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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JaKuabt 16, 1908. 



White Lilac and La Reine Tulips 



READY JANUARY 20 



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For Valentine's Day 



We have a large stock of Heart-shaped Cardboard Boxes and Heart-shaped Birch Bark Boxes and 

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week 75 cents per hundred has been 

 about the limit, if any quantity was 

 bought, and from that prices ran down 

 to where they vanished in the waste-bar- 

 rel. Violets never have been so low 

 in January and it is natural to suppose 

 that receipts will continue to increase 

 as spring approaches. Save for the 

 spurt which comes at St. Valentine's 

 day, and the other at Easter, there is 

 little prospect for any better price for 

 violets. The retailers can count with 

 reasonable certainty on at least one cheap 

 flower for the rest of this season, and 

 already many are making funeral work 

 of violets as affording better profit than 

 when made of other flowers. 



Bulbous stock is abundant and slow 

 sale. Mignonette is almost immovable, 

 except in the fancy grades. Stevia is 

 about at an end, although one or two 

 houses still are receiving fine stock. 



Green goods are plentiful, smilax es- 

 pecially so, although there is a big sup- 

 ply of long strings of asparagus. It 

 is noted that thq sale for boxwood, galax 

 and leucothoe is greater than usual, the 

 retailers making up more funeral work 

 with this material than in other seasons 

 — and funeral work is the reliance of 

 most of them just now. 



Horticultural Society. 



The annual meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Chicago, for the election 

 of oflScers and the transaction of other 

 business, was held in the trustees' room 

 of the Art Institute January 14. The 

 officers elected are as follows: President, 

 W. E. Kelley ; first vice-president, W. N. 

 Rudd; second vice-president, Ernst Wien- 

 hocbcr; third vice-president, N. H. Car- 



penter; secretary, Edwin A. Kanst; as- 

 sistant secretary, J. H. Burdett; treas- 

 urer, E. Wienhoeber; members executi»3 

 committee, E. A. Kanst, George Asmus 

 and Leonard Kill to succeed themselves, 

 J. H. Burdett to succeed P. J. Haus- 



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 ^(rhich is the means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to 



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Such {rieodly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florists' use 

 not at present advertised. 



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wirth. The members of the executive 

 committee who hold over are J. C. 

 Vaughan, J. B. Deamud, August Poehl- 

 mann and W. N. Rudd. 



The treasurer reported a balance on 

 hand of $5,227.66. The society will not 



give its annual autumn exhibition in 

 1908, but will cast its influence with the 

 Society of American Florists to make 

 the national flower show a success. 



W, E. Kelley, the new president, is 

 not known to many of the trade. He is 

 the head of W. E. Kelley & Co., dealers 

 in lumber, with offices in the Railway 

 Exchange building. His residence is 

 2129 Calumet avenue. 



Qub Meeting. 



H. N. Bruns made a fine finish as 

 president of the Chicago Florists' Club, 

 seven new members being elected at the 

 meeting .January 9, at which his succes- 

 sor was elected. They are: F. R. Weiss- 

 gerber, Geo. A. Kuhl, Geo. R. Schumann, 

 A. F. Longren, W. J. Kimmel, Thomas 

 McAllister and R. S. "Woodward. 



The new officers elected, and installed 

 with appropriate ceremony, are: Presi- 

 dent, Leonard Kill; vice-president, 

 George Asmus; treasurer, E. F. Winter- 

 son ; recording secretary, Tim Waters ; 

 financial secretary, J. E. .Jensen ; trustees, 

 F. F. Benthey, .1. F. Klimmer. August 

 Poehlmann, C. H. Fisk, H. N. Bruns. 



Charles Knopf, of the B., K. & B. 

 Floral Co., Richmond, Ind., was present 

 with a magnificent vase of Sarah Hill, 

 the new white seedling carnation his 

 firm is disseminating this season. It 

 is of great size, of fine form and carried 

 on long, strong stems. The members 

 generally thought it the finest white car- 

 nation they had ever seen. The judges, 

 F. F. Benthey, August Poehlmann and 

 George Asmus, awarded it the club's 

 certificate. Mr. Knopf also exhibited 

 Lawson-Enchantress, a seedling with the 

 habit of the latter and color of the 



