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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 21, 1908. 



ROSES, CARNATIONS, 



Stocks, Snapdragon, Easier Lilies, Tulips, Sweel Peas, Valley, 

 Plumosus, Sprengeri, Smilax, etc. All fine stock, in any quantity, at market 



prices. 



Special Fancy Ferns, $1.76 to $2.00. 



Boxwood, extra fine, $8.60 per case of 60 lbs. 



Bronze and Green Galax, $1.26 per 1000; $8.60 per case of 10,000 



A trial order solicited. 



We are sure we can please you. 



Michigan Cut Flower Exciiange, inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



38-40 Broadway, - DETROIT, MICH. 



HARDY GREENS 



All Phone Connections 



FLORISTS' AND GREENHOUSE SUPPLIES 



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and his three sons, with other help, doing 

 the erecting. Work was begun May 18. 



The hoops on the big tank of the Des 

 Plaines Floral Co. burst Saturday night 

 and tank and contents fell upon the boil- 

 er-shed, practically demolishing it. This 

 is the concern with which Harry Blewitt 

 is connected. 



Adolph Anthes has sold his establish- 

 ment of about 5,000 feet of glass, at 

 2093 Lowell avenue, and will start in a 

 few weeks to visit his mother, 81 years of 

 age, at Frankfort, Germany. He expects 

 to return in the autumn. The purchaser 

 is Carl Potocki, who has a place on Mil- 

 waukee avenue, and who is putting the 

 Anthes houses in charge of his son, Frank 

 Potocki. 



Wietor Bros, say they had all their 

 carnations in the field some days ago, 

 the stock being planted on sandy soil 

 that can be worked a few hours after a 

 rain. Few other growers are finished 

 planting. 



C. M. Dickinson says E. H. Hunt has 

 experienced a big jump in the calls for 

 To-bak-ine in the last few days, the an- 

 nual spring invasion of thrips having oc- 

 curred on schedule time. 



W. J. Smyth spent Sunday at his sum- 

 mer place at Antioch. He says every- 

 thing looks fine in the country and he 

 is anxious to take up his summer home 

 there, as he annually does about the end 

 of June. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. is showing some of 

 its new peonies, of which stock has 

 been worked up but no flowers yet cut 

 for the market. One of these is a shell 

 pink of remarkable fragrance and keep- 

 ing qualities. E. E. Pieser says they had 

 expected to cut a quantity of blooms this 

 year, but the unfavorable season has 

 interfered. 



Local lilac was received May 15. It 

 was in fine shape, the bushes being more 

 heavily flowered than in a number of 

 years. The crop lasted only a few days. 



Mr. and Mrs. Peter Eeinberg are cele- 

 brating their silver wedding anniversary 

 today. May 21. High mass was cele- 

 brated this morning at St. Gregory's 

 church, by Eev. A. J. Thiele, who per- 

 formed the wedding ceremony in St. 

 Henry's church. High Ridge, twenty-five 

 years ago. This evening there will be ' 

 a reception at Alderman Reinberg's 



home, to which a large number of friends 

 and relatives have been invited. An 

 elaborate decoration of the Mrs. Field 

 rose will be one of the features. 



E. C. Amiing has been receiving some 

 fine Gladiolus America, which has sold 

 fairly well at $1.50 per dozen. Last 

 summer the outdoor flowers were quickly 

 taken at $1 per dozen. 



Jegen has removed his store from 27 

 Madison street to 113 Dearborn street 

 and says that it seems quite like coming 

 back home, for he was on Washington, 

 between State and Dearborn, for twenty- 

 four years. 



The George Wittbold Co. has recently 

 received a large shipment of palms, bay 

 trees and other Belgian stock. 



John Kruchten says he is sticking right 

 tight to business these days and that as 

 a result he is steadily increasing its vol- 

 ume. He has secured several new ship- 

 pers lately and is handling specially 

 large quantities of roses at present. 



George R. Scott has left the E. F. Win- 

 terson Co. and, with a relative, has 

 opened a butter store at the corner of 

 Fifth avenue and Lake street. 



George Beinberg has replanted most 

 of his place, which is now almost entirely 

 in roses, and is cutting little. 



Bassett & Washburn say the shipping 

 trade is holding up quite well, all things 

 considered. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that May 18 

 they had more shipping orders booked 

 for Decoration day than were sent out 

 at Easter. 



The A. L. Randall Co. says the sup- 

 ply department is having a good May, 

 with Decoration day stock going to the 

 retailers and insecticides and fertilizers 

 to the growers. 



Among last week's visitors was Martin 

 Reukauf, of Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila- 

 delphia. 



Winnipeg, Man. — Augustus K. Butch- 

 art says that the court proceedings re- 

 ported May 14 have nothing to do with 

 The Rosery retail flower store, but con- 

 cern alone The Rosery Flower and Seed 

 Co., Ltd. Mr. Butchart bought the 

 retail store of the concern March 1 and, 

 while retaining the name of The Rosery, 

 says his business has no connection with 

 the company about to be liquidated. 



JOSEPH FOERSTER 



Wholesale shipper of 



CUT FLOWERS 



68-60 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



CURRENT PRICE LIST. 

 BEAUTIES- Per doz. 



30to 36-inch $3.00to $4.00 



24to30-lDCh 2.00to 2.50 



15to2Q-inch 1.50to 2.00 



8 to 12-inch 75 to 1.00 



Shorts .76 



Per 100 



Bride and Maid $3.00to $6.00 



Richmond 5.00to 8.00 



Klllarney 5.00to 8.00 



Perle S.OOto 6.00 



Roses , our selection 2.00 



CARNATIONS, medium l.OOto 1.60 



" fancy 2.00to 8.00 



Harrisii Lilies S.OOto 10.00 



Callas S.OOto 10.00 



Valley S.OOto 4.00 



SweetPeas 50to 1.00 



OBEENS 



Smilax Strings perdoz. 2.00 



Asparagus Strinifs each, .40 to .50 



Bunches " .35 to .50 



Sprengeri Bunches " .35 



Adiantum per 100, l.oo 



Ferns, Fancy per 1000, 2.00 



Galax, Green " i.oo 



Bronze " i.oo 



Boxwood 25c per lb.; lOOlbs., 15.00 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



RESTING CALLAS. 



Will you kindly tell me through the 

 Review the best way to rest calla lily 

 bulbs after they have bloomed all win- 

 ter and spring? Will the same bulbs 

 after resting be apt to yield well the 

 second yeart L. N. B. 



Presuming that your callas are grown 

 in pots, you can now gradually with- 

 hold water. About the end of May re- 

 move them outdoors and lay on their 

 sides. Leave them thus until the end of 

 July, when they can be shaken out and 

 repotted. There is no reason why these 

 roots should not be as good or even 

 better the second than the first season. 

 In fact, they have lasted ■With us for a 

 dozen years and given excellent returns. 

 Pull off the small offsets. The larger 



