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October 1, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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CH RYSANTH EMUMS 



Tew being cut now. Large quantity coming in about Oct. 5. Price per doz., $3.00. 



BEAUTIES Large crop still dn« 



Per doz. 



Per doE. 



Extra long stems. $3.00 Stems 15 inches $1.25 



Stems 24 inches 2.00 «< 12 «« 100 



" la " 1.50 Shorter lengths, good stock .75 



EXTRA FINE CROP OP ROSES 



Killarney, Kaiaerin, Carnot and Richmond Per lOO 



Select $8.00 



Good length 6.00 



Medium $4.00 to 5.00 



Short 3.00 



BRIDE, MAID and PERLE PerlOO 



Long $6.00 to $8.00 



Medium 4.00 to 6.00 



Short 3.00 



Short lengths in lots of 500 $20.00 per 1000 



VERT FANCY CARNATIONS, red, white and pink, good length stems, per 100, $1.50 to $3.00. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY, per 100, $3.00 to $4.00. EASTER LILIES, per 100, $12.00. 



Tbe present cold weather baa made all atook of ezoeittlonally fine slilpplnc quality. 



Buy Your Flowers Direct of the Grower 



Bassett & Washburn 



Office and Store, 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



GREENHOUSES, 



UINtsDALE, ILL, 



Mention The Review when you write. 



A. J. Bentzen, of the Bentzen Floral 

 Co., says they will have a large cut of 

 fine chrysanthemums, also pot plants. 



Vincent Gorley, of the firm of Grimm 

 & Gorley, has returned from his trip to 

 Europe. Mr. Gorley brought with him 

 a great many novelties for use in his 

 business. 



George Angermueller is handling a 

 large consignment of American Beauties 

 form Heller Bros., New Castle, Ind. 



Henry Ostertag, chairman of the Flo- 

 rists' Club's trustees, says he has found 

 a new meeting room, with bowling al- 

 leys. The new location is in the new 

 Marquette hotel. Eighteenth and Wash- 

 ington avenues. 



The St. Louis Horticultural Society's 

 fall flower show will be held in the new 

 Armory hall November 3 to 6. The ex- 

 ecutive committee is holding weekly meet- 

 ings. C. C. Sanders, the chairman, says 

 the members are all working hard to 

 make this show a success. The prelim- 

 inary list has been distributed among the 

 growers. 



W. C. Smith Wholesale Floral Co. re- 

 ceived the first consignment of California 

 violets last week, also a shipment of as- 

 sorted baskets and other florists' sup- 

 plies. They are looking forward to a 

 good season's business. 



George Waldbart's show house on 

 Grand avenue is stocked up with a fine 

 lot of arecas, kentias and other decora- 

 tive stock from his Clayton place. He 

 has been cutting a fine lot of outdoor 

 stock. 



C. A. Kuehn reports Baer's Peoria 

 carnations as coming in better each day. 



Phil Giebel, of Compton Hill Reservoir 

 park, says the oiled roais in his park are 



a success. It laid the dust and the lawns 

 and flower beds look much brighter, and 

 no doubt the other parks will take up the 

 plan. 



Henry Beming is handling a fine lot 



I enclose $1.00 to pay for my 

 subscription another year. I use 



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to buy by, and think I will try 

 to sell by it also a little later. 



C. D. OTIS. 

 Lake Charley La., Sept 25, 1908. 



of dahlias from Henry Vennemann's 

 place. 



The Florists' Club meeting comes early 

 this month: It will take place next 

 Thursday, October 8, at 2 o'clock, in the 

 old meeting hall at Eleventh and Locust 

 streets. A lot of important matters will 



come up at this meeting, and President 



Young is looking for a large attendance. 



Visitor: S. B. Wertheimer, New York. 



J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



Up to noon on Monday, September 28, 

 the long drought bad not been broken. 

 The forest fires in the Adirondacks and 

 Catskills were raging, and the air was 

 so laden with the smoke and ashes that 

 navigation was dangerous, and the 

 health of the community threatened. 

 The long promised showers and cooler 

 atmosphere arrived just in time. Market 

 gardeners, agriculturists, and every de- 

 partment of the horticultural business, 

 have greatly felt the strain. The re- 

 vival in the florists' trade has been slow 

 to come, and disastrous in its tardiness. 

 With the frosts, that cannot long be de- 

 layed, must come a change for the bet- 

 ter. The depression during the last 

 week is all the keener because of the 

 unexpected halt in the coming of the an- 

 ticipated better times. Never in the 

 memory of any florist in the wholesale 

 district has the revival been so long post- 

 poned. 



Some of the violet growers have gath- 

 ered sense with experience, and are hold- 

 ing their products until the season opens. 

 The few pale samples that are coming 

 are only a parody on the reality. In a 

 couple of weeks the genuine article will 

 be here and I venture to predict that it 

 will win back this season some of its 

 old-time popularity. 



Beauties grow in beauty and in value, 



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