plans were fur- 

 nished. In the list was one house 120x 

 600, which they believe to be the largest 

 greenhouse in the world. This was for 

 W. H. Weinschenk, at New Castle, Pa. 



\rctt Parks. 



The west parks are spending a great 

 deal of money this season in landscape 

 and gardening work, as well as in the 

 erection of the big conservatory and 

 range of plant houses at Garfield park. 



At Humboldt park the largest rose 

 garden in the west has been planted this 

 spring. There are from 8,000 to 10,000 

 plants and the season has been most 

 favorable for giving them a good start. 

 Between the roses, gladiolus bulbs have 



been set, and adjoining the rose garden 

 are large plantations of perennials. 



At Garfield park a big flower garden 

 is being prepared for early planting. 

 One of the many beds will require 5,000 

 geraniums of one variety. 



Various Notes. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. is operating 

 two soil crushers built after the pat- 

 tern of the one invented by A. H. Bud- 

 long. They say each crusher does the 

 work of twenty men and that the ma- 

 chines easily have paid for themselves 

 in the first season's use. 



A. L. Eandall says he is more than 

 pleased with the way the cut flower busi- 

 ness has been going since the first of 

 the year. He says the last part of 1906 



