Mai 7, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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21 



Killarney, Maids and Brides 



are in big crop now with us. We also have a new crop of 



BEAUTIES 



planted on solid beds. These produce much finer flowers, as they have rested all winter. 



Our Tea Roses are all from grafted stotjk, planted in solid 



benches. These produce much better flowers in warm weather, 



'.' ' as the roots have more soil to work on and don't dry put. 



OUR IMMENSE CROP OP CARNATIONS 



Is still on, with prices down to $2.00 to $3.00 per 100 



Bassett & Washburn 



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GRKENHOUSKS: 



HINSDALX, ILL. 



Wholesale Growers and Dealers in Cut Flowers 



Store: 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



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SUPPLIES FOR WEDDINGS and 

 COMMENCEMENTS 



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SPRING WEDDINGS 

 ALL CUT FLOWERS in Good Supply 



All stock billed at Chicago market rates. 



Ribbons, Chiffons, plain and fancy Baskets, etc. Also a 

 full line of all requisites for DECORATION DAY, in- 

 cluding Spike Glass and Peterson White Enamel Cemetery 

 Vases, Cycas Leaves and Cycas Wreaths, Sheaves, Doves, 

 Green Moss Wreaths, Metal Wreaths, Magnolia and 

 Ruscus Wreaths, Etc. 



ing out some stock plants on a bench 

 and removing the young plants as they 

 form on the runners. N. cordifolia is a 

 pretty species, and easy to grow, but is 

 not quite so good a house plant as the 

 Boston fern. W. H. Taplin. 



Parsons, Kan. — Wm. J. Wirt, man- 

 ager of the Wirt Floral Co., says that, 

 in spite of what people call dull times, 

 business with them is "away better than 

 last year. " 



Chelsea, Mass. — ^B. B, Smalley had 

 the church decorations for the recent 

 Eaton-Shurtlefif wedding at Revere. The 

 wedding was a large and fashionable 

 one, and the decorations, consisting 

 chiefly of liUes and palms, were corre- 

 spondingly elaborate. 



PALMS ARE MODERN. 



Though palms now form a regular 

 feature in Covent Garden market, in 

 London, at all seasons of the year, the 

 only one common there forty years ago 

 was Livistona Chinensis (Latania Bor- 

 bonica), which, owing to its somewhat 

 heavy habit of growth, has since be- 

 come more or less ousted in favor of 

 those kinds that form lighter and more 

 elegant specimens. In those days the 

 kentias, now the most popular species, 

 were unknown. The Gardeners' Chron- 

 icle says that one of the earliest to 

 cultivate palms in large quantities for 

 market was the late Hermann Herbst, 

 of Richmond. His knowledge of Brazil 

 enabled him to obtain seeds of many 



species, which he thought likely to meet 

 with popular appreciation. 



Fortune at once smiled on the enter- 

 prise, for with the commencement of 

 the Franco -German war many wealthy 

 people came to England from the Con- 

 tinent, where foliage plants in those days 

 were popular. They soon singled out 

 palms as especial favorites, and the 

 taste for them quickly spread. The re- 

 sult was satisfactory to Mr. Herbst, who, 

 haying ai large stock of salable plants, 

 enjoyed a great advantage over his 

 competitors, as the raising of palms from 

 seeds requires a considerable time. 



In order for a palm to be popular 

 with the public it must possess certain 

 definite characteristics. In the first 

 place, it must not be exacting in its 



