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The WeeUy Florists' Review; 



Ap&il 16, 1008. 



L f . WINTERSON CO. 



EASTER CUT FLOWER PRICE LIST 



■A8TKR UJ,TEa $10.00 to $12.50 pw 100 



We have them in quantity, but advise early orders. 



AMERICAN BKAUTIKS Per doz. 



Extra select 95.00 



24to30-inch S3.50to 4.00 



18to20-inch 3.00to 3.50 .' 



16-Inch 2.00 



12-lnch 1.50 



Per 100 



Chntoiwy $5.00 to IIO.OO 



BrtdA, BrUI«ailuad 5.00 to 10.00 



Ctoldan Gttt*, Ivory 5.00to 10.00 



UbortTt Rlclunond 6.00 to 12.00 . 



Vloleta, double 76 to LOO 



** single 75to 1.00 



Panslea 1.50 



Oamattona S.OOto 4.00 



^* fancy 4.00to 5.00 



" splits 2.00 



Daffodils, Jonquils S.ooto 4.00 



8we«tPe*s .76to 1.00 



lUsnonett* 4.00to 8.00 



Tuli^ 2.00to 3.00 



•• fancy 4.00to 6.fX) 



UlT of tllO Vall*T 2.00to 4.00 



Oall»s per doz., 11.25 to il.50 



Adlantuxti 76 to 1.00 



Asparacus Plumosus, strings each, 35c to 50c 



** ** sprays, per bunch, 35c to $1.00 



Asparagus Sitrencerl 3.00 to 6.00 



Bmllax per doz., $2.00 to $2.60 



Vancy Ferns, Select per 1000, 1.50 to 2.00 .25 



Galax, Green and Bronze per 1000, 1.00 .15 



Boz^v^ood per bunch, 25c to 35c 



Leaootboe Sprays per case, 1000, $6.50 .75 



Wild SmlUfcT SO-pound case, 6.00 



Prieea 8«bject to Chaage Witkoat Notice. 



454749 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



CALL 



For Easter 



Large Supplies of All 

 Cut Flowers 



We have a fine lot of blooming plants to offer. 

 See last week's issue of Review for prices. Send us 

 your hurry up orders by wire, phone or mail. We 

 will make immediate shipment. 



.Mention The Review when you write. 



NEW YORK. 



ThcMacfcet 



There is still a little ' ' lingering in the 

 ' lap" on the part of winter. It waa a 

 chilly week and the cut flower market was 

 at its lowest ebb, but on Saturday, April 

 11, the tide turned and by the time this 

 issue reaches its readers it will be at the 

 flood. As the week opens, the prospects 

 for a successful Easter are most encour- 

 aging. Nurserymen are simply over- 

 whelmed with orders. Catalogue trade is 

 far ahead of expectations and perfect 

 weather only is needed to insure a record 

 business for the next few days. 



In the wholesale market no one can 

 more than predict, a week ahead, what 

 , will be the prices of roses, carnations, 

 violets, etc. There will be great abun- 

 dance of everything and all flowers are 

 at their best. There will be no demand 

 for pickled stock and no excuse for it. 



The lilies for Easter, the good ones, 

 all sold at 12 cents. There are none too 

 many of this class. The short-stemmed 

 ones and the second grade went at 10 

 cents and the cut ones for the depart- 

 ment stores held firm at 8 cents. These 

 big stores in both cities, after all, have 

 been the great educators of the people 

 and have made flower buyers of the mul- 

 titude, with their reasonable prices and 

 enormous sales. Without them and the 

 foreign street merchants,' where would 

 the wholesale market and the growers 

 be? Now the auctions are doing the 

 same for the nursery business and soon 

 through the daily auction of bedding and 

 flowering plants by the Fruit Auction 

 Co., on Franklin street, a revolution in 

 the growing business will be accom- 

 plished. Every fruit store will have 

 plants for sale. Every street will have 

 its daily plant distributor, or peddler, 



and so the educative process will go on 

 amid this constantly increasing popula- 

 tion and better times for every depart- 

 ment of floriculture will be assured. 

 Every Tuesday and Friday at Cleary's 

 and Elliott's the big stores are crowded 

 \vith purchasing suburbanites. As one 

 of the big nurserymen at Rutherford ex- 

 pressed it, "The people are crazy for 

 nursery products." Many a time have 

 I written that business here is only in 

 its swaddling clothes. There is no limit 

 to its possibilities. Now we will see 

 what Easter itself has to say about it. 



Qtib Meeting* 



April 13 the Florists' Club returned 

 to the old rooms in the Grand Opera 

 House building and the meeting was a 

 hummer. Nearly eighty were present 

 and all were delighted. 



The exhibits were Jahn's Crimson and 

 Lloyd (white) carnations, which arrived 

 in unsatisfactory condition for judgment 

 and received a vote of thanks. A vase 

 of Mrs. Jardine from Robert Scott & 

 Son, already judged, received the club's 

 thanks. From John Cook, of Baltimore, 

 a dark pink rose, No. 1267, received 85 

 points, and My Maryland 83 points, and 

 the thanks of the club. A plant of New- 

 port Fairy, from Julius Roehrs Co., re- 

 ceived a certificate of merit. Cherokee 

 rose and a new hardy pink, unnamed, by 

 W. A. Manda, of South Orange, earned a 

 hearty vote of thanks. By Anton Schul- 

 theis a new rose, single, cerise, sport of 

 Crimson Rambler, discovered by Charles 

 Lenker, of Freeport, who is jointly in- 

 terested with Mr. Schultheis in its dis- 

 semination, received a preliminary cer- 

 tificate. A vase of Richmond grown by 

 Robert Schultz, of Madison, was shown 

 in grand condition and earned a vote of 

 thanks. 



W. F. Sheridan, reporting for the 



house committee, gave credit to Mr. 

 Young, the secretary, for the change of 

 location to the new rooms. The other 

 members of the committee, Messrs. 

 Traendly and Allen, participated in the 

 vote of thanks awarded. The outing 

 and transportation committees reported 

 progress. The resolutions committee sug- 

 gested a letter of appreciation to the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture for its 

 efforts in behalf of floriculture and for 

 the lecture on soils by Prof. Corbett at 

 the club's last meeting. This was unan- 

 imously approved. Mr. Marshall gave 

 an interesting report concerning the bowl- 

 ing club and at a special meeting held 

 later m the evening it was decided to 

 make the change of alleys to the famous 

 Thum rooms on Broadway and Thirty- 

 first street. 



Myers & Samtman reported Wyndmoor 

 rose off crop, which accounts for no ex- 

 hibit of it as intended. 



Will Rickards, chairman of the house 

 committee, spoke in behalf of a ladies' 

 night and it was decided that the whole 

 evening of Wednesday, May 27, be de- 

 voted to their entertainment. 



Messrs. Schreiner and Cathcart were 

 elected to membership and Messrs. 

 Lentz, of New York; Badgley, of Cha- 

 tham; S. H. Smith, Charles M. Lynn and 

 Anton Schultheis, Jr., were nominated. 

 The resignation of Peter De Voy, of 

 Poughkeepsie, and Peter Fisher, of Bos- 

 ton, were accepted with much regret. 



Harry May announced the death of 

 Miss Dean, daughter of James Dean, of 

 Freeport, L. I., and a committee to draw 

 up resolutions, with Mr. May as chair- 

 man, was appointed by the chair. 



Mr. Weathered spoke of the announce- 

 ments in the daily papers of the big ship- 

 ments of lilies from Bermuda and the 

 low prices these indicated and appointed 



