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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NOVEMBEB 5, 1908. 



Visitors 

 Invited 



FROM DOWNTOWN TAKE 

 GARFIELD PARK TRAIN ON 

 THE METROPOLITAN ELE- 

 VATED RAILROAD. GET ON 

 AT ANY LOOP STATION. GET 

 OFF AT W. 48tli AVENUE AND 

 WALK FOUR BLOCKS NORTH 



I invite all trade visitors 



to the National Flower Show, November 6 to 

 14, to visit my greenhouses, 2570-2606 West 

 Adams Street, and see 



The largest collection of commercial 

 plants to be found anywhere in the west 



No botanical specimens — just good, salable 

 stock, such as every florist needs, both for fall 

 sales and for Christmas. Palms, ferns, ficus,arau- 

 carias, azaleas, mums, cyclamens, primroses, 

 Lorraine, poinsettias, ferns for dishes, and a 

 large variety of other stock. 



Frank Oechslin, Chicag:o 



Formerly Garfield Park Flower Co. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



form or another that is responsible for 

 tho growth of his business. His latest 

 effort is a folder on the Japanese air 

 plant. He distributes these folders 

 throughout his neighborhood and finds 

 them invariably profitable. 



Taft was elected Tuesday at the es- 

 tablishment of the George Wittbold Co.; 

 at least he had a good plurality in the 

 ballot box that stood all day in the end 

 of the show house. 



P. J. Foley was at Cleveland October 

 30 and 31 to attend a meeting of grow- 

 ers of vegetables under glass. 



Bassett & Washburn report having ob- 

 tained $5 per dozen for Appleton mums 

 November 2. They exhibited the O. P. 

 Bassett carnation at St. Louis this week. 



G. H. Pieser, president of the Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., opened a new check book 

 November 2. It contained 1,000 checks. 

 He says he hopes to get rid of them all 

 by early January. 



W. F. Jones, at Park Ridge, has three 

 houses of carnations in good shape. He 

 is a brother-in-law of Phil Schupp, of 

 J. A. Budlong's. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. has a Boston 

 ivy, green, new to the west, which the 

 retailers are using for wreaths and other 

 similar work. 



There were 110 couples in the grand 

 march at the dance of the wholesalers' 

 employees October 28, but this does not 

 indicate the full measure of the financial 

 success, because many firms who sell sup- 

 plies to the "wholesaleffe bought tickets 

 which were not used. The boys speak 

 a special word of appreciation for such 

 courtesies. 



John Zech was judge of election No- 

 vember 3 and* earned his $5, because 



there were 582 registered voters in his 

 precinct. Counting that many blanket 

 ballots well scratched up is as big a 

 job as filling shipping orders on a short 

 market. It may have been specially try- 

 ing in this case because Mr. Zech is 

 an ardent democrat and his precinct was 

 strongly republican. 



L. Coatsworth says he thinks the Ehea 

 Eeid rose will turn out to be one of the 

 best things for spring that the growers 

 ever have got hold of. 



C. M. Dickinson leaves November 6 

 for Chattanooga, to join Mrs. Dickinson 

 and proceed thence to Little Boc)t, where 

 he is to judge the show next wee'k. 



Lion & Co. have sent M. Shattls to 

 Chicago to open a western headquarters. 

 He has secured temporary rooms at 19 

 Wabash avenue. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that last week 

 gave them a better total of business than 

 any week since Decoration day and, ex- 

 cepting Decoration day, the best week 

 since April. 



The Florists' Club will hold its No- 

 vember meeting at the Union restaurant 

 tonight, November 5. A large list of 

 applications for membership is to be 

 acted on. 



N. J. Rupp was at Cleveland October 

 30 and 31 to attend the meeting of 

 vegetable forces. 



Percy Jones says he does not look for 

 brisk business as long as the flower 

 show lasts, but expects it to help trade 

 all winter. 



Weiland & Risch are beginning to cut 

 heavily again, of Killarney. 



A. L. Randall Co. is going into green 

 and holly heavier than ever this year. 



Fred Lautenschlager was at Cleveland 



to attend the vegetable growers' con- 

 vention. 



Scheiden & Schoos picked the winner, 

 all right, when they named their carna- 

 tion. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Cooler and more seasonable weather 

 has ushered in November and florists are 

 pleased to welcome it, not because it 

 will cause more of a run on the coal 

 pUe, but with strong hopes that it will 

 cause a break in the cut flower depres- 

 sion, which has prevailed for some time. 

 It cannot be said that business shows 

 any great improvement over a week ago. 

 Commission dealers are having better 

 shipping orders, but such an avalanche 

 of flowers is arriving that prices rule 

 low. Chrysanthemums now completely 

 dominate the market. The season for 

 these will be shorter than usual, as some 

 of the late sorts are already being 

 marketed in quantity. The blooms seem 

 to lack substance, due to the hot weather 

 experienced in October. Practically all 

 midseason sorts are now in evidence, 

 Appleton, Ivory and Bonnaffon perhaps 

 in the greatest abundance. Roses are 

 selling a trifle better. The hot weather 

 rushed crops along and took much of the 

 substance out of the flowers. Beauty, 

 Killarney and Richmond are all extra 

 fine, while Brides and Maids are coming 

 with stems of something like seasonable 

 length. 



Carnations are, if anything, less 

 abundant than a week ago, with prices 

 holding about the same. Violets hold 



