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The Weekly Florists' Review.' 



June 4, 1908. 



accompanied them. Mr. and Mrs. Scott 

 will enjoy their summer vacation in 

 Europe in July. 



AH the seedsmen are still busy with 

 shipments and suburbanites. The season 

 has been a remarkable one, with little 

 hot weather, abundance of rain and 

 larger plantings than ever known before. 

 With seasonable weather now, there is 

 the promise of a phenomenal harvest. 



Half a million kentia seeds is going 

 -some, but this is but one of many such 

 goings on at A. T. Boddington 's, where 

 importations of everything have been 

 double those of any other season in his 

 history. 



F. W. O. Schmitz, of Prince Bay, 

 N. Y., has just received his annual im- 

 portation of cycas, an extra large ship- 

 ment this season and in fine condition on 

 arrival, 



Wertheimer Bros, were more than sat- 

 isfied with advance sales for Decoration 

 •day. 



Ford Bros, claim still the largest ice- 

 box in the wholesale section, and there 

 are a lot of competitors. It needs 

 one as large as a house to accommodate 

 some of the carnation shipments lately 

 arriving. 



W. H. Kuebler, the Brooklyn whole- 

 saler, sails next week for a health trip 

 to Sweden and Germany. 



Balph Armstrong, manager of Wadley 

 & Smythe's New York store, is rejoicing 

 over the arrival of a baby girl. The 

 firm's Newport branch opened June 1. 



Mrs. H. H. Berger and Miss Berger 

 are on a European trip. 



H. Zuzuki left Monday for Japan via 

 Seattle. He will call at Chicago and St. 

 Paul and be in Yokohama June 25. He 

 has been away from home over three 

 months. 



Charles Kakuda starts shortly for a 

 southern trip in the interests of tKe Yo- 

 kohama Nursery Co. His place as fore- 

 n^an for the Hinode Co. is taken by 

 August Kratt, formerly with Cassidy and 

 John Donaldson. 



Bowllns;. 



Hot weather May 29 seemed to have 

 a good effect on the Traendly transporta- 

 tion trials, as the score of the best three 

 games here indicates: 



R. Vincent, Jr., Mrs. Vincent and their 

 two granddaughters arrived home from 

 Europe last week. 



The month of May this year in New 

 York city was the wettest since the 

 weather bureau records were started thir- 

 ty-eight years ago. The rainfall was 

 9.10 inches. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



We can all afford to feel well satis- 

 fied with the business done for Decora- 

 tion day. The weather turned out to 

 be ideal and the quantity of flowers used 

 this year for the decoration of the graves 

 was enormous. Many florists were dubi- 

 ous as to how the business would be, 

 owing to the great quantities of outdoor 

 flowers which were right in it. The 

 quantity of this class of flowers used is 

 simply beyond estimation. But the very 

 fact that flowers were so plentiful seem- 



Choice Stock 



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for the June Wedding- work and School Closings. Whatever you want, 

 we can supply it. The following are some of our leading specialties : 



SWEET PEAS 



Fancy stock in the fancy colors. Enchantress-Pink and Lavender. 

 Also Blanche Ferry pink, blue and red. You will say these peas 

 are all right. 



PEONIES 



We can supply these in white and pink — in any quantity. This is 

 stock from the Famous Peterson Peony Farm, the finest collection 

 of peonies in the United States. The best sorts and plenty of 

 them. Prices right. 



BEAUTIES 



We have a range of Beauties grown specially for a cut in June and 

 later. These have much better substance, color, stem and foliage than 

 from plants that were cut from all winter. Try them; they're good. 



ROSES 



Our Maids, Brides and Richmond are all grafted stock. Much bet- 

 ter size and substance than own-root stock at this season. 



CARNATIONS 



We grow the fancy sorts, like Aristocrat, Victory, Winsor, White 

 Perfection, Enchantress, etc., and will not take a back seat for 

 anybody on quality of stock shipped. 



GREEN GOODS Of ALL KINDS | 



You can order of Us 



with every certainty that you are calling on as good a 

 source of supply as there is in Chicago. 



J.A.BUDLONG 



37-39 Randolph Street, CHICAGO. 

 A Specialty GROWER Of 



CUTFLOWERS 



ed to act as an incentive to buy, in the 

 case of those who were not so fortunate 

 as to have an abundance in their own 

 yards; for buy they did and, though 

 the wholesale houses handled large quan- 

 tities of flowers, they were entirely clean- 

 ed out Friday night. Saturday brought 

 a large supply again, and by noon, 

 when the business was over, the greater 

 portion of that had been disposed of. 



There were plenty of flowers to fill 

 all orders, with the exception of car- 

 nations. This flower was scarce, and 

 many more could have been sold. Peo- 

 nies were in large supply and everyone 

 could get all he wanted of them. The 

 price ranged from 2 cents to 4 cents. 

 Roses of the best grade sold out well 

 and at good prices, but there were a 

 great lot of them which were sold at job 

 lot prices. 



So, when we take all things into con- 



sideration, we can feel pleased with the 

 business this year, for it was certainly 

 good, and when we take into considera- 

 tion the general business situation and 

 the way our business has been going 

 from the first of the year, we have every 

 reason to be well satisfied. 



Various Notes. 



E. 6. Gillett did a large shipping busi- 

 ness in peonies, handling many thou- 

 sands of this flower. 



The J. M. McCullough's Sons Co. re- 

 ports satisfactory business, as do William 

 Murphy, L. H. Kyrk and C. E. Critchell. 



Weiland & dinger handled an im- 

 mense quantity of flowers and sold out 

 clean. 



Chas. Pommert, of Amelia, O., waa 

 a caller. Mr. Pommert continues to 

 be successful in the growing of goldfish. 

 Besides attending to these, he also runs 



