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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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SEPTEMBER 26, 1907. 



^OR Bros. 



51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Wholesale Growers of Cut Flowers 



Let us have your standing orders this season. We are right in line for your busi- 

 ness, with large supplies of the very highest grades of stock. The following are 

 some of the plants we are now cutting or soon will cut from : 



72,000 BEAUTIES 

 90,000 MUMS 



85,000 TEA ROSES 

 160,000 CARNATIONS 



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MUMS'v^r^ NOW READY 



Mention Tbe Rerlew when you write. 



manner for quite a lot of stock; but it 

 ended : ' * Please buy three tutty dulls. ' ' 

 That was the best they could make of it 

 after several had tried an ear at the 

 wire. After mature deliberation, influ- 

 enced possibly by the fact that a few 

 days before the same buyer had wired 

 for a cupid, they decided that "tutty 

 dulls" meant Teddy dolls, Teddy bears 

 bought at Field's were shipped, Monday 

 morning the telegram came in by mail — 

 and then the light broke. It was three 

 putty bulbs that were wanted. 



Various Notes. 



The telegraph strike still makes 

 trouble, the delivery service being espe- 

 cially poor. All messages are supposed 

 to be telephoned by the telegrapli com- 

 panies, but often are not. E, C. Amling 

 lost a good order from a valued custom- 

 er Sunday. The message showed that it 

 reached Chicago at 10:05 a. m. Sunday 

 but was not phoned, although the boys 

 were at the store till 2 p. m. getting out 

 orders, and when delivered at noon Mon- 

 day it was too late. There arc many 

 such exasperating happenings. 



At this season Chicago always is 

 crowded with visitors. The hotels have 

 been overflowing for the last two weeks. 

 The Auditorium Annex, which now has 

 ],271 guest rooms, has been turning peo- 

 ple away almost nightly. The effect on 

 local trade is not great at this season, 

 but the visitors all leave money here, a 

 part of which will eventually find its 

 way to the florists. 



J. A. Budlong is already cutting nice 

 blooms of Aristocrat on stems of fair 

 length for the season. They have 9,000 



plants. Winsor is liked for its color, but 

 the stems are like those of Lawson. 



John lieardon says that the local. gar- 

 deners have had an unusually busy Sep- 

 'tember raking leaves. The dry weather 

 of the summer, together with the unusu- 

 ally large number of insects which it 

 developed, caused the trees to lose their 

 foliage earlier than usual this season. 



E. H. Hunt reports an unexpectedly 

 large demand for wild smilax for the 

 fall opening decorations, which seem to 

 be coming on a little earlier this year. 



Frederick Sperry is at home from 

 Colorado. He has not yet fully recov- 

 ered from the accident in which the 

 horse he was riding fell upon him. His 

 hand still shows the hoof -shaped scar 

 from the bad cut he received. He left 

 Mrs. Sperry in Colorado. 



A. L. Vaughan, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 is visiting eastern business connections 

 this week. 



Ned Washburn, son of C. L. Washburn, 

 returned to Madison this week for his 

 final college year. 



Peter Reinberg has Iiis new range of 

 eight houses on the farm completed and 

 planted with carnations. 



The trade will learn with sincere re- 

 gret that Edgar Sanders has failed rap- 

 idly in the last few days and that his 

 demise is thoupht to be little more than 

 a question of days. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting well-finished 

 blooms of October Frost, which is the 

 earliest white mum to reach this mar- 

 ket. Their Monrovia also is good. N. J. 

 Wietor says the buyers take well to the 

 Joe Hill rose. 



C. W. McKellar is busy this week tak- 



ing in a lot of ribbons and chiffons 

 bought on his recent eastern trip. 



George Reinberg 's store has been re- 

 decorated this week and now is in com- 

 plete shape for the fall business. 



During the summer the Benthey-Coats- 

 worth Co. has made a change in its heat- 

 ing apparatus at the New Castle plant. 

 The main flow pipe has been taken out of 

 the trench across the range and has been 

 placed overhead. The improvement 

 sought is not in the circulation of steam, 

 but in the evenness of temperature 

 throughout each house. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 says that he does not agree with the gen- 

 eral view that hardy cut ferns will be 

 plentiful this season. He says he looks 

 for an even greater shortage than last 

 year, especially as he says the greater 

 the demand, usually the poorer the ferns 

 keep. 



Weiland & Risck have a grower who 

 has just begun sending them tuberoses, 

 two months later than usual, but he now 

 will have supplies until Christmas. 



Sam Pieser, who formerly had a retail 

 flower store on North Clark street, is 

 now with the Royal Co., with headquar- 

 ters in the Auditorium Annex, and takes 

 pleasure in showing the florists who drop 

 in upon him imported cigars that sell 

 as high as $1 apiece. 



A number of north end growers were 

 present last week to see the test of the 

 new heating system at Peter Reinberg 's 

 Summerdale establishment September 21. 

 A brief note of the results will be found 

 in the Greenhouse Heating Department 

 of this issue. 



The A. L. Randall Co. reports an espe- 

 cially good demand for fertilizers, sheep 



