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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Mav 28, 1908. 



WEIUND & OLINGER 



I — Decoration Day Price List — 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES- Per Doz. 



Extra long $4.00 



3()-inch 3.00 



30-incb 2.50 



24-inch 2.00 



18 to 20-inch 1.60 



12 to 15-inch . ., 1.00 



Shorts >. 75 



KILLARNET- Per 100 



Extra Select $8.00 



Select 6.00 



Medium 4.00 



Shorts 3.00 



CHATENAT- 



Extra long; 8,00 



Select 6.(0 



Medium 4 00 



Shorts 3.00 



BRIDES AND MAIDS- 



Extra Select 8.00 



Select 6 00 



Jledium 4.00 



Shorts 3.00 



PERLES- 



Select 6.00 



Medium $3.00 to 4.00 



CARNATIONS- 



Fancy 4.00 



Good $2.00 to 3.00 



VaUey 4.00 



GREEN GOODS- 



Smilax per doz., 2.00 



Plumosus and Sprengeri Sprays, per 



bunch 50 



Adiantum , per 100, 2.00 



Ferns per 1000, 200 



Galax " 1.00 



Leucothoe " 5.00 



Moss (green) per bundle, 1.25 



Moss per bale, 1.00 



I26-I2S E. Third St, CINCINNATI, OHIO 



Greenhouses. NEW CASTLE, IND. 



300,000 Square Feet of Glass 



PEONIES 



FOR MEMORIAL DAY 



Four acres of the finest Peonies in this country. 

 Will be just right for Decoration Day. We are now 

 booking shipping orders. Send in your order. These 

 are all high grade Peonies, in all colors. 



Prices will ranje from $6.00 to $8.00 per 100 



Shipments made from i^reenhouses, New Castle, Ind., 

 as well as from our Cincinnati office. 



stock from the greenhouses in large cor- 

 rugated pasteboard boxes and thereby 

 , saving several dollars a day in express 

 charges. The Benthey-Coatsvvorth Co. 

 has for a long time shipped stock from 

 New Castle in corrugated pasteboard 

 boxes. 



Peter Reinberg has not yet begun 

 the new houses to be erected adjoining 

 the range put up last year on ' ' the 

 farm. " He is doing a large amount 

 of rebuilding of benches at the home 

 plant, using pecky cypress. 



C. W. McKellar keeps close tab on the 

 engagement announcements and says the 

 June crop of weddings will be up to 

 the best previous records. It affects the 

 orchid market. 



J. J. Kruchten says he is well pleased 

 wifh the Decoration day prospects. 



The George Wittbold Co. reports being 

 rushed to the limit and says the call for 

 window-boxes, bedding out, etc., is fully 

 up to any previous year. Already they 

 are cleaned out of geraniums in, flower 

 and are at their Avits' ends to find ma- 

 terial to satisfy those customers who in- 

 sist a window-box must make its best 

 showing the day it is filled. 



Robert Groves, the Adams, Mass., fern 

 man, is in Chicago for a few days, but 

 says he has no more stock to offer. 



H. R. Hughes has put in another elabo 

 rate window decoration for Memorial 

 day and issued an advertising folder for 

 distribution on the west side. There can 

 be no question that such advertising as 

 Hughes is doing pays handsomely. 



The Review is ahead of any other 

 paper for florists and I cannot do M-itli- 

 out it. — H. W. Wright, Amarillo, Tex. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market ^ 



The trade here saw no improvement 

 as to business last week and everyone is 

 having his troubles. The wholesaler com- 

 plains of low prices, slow demand and 

 large consignments of all kinds of stock. 

 It was a pity to see so many good car- 

 nations and roses go to Avaste as was 

 the case last Aveek. This Aveek the whole- 

 salers expect more trade, as Decoration 

 day, Saturday, should clean up the sur- 

 plus stock. The retailers say there is 

 really nothing much going on except for 

 funerals, a few small weddings and din- 

 ners. Stock is selling so cheaply that a 

 good order noAvadays brings a good 

 profit. The plantsmen are complaining 

 of too much rain, which is greatly inter- 

 fering Avith their AAork, as the time is 

 now liere Avhen plants should be out. 



The heavy Avind and rain storm of 

 Sunday, May 24, did a great deal of 

 damage to fine trees and shrubbery about 

 the city and parks. 



Variotss Notes. 



We had Avith us last Aveek our old 

 friend, Arnold Ringier, representing the 

 W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago. Mr. Rin- 

 gier has been Avest and reports a good 

 run of business. 



The Mullanphy Florist Co., on Grand 

 avenue, reports having the order to fur- 

 nish the bouquets and decorations for 

 the high school and Yeatman school 

 graduating classes. This store has also 

 been quite busy of late Avith funeral 

 work. 



Henry Ostertag furnished 600 Amer- 

 ican Bcfiuties at the opening of the new 



Third National Bank at Broadway and 

 Olive streets. The Bentzen Floral Co., 

 Fred C. Weber, C. Young & Sons Co., 

 and the Riessen Floral Co. had large 

 designs to make. In fact, nearly eA'ery- 

 one in the trade had a design or a large 

 bunch to make for this opening. 



Fred Plant, of the Plant Seed Co., 

 visited Chicago recently to attend the 

 meeting of the Western Seedsmen 's As- 

 sociation. Mr. Plant was much pleased 

 Avith his A-isit, as his time while there 

 Avas made enjoyable. A large delegation 

 of seedsmen from here will attend the 

 meeting of the American Seed Trade 

 Association at Detroit, June 23 to 25. 



A large shipment of Japanese iris 

 from the Yokohama Nursery Co. was 

 refused by a consignee here. The ship- 

 ment was placed in the hands of the St. 

 Louis Seed Co. for disposal. 



The sad ncAvs of the death of our 

 friend, William Scott, was a great shock 

 in the trade here. The first news came 

 through the Revieav and all are with me 

 in expressing our deepest sympathy with 

 the bereaved family. 



Charlie Kuehn, Henry Berning, Billy 

 Smith and George Angermueller, the four 

 bosses at the Avholesale houses, are ex- 

 pected to take part in the ball game be- 

 tween the Avholesale and retail teams at 

 the florists' picnic giAen by the St. Louis 

 Florists' Club for members and friends 

 in July. 



Robert J. Windier is reported sick at 

 one of the hospitals in the southern part 

 of the city, having had an operation per- 

 formed. From reports of friends who 

 \isit him, he will be out in a AA-eek or 

 ten days. In the meantime Rose Wind- 

 ier is managing the Store. 



John Burke is making a grand show 



