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The Weekly Florists^ Review# 



May 28, 1008. 



Decoration Day 



This holiday of ALL is the one we always adyise that you cannot over-buy. Each year we find that every 

 flower obtainable is used. Look up your last year's sales and prepare on a basis of at least 25 per cent more, and if 

 you have had a good season, go stronger than that. You won't be sorry, for we repeat above, all flowers sell for 

 Decoration Day. We look for flowers enough for all, and a little lower than last year. ' In our best judgment the 

 following prices will prevail : 



AMERICAN BKAUTT- Per doz. 



Stems 30 to 40 inches $3.00 to $4.00 



Steins 20 to 21 inches 2.00 to 2.50 



Short 75 to 1.00 



B08B8- Per 100 



Brides and Maids, firsts $6.00 to $ 8 00 



Seconds 300to 5.00 



Red Roses, firsts 8.00 to 12.00 



Seconds 5.00 to 6.00 



Cbatenay, Gates, firsts 6.00 to 8.00 



Seconds 4.00 to 5.00 



Rosea, our selection, short.. 3.00 



VALUBY. 



3.00 to 4.00 



CARNATIONS- Per 100 



Fancy Red $6.00 



Fancy other kinds... • $4.00 to 5.00 



Second grade 3.00 



Our selection, splits, etc 2.00 



PEONIBS- ' • 



Fancy lonsr stem 8.00 



Second grade 6.00 



Short 4.00to 5.00 



JA8MINK- 



Grandiflora 2.00 to 2.50 



Common 1.50 



DAISIES- Per 100 



Small kind $0.75 to $1.00 



Large sorts and yellow 1.50 to 2.00 



GREEN HEADQUARTERS- 



Asparagus strings 40to 



Smilax, scarce.. doz., $2-$2 50 

 Sprengeri and Asparagus 



sprays 2.00 to 



Galax, green and bronze, 



per 1000, $1.25 



. Fancy Ferns, 1000, $2 and $2.50 



Leucothoe, green only 



Adiantum i. .60 to 



Boxwood, large bunches, 85c; 3 for 



.60 



4.00 



.15 



.76 

 1.00 

 1.00 



NoTK— That in small flowers, like Pansles, Sweet Peas, etc., there is always enough for all, and will quote the above rates. . 



Prices on stock are billed market rate day of shipment. 



KENNICOn BROS. CO. 



Wholesale Cut Flowers 



48-50 Wabash Ave., ^cSSS^"" CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Peonies. 



The Peterson Nursery reports that its 

 peonies will be in full bloom, at the pres- 

 ent rate of progress, about June 8. The 

 season is early, certain irises coming in 

 this year exactly two weeks earlier than 

 last season. The peonies will bear the 

 usual crop of bloom, no damage having 

 been done by the weather, as was the 

 case with the southern crop. Last year 

 Mr. Peterson sold all the peonies he cut 

 to Leopold Koropp. He has not deter- 

 mined what disposition he will make of 

 them this season. 



Klehm 's Nursery, at Arlington Heights, 

 says that while some Old Red will be 

 cut for Memorial day, it will be June 

 5 before the general cut will be on, after 

 which it is expected there will be plenty 

 of peonies for all who want them. 



Various Notes. 



W. L. Palinsky says that the whole- 

 sale business in bedding stock is heavier 

 than it was last year. There was little 

 doing after May 15, but since then he 

 has had all that he could handle, with 

 three teams for delivery. 



C. H. Pisk reports trade a little quiet 

 on the west side, but suflBcient funeral 

 work to keep things going. 



The E. F, Winterson Co. is receiving 

 consignments of Lilium speciosum rubrum 

 from an eastern house. The leading re- 

 tailers are willing to pay a fair price 

 for them because they are not commonly 

 seen in this market until the outdoor crop 

 is ready. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. is already receiv- 

 ing asters — but they are grown under 

 glass, of course. 



Vaughan & Sperry are putting in a 



new ice-box in their corner of the Flow- 

 er Growers' market. They believe that 

 business is soon going ahead again at as 

 good a rate as ever, and they propose con- 

 siderably increasing their facilities this 

 summer. 



L. Baumann & Co. say that the calls 

 for moss wreaths, ruscus wreaths, etc., 

 for Decoration day have been much 

 heavier than they were last year. 



Frank Beu has just completed his 

 three new houses, the largest addition 

 he ever has put up in one year. It prac- 

 tically doubles his glass. He now has 

 40,000 feet. The new houses will short- 

 ly be planted in chrysanthemums, giving 

 bench space for about 40,000 plants. 



Carl N. Thomas arrived from Penn- 

 sylvania May 25 to participate in the 

 Memorial day activities of the A. L. Ran- 

 dall Co. 



Probably few in the market appreciate 

 the quantity of sweet peas H. C. Blewitt, 

 at Des Plaines, has grown this year. 

 He had eleven benches, 5x75 feet, de- 

 voted to this flower, using Zvolanek's 

 seed, and has had excellent results. The 

 crop is now about at an end. After 

 this week the plants will be thrown 

 out and the space devoted to a fall crop 

 o£ mums. 



Louis C. Schelte, who formerly rented 

 his greenhouses at Park Ridge to Edward 

 Meuret, has recently taken them over 

 again. Mr. Meuret is building a range 

 for himself. 



George C. Baker, of Des Moines, was 

 in town last week. He has charge of 

 the cut flower department of the Iowa 

 Seed Co., which is conducted under the 

 name of the Iowa Floral Co., and was 



looking over retail stores for ideas to be 

 employed in improving their store this 

 summer. 



May 19 the Schiller Floral Co. was 

 granted a city building permit for the 

 erection of a two-story store and flat 

 at 904-6 West Madison street. 



The factory of the J. C. Winter- 

 meyer Co., which supplies E. H. Hunt and 

 other wholesalers with cut flower boxes, 

 was burned out May 21. Mr. Winter- 

 meyer, who has many personal friends 

 among the wholesalers, was quite seri- 

 ously injured when he jumped from the 

 office window. Five persons lost their 

 lives in the fire. 



The National Box Factory, which sup- 

 plies shipping boxes to other wholesalers, 

 was burned out Sunday, May 24. 



E. C. Amling says that, in spite of the 

 low prices, his sales May 23 were fifteen 

 per cent greater than for the same 

 Saturday a year ago, showing what an 

 immense amount of stock is being- han- 

 dled this year. 



Bassett & Washburn are cutting quite 

 heavily in the houses of roses grown 

 for summer bloom. 



E. H. Hunt is receiving large quan- 

 tities of peonies from central Illinois. 

 If they we»e cut and bunched right they 

 would be first-class property, but many 

 bunches are too open. 



Scheiden & Schoos are beginning the 

 rebuilding of benches at their establish- 

 ment at Evanston. They say stock in 

 the field has secured a good start. 



Joseph Foerster says he thinks that if 

 supplies were no greater than a year 

 ago demand would be seen to be equally 

 strong. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is shipping its 



