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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Deckmbeu 2G, 1007. 



New Years Prices are Down! 



We have a fine crop of KILLARNEY 

 and other flowers coming in just right* 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



Extra long 



24 toSOiDches. 

 18 to 20 inches.. 



16 Inches 



12 Inches 



Per doz. 



$8 00 to $10.00 



4.00 to f-.OO 



3.00 



2.00 



1.60 



KlUarney 



Per 100 



Extra long $20.00 



Good average length $12.00to 15.00 



Medium length S.OOto 10.00 



Short stems 6.00to 6.00 



Richmond per loo 



Extra long ' 126.00 



Good average length 20.00 



Medium length |12.00to 16.00 



Short stems 8.00 to 10.00 



Bridea, Maids and Perle per loo 



Long and select $12.00 to $15.00 



Good average length 10.00 



Brides, Maids and Perle per loo 



Medium $8.00 



Short $4.00 to 5.00 



Mixed Roses 

 Pink »nd Wlilt*, abort atama 



CARNATIONS 



Per 100 

 $4.00 



Pink, white, good stock 



Fancy long red and Enchantress $8.00 to 



■▲8TKRLXLIB8. OiaANTB01f...perdoz.,$>.00 



LILT or TaS VALLST 



A8PARAOD8 STaiHGd, heavy. ..per string, 50o 



▲SPARAGUS 8PBAT8 ^. 2.00 to 



8PRKMQBBI 1.50 to 



BMILAZ. extra fine per doz., $1.50 



AOIAMTUM 



GALAX, bronze per 1000. $1.50 



GALAX, green 1.25 



PXBMS 150 



Per 100 

 $ 6.00 

 10.00 



4.00 



3.00 

 2.00 



1.00 



On ordara amonntinff to 98.00 or ovar w maka no charira for boxaa. 



Bassett & Washburn 



ORKKHHODSKS: 



HIKSDAUE, ILL. 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



to Ottawa, Canada, December 21. With 

 twenty-five per cent duty added to the 

 Chicago market price, it gives an idea of 

 what Canadians think of Chicago roses. 

 Cardinal brought $6 a dozen. 



The K. F. Winterson Co. had large re- 

 ceipts of white and pink chysanthemums 

 for Christmas. Quality being fair, good 

 prices were realized. 



Zech & Mann report receiving a Christ- 

 mas present December 21 in the shape of 

 a new rose grower, who began shipping 

 that day without the formality of pre- 

 vious arrangement. 



Cliflford Pruner, who has been o« the 

 sick list since the flowor show, was able 

 to take part in the holiday rush at 

 Hunt's. He will go on the road again 

 early in the new year. 



W. H. Hilton acknowledges that his 

 affection is for horses rather thau for 

 flowers and will sell his flower stjre if 

 he can. 



Harry Rowe had the writing-room at 

 the Palmer house as an annex for the 

 Christmas business, the same as he had 

 it Easter. 



Frederick Sperry, of Vaughan & Sper- 

 ry, says he looks for a steady improve- 

 ment in business after January 1, re- 

 ferring particularly to general trade and 

 its natural effect upon the cut flower 

 market. 



The Fleischman store on Jackson bou- 

 levard is said to use more violets than 

 any other store at Christmas and Easter. 

 For December 24 they ordered 45,000, di- 

 viding the business between several 

 houses. 



One of the visitors last week was V. C. 

 Bice, of Rice Bros., Minneapolis. 



E. C. .\mling had the first Trumpet 



Major narcissi seen in this jnarket. They 

 arrived December 20. 



£. B. Washburn is at home from Madi- 

 son, and helping out at Bassett & Wash- 

 burn's during the holiday rush. 



Weiland & Risch say they missed their 

 heaviest crop of Killarney for Christ- 

 mas, but will have it for New Year's. 



The A. L. Randall Co. reports excel- 

 lent satisfaction with the Christmas busi- 

 ness in supplies. Sales exceeded expecta- 

 tions and all Christmas specialties were 

 cleared out except a few paper bells and 

 some immortelle wreaths. 



Philip Schupp, at J. A. Budloug's, 

 says the Christmas business was in every 

 way satisfactory except that some special 

 lines of stock did not ecjual require- 

 ments. 



Joseph Foer'ster has completely 

 changed his notion about Killarney. T^ast 

 year he thought little of it, but this 

 season it was the best thing George Rein- 

 berg had at Christmas. The Benthey- 

 Coatsworth Co., too, says Killarney was 

 the loading item this week. 



J. J. Kruchten is figuring on a large 

 crop of carnations from his father's 

 greenhouses during January. 



Wietor Bros, say that the chrysanthe- 

 mum season, which practically ended with 

 Thanksgiving, while not as good' as last 

 year, was still entirely satisfactory. Their 

 Christmas business was helped out by a 

 big cut of fancy carnations. 



C. W. McKellar is handling cyclamen 

 plants again this season and says they 

 sell well. 



The committee of the Florists' Club 

 appointed to handle the rose meeting 

 had a session December 21 and delegated 

 the various parts of the work of 



preparation to the se\eral members of 

 the committee. George Asmus was dele- 

 gated to hunt for a hall. 



Dodd's Floral Co., not incorporated, 

 opened a flower store at 1047 East Sixty- 

 first street early this month. 



P. J. Demas, proprietor of the Pitts- 

 burg Florists' Exchange, was in the city 

 December 21 and 22 looking for stock. 



Holly has sold for $7 per ei^ate and 

 upward. Green was abundant and the 

 market closed at the lowest. 



Alonzo Wygant, general superintend- 

 ent for the United States Express Co;, 

 and well known to wholesale florists, died 

 December 23. The funeral December 26 

 will be a big one and call for many flow- 

 ers, for Mr. Wygant was widely con- 

 nected in the business world and a mem- 

 ber of many clubs and lodges. He was 

 71 years of age.* 



Lily of the valley has been slow sale 

 for several weeks. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



Last week business was rather quiet. 

 As usual, just before Christmas there was 

 little society work going on; a few small 

 weddings and dinners and a good deal of 

 funeral work is about all that can be re- 

 ported for the week. Some of the large 

 establishments report a great many ad- 

 vance orders and plant sales have been 

 quite satisfactory. Baskets filled with 

 plants are being more generally offered 

 than last year. 



The cut flower market is a hard propo- 

 sition to solve at the present writing 



