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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



NOVBMBEB 19, 1908. 



Chicago Carnation Co. 



JOLIET, ILL. 



mm/INNERS of the highest honors of the National Flower Show, 

 ** the $100.00 Silver Cup, Bronze Medal and 28 other prizes. 



We received more awards for Carnations than any one else. Our Carnations 

 are absolutely the best, of the highest grade, and we have plenty of them. 



Thanksgiving prices on Carnations, $3.00 to $6.00 per 100. 

 Also, White and Yellow MUMS, $8.00 to $12.00 per 100. 



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HOLLY and HOLLY WREATHS 



Well-berrled Holly, $4.00 per oaae. Holly Wraattis, lOo and 12o. 



Ready for delivery on and after November I5tb. Thoue desiring especially choice Btoek will do well to write us. 



BERGER BROS., ''""ilS^lrSlsIS^ stb-et. Philadelphia, Pa. 



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quantity and their quality is superb. 

 Prices are better for the selected stock. 



The flood of medium and common 

 stock is nearly over. There will, how- 

 ever, be enough and to spare of all 

 grades beyond Thanksgiving. 



Beauties are advancing slowly and 

 holding their ground as they go forward. 

 Some fine Maids and Killarney touched 

 8 cents November 14, Saturday, though 

 these grades were few and selected. The 

 average top was 6 cents. 



Orchids have advanced, 60 cents being 

 asked at the end of last week. 



The carnation supply is heavy, with 

 quality far from uniform, and prices 

 do not move upward. Violets hold at 75 

 cents for the best, with plenty to go 

 around and some leftovers for the street, 

 where the sidewalk merchants are again 

 much in evidence. The clean-up usually 

 is made at from 25 cents to 35 cents 

 per hundred. 



Narcissi are here again in limited sup- 

 ply, and selling up to 30 cents a dozen. 

 Lilies are looking up. 



Growers are warned against any hold- 

 ing back or pickling for Thanksgiving. 

 It is risky business these days, with so 

 many wholesalers building their reputa- 

 tion and stability upon first-class goods. 

 No one dares send out stock of ques- 

 tionable freshness, and the picklers are 

 really the ones who suffer. 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club's smoker was held 

 at the Grand Opera house, Wednesday 

 evening, November 18. The city was full 

 of gardeners attending the flower show, 

 and all of them were invited to attend. 

 Mr. Rickards had a fine musical program 

 and a splendid collation. It was a gala 

 night and not the last the club will enjoy 

 this season. 



The fall exhibition of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York is on this week. 

 W. E. Marshall is manager. The floral 

 committee includes F. R. Pierson, C. W. 

 Ward, J. E. Lager, F. H. Traendly, 



Ottr Mums are Ready Now 



AND FOR THANKSGIVING 



Best there are. Write us. 



J. D. THOMPSON CARNATION CO. 



JOLIET, ILLINOIS 



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John Young, I. L. Powell, Peter Duff, 

 J. H. Troy, G. V. Nash, W. W. Burn- 

 ham, J. A. Manda and Leonard Barron. 

 Mr. Pierson is chairman. 



The American Institute show last week 

 at the Berkeley Lyceum was a splendid 

 success, one of the best of the seventy- 

 seven held by the institute. Lack of 

 room was never more seriously apparent. 



The auctions continue. We are having 

 perfect weather for planting in this vi- 

 cinity. The attendance continues large 

 and prices satisfactory. Many ship- 

 ments of boxwood and rhododendrons are 

 made daily. Hardy roses are bringing 

 $10 per hundred. Evergreen stock is 

 in splendid condition. Vesey street 

 monopolizes this method of distribution. 

 The auctioneers declare it has been a 

 successful season, wonderfully so, con- 

 sidering the unrest with which the sell- 

 ing began. 



John Scott, of Flatbush, is now con- 

 valescing after a narrow escape from 

 his second relapse with typhoid fever. 



Mr. Whitman, of Hoboken, N. J., has 

 been suffering from a bad case of blood 

 poisoning. He is the husband of our 

 champion lady bowler and one of the 

 popular and successful Jersey florists. 



Young & Nugent had the decoration 



for the big wedding November 18, at St. 

 Bartholomew's church, where over 2,000 

 chrysanthemums were used. Mr. Nugent 

 has invented a new style of muff wed- 

 ding bouquet with valley shower effect. 

 Mr. Hanft, formerly with Thomas Young, 

 Jr., is now in the employ of Young & 

 Nugent. 



George Cotsonas has doubled the ca- 

 pacity of his store at 50 West Twenty- 

 eighth street. He handles over ten mil- 

 lions of fancy ferns in a season. 



Herman R. Scommodan is now travel- 

 ing for Russin & Hanfling. 



R. McMillen, president of the Green- 

 wich Gardeners' Society, was in the city 

 November 13. He has a fine retail and 

 landscape business at Greenwich. 



J. J. Brozat, of Bloomfield, N. J., was 

 a visitor November 14 in the wholesale 

 section. He is sending some fine mums 

 to the Growers' Cut Flower Co. Manager 

 Coan says over forty growers are now 

 shipping to this center. 



Morrice Christatos, of the firm of 

 Christatos & Koste, was married last 

 week to Miss Hilda Fohrlander, of 

 Sweden. Seventy-five guests attended 

 the reception and many beautiful wed- 

 ding presents attested their popularity. 

 The honeymoon was spent at Atlantic 



