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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEK 8, 1908. 



VIOLETS 



Are Good 



We are now receiving daily 

 shipments of Hudson River 

 Violets, and the quality has 



greatly improved with cooler weather. We always handle 

 the Best, and in quantity. We want your business this 

 season. 



VAUGHAN & SPERRY 



58-60 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



AM. BEAUTIES- Per doz. 



Stems, 24 to 36 inches $8.00 



20 inches 2.0(r 



16 " 1.50 



" . 12 " 1.00 



ROSES- Per 100 



Kaiserito $3.00 to $8.00 



Richmond 3.00to 8.00 



Bride and Maid 3.00 to 8 00 



Ohatenay S.OOto 6.00 



Gate 3.00to 6.00 



Roses, our selection 2.00 



Carnations, select 2.00 



fancy 8.00 



MISCEI^IiANEOUS- 



Miima per doz. 2.00 to 4.00 



Violets 50to 1.00 



Lonffiflorum doz., $1.50 



Valley 2.00 to 4.00 



Tuberoses 3.00to 4.00 



Gladioli 6.00 



DECORATIVE- 



Asp. Plumosus .string 



.35 to 

 .35 to 



-bunch 



" Sprengeri per 100 



Galax per 100, 20c; 1000 



" per case of 10,000 



Ferns per 100, 20c; 100 



Adiantum per 100 



Smilaz per doz., il.50; 100 



Extra fancy stock billed accordingly. 



Subject to change -without notice 



.50 



.50 



2.00 



1.25 



10.00 



1.50 



75 to 1.00 



10.00 



Mention The Review when you write. 



I Charles W. McKellar 



Wholesale Florist... 



51 Wabash Ave, ChlCdQO 



GtllDS 



L. D. Phone, Central 3598 



Fancy stock in Valley, Beauties, Roses, Violets, 

 Carnations and Greens of all kinds 



A fine assortment of Cattleyas and other 

 Orchids always on hand, fresh every day 



Can always supply the best goodn the 

 season affords, at Chicago Market 

 Quotations. 



A complete line of all Wire Work and Supplies constantly on hand 



Mention The Review when you write. 



at auction last week by Elliott. Among 

 the heavy buyers were Stumpp, Meyer, 

 Troy, Trepel and Hanig. Many of the 

 kentias were fifteen to twenty feet high 

 and brought as high as $30 each. New 

 York decorators are certainly well pre- 

 pared for big weddings in high places. 



Cleary's Horticultural Co. is now re- 

 ceiving its importations purchased by 

 Ambrose Cleary while in Europe this 

 summer. These, and great quantities 

 of evergreens, bulbs, nursery stock and 

 ferns, are now on exhibition and auction. 

 Sales continue every Tuesday and Friday, 

 probably until December. 



E. V. Hallock, of Eloral Park, has re- 

 turned from his summer outing at Mar- 

 garetsville, in the Catskills. 



At Floral Park, Charles E. Allen has 

 replaced three small houses with a mod- 

 ern structure, 35x100. His entire plant 

 is devoted to carnations, which are han- 

 dled by his brother, W. S. Allen, on 

 West Twenty-eighth street. The vari- 

 eties grown are Victory, Enchantress, 

 Queen, Patten and Lawson. The veteran 

 father of the Allen boys, now in his 

 eighty-first year, is hale and hearty. 



To I. Hendrickson, of the J. L. Childs 

 force of managers, I am indebted for an 

 opportunity to inspect field after field 

 of gladioli, totaling millions of bulbs 

 now being dug, sorted, shipped or stored. 

 Of the hundreds of varieties featured at 



the fairs everywhere, America still holds 

 the center of the stage. Cannas, tuber- 

 ous begonias and novelties innumerable 

 are here in endless quantity. The out- 

 look, Mr. Hendrickson says, was never 

 better and the season's business com- 

 pares favorably with any year in the 

 firm's history. Some idea of the rise 

 in value of land here may be gathered 

 from the fact that a plot of twenty-five 

 acres, which cost Mr. Childs less than 

 $10,000 three years ago, he lately refused 

 to sell under $60,000. 



C. W. Ward last week returned from 

 Michigan to the Cottage Gardens. The 

 new oflice building is complete in every 

 detail, and the splendidly laid-out ap- 

 proach to it, with its charming evergreen 

 hedges and specimens, is worth going 

 far to see. The greenhouses were not 

 added to this year, simply because quan- 

 tum sufiicit, or, in other words, enough 

 is as good as a feast. The favorites are 

 Alma Ward, Mrs. Ward, Beacon and 

 Enchantress. Many seedlings are under 

 surveillance. John Young has handled 

 this stock for years. The nursery has 

 grown until there are few in the coun- 

 try that excel it. Enormous quantities 

 of peonies and rhododendrons are culti- 

 vated, and the stock of silver spruce in 

 all Fizes is a revelation. Mr. Ward's 

 lieutenants have demonstrated great man- 

 agerial ability, and that genial gentle- 



man can give his time to his sawmills 

 and forest preserves with perfect safety. 



Anton Schultheis, of College Point, 

 is sending out his new catalogue. The 

 new greenhouses are rapidly approaching 

 completion. 



The Growers' Cut Flower Co. has 

 rented the store at 39 West Twenty- 

 eighth street, and opened for business 

 on Wednesday, October 7. The oflScers 

 are as follows: President, J. Von der 

 Linden; vice-president, Henry Weston; 

 secretary, G. Lang; treasurer, F. Kra- 

 mer; manager, J. J. Coan. Mr. Coan 

 has had twenty-four years' experience 

 in every department of the florists' busi- 

 ness and is well qualified for the posi- 

 tion which was awarded him from among 

 twenty-two applicants. Mr. Coan has 

 during the last two years been manager 

 for J. King Duer, on Madison avenue. 



Samuel Woodrow 's palm store on West 

 Thirtieth street is filled, and this week 

 the. big importation of boxwood arrives, 

 so a plot on upper Broadway has been 

 secured for safe storage. 



Boston has invaded New York, and 

 Arthur Newman will open a retail store 

 Saturday, October 10, at the corner of 

 Fifth avenue and Madison square, a 

 spot almost as historic as Bunker Hill. 



Harry Bunyard is on the high seas, on 

 his way back from Merrie England. He 

 will find a wonderful transformation at 



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