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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JANDA.BT 28, 1909. 



...FORMOSA LILIES... 



We are cutting 500 lilies per day, extra choice, with long eteme, $12.00 per 100. 



Beauties, Richmond, Killarney, Maids and Brides 



All are EXTRA FINE 



Fancy Carnations, Bulb Stock, Greens 



CUT 

 AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



FLOWER PRICE 



Per doz. 



Extra Ion? $4.00 to $5.00 



30 inches 300 



24 inches 2.50 



20 inches 2.00 



15 inches 1.50 



Winches 76 to 1.00 



Killarney Per loo 



Extra long $10.00 to $12.00 



Good average length 8 00 



Medium length 600 



Short stems 4.00 



Richmond 



Extra long 10.00 to 12.00 



Oood average length 8 00 



Medium length 5.00to 6.00 



Short stems 4.00 



Bride, Maid and Perle 



Long and select 10.00 



Qood average length 6.00to 8.00 



Medium , 

 Short..., 



LIST 



Bride, Maid and Perle 



Per 100 

 $6.00 



4.00 



CARNATIONS 



Fancy, long, redO. P. Bassett $ 5.00 



Pink, white, good stock $3.00to 4.00 



KASTKR LXUKB. OIOANTKUM,doz., $1.50 -$2.00 12.00 



ULT OF THK VALLKT 8.00 to 4.00 



ASPABAOU8 8TRIM08, heavy per string. 40c 



ASPARAGnS BPRATS 2.00to 



BPRKNGBRX 2.00 to 



SMILAZ, extra fine per doz., $1.50 



ADXANTDM 



OALAZ, bronze per 1000, $1.60 



OALAZ. green " 1.26 



TKBXtB " 2.00 



PAPER WBXTKS and ROMANS 



DAFFODILS, single 



TULIPS, yellow and red 



TULIPS, white -. 



300 

 8.00 



1.00 



8.00 

 4.00 

 4.00 

 8.00 



On orders amountlnB: to $S.OO or over -wm make no chare* lor boxes. 



Bassett & Washburn 



GREENHOUSES, 

 HINSDALE, ILL. 



Office and Store, 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



O. May, secretary of the exhibition com- 

 mittee, has arranged to stage attractively 

 all exhibits sent by express in care of 

 John Young, secretary of the club, 51 

 West Twenty-eighth street, New York 

 city. Members who attended the Indian- 

 apolis convention will be present and de- 

 scribe the meeting there. Some of them 

 we expect to return with high honors. 

 It will be a gala night and the pro- 

 visions by J. B. Nugent, chairman of 

 the house committee, will be above the 

 ordinary. 



The annual dinner of the Florists' 

 Club will be given in the Eoman banquet 

 hall at Shanley's, Forty-second street 

 and Broadway. It will be a popular din- 

 ner and includes the ladies. Tickets are 

 $4 for gentlemen and $3 for ladies, and 

 the hour is 6:30 Saturday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 20. W. J. Elliott is chairman of 

 the committee. 



John Armsley, superintendent of the 

 Schlegel estate at Seventy-second street 

 and Second avenue, Bay Ridge, Brook- 

 lyn, has a beautiful exhibit of Cattleya 

 Trianae, of over 1,000 blooms. 



The sympathy of the trade goes out 

 to Walter Beimels, of Woodhaven, in the 

 loss of his wife January 20. The young 

 couple had only been married seven 

 months. Mr. Beimels is prostrated by 

 the sudden calamity. He is a son of 

 John Beimels, the popular florist and 

 president of the First National Bank of 

 Ozone Park, L. I. 



The local seed and bulb houses are 

 fast getting in trim for the spring rush 

 and travelers for all the houses are en- 

 thusiastic on the outlook. Great addi- 

 tions are already made to the working 

 force in these establishments and the 



many handsome catalogues, which have 

 left on their mission in hundreds of 

 thousands, are already doing business. 

 Harry Bunyard, Al. Bickards, W. E. 

 Marshall, Jack Hunter, Walter Mc- 

 Dougall, George Burnett, W. E. Sperling, 

 Walter Mott, Charles M. Taggert and 

 a host of others are out on the road 

 booming things for their respective 

 firms. These heralds of optimism are 

 like tonics wherever they go, in awak- 

 ening hope and ambition in the hearts 

 of the floriculturists in every section of 

 the country. 



Friday, January 29, is McKinley day. 

 The wholesalers have the usual indica- 

 tion of it in their windows, but the re- 

 tailers seem to take little interest, al- 

 though it seems as though a little enter- 

 prise on their part would pay hundred- 

 fold. 



James Snyder, violet grower, in the 

 Bhinebeck Gazette of last week gives 

 George Saltford credit for being the en- 

 terprising pioneer of the violet industry 

 in Bhinebeck and vicinity, he having 

 there discovered the soil which has made 

 that locality the natural home of the 

 violet in this country. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Conditions might be better, but, every- 

 thing considered, the market cannot be 

 classed as unsatisfactory. They are cer- 

 tainly better than a year ago, and while 

 stock does not move as expeditiously as 

 could be wished, there is no slump in 

 prices. Boses continue to meet with a 



good sale and are now of excellent qual- 

 ity, American Beauties and Killarneys 

 being especially fine. Carnations are in 

 oversupply, prices remaining much the 

 same as a week ago. Violets, with the 

 mild weather prevailing most of the 

 time, are getting quite plentiful and have 

 in consequence softened in price a little. 

 Bulbous stock increases in quantity, but 

 so far has cleared out well. Boman hy- 

 acinths and Paper Whites are now less 

 in evidence. Stevia is still seen in con- 

 siderable quantity. 



Sweet peas vary as much in quality as 

 price. Some are fine, stems extra long. 

 Callas and lilies are in good supply and 

 pansies are more abundant. Myosotis, 

 candytuft, stocks, snapdragons, mi- 

 gnonette and a variety of other season- 

 able flowers are seen. There is a good 

 supply of smilax, adiantum and aspara- 

 gus. Prices on these remain about the 

 same. 



Varioiii Notes. 



The Boston Cooperative Flower Grow- 

 ers' Association has issued the prelimi- 

 nary premium list for its annual flower 

 show, to be held in Horticultural hall, 

 February 27 and 28. The exhibition prom- 

 ises to be the largest of a trade char- 

 acter ever held in New England, and 

 many visitors from other states will 

 attend. 



The stereopticon lecture by Prof. E. A. 

 White, of Amherst, on * ' Ornamental Gar- 

 dens and Garden Materials," attracted 

 an audience which filled the lecture room 

 of Horticultural hall January 23. The 

 lecturer, who spoke for one and one-half 

 hours, showed successively the gardens 

 of England, Italy, Japan, the American- 



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