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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 15, 1907. 



OUR SPECIALTY 



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Hot Weather flowers 



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We are the recbgnized headquarters for SUMMER ROSES and BEAUTIES ; 



also LILIES* Our plants are grown in solid benches and are four years old, giving 

 large, solid buds. We are cutting 2000 roses per day each of KAISERINf 

 KILLARNEY and BEAUTIESf besides large quantities of the other roses. 

 Buy your flowers direct of the grower and save rebandling in, hot weather. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Stemfl 80 to 86 inches $8.00 



Stems 24 inches 2.00 



Stems 20 inches 1.80 



Stems 15 inches 1.00 



Shorterstems .SO 



Roses, Brides. Maids, Red and Yellow per loo 



A grade, long $5.00 



No. 1 grade, good average length 4.00 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 92.00to 3.00 



SUMMER ROSES 



KalB«rin, Oarnot, Itm Dstroit and KillariMy 



A grade, long and select 



No. 1 grade, good average length $4.00 to 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 2.00 to 



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AUBA.TiraK XiIIiZBB , 



BA«TBB X.X(.IB8, large and fine 



ASTBSB, allcolors 76 to 



FBKVB per 1000. 



Per 100 



$6.00 

 5.00 

 300 

 4.00 

 8.00 

 8.00 

 1.50 

 1.00 



On orders amonntlny to $2.00 or over w* make no cbarg's for boxes. 

 BBAUTT P&AJffTB, 9}^-lnoli pots, 6o; 3-inoli pots, 7o. 



Bassett & Washburn 



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 XZVBDAXB, Z&Xi. 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



had great success in the plant line. He 

 IB the same one who had charge of the 

 Prench exhibit at the world's fair. 



The Eiessen Floral Co. put in a busy 

 week with funeral work. Mrs. Buechel 

 reports that since the appearance of the 

 little item in the Review about her col- 

 lection of leather postal cards, every 

 mail brings one or more from friends 

 in the trade. 



W. H. Kruse reports that the new- 

 comer in his family will not keep him 

 from attending the convention. Mr. 

 Kruse says bis summer trade has been 

 good. 



Fred Ammann, of Edwardsville, will 

 not be able to attend the conveation 

 this year, as the several buildings he has 

 in course of erection will keep him too 

 busy at home. He is one of those who 

 never misses a club meeting in St. Louis. 



Will Smith, John Burke, Charles 

 Schoenle and George Angermueller will 

 fspend ten days on a camping trip in 

 the Ozark mountains. 



Henry Ostertag is still booming the 

 new coliseum, which will be opposite his 

 place. He furnished quite a large wed- 

 aing in South St. Louis last week. 



John Connon and his wife, of Web- 

 ster Groves, attended the club meeting 

 last week. He reports that work on his 

 new houses is far enough advanced so 

 that he and Mrs. Connon will attend the 

 convention. 



Among the visitors who arrived in this 

 city last Monday morning was George 

 M. Kellogg, of iPleasant Hill. He left 

 Tuesday for Chicago and from there will 

 go to visit friends in Massachusetts and 

 take in the convention. He will be ac- 



companied by his two daughters and 

 grandson. 



Miss Schnell, East St. Louis, 111., is 

 visitidg in the east and will meet the 

 St. Louis delegation at Philadelphia 

 next week. 



State Vice-President Young reports 

 that nearly all the berths have been 

 taken up in our special Philadelphia 

 sleeper. No upper berths will be sold in 

 this car. The delegation will leave next 

 Sunday at 1 p. m. over the Pennsylvania 

 railroad and arrive at Philadelphia at 

 3:30 p. m. Monday. J. J. B. 



NE V YORK. 



The Market 



The wholesalers are all going to make 

 convention a holiday week and call it 

 their outing. You would not blame them 

 if you could take a trip through the 

 wholesale section and view the tremen- 

 dous residue each day and the enormous 

 shipments coming in, especially the as- 

 ters and gladioli. These latter have sim- 

 ply overwhelmed the market. "No busi- 

 ness" is the verdict, and the retailers, 

 of course, are blamed. How can there 

 be any results when they are asleep f 

 And how can they be awake when there 

 are no dinners, weddings or funeralsf 

 We will have to just wait till the children 

 come back to school and the brides grow 

 in numbers. Society is making merry 

 at mountain and seaside resorts and 

 flower buyers are evidently all out of 

 town. They have a Swedish prince at 

 Newport who is booming things for the 

 summer florists there. 



Beauties are in demand. Prices fojr 

 good stock have advanced to 30 cents. 

 Few other roses are yet up to the stand- 

 ard. The new stock is short-stemmed 

 and unsatisfactory, but every day shows 

 improvement and the lowest prices have 

 been seen. From now on the tendency 

 will be upward. 



No good carnations are yet arriving. 

 Valley has asserted its value and prices 

 have advanced. Gladioli hold firm at 50 

 cents to $1 the first day, but the surplus 

 goes at any price. The best asters sel- 

 dom go above 50 cents a hundred. Be- 

 fore we realize it the chrysanthemum 

 will be knocking at the door. 



In both wholesale and retail stores 

 there is abundant evidence of enterprise 

 and expectation. Improvements are pro- 

 ceeding daily and by September 1 every- 

 body will be spick and span and ready. 

 The outlook is optimistic. There will 

 soon be enough doing to keep everybody 

 busy. 



The G)nvention Trip, 



If there is as much humidity and heat 

 in the four days of the convention as 

 we had here on Monday, August 12, the 

 S. A. F. will have "a hot time." But 

 we are running a torrid condition of 

 things east this week, so that we may 

 have it cool and comfortable in Philadel- 

 phia. All arrangements are now com- 

 pleted for the special train. It is not 

 necessary that one be a member of the 

 club to get a hearty welcome on the 

 special. The catering committee, Messrs. 

 Nugent, Rickards and Schultz, will pro- 

 vide refreshments on the way and there 

 will be enough and to spare. Remember, 

 you can join the special at any of the 



