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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JUNB 4, 1908. 



YOU CAN COUNT ON US FOR ALL THE 



PEONIES 



YOU WILL NEED FOR A BIG JUNE BUSINESS 



ALSO PLENTY OF VALLEY, SWEET PEAS AND ALL OTHER STOCK IN SEASON 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



24 to 36-inch •temt $3.00 to $4.00 



20-inch stems 2.00 



15-inch stems 1.50 



12-incb stems LOO 



Short stems 50 to .75 



Per 100 



Maid and Bride $4.00 to $6.00 



Richmond or Liberty 4.00 to 8.00 



Chatenay 4.00 to 6.00 



Golden Gate 4.00 to 6.00 



Kaiserin 4.00 to 8.00 



Roses^ our selection 3.00 



Carnations, good, all colors 1.00 to 1.50 



Carnations, tancy 2.00 to 3.00 



Write for special prices on larsre lots 



Peonies $4.00 



CaUas 



Harrisii 



Sweet Peas 75 



Forget-Me-Nots . ^ . . 1 



Valley 2.00 



Mignonette 3.00 



Daisies 75 



Adiantum 



Asparagus, strings each .35 



Asparagus, bunches each .3(5 



Sprengeri, bunches each .25 



Ferns per 1000 



Galax per 1000 1.00 



Smilax per doz. 1.50 



Prices subject to cbanse without notice 



Per 100 



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$ 6.00 



12.50 



12.50 



1.50 



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4.00 



6.00 



2.00 



1.00 



.50 



.75 



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2.00 



1.25 



2.00 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



58-60 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



L.. D. PHONK. CKNTRAL. 2571 



Mention The Review when you write. 



□ess. He has been using automobile de- 

 livery for more than a year and says 

 the cost is about the same as with horses, 

 but quicker. 



Samuel Insul, president of the Com- 

 monwealth-Edison Co., has several thou- 

 sand acres of land at Libertyville and 

 is building a splendid summer home 

 there. The residence is not yet quite 

 completed. There is one greenhouse and 

 two more are under way. Swain Nelson 

 & Sons are doing the landscape work. 

 Frank Rose is head gardener. 



Percy Jones says that someone ought 

 to come around the market selling diaries 

 with an admonition not to save up white 

 stock printed over the days just be- 

 fore each holiday; every wholesaler 

 would buy enough books to give each 

 grower one. 



George Nixon, formerly running the 

 flower department at the Fair, has suc- 

 ceeded to the business of George Harris 

 at Pittsburg. 



Bassett & Washburn say that if June 

 continues as well as it started off, they 

 will be well pleased, Monday and Tues- 

 day of this week having been with them 

 better than the same days last year. 



J. A. Budlong will handle the peonies 

 cut at the Peterson Nursery this year. 

 It will be the first time this stock has 

 come into the wholesale market, and it 

 will be a big item. 



John J. Kruchten says Decoration day 

 was the best holiday he yet has had, 

 especially on shipping orders. 



Floods in the southwest made more or 

 less trouble in the last week. A number 

 of Decoration day shipments for Texas 

 and Oklahoma points could not be sent 

 through and were sold by the express 

 companies at Kansas City. As late as 



Tuesday, June 2, the Wells Fargo was 

 refusing shipments to certain southwest- 

 ern points. 



E. E. Pieser says that the unfavorable 

 weather cost Kennicott Bros. Co. a great 

 deal of business, through the cancella- 

 tion of peony orders booked some time 

 before Decoration day. 



Please omit my advertisement 

 of Gladioli in 



c\**^ 



One insertion of the advertisement 

 brought me all the orders I need. 

 GEO. S. WOODRUFF. 

 Independence, la. 



May 26, 1908. 



C. W. McKellar is the first of the 

 wholesalers to complete his season's 

 housecleaning. Since putting in the new 

 ice-box he has given the entire place 

 several coats of white enamel. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. joins in the gen- 



eral Decoration day report: twice as 

 much work as last year and not quite as 

 much money. Bichmond was in best de- 

 mand; now it is Killarney for spring 

 weddings. 



S. B. Wertheimer, of Wertheimer Bros,, 

 New York, was a visitor this week. He 

 says Chicago retailers still buy ribbons. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. says its 

 Decoration day was ahead of last year. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



In the last three days of the last week 

 business was reported as satisfactory. 

 Decoration day, on Saturday, cleaned 

 up the wholesale houses of all their con- 

 signments, and the store men in all parts 

 of the city report an extra good de- 

 mand, much better than last year. Stock 

 at the wholesale markets was not as 

 plentiful as early in the week. During 

 the last three days consignments became 

 light and the business better. The St. 

 Louis wholesale markets are unfortunate 

 in this respect on holidays, as most 

 of the shippers use up their stock for 

 their home trade. 



Monday, June 1, little stock came in. 

 That which came was disposed of in 

 short order, and clean-up sales can be 

 reported for the first day of this month. 

 Let us hope it will continue so during 

 the month, because after that the sum- 

 mer dullness will set in and the florist 

 can take his vacation. 



Various Notes. 



Fred Meinhardt, whose place is ad- 

 jacent to the large cemeteries, did a rush- 

 ing Decoration day business. He has all 



