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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



SEPTiBUBGB 12, 1907. 



NOW IS THE TIME TO; 



Get Your Fall Trade Started 



We have fine exhibition stock of Beauties and Roses. Send us your orders if you 

 wish to make a display at a fair or have something to attract attention in your 

 window. We are cutting a very heavy crop of Beauties; the quality is especially 

 fine. Our Kaiserin and Killarney are away ahead of any others in this market. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Stems 36 to 48 inches $3.00 to $4.00 



Stem8 30iDrh>8. 

 Stems 24 inches . 



Stems JO inches 



Stems 16 inches 



Shorter stems 



Bride* Maid, Richmond and Perle 



A grade, long 



No. 1 grade, good average length. 



2.50 

 2.00 

 1.60 

 1.00 

 M 



Per 100 

 $^.00 

 400 

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



SUMMER ROSES Per lOO 



Kaiserin, Camot, Xia Detroit and Killarney 



A grade, long and select 9 6.00 to $8.00 



No. 1 grade, good average length 4.00 to 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 2.00 to 



OABWATIOVS, pink, white and red 1.00 to 



VAXilbBT 



ASTBBB, allcolors 76to 



rSBHB per 1000, 



6.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 4.00 

 2.00 

 1.60 



On orders amonnting^ to 92.00 or over we make no charge for boxes. 



Mrs. lawson, field-grown carnation plants, 96.00 per 100. 



.Field plants ot a good Bed Beedling Carnation, 95.00 per lOO. 



Bassett & Washburn 



GBSBKSOUBBB: 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention Tlie lleview when you write. 



collection of annuals and jjcrenuials, 

 not for competition, and received honor- 

 able mention. 



There were five premiums for fruit 

 and several for vegetables, Mark 

 Schmidt being first for collection of vege- 

 tables. Tlie uhole affair was a most 

 pleasing success. 



Various Notes. 



Tlio death of Flint Kennicott Septem- 

 ber 9 was a shock to all in the market, 

 for everyone liked him. An account of 

 liis life and work will be found in the 

 obituary column on another page. As a 

 mark of respect, all the wholesale houses 

 closed from 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock on 

 Wednesday, the hour during which the 

 funeral was held. 



Some of the retailers already are re- 

 ceiving violets direct from tlie growers. 



C. M. Dickinson and Mrs. Dickinson 

 are spending a fortnight in Michigan. 



P. J. Youngquist's greenhouses, on 

 the north side of West Foster avenue, 

 are in the direct line of the city's fu- 

 ture drainage operations and will be con- 

 demned by the drainage board before 

 many months have passed. When the 

 transfer will be made, however, is still 

 uncertain, and Mr. Youngquist has not, 

 as yet, made any definite plans as to 

 what business course he will follow when 

 the drainage board takes possession of 

 liis property. He has six houses, de- 

 voted exclusively to carnations. 



George TTarrer, "mayor" of Morton 

 Grove, no longer has any active connec- 

 tion with the greenhouse business, but 

 whenever he comes to town the attrac- 

 tions of old associations with the market 

 are so strong that he naturally gravitates 



to the corner of Wabash avenue and 

 Randolph street. 



C. L. Washburn says that the demand 

 for Killarney is starting at a most grati- 

 fying rate. Although Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, in connection with many other 

 large growers, greatly increased their 

 planting of Killarney this season, Mr. 

 VVa.shburn says they cannot get enough 

 of it to fill their orders. 



A. A. Sawyer, at Oak Park, is still 

 sending some exceptionally fine asters to 

 K. H. Hunt. It is his own strain of 

 Comet. 



The Brides and Maids with the Poehl- 

 niann Brothers Co. have come along with 

 remarkable rapidity in the last few- 

 weeks. The stems are the longest ever 

 (lit at this season of the year and the 

 size and substance of the buds are equal 

 to late autumn stock. 



Philip Schupp says that .T. A. Bud- 

 long's shipping trade is starting off 

 heavier than ever this fall. Monday was 

 an especially good day. 



The mother of the Pieser brothers, of 

 the Kennicott Bros. Co., celebrated her 

 seventy-fifth birthday anniversary Sun- 

 day, September 8. There was a large 

 gathering of friends and relatives. 



It is stated that Marshall Field & Co. 

 will this season have the largest decora- 

 tion for the fall opening ever put up by 

 any mercantile establishment, eclipsing 

 their own best previous efforts. The 

 Wittbold Co. will supply the plants. The 

 cut flower bill will run into the thou- 

 sands of dollars and Fields are looking 

 about to sec where they can get the most 

 for their money. 



Miss A. L. Tonner says that the sup- 

 jily business with the A. L. Randall Co. 



is opening in two or three times the vol- 

 ume that it did last year. 



E. C. Amling was at Richmond, Ind., 

 September 5 and 6. He says that the 

 new rose of the E. G. Hill Co., named 

 Kliea Reid, is a wonder. He says that 

 for early blooming qualities and luxuri- 

 ance of growth he has never seen its su- 

 perior. 



The Florists' Club will hold its first 

 meeting of the season at Handel hall 

 this evening, September 12. A lively ses- 

 sion is in prospect. 



\. J. Wietor says that Wietor Bros, 

 arc able to cut white chrysanthemums in 

 limited quantity at any time now, but 

 that they anticipate no special call so 

 long as asters remain so plentiful and 

 so good. 



L. E. Bohannon is now with the Alpha 

 Floral Co., at Wabash avenue and Adams 

 street. The management of Fleischman 's 

 north side store now devolves upon Har- 

 ry Rubel, with J. B. Blackistone, for- 

 merly of Washington, D. C, as the dec- 

 orator and maker-up. 



Peter Reinberg continues to cut in- 

 creasing quantities of the Mrs. Field 

 rose. A. C. Spencer says that this variety 

 has been the most profitable thing they 

 ever grew for a summer crop. They have 

 boon marketing thousands every day 

 rijrht through the summer, at prices rang- 

 ing from 3 cents to 8 cents, but aver- 

 aging from 4 cents to 6 cents for the 

 nia.iority of the cut. 



The trade will learn with regret that 

 Edgar Sanders is steadily failing in 

 health and that he is not now able to 

 receive the calls of the many who took 

 pleasure in running in upon him when- 

 ever opportunity presented. 



Mike Freres, formerly manager of M. 



