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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 16, 1908. 



liongf Distance Phone B671 



VAIGHAN & SPERRY 



60 Wabash Avenue 



CHICAGO 



Telegraph or Phone 



We Have the Stock 



EASTER PRICE LIST 



CARNATIONS 



Per 100 



Carnations / $3.00 to $4.00 



Special Fancy .5.00 



GREENS 



Asp. Plumosus $0.35 to $0.50 per string 



Asp. Plumosus Sprays. .35 to .50 per bunch 



Sprengeri 25 to .35 per bunch 



Adiantum 75 to 1.00 per 100 



Smilax, choice 1.50 per doz. 



Fancy Ferns 2.00 per 1000 



Galax Leaves 1.00 to 1.25 per 1000 



Boxwood, 50-lb. cases. 7.50 



Subject to Change 

 Without Notice 



MISCELI.ANEOUS 



Callas $12.00 to $15.00 per 100 



Easter Lilies 12.00 to 15.00 



Large supply of special fancy stock. 



Valley $3.00to $4.00 



SweetPeas. 75to 1.00 



Tulips 8.00 to 4.00 



Tulips. Murillo 4.00 to 5.00 



Von Sion 2.00 to 4.00 



Mignonette .85to .75doz. 



Violets 75 to 1.00 per 100 



Mention Tlio Review when you write. 



The single violets are practically at 

 an end, but there are enough Hudson 

 river doubles, although the quality has 

 been markedly afifected by the approach 

 of spring and their season is also nearly 

 over. 



Sweet peas still are abundant but sell 

 well. Bulbous stock goes slowly. The 

 outdoor jonquils and daffodils, if good, 

 have the call on the market but are sold 

 cheap. Outdoor bulb stock from southern 

 Illinois is now arriving and lilac has 

 been in the market for several days. That 

 which is good sells fairly well. 



The call for gijeen stock has not shown 

 any change and prices are steady. 



Tuesday saw a good increase in busi- 

 ness as compared with Monday, but 

 Thursday and Friday are the big ship- 

 ping days for Easter. 



Easter Plants. 



Easter plants are more abundant than 

 usual, but it is so late that the bulb 

 «tock is not in such heavy supply as 

 usual. Hardly any hyacinths are offer- 

 ed and not so many tulips as last year. 

 There are more lilies in pots, also roses, 

 spiraeas, azaleas and hydrangeas. 



Forty-third Street 



On Forty-third street, between Cottage 

 Grove and the lake, there are three flow- 

 er stores. .John Pehrson is near the Illi- 

 nois Central station. J. F. Kidwell & 

 Bro. are a couple of blocks farther west, 

 and Henry Klunder is in a new store at 

 the northwest corner of Drcxel boule- 

 vard and Forty-third street, Mr. Klun- 

 der has big show window facilities and 

 makes a fine display. He says he is 

 doing better there than he ever has 



done before in his life. Most of the 

 south side retailers agree that, while 

 February was a good month, March was 

 dull, but that April started off well and 

 the promise is for a first-class Easter. 



Various Notes. 



W. E. Lynch says there is a note 

 of uncertainty as to Easter requirements 

 in almost every letter from cut flower 

 buyers. He says they all want stock, 

 but are in doubt as to how much- 

 Many buyers comment on the fact 

 that the prospects for Easter are 

 just about as the prospects were for 

 Christmas a few day^ before that event; 

 and everybody's Christmas was better 

 than last year, Mr. Lynch says he 

 looks for the greatest run of late tele- 

 graph orders this market has ever known. 



A great many of the wholesalers are 

 handling flowering plants this week. The 

 E. F. Winterson Co. has fitted up a 

 large part of the basement as a whole- 

 sale plant salesroom and has a big show- 

 ing of stock. 



The George Wittbold Co. denie's a 

 rumor which has been current in the 

 market, to the effect that its North 

 Clark street store is to be closed. It 

 is stated. that the company has no such 

 intention. The report, doubtless, grew 

 out of the fact that the North Clark 

 street telephone is now operated through 

 a private wire from the Buckingham place 

 switch-board, the purpose being to re- 

 ceive and handle at the main store as 

 many of the telephone orders as possible. 



There was a quarterly meeting of the 

 Horticultural Society of Chicago, at the 

 Art Institute April 14, 



Albert Fuchs savs that he will leave 



for Europe April 29, to fence at Frank- 

 fort, He calls his apartment house, at 

 Sheridan road and Clarendon avenue. 

 The Chateau and sends acquaintances a 

 souvenir postal card showing the horti- 

 cultural embellishment of the property, 

 which he says he recommends to other 

 real estate men. 



Last Saturday found W. J. Smyth in 

 cheerful mood; it had been a good week, 

 with good prospects for Easter, and he 

 has bought a larger stock than ever 

 before. 



There was a meeting of the trustees 

 of the Florists' Club at the Union restau- 

 rant, Tuesday, April 14, to consider 

 financial matters in "which the club is in- 

 terested, 



Henry Wehrman, who is one of E, C. 

 Amling's carnation shippers, says that 

 with all the Maywood establishments the 

 stock is growing at a remarkable rate 

 and that heavy cuts of fine carnations 

 will be on for the socially active season 

 after Easter. 



The Hubert Bulb Co., of Portsmouth, 

 Va., has been shipping large quantities 

 of outdoor narcissi to this market, and 

 much of the stock has been exceptionally 

 good, 



Mrs, Beu, at the Flower Growers ' mar- 

 ket, has been offering Brunner roses for 

 several days, probably the only ones of 

 this variety in the market. They sell 

 readily and the best brought 15 cents, 

 April 13. 



C. M. Dickinson, at E, H, Hunt's, 

 states that they secured control of Anton 

 Then's crop of lilies April 11. 



Lawrence Becker's coal-sheds and boil- 

 er-house were destroyed by fire Saturday 

 night, April 11, 



