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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



JANUABZ 16, 1008. 



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E. F. WINTERSON CO 



Wholesale Commission Florists 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave , CHICAGO 



HEADQUARTERS FOR FANCY 



CATTLEYAS 



50c each 



CAniEYAS 



50c each 



ORCHIDS 



GARDENIAS, $3.00 per doz. CYPS, $2.00 per doz. 



CAN FURNISH ON SHORT NOTICE, FRESH, Ellf? 



THOUSAND 



Write, Wire or Phone (L. D. Central 60O4 Chicago) and we will 

 take the best possible care of your orders. Hurry-up orders are our specialty. 



CONSIGNMENTS OF SELECT FLOWERS and GREENS SOLICITED 



Mention The Review when you write. 



a telegram was sent. Another good 

 order telegraphed direct from Detroit 

 to Morton Grove, sent Sunday morning, 

 was not received until nearly noon on 

 Mondav, with the order from the store. 



Will Graff, of Columbus, Ohio, was in 

 town Tuesday and Wednesday of this 

 week. He says he suffered a 'severe case 

 of primula poisoning through handling 

 the plants at Christmas and was laid wp 

 nearly two weeks. 



Bassett & Wasliburn say they can see 

 the approach of the end of the present 

 heavy crop of long Beauties, but they 

 still are cutting 300 a day and the qual- 

 ity is fine. Mr. Washburn says they 

 have done better with Beauties this sea- 

 son than ever in the history of the firm. 



E. K. Pieser, of Kennicott's, has been 

 suflFering with the grippe, but has been 

 able to be about each day. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. has been re 

 ceiving large consignments of fine Cat- 

 tleya Triana* from the east and also 

 gardenias and Adiantum Croweanum. 



The supply houses are completing 

 their inventories and are well pleased 

 with the results shown for 1907. There 

 has been' little doing in the supply busi- 

 ness since Christmas, but the prospects 

 are thought to be good for spring. 



H. Bayersdorfer and Mrs. Bayersdorf- 

 er, of Philadelphia, after spending a 

 week in this city, started January 13, 

 planning to continue their trip to the 

 Pacific coast. 



The entire family of W. W. Fuller, 

 the Ravenswood retailer, has been on 

 the sick list. 



It is reported that .Tensen & Dekema 

 will next season participate in the dis- 

 tribution of W. N. Ruild's white seed- 



ling carnation. Mr. Jensen says the 

 sales on Defiance have been large since 

 the first of the year and the wide dis- 

 tribution of the variety is assured. 



Leonard Kill says that Peter Rein- 

 berg has taken advantage of the low 

 price of glass to buy for the erection 

 of another range of carnation houses in 

 the spring. These houses will go up 

 beside the range erected last season, on 

 what the Reinbergs call the farm. 



.John P. Risch, of Weiland & Risch, 

 points to his bandaged fingers as a sure 

 sign of the approach of spring. With 

 the turn of the year he always has 

 trouble from the festers caused by rose- 

 thorns beneath the skin. 



L. Baumann & Co. say that whatever 

 may be the difficulties of a manufac- 

 turer, an importer also has his own 

 troubles. For instance, when the S. S. 

 Mt; Royal sailed from Antwerp in De- 

 cember it carried large consignments of 

 metal designs, moss wreaths and other 

 supplies for Baumann & Co. After be- 

 ing out thirty-one days the Mt. Royal 

 was brought into Queenstown with dis- 

 abled boilers. And Baumann & Co. need 

 the goods. 



Charles Wiffin, of Des Plaines, is on 

 deck at the Flower Cirowers' market 

 after a month's illness with rheumatism. 

 Mrs. Wiffin still is suflFering from a 

 long attack of erysipelas. 



Mrs. E. H. Hunt has been ill with 

 the grippe for several days at the home 

 of her son, C. M. Dickinson, at Park 

 Ridge. She has recovered sufficiently 

 to leave .January 13 for a visit with rel- 

 atives in Ohio. 



Leaves of the English ivy are being 

 handled by E. H. Hunt in considerable 



quantity. Funeral work made of them 

 presents a pleasing variation from the 

 ever-present galax and boxwood. 



The A. L. Randall Co. reports that 

 Eniil Buettner will have his first crop 

 of white lilac ready for market by the 

 first part of next week. 



C. W. McKellar has cyclamen plants 

 as one of his regular items of stock. 



Last season the handling of New York 

 violets was largely concentrated in two 

 or three houses, but this year every 

 wholesaler has them in quantity. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that while the 

 price of violets is lower than last year, 

 they are sending to Rhinebeck much 

 more money than last season, because the 

 shipments are so much heavier. 



Some weeks ago it was reported in 

 the Review that the Batons' "ship had 

 come in." News of the event has just 

 reached the daily papers, some of which 

 are making big stories of the receipt of 

 a sum, said to be $100,000, from the 

 estate of .Tohn A. Creighton, of Omaha. 



There will be a good delegation from 

 Chicago and vicinity at the carnation 

 convention at Washington, D. C, Janu- 

 ary 28 to 30. Among those who have 

 declared their intention of going are 

 .LE. .Tensen, W. N. Rudd, Peter Olsem. 

 A. T. Pyfer, F. Lautenschlager and A. 

 F. Longren. August Poehlmann doubt- 

 less will be of the party. 



George C. Hartung, formerly in busi 

 ness on the north side, will open a storr 

 and greenhouses, .January 22, at llSlfi 

 Michigan avenue, Kensington. His new 

 establishment will be known as the Rose 

 land Greenhouses. 



W. Duckham, of Madison, N. .!•. 

 former president of the Chrysanthemun) 



