Decbmber 6, 1007. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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Beauties are Extra Fine 



in quality for the long and medium^ stems and very reasonable in price for December. 

 Roses are fine, especially Killarnoy, which is now in full crop. Carnations are 

 choice, but the crop is backward. Mums about all gone. The few left are only fair 

 quality. Easter Lilies are now being cut from cold storage Glganteum; very large 

 flowers and exceptionally fine. Prices have dropped quite a little since Thanksgiving. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Extra lon^ 14.00 to $5.00 



80to86inobet • °"^ 



24 Inches • J^X 



18 Inches f"" 



Ifi Inches i?X 



13 Inches ^"^^ 



Killarnay Per loo 



Long and Select $8.00 to $10.00 



Good averare length j~,*„ i}^ 



Medium lengths 4.00to 6.00 



Short sterna "•"" 



Brides. Maids, Liberty and RIelimoBd per loo 



A grade, long and select $6.00to $8.00 



No. 1 grade, good average lengths «««* ?Sa 



No. 2 grade, medium and short 8.00 to 4.00 



Mixed Roses Per loo 



Oar ■•leoUon, Sbort Stems $300 



CARNATIONS 



Per 100 



Pink, 'white, good stock $8.00 to 



Fancy long red and Enchantress 5.00 to 



XA8TKR LIL1X8, QIGANTBUM. . .per doz., $2.60 



LILT or THX VALLKT 



ASPARAGUS STBXHGS, heaY7'..per string, 50o 



ASFARAOnS SPBATS 2.00to 



SPRBMGKRI 1.50 to 



8MULAZ, extra fine..'. per doz., $1.50 



ADIANTUlf 



GALAX, bronze per 1000, $1.50 



GALAX, green 1.26 



VXRHS 1.50 



$4.00 

 6.00 



4.00 



8.00 

 2.00 



1.00 



On orders amoniitiiiff to 99.00 or OTsr w« make no eharir* <>»' boxes. 



Bassett & Washburn 



ORSmkoTTSKSi 



HXH8DALK. ILL. 



Wliolesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Fiowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market. 



The Thanksgiving business did not 

 occasion abnormal prices, but there was 

 a little pickling. The old menace will not 

 down. There are a few growers still 

 alive who will pickle though the heavens 

 fall. Some daj these will be in a pickle 

 themselves and let us hope their descend- 

 ants may be few. 



Most of the stock sent in for Thanks- 

 giving was superb. Beauties, a few of 

 them, touched 40 cents; 30 cents and 35 

 cents were the general prices. This week 

 Monday, they had retrograded to 25 

 cents and 30 cents. The tendency, how- 

 ever, will be upward until Christmas. 

 Maid and Bride advanced to 8 cents for 

 the best; a few to 10 cents. This week 

 opsns with the best at 8 cents, and this 

 probably will be top for a while. This 

 price also applies to Chatenay and Kil- 

 lamey. Fine Richmond have sold at 

 12 cents. With fine weather, receipts 

 will increase and these figures may not 

 hold. 



Carnations are coming to their own 

 again; 4 cents was the asking price and 

 good stock commanded this figure easily. 

 The variety is now complete and Long 

 Island and other districts are producing 

 grand stock. It cannot be excelled 

 Every new and valuable variety is here 

 Never were prices so reasonable when 

 ment is considered. There will be no 

 break for the balance of the year. 



There will be an abundance of chrysan- 

 themums for Christmas. Common goods 

 have ceased to arrive. All the stock now 

 arriving brings good prices, with a ris- 



ing tendency. From 4 cents to 15 cents 

 is a fair quotation. The best will be 

 higher before the week is over. 



Orchids are not overabundant and 

 prices are steady. The out-of-town de- 

 mand is growing. McManus says he al- 

 ready has booked many orders for 

 Christmas. 



Violets did not fare very well last 

 week. A few specials touched $1 for 

 the holiday. These are down to 75 

 cents now. There is no limit to the 

 supply. Quality is at top notch, but 

 they have been cheapened by sidewalk 

 abundance and relegated by society to 

 humbler service by the triumph of the 

 gardenia and orchid. 



The market sees an abundance of 

 stevia, mignonette and sweet peas. 

 Lilies and valley are abundant. 



Variota Notes. 



Holly sold fairly well for Thanks- 

 giving, but little of it arrived and good 

 berried stock was not in evidence, nor 

 will it be this season. The reports from 

 the south are far from encouraging. No 

 guarantee of first-class stock is author- 

 ized. Lack of berries is general and 

 $5 a case will be the minimum price 

 for anything worth having. Stumpp & 

 Walter Co. and other expert handlers 

 declare that never before has the out- 

 look been so discouraging for first-class 

 holly. 



Every industry in our line is up and 

 doing for the Christmas holiday. Cheer- 

 fulness again reigns; the people have 

 about decided the end of the world is still 

 a long way off. The plantsmen are 

 disposing of their products rapidly. Soon 

 they will have a central depot in the 



wholesale district, where samples of their 

 goods will be always on exhibition. 

 Bumor credits them with having secured 

 the immense ground floor of the big 

 building of the Volunteers of America, 

 on west Twenty-eighth street, close to 

 Young & Nugent 's and across the street 

 from Walter Sheridan's. Amid so many 

 good influences the venture should be a 

 great success. 



A. Herrington and W. Duckham, of 

 Madison, were in the city December 2 

 and reported a 3-inch fall of snow in 

 the country. They will attend the meet- 

 ing of the executive committee of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society at Philadelphia 

 on Friday of this week. 



Next Monday evening, December 9, 

 the New York Florists' Club will meet 

 at the new rooms, Thirty-fourth street 

 and Third avenue. There will doubtless 

 be a large attendance. No one whose 

 dues are not paid to the end of the year 

 is eligible for the annual election or 

 authorized to vote. With the exhibits 

 and music, the evening should prove a 

 memorable one. 



The Dayton Cash Register Co. contin- 

 ues its model florists' store on Broad- 

 way. The decorating is done by M. A. 

 Bowe, so the good rule of publicity is 

 working both ways. 



Mr. Stumpp and wife have returned 

 from their southern trip, after a most 

 enjoyable visit and tour through the 

 southern states and Mexico. 



B. J. Slinn, Jr., is receiving large 

 quantities of the fine single violet, Gov- 

 ernor Herrick, daily, that find a ready 

 demand at 75 cents per hundred. 



The New York Cut Flower Co. boasts 

 occasionally of its Beauties and its busi- 



