July 4, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



PEONIES 



We are handling the best stock in the market; best cut 

 flower sorts, cut right, bunched right, by the oldest and 

 most experienced shipper. No one can give you better 

 satisfaction on Peonies. White and Pink. 



BEAUTIES 



Our Beauties are easily the best in this market and we be- 

 lieve it will be difficult to find their equal anywhere. They 

 are in every way as good as our famous crop last summer 

 — and most Beauty buyers know what that means. 



Kaiserins 



VALLEY 



Good crop of fancy Kaiserin, beet 

 summer rose. Also heavy cuts 

 of other roses; quality as good 

 as the market affords. 



Choice valley always on hand; 

 you can wire us any day in the 

 year and be sure of getting any 

 reasonable quantity by next train. 



GALAX 



FERNS 



Large supply of bronze galax, 

 $1.00 per 1000; $7,50 per case of 

 10,000; $6.50 per case in lO-case 

 lots. 



Fancy ferns of finest quality; we 

 pride ourselves on always having 

 the best ferns and plenty. $1.50 

 per 1000. 



EeCeAMLING 



The Larceat, Beat 

 Equipped and Moat 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicago. 



32-34-36 Randolph St 



Loar Diitasee Telepkoaes, 



1978 aad 1977 CsatraJ, 



7846 Aatoaatie 



Chicago, 111. 



from the wholesale market shows that 

 the quantities of peonies in storage have 

 been much overestimated. It appears 

 that a number of houses which expected 

 to put quantities of the local crop in 

 storage have in reality stored none at all, 

 the quality of the stock being such as to 

 not stand storage. Others have stored 

 less than they expected to, because of 

 the partial failure of their crops, and 

 there are not now many more peonies in 

 storage than there were a week after the 

 cutting ceased last year. There is much 

 difference in the quality of the stock in 

 storage, some of it being in shape to 

 keep till the end of the month without 

 trouble, unless the late frosts have worked 

 an injury not now apparent. Other grow- 

 ers have" stock that is wide open and not 

 worth the storage charges which are 

 accruing. 



Peonies have been coming out of stor- 

 age for a week and many houses say they 

 will be cleaned up by July 15, while one 

 or two think their supplies will hold out 

 to August 1. If quality warrants, prices 

 will stiffen as the supply runs down, 



Galax. 



Bronze galax is reported to be scarce 

 in other markets and Chicago dealers are 

 shipping quantities to jobbers at other 

 points, just as they were shipping large 

 quantities of common ferns a few weeks 



ago. One order last week was for twenty 

 cases — 200,000. You can get a special 

 express rate on that many. 



E, ('. Amling says that it is with much 

 pleasure that he hears of the reported 

 scarcity of galax, for he says he has 

 2,000,000 still in storage. Ordinarily 

 bronze galax does not come into this 

 market in the autumn until very near the 

 first of the year, so that he thinks he 

 may have six months of good galax busi- 

 ness in sight, 



A Nicotine Accident. 



The six-year-old son of Herman Loch- 

 man took a swallow of nicotine extract 

 Sunday afternoon and died before his 

 father could reach a physician two blocks 

 away. 



Mr, Lochman has charge of tiie section 

 of the Bassett & Washburn plant which 

 is devoted to smilax, asparagus and other 

 greens. He is one of their oldest and 

 most highly valued employees. He has a 

 pleasant home at Hinsdale, with some 

 roses in the garden, Sunday he pro- 

 cured a bottle of nicotine extract from 

 the greenhouses for the purpose of spray- 

 ing the rose bushes. Using only part of 

 the contents of the bottle, he hid the rest 

 under the porch. The boy went under 

 the porch after a baseball which had 

 rolled there, and found the bottle. Tast- 

 ing its contents, he screamed and the 



father, who was only a few feet away, 

 took him in his arms and started for the 

 doctor's. When he reached there the boy 

 was dead. He had strangled. The shock 

 to Mr. Lochman was so great that Sun- 

 day afternoon it was necessary to restrain 

 him from doing himself violence. He 

 has a wife and two daughters. 



Keep the nicotine extract under lock 

 and key. 



Box^t^ood. 



The business done in this market with 

 boxwood has been something enormous in 

 the last eight months. Rarely if ever has 

 a new article sprung into such universal 

 use in so short a time, for it is only a 

 couple of seasons that boxwood has been 

 handled by the wholesale florists. Last 

 year E. H. Hunt and one or two others 

 made experiments in carrying it through 

 the summer in cold storage, but were only 

 partially successful, and now Iwxwood is 

 practically out of the market until the 

 fresh supply comes in the autumn. 



Art ventit Labor. 



A puzzling problem involving labor and 

 art has been propounded to members of 

 the west park commission by the florists 

 and gardeners ' union. The gardeners 

 want the commissioners to decide which 

 is the more skilled and artistic calling — 

 that of making flower plots or driving 



