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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OcTOBEn 10, 1907. 



48-50 

 WABASH AVE., 



CHICAGO 



We are Headquarters for 



Any kind of Cut Flowers to be 

 found In the Chicago Market. 



Ail stook billed at market rat«a. 



DAHLIA ROOTS 



One of our growers has roots of three leading cut flower varieties to offer for fall delivery. Krlemhilde 

 (pink), A. D. Llvoni (pink), Arabella (yellowish primrose), all strong roots, $5.50 per 100. 



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The Market 



While we have not yet had any sharp 

 frosts, outdoor flowers have been about 

 destroyed by recent storms of wind and 

 rain, and this has materially strength- 

 ened the market, flowers clearing out 

 much better, although prices have not 

 shown much advance. Eoses, with the 

 cooler weather, are steadily improving 

 and meet with better sale. Carnations 

 are coming with gradually lengthening 

 stems, and some nice flowers, for this 

 early season, are arriving. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are now fairly abundant. In addi- 

 tion to Mme. Bergman, Fitzwygram, Oc- 

 tober Frost and other earlies, some nice 

 Polly Eosc, Glory of Pacific and Mon- 

 rovia are seen. Prices are holding up 

 well on these. Violets are a little bet- 

 ter in color, but are not yet in great 

 demand. Lilies are not abundant. A 

 few callas appeared this week. 



While some asters are still seen, this 

 flower does not now cut much figure in 

 the market. Really good blooms bring 

 fancy prices. There would seem to be 

 an opportunity for some grower to pro- 

 duce a late crop in frames to come in 

 at this season, which would pay well. 

 Some dahlias are seen, but retailers 

 seem chary about taking these in hand. 

 Gladioli, candytuft and tuberoses are 

 seen in small lots. Asparagus plu- 

 raosus, Sprengeri and adiantum are all 

 of fine quality, but selling only moder- 

 ately as yet. The better class stores 

 are now getting a good supply of Cat- 

 tleya labiata and Oncidium varicosum 

 Rogersii. 



Variouf Notes. 



Col. Castle, who had been announced 

 to speak at the club meeting October 

 15, has advised the secretary that he 

 cannot be present. The address of the 

 evening will be by Wilfrid Wheeler, of 



Concord, chairman of the fruit commit- 

 tee of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society and secretary of the Music Hall 

 Flower Market. He will speak on ' ' Fruit 

 Growing. ' ' 



An announcement will be made in 

 regard to the coming landscape 

 classes and some good exhibits are 



ff9VERY now and then a well 

 US pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to 



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 appreciated. 



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 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser* We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florisU' use 

 not at present advertised* 



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promised. The nominating committee 

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 ing year will be appointed. 



At the Brockton fair. New England 's 

 leading autumn carnival, held October 

 1 to 5, the floricultural show was large- 

 ly of dahlias from such well-known 

 growers as J. K. Alexander, Geo. H. 

 Walker, W. D. Hathaway, Johnson & 

 Hall, W^ P. Lothrop, Mrs. H. A. Jahn 



and others. Waban Conservatories 

 showed a fine vase of Wellesley rose 

 through their Brockton agent, W. W. 

 Hathaway. Paid admissions on October 

 3 totaled 78,000, with gate receipts of 

 $32,000. Possibly if the managers of 

 the coming national flower show can 

 arrange for a Midway of the Brock- 

 tonian stamp as a side issue, they may 

 be able to approximate the foregoing 

 attendance. Shrewsbury, England 's 

 greatest show, combines the two. Why 

 not try it at Chicago? 



Welch Bros, have just rounded out 

 thirty years as a commission firm, ma- 

 king them probably the oldest firm of 

 the kind in the country. As most of 

 their growers have increased their glass 

 area this season and new firms are ship- 

 ping to them, they anticipate a banner 

 season for cut flowers and other lines 

 5-hich they handle. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, have been 

 marketing some fine dahlias. They 

 have an unusually fine lot of winter 

 blooming stock of various kinds in pots 

 for the coming season. 



Thomas Pegler, as usual, was first in 

 the field with blooms of Campbell vio- 

 lets, of nice quality for early October. 



September gave us a rainfall of over 

 seven and one-half inches. Of this 

 amount three and one-quarter inches 

 fell September 29. 



Edward Hatch, the respected secre- 

 tary of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, is a director of the Exchange 

 Trust Co., which opened its doors for 

 business October 1. 



H. A. Jahn, of New Bedford, says 

 his new white seedling carnation is 

 looking splendid this season and will 

 be heard from at the coming exhibi- 

 tions. 



Wellesley rose from Waban Conserva- 

 tories is coming in of fine quality. This 

 rose has a host of friends and grows in 

 popularity. W. N. Craig. 



