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The Weekly Florists Review* 



Afbil 2, 1008. 



CUT FLOWERS 



ALL, STOCK FIRST-CLASS AND IN LARGE SUPPLY. TOUR ORDKR SOLICITED. 



BEAUTIES— Per Doz. 



Extra Ions ,..$4.00 



80-lnoli steins >.00 



SO-tnob stems S.50 



20to24-lncli steins 2.00 



IS'lncb steins 1.50 



15-lnob steins 1.25 



12-lncli steins 1.00 



Sliort stems $0.50 to .75 



Per 100 



Per 100 



Cliatenay $4.00 to $8.00 



UncleJohn 4.00to 



Ivory 4.00 to 



Carnations l.SOto 



Valley S.OOto 



ABJMtfaSUS Flu., bunch ... .50 to 



ROSES 



Our eelection, sbort to 

 medium stems, fresh stock, 



8.00 

 8.00 

 2.50 

 4.00 

 .75 



4.00 



No charg^e for Packing and Delivery. 



ROOTED GUniNOS CARNATIONS Well rooted. Ready for shipment 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Per 100 Per 1000 

 ,00 



PINK \ ^^'^^ ^^^^ $12.50 ^HITE \ ^^^' Lawwn,$2.00 $15.00 ^^j^^ j EobU Craie $2.50 $20.i 



( Enchantress .... 2.00 15.00 | | | ^ 



AMERICAN BEAUTY, Bench Plants, ready now, $10.00 per 100 ; $75.00 per 1000. 



PETER REINBERG 



1,690,000 feet of Modem Glasa 



51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



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thousand. One thing yom may depend 

 upon: Easter will be far better than the 

 pessimists prophesy. There will be a 

 complete clean-up of everything good 

 at fair prices, but the pickler will get 

 no returns whatever, if he has not yet 

 learned his lesson and continues to send 

 old stuff tj> the wholesaler, as usual. 



Plenty of gardenias are here yet, and 

 there will be. The stock of Thomas 

 Young, Jr., is as fine as comes to the 

 city. His wholesale distribution of it 

 is large and his own windows, at 500 

 Fifth avenue, utilize it in abundance, 

 with orchids and azaleas, for daily art- 

 istic decoration. McManus says a dozen 

 or more varieties of orchids are coming 

 in daily, with the tendency of prices 

 recessional. 



Carnations continue coming in bat- 

 talions, and prices will not advance much 

 before Easter. The best of them ought 

 to touch 5 or 6 cents, the experts say, 

 and Maids should rise to 10 cents and 

 Beauties to at least 35 cents for the 

 holiday. Good Beauties could be had 

 on Saturday at $15 a hundred. Even 

 in small quantities nothing went above 

 20 cents. 



I note in the records of 1907 and 1906 

 almost similar conditions — dullness and 

 low prices before Easter, and yet Easter 

 itself maintained its reputation. So it 

 will this year. The outlook is surely 

 brighter than at any time since Christ- 

 mas. The banks and trust companies 

 are reopening, the value of securities is 

 rising, the country, and especially this 

 city, is awakening to the fact that the 

 American field in every line of industry 

 is boundless and that this great country 

 has only begun to live. 



Various Notes. 



F. H. Traendly and John Young are 

 back from the west with enthusiastic 

 tales of the executive conference at the 

 Falls and the elaborate plans for the 

 greatest convention ever. They are es- 

 pecially eloquent as to the courtesy and 

 entertainment of their Chicago hosts, 

 and the beauty and success of the rose 

 convention. 



The auction sales are drawing. Am- 

 brose Cleary was enthused by the crowd 

 of buyers last week and prices realized 

 are satisfactory. The display of nur- 

 sery stock of every kind is already 

 abundant. "William Elliott, on Fulton 

 street, is in fine voice and quite satis- 

 fied with the start of the spring race, 

 patrons and prices proving pleasing. 

 Boses, rhododendrons and shrubs in great 

 variety appeal not only to the fiorist 

 seeking bargains, but to the multitu- 

 dinous suburbanite, who has discovered 

 this source of supply, much to the dis- 

 gust of the local florists in the adjoin- 

 ing towns. April 1 the Fruit Auction Co. 

 began its regular daily sales of plants 

 at auction, an innovation in the dis- 

 tributing of florists' goods that, if a 

 success, opens up a field that may mean 

 much for floriculture in and around New 

 York. John P. Cleary is the salesman. 



William C. Krick has been on the 

 sick list for several weeks. 



The ribbon industry goes right on and 

 upward, despite local depression in the 

 luxury trades. Bibbons have become a 

 necessity to the florist. Wertheimer 

 Bros, already find their new store too 

 small for their growing trade. They 

 are busy nights now, shipping Easter 

 orders. Sidney Wertheimer is back from 



a successful western trip. He says no 

 one talks depression outside of New 

 York. 



Schloss Bros, are now comfortably 

 settled in their new store at 542 Broad- 

 way, with plenty of room for the large 

 and varied lines they always carry. Here, 

 too, night work indicates the big East- 

 er demand. Emil Schloss entertained 

 the stork last month. 



Monday, April 13, at the first meeting 

 of the New York Florists' Club in the 

 old headquarters at the Grand Opera 

 House building, Eighth avenue and Twen- 

 ty-eighth street, every member is re- 

 quested to make a special effort to be on 

 hand. There will be many interesting 

 features. Will Bickards has some origi- 

 nal surprises brewing in his department, 

 and the following exhibits will add great- 

 ly to the joy of the home-coming: New- 

 port Fairy, by the Julius Roehrs Co., 

 Rutherford, N. J.; Rhea Reid, from E. 

 Q. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind.; Wynd- 

 moor, from Myers & Samtman, Philadel- 

 phia; My Maryland, from John Cook, 

 Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Potter Palmer, 

 from Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago ; Mrs. 

 Jardine, from W. P. Craig, Philadelphia; 

 Carnation Lloyd, from A. Jahn, New 

 Bedford, Mass. There will be other 

 exhibits from local growers and alto- 

 gether a splendid spring show will be 

 staged. 



A visit to S. Jacobs & Sons' last week 

 found the quartette head over heels in 

 work, and cheerful as to the outlook 

 from the practical standpoint of booked 

 contracts that speak with no uncertain 

 sound of Long Island greenhouse enter- 

 prise. 



The old menace of cheap Bermuda 

 lilies for Easter is again featured in 



