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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



October 17, 1907. 



WE liBOW ALL THE FLOWERS WE SELL 



Buy Direct of the Grower and Save Rehandling 



Chrysanthemums 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Stems, extra long $4.00 to $5.00 



Stems 30 to 36 inches 3.00 



Stems 24 Incbes 2 50 



Stems 20 inches 2 00 



Stems 16 inches 1.50 



Stems 12 incbes 1.00 



Shorter stems 50 



Bride, Maid, Liberty, Richmond and Perle per loo 



A grade, long $6.00 



No. 1 grade, good average length 4.00 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 3.00 



Kaiserin, Carnot, Killarney per lOO 



A grade, long and select $8.00 



No. 1 grade, good average length $3.00to 600 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 3.00 to 4.00 



are now here and with better weather a 

 large crop of flowers is now being cut. 



CARNATIONS 



Per 100 



Pink, white and red, medium stems $2.00 to $3.00 



Fancy long red and Enchantress 



CHRTSANTHEMUMB, yellow, white and pink. 



per dozen $1.50 to $3.00 



LILT OF THE VALLET 



ASPARAGUS STRINGS, heavy, per string, 50o 



ASPARAGUS SPRATS 2.00 to 



SPREN6ERI 1.60 to 



ADIANTUM, extra fancy and long 1.00 to 



GALAX, bronze per 1000, $2.00 



GALAX, green " 1.25 



COMMON FERNS 1.60 



4.00 



4.00 



3.00 

 2.00 

 1.50 



On orders amonutlnfir to 93>00 or over we make no oharg^e for boxes. 



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



Bassett & Washburn 



OBBSVHOUBBB: 



HIHBDAXB, IIiL 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Keylew when you write. 



rists' Club October 10, the west side be- 

 ing represented by its four leading re- 

 tailers. Among the visitors present were 

 E. Bollinger, president of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Lake Forest; .T. W. 

 Scharf enberger, Lake Forest ; W. P. 

 Longland, Lake Geneva; Henry W. 

 lUenberger, Lake Geneva ; F. R. Kuehne, 

 Lake Geneva, and A. J. Smith, Lake 

 Geneva. 



John Vander Wal, S. P. Fisclier, Frank 

 Beu and Fred Shield were elected to 

 membership and applications were re- 

 ceived from Walter Scott, of La Grange, 

 and Frank Mitsch, of Evanston. F. F. 

 Benthey, for the trustees, reported the 

 selection of E. F. Winterson to act as 

 treasurer until the successor to the late 

 Edgar Sanders shall be elected. E. F. 

 Winterson and C. H. Fisk were nomi- 

 nated for treasurer, the election to take 

 place at the next meeting, November 14. 



George Asmus, manager of the flower 

 show November 6 to 12, reported splen- 

 did prospects, indications pointing to 

 more exhibits than in any previous year. 

 A. J. Smith, of Lake Geneva, said that 

 not enough classes were provided solely 

 for private gardeners, and this precipi- 

 tated a general discussion of ways and 

 means of making the show bigger and 

 better than ever. P. J. Foley, for the 

 Foley Manufacturing Co., and John 

 Degnan, for the E. F. Winterson (Jo., ten- 

 dered special prizes for the private gar- 

 dener classes, which the premium com- 

 mittee accepted. The final premium list 

 will be out in a few days and will em- 

 body a number of the suggestions made. 

 For the benefit of the retail florists who 

 will exhibit, Manager Asmus stated that 

 the rules will provide that any exhibitor 



may take at the exhibit all the orders 

 he can for future delivery. 



Randall Increases Capital. 



The A. L. Randall Co. October 15 cer- 

 tified to the Secretary of State at Spring- 

 field as to the increase of its authorized 

 capital stock from $10,000 to $50,000. 

 A. L. Randall, president of the corpora- 

 tion, states that the increase in capital 

 does not indicate any change in the com- 

 pany's affairs except the capitalizjition 

 of its surplus, for which the company 

 now has employment as a result of the 

 rapidly increasing business in the sni)ply 

 department. 



Flower Show Matters. 



Preparations for the big annual ex- 

 hibition at the Coliseum November 6 to 

 12 are progressing favorably, the great- 

 est need now being for worker.s who 

 can give some time to the show. There 

 is work for everyone. Those wanting 

 some of it should apply to George Asmus, 

 manager; Jens Jensen, chairman com- 

 mittee on decorations; A. Lange, chair- 

 man committee on general advertising, 

 or E. A. Kan.st, a.ssistant secretary. Mr. 

 Asmus, especially, will be able to provide 

 a means for the enthusiastic to help 

 along the cause. 



The quarterly meeting of the Horti- 

 cultural Society was set for October 15, 

 but in its stead a meeting of the execu- 

 tive committee was held, devoted to per- 

 fecting details for the show. All re- 

 ports wero favorable. 



Variout Notes. 



E. C. Amling says there will be no 

 more stenciling on the ends of his boxes. 



the buyers having called his attention to 

 the fact that the stenciling makes it im- 

 possible to use the box for the retailers ' 

 own shipments. Incidentally it is worth 

 noting that Mr. Amling was the first 

 shipper in this market to .stencil his 

 boxes. 



Harry Manheim is no longer with J. 

 A. Budlong. 



Yaughan & Sperrv .say tlity already 

 have booked several orders for All 

 Saints' day shipment to New Orleans, 

 and N. J. Wietor says he has one order 

 for 500 white mums for the same occa- 

 sion. 



Some of the wholesale houses are re- 

 ported as saying they are not interested 

 in the scramble for violet business which 

 is pretty sure to come off as soon as 

 supplies really get under way. but Wei- 

 land & Risch say they think the violet 

 business just a little more desirable than 

 most other lines, and they intend to 

 push it with the best of them this sea- 

 son. 



John Poehlmann, president of the 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., says he thinks the 

 market has got beyond the point of any 

 slackening in demand until Lent. He 

 says he looks for steadily increasing busi- 

 ness from now on and calls attention to 

 the fact that the roses are much better 

 than they were at this date last year. 



L. Baumann & Co. report moss wreaths 

 as scarce and say that the price in Ger- 

 many is going up every day. 



T. F. McGrath and wife, of Northamp- 

 ton, Mass., are the guests of W. E. 

 Lynch, vice-president of the E. H. Hunt 

 corporation. Mrs. IMcGrath is Mr. 

 Lynch 's sister. 



C. L. Wa?hburn says that October 14 



