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20 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Februauy 27, 1908. 





Pink Roses 



CHATENAY KILLARNEY 



MRS. MARSHALL FIELD 

 BRIDESMAID UNCLE JOHN 



OTHER ROSES XND CARNXTIONS ALSO IN LARGE SUPPLY 



BEAUTIES— Per Doz. 



Extra long: $5.00 



86-lnch steins 4;00 



80-lncIi stems 8.00 



20 to 24-tnch steins 2.50 



18-inoli steins 2.n0 



IS-lnch stems 1.50 



12-lnch stems ... 1.00 



Sbort stems $0.50 to .75 



Per 100 

 Mrs. Marshall Fleld....$10.00 to $15.00 

 No. 2. 6.00 to 8.00 



Klllamey, select 10.00 to 15.00 



No. 2 6.00 to 8.00 



Richmond, select .... 



No. 2 



Golden Gate, select 



medium — 



Perle 



Bride, select 



medium 



Maid, select 



" medium 



Sunrise, select 



short to medium 



Per 100 

 $8.00 to $10.00 



5.00 to 



6.00 to 

 6.00 to 



6.00 to 



6.00 to 



7.00 



10.00 

 8.00 



8.00 



10.00 

 8.00 



10.00 

 8.00 



8.00 

 6.00 



Per 100 



Chatenay, select $10.00 to $12.00 



No. 2 O.OOto 8.00 



Uncle John, select 10.00 



medium.... 6.00 to 8.00 



Ivory,select 10.00 



medium 6.00 to 8.00 



Carnations 2.00to S.OO 



Valley 8.00 to 4.00 



AspaiUKUS Flu., bunch. .50 to .75 



DnCCQ Our selection, short to M flfl 

 nUOLO medium stems, fresh stock, *TiUU 



Prices subject to change without notice. No charg^e lor Packingf and Delivery. 



PETER REINBERG 



1,680,000 feet of Modern Glass 



51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



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be obtained by applying to the secre- 

 tary, O. G. Koenig, 6473 Florissant ave- 

 nue. 



Adolph Friemel now has full charge 

 of the greenhouse plant of Adolph Brix, 

 on Mead avenue. Mr. Friemel is a 

 nephew of Mr. Brix and has the place 

 in fine shape. Mr. Friemel says he gets 

 much help from reading the Review. 



Charles Young, son of James Young, 

 president of C. Young & Sons Co., selected 

 Washington's birthday for his marriage 

 to Miss Katherine Courtney, one of the 

 well-known west end society girls. After 

 the ceremony the happy couple left for 

 a three weeks' trip to Florida. 



James M. North, formerly in the re- 

 tail business here, is now employed with 

 Alex Johnson, managing the retail store 

 on Easton avenue. The place is known 

 as the Wellston Florist and Nursery, and 

 they are doing a nice business. 



Charles Schoenle reports an overflow 

 of business last week. Mrs. Schoenle 

 is again at her post, after a long illness. 



The Michel Plant & Bulb Co. held an 

 auction February 19, at its place on 

 Magnolia avenue. The sale was largely 

 attended by local florists, who bought 

 heavily of ferns, palms and other deco- 

 rative plants. This company was estab- 

 lished in 1849 and is doing a large whole- 

 sale and retail business. 



The downtown florists last Aveek had 

 a violet war, all handling several thou- 

 sands each day. John Burke reports sales 

 between 5,000 and 10,000 daily. The 

 Riessen Floral Co., Alex Siegel and the 

 Foster Floral Co. also report heavy sales 

 On them. Ten cents per bunch of twen- 

 ty-five for fresh stock was asked. 



George Windier, on Delore avenue, is 



making preparations for an extra fine 

 display of bulb stock for the spring 

 flower show next month. 



C. C. Sanders, Emil Schray and Henry 

 Felter will have fine spring blooming 

 plants for the show. 



C. Young & Sons Co. are at present 

 displaying fine bulbous plants in bloom 

 in their retail store. 



George Waldbart and Mrs. M. M. 

 Avers, at Olive street and Grand ave- 

 nue, are showing extra fine blooming 

 plants for the benefit of the passers-by. 

 Their show houses along this great 

 thoroughfare are great attractions. 



The St. Louis, Belleville and Kirk- 

 wood delegation, who attended the third 

 annual meeting of the Illinois Florists' 

 Association, held at Springfield, 111., last 

 week, got back in due time and reported 

 a great time and was glad to meet the 

 local trade and so many friends from 

 Chicago. William Smith, Charles Kuehn, 

 Henry Berning and George Angermuel- 

 ler, our four wholesalers, attended and 

 sav they will not miss the next one. 

 J. J. B. 



VIOLET LEAVES DISEASED. 



1 am eending you a package of dis- 

 eased violet leaves. The trouble seems 

 to be spreading over the house. It 

 is run at 38 to 42 degrees at night, 

 and 10 to 20 degrees higher in the day. 

 The soil was a decomposed clay sod, with 

 about one-fourth rotted cow manure and 

 a dressing of bone meal. This grew 

 a crop of mums, after which the soil 

 was worked over, a dressing of rotted 

 manure added, and the violets planted. 

 They have been and are now giving a 

 large picking of blooms every day. About 



a month ago I thought the blooms w ere 

 beginning to get smaller and gave the 

 bed a light dressing of sheep manure 

 and bone meal. I noticed some of the 

 plants were aflfected before this appli- 

 cation, but more since, especially during 

 the last ten days. D. W. T. 



The leaves arrived in good condition, 

 being almost as fresh as when picked. 

 We think your first mistake and most 

 serious one was in planting your violets 

 in the old chrysanthemum soil. Even 

 the addition of some manure cannot 

 make it equal to fresh compost. Chrys- 

 anthemums are strong rooting subjects 

 and take much nourishment from the 

 soil. For a crop like violets, which are 

 to occupy the benches or beds for half 

 the year, it would have paid you to en- 

 tirely renew the soil. The j)roportions 

 of clay sod and cow manure were about 

 right, but my experience has not been 

 favorable to the use of bone for vio- 

 lets. If you used a strong dose of this, 

 herein would lie some of your trouble. 

 Your temperatures have been all right 

 and if other conditions had been correct, 

 your plants should have done well. 



It is quite common to see occa.sional 

 plants of single violets ( I presume yours 

 are Princess of Wales) show the <lisease 

 yours have, but by careful selection of 

 stock for propagation it is largely elimi- 

 nated the following season. Top-dress- 

 ing with sheep or other animal manures 

 has been found beneficial, but I have 

 known great injury to result from sur- 

 facings of bone meal. I would strongly 

 advise you to refrain from using bone 

 or other chemicals in future. 



The season is quite late now to <1(> 



