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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



OCTOBEU 10, 1907. 



BDj] Yooi Floweis Diiect of tte fiioweis 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS ARE NOW HERE 



Prices of Mums vary from $2.00 to $3.00 per dozen, according to size of 

 flowers ; colors, pink, white or yellow. Please note the reduction of prices. ' 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Steins, extra Iodk $3.00 to $4.00 



StemiSOtoSe inches 2 50 



Stems 20 to 24 inches 2.00 



Steins 16 inches 1.60 



Stems 12 inches .- 1.00 



Shorter stems 50 



Bride, Maid, Liberty, Richmond and Perle Per loo 



A Rrade, long $6.00 to $6.00 



No. 1 grade, good average length 4.00 



No. 2 grade, medium and short ....> 2.00 



Kaiserin, Carnot, Kfllarnay per lOO 



A grade, long and select $6.00 to $8.00 



No. 1 grade, good average length 4.00 to 6.00 



No. 2grade, medium and short 3.00 



CARNATIONS 



Per 100 



Pink, white and red, medium stems 92.00(0 



Fancy long red and Enchantress 



CHBTBANTHKMUMB, yellow, white and pink, 

 per dozen $2.00 to $3.00 



ULT or TH« VALLKT 



ASPARAGUS STRINGS, heavy, per string. 60o 



ASPARAGUS SPRATS 2.00to 



SPRXNGKRI ISO to 



ADIANTUM, extra fancy and long 1.00 to 



GALAX, bronze per 1000, $2.00 



GALAX, green 1.26 



COMMON PKRN8 1.60 



$2.50 

 ^.00 



4.00 



8.00 

 2.00 

 i.50 



On orders amoniitliiff to 93.00 or over we make no oharse for boxes. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES, 3-inch pots, strong plants, $4.00 per 100 



Bassett & Washburn 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers In Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



■>HOUSBB: 

 MUrSDAUi. ZXiK. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



These conditions will, no doubt, change 

 now, as the quantities of mums coming 

 will lighten the demand for other stock, 

 which is also becoming more plentiful 

 overy day. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists ' Club met October 1, with 

 thirty members present. The subjects 

 for discussion were ferns, dahlias and 

 bulbs. 



O. McClintock & Co. have signed a 

 ten-year lease for the entire building 

 at 545 Liberty street, where J. B. Mur- 

 doch & Co. have their salesrooms, forcing 

 that firm to vacate November 1. How- 

 »!ver, Murdoch & Co. have succeeded in 

 getting a most desirable building at 714 

 Penn avenue, which is considered one of 

 the best locations in the city. The firm 

 will occupy the entire building as soon 

 as improvements are completed. 



Visitors: Mr. Smith, of Smith & Fet- 

 ters, Cleveland; Geo. L. Huscroft, Steu- 

 benville, Ohio; Mr. Zanc, of Wheeling, 

 W. Va. 



De Forest Ludwig, son of E. C. Lud- 

 wig, Allegheny, expects to leave for Cali- 

 fornia next week, on a combined busi- 

 ness and pleasure trip of some duration. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The business last week was excelleut. 

 Entertainments extended President 

 Boosevelt and the visiting governors, with 

 the carnival, kept most of the trade busy. 

 Quite a few we<lding decorations also 

 were furnished. 



Chrysanthemums are now coming in free- 

 ly, Willowbrook and Opah, in white, and 

 Monrovia, in yellow. Prices rule high 

 on these, as they always do when they 

 first come in, but by the end of the pres- 

 ent week prices will no doubt come 

 down. Roses in all varieties and grades 

 are coming in more freely, with prices 

 the same as last week, but a slump is 

 expected soon. Carnations are cleaning 

 up almost every day, with some extra 

 good blooms coming in, but the bulk 

 of them are still short in stem. Violets 

 are slow in sale, as they are too smaU 

 and pale to command a fair price. Cos- 

 mos is fine and sells well. We had a 

 little frost last week, which killed some 

 of the outdoor stock. In greens we have 

 anything one needs. 



Various Notes. 



Max Herzog has charge of the green- 

 houses at the Female hospital and has 

 the place looking in fine shape. 



Gus Eggeling, of the Eggeling Floral 

 Co., put up a fine decoration for the 

 banquet given at the Jefferson October 2, 

 in honor of President Roosevelt. 



The Riessen Floral Co. had the decora- 

 tions at the Planters' and Southern ho- 

 tels last week, where the many visiting 

 governors stayed during President Roose- 

 velt 's visit in the city. 



Adolph Brix visited the Springfield fair 

 last week and bought a few fine plants 

 for his exhibition next month. 



Walter Weber, who has charge of the 

 greenhouses of H. J. Weber & Sons Nurs- 

 ery Co., at Nursery, Mo., is sending in a 

 fine lot of roses. His Richmond, Killar- 

 ney and Perle are among the best. The 

 Bride and Maid are good blooms, but as 



yet short in stem. He expects this to be 

 his best season since he started his rose 

 houses. 



The Foster Floral Co., John Burke and 

 Alex Siegel did a large over-the-counter 

 business last week. Carnival week proved 

 a good one for them. 



Henry Ostertag had a number of large 

 decorations last week, for downtown 

 stores, and has a number of good wed- 

 dings booked for this month. 



Mrs. H. Lohrenz, wife of Henry Loh- 

 renz, of the Park Floral Co., is visiting 

 her son in Chicago. 



Frank A. Weber, secretary of the H. 

 J. Weber & Sons Nursery Co., has suc- 

 ceeded in bringing Geo. T. Powell, of 

 Geneva, N. Y., hero to address the fruit 

 growers and others interested in protect- 

 ing their trees from San Jose scale, 

 also other orchard insect pests. Mr. 

 Powell will lecture at Clayton Octo- 

 ber 12. 



The Bentzen Floral Co. and Grimm & 

 Gorley had handsome floral floats in the 

 annual label parade October 5. 



Chairman Schoenle, of the Florists' 

 Club trustees, will call a meeting next 

 week to prepare a program for the fall 

 and winter entertainments and social 

 meetings of the club. 



S. B. Wertheimer, of Wertheimer 

 Bros., New York, and E. J. Fancourt, 

 of the Pennock-Meehan Co., Philadel- 

 phia, were visitors last week. J. J. B. 



Detroit, Mich. — The council has ap- 

 propriated $1,500 to build an extension 

 at the greenhouses at Belle Isle park to 

 accommodate the orchid collection pre- 

 sented to the city by Mrs. Oren Scotten. 



