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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Septiimbeb 5, 1907. 



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OUR SPECIALTY 



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Hot Weather flowers 



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We are now cutting a very heavy crop of American Beauties. The quality is 

 especially fine* also our Kaiserin, Killamey, and Carnot are away ahead of any- 

 thing else in these colors at the present time. 

 For funeral work we have large quantities of choice Auratum Lilies at $8.00 per 100. ' 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Stems 30 to 86 inches $8.00 



Steins 21 inches 2.00 



Stems .Winches 1.50 



Stems 15 inches 1.00 



Shorter stems .50 



Roses, Brides, Maids, Red and Yellow per lOO. 



A grrade, long $5.00 



No. 1 grade, good averase length 4.00 



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



SUMMER ROSES 



Zalavrin, Oarnot, Xia Detroit and Xillamey 



A grade, long and select. 



Per 100 



No. 1 grade, good average length $4.00 to 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 2.00 to 



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AUBATUM ZiIIiXBB 



■A.«TBK X.Zi.Xa8, large and fine lO.OOto 12.00 



▲■TBSS, all colors 76to 1.60 



perlOOO, 1.60 



$6.00 

 5.00 

 300 

 4.00 

 8.00 



On orders amonnting' to 93.00 or over we make no oharffe for boxes. 



Mrs. Lawson, field-grown carnation plants, SB.OO per 100. 



7ield plants of a good Bed Seedling Carnation, 9B.O0 per lOO. 



Bassett & Washburn 



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Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers ^ 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



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Twenty-ninth street to the cut flower 

 business and will import no plants this 

 season, handling the stoek of local Jersey 

 nurserymen on commission instead. 



B, Rosen's new place and office at 48 

 West Twenty-ninth street is now stocked 

 and in shipshape for business. 



Harry Graves Weir, bookkeeper for 

 William Starke, has graduated to the real 

 estate business. 



Victor Bergman, of Ernst Wienhoe- 

 ber's force in Chicago, is spending his 

 vacation with friends. in New York city. 



George Baker, with Ford Bros., is holi- 

 daying in the C'atskills. 



F. Hicks & ('o. already find themselves 

 cramped for room to handle their grow- 

 ing trade. 



The Broadway retailers are busy with 

 improvements in their handsome stores. 

 Bowe has made many changes for the 

 better. Van Praag also has enlarged his 

 facilities. 



Fred Leutz, of David Clarke's Sons, 

 with his family, is back from a holiday 

 in Michigan and Chicago. 



K. C. Horan has been recuperating for 

 two weeks at Lake George. 



L. W. Wheeler and wife leave this 

 week for their new home in California. 

 For the last seven years Mr. Wheeler has 

 been manager of Vaughan's Seed Store 

 and he has long l)een an active member 

 of the New York Florists' Club; was 

 elected treasurer at the last election and 

 was a most willing and persistent work- 

 er in its behalf. 



John Nash and wife have returned 

 from a three weeks' rest at Lake Ma- 

 hopac, N. Y., an ideal spot for honey- 

 moons and their anniversaries. F. W. 

 Nash, his brother, of Allentown, Pa., 



called August 31, on his way to their 

 old home in England. 



John Seligman and Joseph Levy are 

 back from their vacations, with their 

 families, in the mountains, and ready for 

 a big winter. September 9 Mr. and Mrs. 

 Levy celebrate their wedding anniver- 

 sary. 



H. Frank Darrow, the bulb importer, 

 came back last week from Europe after 

 a successful trip. 



The Yokohama Nursery Co. re'ports 

 the arrival of the first shipment of for- 

 mosum lilies in superb condition. 



William Her has returned from a two 

 weeks' rest in the Catskills. Charles 

 Matthews has been at Delaware Water 

 Gap. Both are with E. C. Horan. 



•John Thielman and son Fred, Alexan- 

 der Donaldson and John Egenbrod have 

 been sea fishing in Mr. Thielman 's naph- 

 tha launch, with a record of L50 sea bass 

 in a day. 



Mrs. Fury, of Brooklyn, daughter of 

 the Late James Mallon and sister of John 

 and Joseph Mallon, died last week and 

 was buried Thursday. Many beautiful 

 floral offerings attested the sympathy of 

 the trade for the brothers. 



John Hardman, formerly with Charles 

 Habermann, will open a retail store this 

 month at One Hundredth street and 

 Broadway, a splendid section of the city 

 and growing more remunerative every 

 day. 



Marshall Clarke, of David Clarke's 

 Sons, and family, have returned from 

 their summer celebration in Canada and 

 the Tliousand Islands. Gilmore Clarke 

 and family are enjoying the ozone of the 

 Catskills. 



William Ford, of Ford Bros., has had 



three weeks of fun, frolic and forgetful- 

 ness in the Shawangunk Hills, Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Thomas Martin, Traendly & Schenck's 

 lieutenant, spent his two weeks' relief at 

 Spring Valley, in Dutchess county, where 

 health abounds and violets perfume the 

 air. 



Charles Conlin, of Thorley's, has re- 

 turned from the mountains as young as 

 when he began buying flowers for the 

 .400, 'steen years ag©. 



Thomas Young's two 500- foot houses 

 at Boundbrook, N. J., are nearly com- 

 pleted. Only gardenias, it is said, will 

 here make their home. Here is faith in 

 society or in ability to make and keep 

 popular a flower without which one la 

 not in the fashion. 



John B. Nugent sent out, September 2, 

 a dozen handsome funeral designs for the 

 funeral of a prominent actress. A stand- 

 ing wreath of valley and orchids was 

 especially beautiful. 



Fred Smythe returned from Canton, 

 O., August 30. Few realize the size of 

 the contract he has assumed in the decor- 

 ation of the grounds around the McKin- 

 ley memorial, the hundreds of men en- 

 gaged and the great trees planted. 



A. T. Hartnupp, who has had charge 

 of Wadley & Smythe 's landscape work 

 for some time, has accepted a position 

 as gardener and superintendent at Long 

 Branch, N. J., with Murray Guggenheim. 



Another landscape gardener will soon 

 hang out his shingle. Adolph Jaenicke, 

 of Floral Park, long in the service of 

 John Lewis Childs, as propagator and 

 greenhouse superintendent, will branch 

 out on his own account. He is a member 

 of the New York Florists' Club and a 



