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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



January 23, 1908. 



Extra Fine 



BEAUTIES 



ROSES 



CARNATIONS 



All our own gpro'wth. Guaranteed fresh cut. Well graded and carefully packed. 

 Buy direct of the grower, you w^ill get better and fresher stock. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



Extra long.... 

 24 to 30 inches. 

 IHto 20 inches. 



15 inches 



12 inches 



Per doz. 

 $3.00 to W.OO 

 2.50 

 2.00 

 1.50 

 1.00 



Eallarney 



Per 100 



Extra long $12.00 



Good average length $8.00 to 10.00 



Medium length (>.00 



Short stems 4.00 



Richmond per lOO 



Extra long $12.00 



Good average length 10.00 



Medium length 8.00 



Short stems $4.00 to (i.OO 



Brides* Maids and Perle 



Long and select 



Good average length , 



Per 100 

 $12.00 

 10.00 



Brides, Maids and Perle Per 100 



Medium $6.00 to $8.00 



Short 4.00 



CARNATIONS 



Pink, white, good stock 



Fancy long Enchantress 



Fancy long red O. P. Bassett 



EASTER LILIES, GIGANTEUM. doz. $1.50 to $2.00 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



TULIPS, PAPER WHITES $2.00 to 



ASPARAGUS STRINGS, heavy per string 50c 



ASPARAGUS SPRAYS 2.00 to 



SPRENGERI 2.00 to 



SMILAX, extra fine per doz., $1.50 to $2.00 



ADIANTUM 



GALAX, green and bronze per 1000, $1.25 



FERNS 2.00 



BULB STOCK 



Per 100 



$3.00 

 4.00 

 6.00 



3.00 

 3.00 



3.00 

 3.00 



1.00 



On orders amountinB to $2.00 or over we make no charge for boxes. 



Bassett & Washburn 



GREENHOUSES: 



HINSDALE, ILL. 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers In Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



The oldest florist can remember no 

 such winter as this in New York and 

 vicinity. The week opens with sunshine 

 and spring temperature and the dictum 

 of Old Probabilities is milder. Only 

 eight weeks until the sun cro'feses the 

 meridian and less than twelve to Easter. 

 This year settles it. We have an ideal 

 climate in New York. One of the whole- 

 salers who knows Dixie well says we are 

 climatically in Virginia. And yet the 

 men who take chances are betting zero 

 before February. It would be the irony 

 of fate to have our coldest snap of the 

 year the week of the carnation conven- 

 tion. This will give the fellows who 

 bought fur coats and caps last year in 

 Toronto when the temperature was 20 

 degrees below zero a chance to wear 

 them. 



The cut flower market was quite steady 

 the last of the week at quoted prices, 

 with Beauties scarcer and on the up 

 grade. Some sold as high as 60 cents, a 

 few, and experts say they will not break 

 50 cents for the fancies during the pres- 

 ent week. 



Stock of all kinds was not abundant 

 Monday and prices were firm. The bright 

 weather and the high temperature will 

 bring an abundance of everything before 

 the week is over. The quality of all 

 stock arriving is now at its best. 



Carnations are abundant and wonder- 

 fully low when their splendid size and 

 perfectness are considered. Never at this 

 time of the season have prices generally 



been so below the average. It is an un- 

 fortunate state of affairs for the growers, 

 especially those whose glass area is small. 

 But there's a good time coming and the 

 law of averages will be maintained. 



Violets stay down and hug the 50-cent 

 mark persistently. This, too, for the 

 best of them. 



Orchids of many varieties help to make 

 entrancing the retail windows. In plant 

 and flower their opportunity for univer- 

 sality of influence has come. Not a 

 florist in the big city whose trade is 

 worthy of the name is without the orchid 



now. 



Various Notes. 



There will be a goodly wholesale and 

 growers' visitation at the Washington 

 convention next week. A dozen or more, 

 including the president of the S. A. F. 

 and the noted experts of this section, 

 from Flatbush, Nyack, Tarrytown, Lyn- 

 brook, Queens and Bedford, will be 

 there and if the bulk of the prizes do not 

 come to New York we will be very much 

 surprised. 



The many weddings and dinners in the 

 city keep the retailers alert and happy. 

 Grippe, too, is contributing its share of 

 influence and funeral work is said to be 

 excessive. The fine weather, however, is 

 proving a boon to the merchants du pave 

 and these now necessary addenda to the 

 cut flower history of all large cities man- 

 age to clean up the market daily. 



One of the signs of an early spring is 

 the foreign bulb contingent here and ar- 

 riving on every steamer. 



B. Buys' son, W. J., of the Royal 

 Moerheim Nurseries, Holland, was one of 

 last week's callers. 



If prices of nursery stock at wholesale 

 in this country are an indication of de- 

 mand, then word from Rochester of the 

 spring rates confirms it. When apples 

 go to 12 cents and pears to 30 cents and 

 can be held there, with the call louder 

 than the supply, the activity of the com- 

 ing spring to Bobbink & Atkins, Hiram 

 Jones, J. T. Lovett, the Elizabeth Nur- 

 sery Co. and the many other growers 

 of nursery stock can be better imagined 

 than described. 



Saturday, February 29, only happens 

 once or twice in a life time. The New 

 York Club will celebrate on that even- 

 ing 'with its annual dinner and, with its 

 efficient managing committees, the club 

 may expect the greatest celebration in 

 its history. An attendance of over 100 

 is a conservative estimate. In fact, no 

 one with a spark of loyalty to the club 's 

 prosperity can afford to miss it, and 

 they won't. Send Chairman Sheridan 

 your acceptance now. 



Leonard Barrow lectured this week 

 Wednesday, at 3:30 p. m., at the Ameri- 

 can Institute. His subject was "Every- 

 body's Flower Garden," The lecture 

 was illustrated by stereopticon slides 

 from photographs and * * harmonious color 

 effect" was the theme. 



The floral manager at the Knicker- 

 bocker is arranging for a great Tam- 

 many dinner at an early date, with many 

 unique decorative effects, the piece de' 

 resistance being a floral tiger seven feet 

 in length, the frame for which is being 

 made by Reed & Kellar, whose last unique 

 manufacture was the sedan chair used at 

 the Vanderbilt dinner. 



On January 27 come the elaborate 

 wedding decorations for Miss Gladys 

 Vanderbilt and Count "Sneeze it," of 



