May 7, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



J7 



Above cut is 1-16 actual size. Flowers are pure waxy 

 white, with delightful fragrance, even after ship- 

 pinc The foiiasre Is a dark, glossy green. 



GARDENIAS ( 



GRANDIfLORA 

 CAPE JASMINES 



) 



seem to have been created especially for Memorial Day, for what other flower 

 fills the bill so well in beauty, color, fraKrance, cheapness and quantity ? We filled 

 all of our Memorial Day orders last year, and as to satisfaction they gave, please 

 read letters below. We shipped 173.000 buds last season, and we have a larger acre- 

 age this year and a fine crop of buds that are ready to ship now. 



TERMS: P- O. B. per 100 Per 1000 



Class A-Stems 12 to 18 inches $1.10 $10.00 



ClassB-Stems 6 to 12 inches 85 7.,50 



.500 at 1000 rates. Lots of 3000, Class A, $9.00 per 1000: Class B, $6.50 per 



1000. Money in advance or C. O. D. General special express rates 



apply. 



Ugly Jasmines with short, crooked stems and scant, yellow foliage are dear at 

 any price. We don't hbip that kind. Give Jasmines a trial this Memorial Day and 

 please give us the order, that we may be sure that you get the best stock to try. 



COOK & COOK, 



Cook & Cook. 



Dear Sirs: We received the gardenias today in good condition 

 and are perfectly satisfied with them. They are nice buds. If they 

 sell well we shall give you a much larger order another time. I think 

 they will be very nice for Decoration Day. Yours truly, T. E. Bennett, 

 41 Madison Street, New Britain, May 27th, 1907. 



Alvin, Tex* 



Cook & Cook, Alvin, Texas. 



Sirs: I wish to thank you for your prompt delivery of jasmine buds 

 you sent me. I had them ordered, but at the last minute was disappointed 

 in not getting them. Yours were the finest I ever received and I will 

 certainly see that you will get my order the coming year again. Thank- 

 ing you, I remain. R. G. Schix)tter, Gardener and Florist, 4U)Main St., 

 Keokuk, Iowa, June 4, 1907. 



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to unprofitable market sales, might well 

 discourage specialists in this particular 

 line. 



There will be good displays of bulb- 

 ous and other seasonable flowers at the 

 next meeting of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club May 19. 



In the Boston public gardens hya- 

 cinths, narcissi, wallflowers and violas 

 are the present spring bedding plants 

 in bloom. The tulip display will be 

 at its best about May 10. 



W. N. Ceaig. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



We have had all kinds of weather 

 (luring the last week, including summer, 

 cyclones and snow, and the wholesale 

 market looks as if it had received a jolt 

 from every one of them. Never in its 

 history, declare the veterans of twenty- 

 five years' experience, has such a cona- 

 tion existed at this season of the year. 

 With weddings innumerable and a 

 veritable host of sidewalk merchants to 

 use the surplus, the market remained 

 glutted all through the week, and dis- 

 posal of the accumulations became im- 

 possible. Saturday's market was slight- 

 ly better — not in prices, but the usual 

 week end demand cleared the decks and 

 gave promise, with the cooler tempera- 

 ture, of some improvement. 



Why some violet growers persist in 

 shipping is one ,of the mysteries. Last 

 week great quantities of violets were 

 left unsold. Even the pavement dis- 

 tributers turned up their Grecian noses, 

 and would have none of them. So ends 

 the violet season in anything but a blaze 

 of glory. It has been a hard winter for 

 the growers, even with their increasing 

 markets in other cities than New York. 

 The probable result will be a much 

 smaller aggregate of building up-the- 

 state for violet raising than for many 

 years, and a better average of values 

 the coming fall and winter. 



Beauties actually fell to 10 cents last 

 week, for the best, and Maid and Bride 

 and even Killarney and Richmond sold 

 in boxes, all grades, high and low, at 

 $10 a thousand. Weddings and balls 

 could not lift valley above $1.50. Orchids 



250,000 



Grandiflora 



Cape Jasmine 



=BUDS= 



Ready for shipment 

 from May 5 to June I 



The bushes have made a fine, vigorous 

 growth, having long stems with abundant 

 foliage, which is so desirable for decorative 

 purposes. Write or wire us and we will take 

 the best possible care of your order. 



We both lose money if you do not send us 

 your order. 



PRICES r. 0. B. ALVIN: 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Class X, 12 to 18-in. stems 91.10 $10.00 



Class A, 6 tol2-iD. stems 85 7.60 



Lots of 3000 and over at.. .$9.00 and $6.50 per 1000 



W. A. DENNIS, Alvin, Tex. 



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held because the supply is light and 

 brides will not consent without a wed- 

 ding bouquet of the aristocratic flower. 

 Everybody who is a retailer has a book 

 full of May and June weddings. If this 

 does not stir the stagnation, then the 

 patient is in a hopeless state and there 

 will not be any need of the big aggrega- 

 tion of growers, concerning which we 

 hear much of late. Meantime the regu- 

 lars will go right on doing business at 

 the old stands and the optimistic ones 



are moving to Twenty-eighth street and 

 fitting up their handsome new establish- 

 ments as though they had faith in the 

 future. There will be room for all, and 

 profit for all legitimate effort. 



Little need be said of the other items 

 in the market. Great quantities of 

 southern lilac are handled by the green 

 goods men, reaching often to a thousand 

 bunches daily. The quality is excellent. 

 Sweet peas are at their best, but the sup- 

 ply is far in excess of the demand and 



