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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 12, 1908. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. 



OFFICE AND SSLESROOM, 33-35-37 RANDOLPH STREET 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Looff Distance Phone 

 Randolph 35. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR 



Fancy Carnations-^Special Roses 



LONG BEAUTIES 



If you want the Best stock the market affords, yon will order of us. Also strong on regular grades 

 of Roses, Easter Lilies, Freesias, Daffodils, Tulips, Fancy Valley, and all Qreen Qoods. 



AMERICAN BKAUTIBS 



Extra select, long 



80-lnch, select 



24-inch, select 



ao-incb, select 



15 to 18-lnch, select 



12-inch, select... 



Short stem 



ROSKS 



Maid, Bride, select — 



long 



'■ medium 



" short 



Uncle John, select 



" firsts 



" medium 



Mrs. Potter Palmer, ex. select. 



select 



firsts 



medium... 



Per doz. 



$4.00 

 3.00 

 2.50 

 2.00 

 1.50 

 1.00 

 .75 



Per 100 



$10.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 

 10.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



Ghatenay, extra select 



firsts 



medium 



Richmond, select, extra long.. 



select, long $10.00 to 



" medium 



good short 



Killamey, select, extra long... 



long 



medium S.OOto 



good short 



Sunrise, Perle, long 



Good short stem Roses, our sel. 2.00 to 



CARNATIONS 



Ex. fey Ench'tr's.red & pink. 



First quaUty 1.50 to 



Split and ordinary 



6r«M CaraatiMs ftr $t. Patrick's lay 

 White Carnations 



oIiarK«d aooordlngily. 



Per 100 

 $10.00 

 8.00 



6.00 



15.00 



12.00 



6.00 



4.00 



15.00 



12.00 



10.00 



6.00 



6.00 



8.00 



3.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 



Snapdragon, extra fancy pink, 



white and yellow 



Harrisii 



Freesia, fancy long $3.00 to 



Tulips .% 2.OOI0 



Jonquils 



DaiTodiis 2.00 to 



Valley 



Violets ijOto 



Mignonette, large spikes 4.00 to 



Adiantum 



Adiantum Oroweanum, fancy.. 



Smilax 



Sprengeri, Plumosus Sprays... 

 Plumosus Strings... each, $0.50 



Ferns per 1000, 2.00 



Galax, Qreea per 1000, 1.50 



Bronze... per 1000. 1.50 



Leucothoe 



Boxwood 35c bunch; case, 50 lbs.. 



Wild Smilax per case. 



Per 100 



$8.00 



10.00 



4.00 



3.00 



8.00 



3.00 



3.00 



.75 



6.00 



1.00 



2.00 



16.00 



4.00 



1.00 

 7.50 

 5.00 



S.OOto 



Our Extra Special Grade of Ros< _ _ 



Write or \7lre for special price on Carnations In 1000 lots and up. 



Subject to cbance without notice 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



sign * ' To let, whole or part of store. ' ' 

 It is said the rental is $12,000 a year. 

 The trend of retail trade seems up town, 

 and yet below Twenty-eighth street are 

 some of the handsomest Bower shops in 

 the world. The chain of stores idea in 

 our business does not amount apparently 

 to all its advocates expected of it. Many 

 have learned by experience the value of 

 concentration and the fact of individual- 

 ity. The permanent success of the re- 

 tail florists' business is based upon per- 

 sonality. There are some brilliant proofs 

 of it on Fifth avenue and Broadway. 

 There is no adage more appropriate than 

 "Let well enough alone." 



Richard Vincent, Jr., White Marsh, 

 Md., with his wife and part of his 

 family, sails April 4 for a European busi- 

 ness and pleasure trip. 



W. H. Donohoe has the house and 

 synagogue decoration March 22 for the 

 .Jacobson wedding, a notable affair. 

