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August 22, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



39 



OUR SPECIALTY 



Hot Weather Flowers 



We are the recognized 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 KAISERIN9 

 KILLARNEY and BEAUTIES^ besides large quantities of the other roses. 

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



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



stems 30 to 86 inches 



Stems 24 inches 



Stems 20.inches 



Stems 16 inches 



Shorter stems 



Roses, Brides, Maids, Red and Yellow 



A grade, long: 



No. 1 srrade, good average length. 



Per doz. 



$3.00 



^.00 



1.60 



1.00 



.60 



Per 100 

 $5.00 

 4.00 



No. 2 grade, medium and short $2.00to 3.00 



SUMMER ROSES 



Kalserin, Oarnot, Iba Detroit and KiUamey 



A grade, long and select 



No. 1 grade, good average length $4.00 to 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 2.00 to 



VAI1I.BT 



AUBATUM I^ZIilBS 



BASTBB III IiZBS, large and fine 



A8TBB8, allcolors 75to 



FBBHS per 1000. 



PerlOO 



$6.00 

 5.00 

 3.00 

 4.00 

 8.00 

 8.00 

 1.50 

 1.50 



On ordtrs amounting' to 93-00 or over we make no charge for boxea. 

 BBA1TTT P&AJITS, S^-inch pota, 5c; 8-lnoh pots, 7o. 



Bassett & Washburn 



OBBBVHOUBBB: 



HZH8DA&B, IIiZ;. 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



bunch, the more salable the stock will 

 be. Attention was called to this fact 

 by a commission house which showed a 

 lot of white and light pink asters 

 bunched together. Buyers of white will 

 not buy such stock, nor will those who 

 want pink, and consequently the only 

 outlet is through the street faker, who 

 cares not what he buys so long as it is 

 cheap. 



John Zech states that Zech & Mann 

 have made arrangements which will give 

 them the production from 60,000 feet 

 of additional glass the coming season. 



L. Coatsworth fails to see anything in 

 the convention to attract him from the 

 golf links. 



E. E. Pieser says bronze galax prom- 

 ises to be as scarce as green now is be- 

 fore the new crop comes in. 



Weiland & Risch are preparing for kn 

 active fall campaign. 



August and Adolph Poehhnann will 

 visit leading eastern growers after the 

 convention, in quest of new ideas on 

 growing. 



N. J. Wietor is an ardent fisherman 

 and spends all his holidays that way. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



It won't make much difference this 

 week whether we have any cut flower 

 market in New York or not. Everybody 

 is going to the convention except the 

 retailers. For some reason we can get 

 but one per cent of the eastern retail 

 trade interested in the S. A. F. More's 

 the pity. If they only knew the benefit 



to themselves and their ])usine8s, the 

 fraternal greetings, the delight of meet- 

 ing old friends and the cordiality of a 

 convention welcome, there would be such 

 a boom in the society's nunibers as 

 would surprise the veterans who for a 

 quarter of a century have borne the bur- 

 den and heat of the day. The retailer 

 is not awake to his privileges, but the 

 New York delegation will be a large one 

 and few indeed will forego the oppor- 

 tunity to attend the greatest convention 

 of a decade, and at their very doors. 

 Many who cannot spare the week will 

 run down for a day or two. There will 

 be no shadow of an excuse for missing 

 the reunion completely. A list of those 

 journeying by the New York special will 

 be found elsewhere in this issue of the 

 Review. 



The outlook in all lines of the allie<l 

 trades is bright and hopeful. A great 

 fall season is anticipated, beginning 

 early in September. The florists' supply 

 houses are all stocked with the latest 

 novelties, the seed and bulb establish- 

 ments are ready for the fall demand and 

 the nurserymen report advance orders 

 beyond all expectations. 



There are a lot of August weddings 

 booked that will keep the society florists 

 busy for weeks to come. All the great 

 resorts of the 400 around New York are 

 preparing and planning for a brilliant 

 September. At Greenwich, Conn., last 

 week occurred one of the greatest wed- 

 dings of the summer. The floral decora- 

 tions were elaborate. Newport has waked 

 up at last and all the New York florists 

 there have more than they can do. The 

 demand for Beauties and orchids from 

 that center grows daily. Of the former, 



the best easily command $25 a hundred. 

 Prices were even higher on Saturday and 

 there were not enough to go around. As 

 to orchids, they are scarce and going up, 

 as they deserve to. McManus had or- 

 ders for his entire stock on Saturday 

 find could have sold double the quantity 

 arriving at headquarters. 



Roses are improving daily in length 

 of stem and color and prices are tending 

 upward slowly. Bride and Maid were 

 good enough on Saturday, a few of 

 them, to demand $5 a hundred. The 

 great mass of the shipments are short- 

 stemmed and thousands were closed out 

 at $5 to $10 a thousand. 



Everybody must be growing gladioli 

 and asters this season. Never saw such 

 a glut of them as now. Carnations, good 

 ones, are anxiously looked for. Few are 

 yet arriving. The water lily exhibits in 

 the Broadway windows continue, not- 

 withstanding a complete dearth of de- 

 mand. The up-to-date retailer by his 

 artistic window displays gives no evi- 

 dence of retrogression. 



Various Notei. 



A. J. Guttman celebrated his thirtieth 

 birthday August 15 by a sea voyage to 

 Portland and New Brunswick. 



Harry Bunyard returned last week 

 from a very successful western trip and 

 found the honorable position of ser- 

 geant-at-arms for the S. A. F. at Phil- 

 adelphia awaiting him. He will also be 

 in charge of the big exhibit of Arthur 

 T. Boddington, whose displav of Hol- 

 land, French and Bermuda bulbs will fill 

 a space of 160 square feet. Wni. Hughes. 

 Jr., and Douglas P. Roy, of this house, 

 have returned from their vacations, Mr. 



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