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Febrcahv 27, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



21 



Mardi Gras 



All you Southern Florists will want a 

 big lot of stock next week — and We 

 can supply everything you need, of 

 finest quality and at prices that will let 

 you make a good profit. You get the 

 orders and we will supply the stock. 



VAIGHAN & SPERRY 



58-60 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO 



L.ONG DISTANCE PHONE CENTRAL. 2571 



CURRENT PRICES 



AMKKIOANBlfiAUTX Per doz 



Stem836inche8 S-^OO 



Stems 24 to 30 inches 4.00 



Stems 20-inches .^50 



Stems ir. inches fOO 



Stems 12 inches ■■■■^- 1-50 



Shorts per 100, $4.00 to $8.00 



K08E8 Per 100 



Bridesmaid $4.00to $10.00 



Bride 4.00to 10.00 



Chatenay 4.00 to 10.00 



Killarney 4.00 to 12.00 



Richmond .•■ 4^ to 10^ 



BOSKS, our selection ft.OOper 100 



Per 100 



CARNATIONS, common $1.50 to $ 2.00 



select 3.00 



VIOL.ET8 50to .75 



Valley, select 3.00to 4.00 



Callas 1^00 



Harrisii 1500 



Mignonette 4.00to 6.00 



Sweet Peas 75 to 1.00 



PaperWhites _^ 3.00 



Jonquils 3.00to 4.00 



Daffodils S.OOto 4.00 



Tulips 3.00to 5.00 



Freesias 3.00 



Asparagus Plumosus.. per stnng .35 to ..50 

 ..per bunch .35 to .^5 



Sprengeri per 100 2.00 to 6.00 



Adiantum " ,1-00 



Smilax per doz. $1.50; " 10.00 



Ferns .per 1000, 2.00; " .2o 



Leucothoe Sprays,' 6.,50; " .vo 



Galax, green and bronze, per 1000 1.00 



Boxwood, bunch, 35c; case of 50 lbs., 7.50 



Subject to change -wlthoat notice 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Cut Formosa Lilies 



Choice flowers with long stems, $12.00 per 100. Now ready. We have 

 5000 pots just coming into bloom. Our Roses^ Carnations and 



other stock are all being cut in large quantities, with prices away down. 



BUY DIRECT FROM THE GROWERS 



Bassett & Washburn 



GREENHOUSES: 



HINSDAUC, nX. 



Wholesale Growers ai^d Dealers In Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



much towards benefiting your crop, but 

 by careful selection of cuttings, late 

 planting and not using compost largely 

 impoverished by other crops, T see no 

 good reason why you should have any 

 trouble another year. If your plants 

 are generally sickly, it will pay to get 

 clean stock from another source. 



C. W. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



Ewald Suder<- 



Despondent over ill , health, Ewald 

 Suder, son of Mrs. Henrietta Suder, a 

 well-known florist at Toledo, O., com- 

 mitted suicide February 24 by sending a 

 bullet through his brain while waiting 

 for his supper in the dining-room of 

 his mother's home. Mr. Suder was 37 

 years old and single. He was popular 

 fb "* town and was particularly well 

 liked among the florists of the city. 

 J* or a number of years he had been in 

 ^harge of his mother's greenhouses. Dur- 

 ing the last few weeks he has been in 



failing health, and February 22 was 

 forced to give up his work. He is sur- 

 vived by his mother, a brother and 

 sister. 



John Freeman. 



John Freeman, of Aurora, 111., died 

 February 19, after a brief illness, and 

 was buried February 21, the funeral 

 being largely attended. The Xorden 

 Soner, of which he was a prominent 

 member, attended in a body. The <le- 

 ceased was a prominent member of the 

 Swedish Lutheran church and was loved 

 and respected by all of the members. 

 Interment was in West Aurora ceme- 

 tery. 



There were two Freeman brothers, each 

 in the florists' business for himself at 

 Aurora, Peter on Spruce street, and John 

 on North Lake street. Each did a good 

 business and had been established many 

 years. 



Miss Ross G>lberg. 



Miss Ross Colberg, daughter of X. P. 

 Colberg, of Morris, 111., died February 



14. While seated at the breakfast table 

 she sank back unconscious and, though a 

 physician was immediately sunmioned, 

 she wa.s dead before he arrived. She 

 was 35 years of age and had been an 

 invalid all her life. She was born at 

 Princeton, 111. 



ADIANTUM SCUTUM ROSEUM. 



The cultivation of Adiantum cuneatum 

 is, in many greenhouse establishments in 

 Englaufl, says the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 giving place to A. scutum, roseum. In 

 the autumn, A. scutum con.;>s in usefully, 

 if the fronds have not been produced 

 under too much shade, and so are not 

 soft and liable to decay. The plants will 

 then for a time, at any rate, take no 

 harm if placed under the benches, and 

 they will grow healthy and strong in 

 a warmth of 60 degrees to 65 degrees. 

 Plants will thus be provided for the 

 Christmas season, such as no other 

 adiantum can equal. Another good 

 quality of the plant is its rapid growth, 

 which is unapproached by any other 



