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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 29. 1907. 



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 



Steins 24 inches 



Stems 20 inches 



Stems 15 inches 



Shorter ptems 



Per doz. 



93.00 



2 00 



1.50 



100 



.50 



Roses, Brides, Maids, Red and Yellow Per 100 



A grade, long SVOO 



No. 1 grade, good average length 4 00 



No. 2 grade, medium and short $2.00to 8.00 



SUMMER ROSES 



Kalscrlm, Carnot, Iia Detroit and Klllamey 



A grade, long and select 



No. 1 grade, good average len;;th $4.00 to 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 2.00 to 



VAXiIiXT 



AUBATVK i;X£XB8 



BA8TBB XtlLIBB, large and fine 



ABTBBS, allcolors...: 75to 



rBBVS perltOO, 



Per 100 



$6.00 

 5.00 

 300 

 4.00 



. 8.00 

 8.00 

 1.80 

 150 



On orders amounting' to 99.00 or over we make no charge for boxes. 

 BBAUTT P&AJTTB, S^-lnch pots, 6c; 8>lnoli pots, 7c. 



Bassett & Washburn 



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HZHBDAXiB, XLXi 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers In Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



hill, of the Horticultural Advertising 

 Agency, is spending her vacation at 

 Ocean Grove, N. J. 



Miss Dixon, bookkeej)cr for Young & 

 Nugent, has returned from a two weeks ' 

 holiday at Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 



James Shackell, father-in-law of 

 Joseph Millang, died last week, at Bay- 

 side, L. I., in his sixty-ninth year. He 

 was one of the pioneer gardeners of 

 Long Island and was highly respected. 



Abraham Hanig, of Brooklyn, it is 

 reported, was held up by a couple of 

 sandbaggers last Saturday evening. Evi- 

 dently the thievery gentry had heard of 

 Abe 's large Saturday trade, but did not 

 know his wife had the boodle safely hid- 

 den, as is her custom. Abraham had 

 just 'A2 cents in his clothes. The dis- 

 gusted robbers refused to accept it. 



A new plate glass front with larger 

 windows is being built in the fine store 

 of Thomas Young, Jr., on Fifth avenue 

 and Forty-second street. 



Convention Echoes. 



New York is justly nroud of its loy- 

 alty to the S. A. i". in having brought 

 on its special to the convention one-tenth 

 of the entire attendance and it is loud 

 in its praise and appreciation of the 

 grand welcome it received in the well- 

 named City of Brotheiiy Love. Such 

 a genuine open-handed and open-armed re- 

 ception can never be excelled and such 

 a pace has been set for liberality and en- 

 tertainment that no city may ever hope 

 to go beyond it. Philadelphia has 

 spoiled us with its open houses and the 

 wealth of its generosity. 



Ex-Mayor Cutler, of Niagara Falls, 

 won all hearts by his delightful per- 



sonality, lie did not have to promise 

 any ' * angels ' feet ' ' to secure the con- 

 vention, and his success in winning may 

 be attributed to his good-natured and 

 patient persistence. We may well an- 

 ticipate a record crowd and a glorious 

 convention in 1908. May there be no 

 vacant chairs. Everybody missed the 

 popular veteran William Scott, of Buf- 

 falo, and hope for his recovery. 



No happier man than Wm. Kasting 

 heard the unanimous vote for the Falls. 

 It gives him an opportunity to work and 

 he is tireless. Each year finds him grow- 

 ing in the esteem and affection of his co- 

 laborers. 



Never were so many spreads in evi- 

 dence at a convention. Messrs. Bayers- 

 dorfer and Rice kept open house all the 

 week ; the Dreer outing was a banquet ; 

 the Willow Grove function, an elaborate 

 luncheon ; the bowling centers, veritable 

 restaurants ; the lunch and dinner at the 

 park and mansion equal to the Waldorf, 

 and so through every moment of the week 

 was Philadelphia prodigality on tap until 

 the great multitude were surfeited with 

 kindness. 



Never were arrangements for display 

 and meeting place so perfect. The deco- 

 rations were chaste and beautiful, the 

 acoustic enjoyment of the theater a re- 

 lief always, the exhibits splendidly 

 staged, with room for all. No confusion 

 and complete satisfaction to the enter- 

 prising exhibitors. "Take it for all in 

 all (nerhaps) we ne'er shall look upon 

 its like again." But with popular ex- 

 cursion rates from every part of the 

 country, we will excel it in numbers in 

 1908. 



The educational papers on "School 



Gardens," by Messrs. Hallock and Du 

 Rie, were among the most interesting of 

 the week and far-reaching in value and 

 importance. 



The New York Florists' Club enter- 

 tained its 130 guests on the special roy- 

 ally and made the short trip a solid two 

 hours of comfort and good cheer. Hun- 

 dreds of convenlionists from all over the 

 country visited New York on Saturday 

 and Sunday. 



J. K. Allen trolleyed from Atlantic 

 City to the convention and is now back at 

 headquarters after his long rest, ready 

 for the 6 o 'clock every morning record 

 of a quarter century. 



Charles D. Ball neter was more de- 

 servedly elated than with his management 

 of the outing of the Ladies ' Auxiliary. 

 They unanimously voted him the hand- 

 somest man in the Quaker City. 



New York was glad to have one of its 

 bowlers, Wm. Duckham, capture the sil- 

 ver cup, and one of its base-ballists, 

 Phil Kessler, on the winning team, but 

 it is not proud of its team record in the 

 bowling competition and with alleys close 

 to its new club rooms will prepare this 

 winter to take its old place at the head 

 of the procession. It would not have 

 been courteous, anyway, to beat the 

 Philadelphians this year. 



The importance of the legitimate 

 sporting provision for the convention was 

 never so much in evidence. The most 

 enjoyable day of the week was the last 

 one, at Fairmount park, where the sports 

 engaged the enthusiastic attention of 

 over 1,000 members of the society. 

 Never was such liberality displayed in 

 the aggregate of prizes. There seemed 

 to be no limit to Philadelphia's big- 