 Last week a unique bouquet for an actor 

 was made up by Mr. Donohoe, consisting 

 of asparagus, with cigars and cigarettes 

 in place of flowers. Mr. Donohoe was 

 entertaining this week the brother of 

 Harry 0. Rowe, of Chicago, who arrived 

 Saturday from Europe and who has done 

 service as a colonel in the English army 

 in South Africa. 



John King Duer will have the usual 

 yard exhibit in the rear of his store this 

 spring. It is a great convenience for 

 Easter and a perpetual delight to the 

 dwellers in the great apartment houses 

 on every side of his handsome store. 



M. A. Bowe's force is now larger than 

 at any time since he established himself 

 in the heart of the city and his artistic 

 work at the Shontz wedding is the talk 

 of the town. He numbers many million- 



aires on his list of steadies and badly 

 needs enlarged space for his growing 

 business. 



Millang Bros, seem quite settled and 

 at home in their new quarters on West 

 Twenty-eighth street, one of the hand- 

 somest wholesale cut flower stores in the 

 country. 



Ford Bros, say 20,000 carnations a 

 day is easy and they often dispose of 

 that quantity before breakfast. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons say they look for- 

 ward to their most successful spring 

 auction season this year. They say the 

 gardening fever is stronger than ever 

 and interest in the first sale, March 17, 

 more pronounced than last year. 



March 19 and 20 an exhibition of 

 flowers and plants under the auspices of 

 the Gardeners' Society of America will 

 be held at Allaires hall. Third avenue 

 and Seventeenth street. W. E. Maynard, 

 of Arlington, N. .T., is secretary. J. P. 

 Sorenson, of Stamford, Conn., is man- 

 ager. 



Fred Lautenschlager, of Chicago, ar- 

 rived in New York Monday evening and 

 was a visitor at the New York Florists' 

 Club meeting. He is on his way to Bos- 

 ton. 



A. J. Guttman spent Monday at Lyn- 

 brook, N. Y., celebrating at Charles 

 Weber's the birthday of Mrs. Weber. 

 The formation of a bowling club to 

 represent the New York Florists' Club 

 at Niagara Falls is in the hands of 

 Vice-President Marshall, and a dozen 

 bowlers will begin practice at once. 

 President Traendly made the generous 

 offer of a free trip to the convention to 

 the five members making the highest 

 average and constituting the team, pro- 

 viding that in the practice games, decid- 



ing the membership, an average of 155 

 or better be maintained. 



The first meeting of the prospective 

 orchid society, which has been simmering 

 for months, will be held at the American 

 Institute Saturday, March 14, when all 

 interested are invited cordially to attend. 

 An exhibit will be made from 3 to 7 

 p. m. Sander & Sons, of London, have 

 furnished $100 guarantee and many of 

 the leading orchidists of Europe have 

 signified their intention of joining, in 

 addition to the prominent orchid growers 

 of this country and a large number of 

 the expert private gardeners. 



Celia Murray, of Montreal, and Mrs. 

 McEwan, assistant secretary of Mount 

 Royal cemetery of that city, are in town 

 and Harry Bunyard has been doing the 

 honors. J. Austin Shaw. 



SARATCX}A SPRINGS, N. Y. 



T. J. Totten has decided not to dissem- 

 inate his grand scarlet carnation this sea- 

 son, owing chiefly to the demand for the 

 blooms, which have brought $1.50 per 

 dozen at retail through the entire season. 

 The new houses, recently built, will be 

 planted with this variety. 



Henry Schrade has a yellow seedling, 

 from Mrs. Patten and a seedling that is 

 highly promising, being very free, of 

 good form and an excellent keeper. This 

 is its second year. 



Speaking of lilies for summer flower- 

 ing, T. J. Totten says one of the hand- 

 somest beds is made of L. tenuifolium, 

 with an edging or border of pennisetum. 



Christian Dehn has closed a contract 

 with the King Construction Co. for a 

 truss house, 50x150 feet, intending this 



