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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jdnb 3, 1909. 



Price List^Large Snpply of Good Stock in all Lines 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Sr.. 



liOniT •terns $8.0U ' 



80-inch atems 2.60 



24-iiich stems 2.00 



SO-inch stems 1.60 



16-inch stems 1.26 



12-inch stems 1.00 



Short 76 



Per 100 

 Richmond, select $6.00 to 98.00 



** medium 4.00 to 6.00 



Killarney, select 6.00 to 8.00 



" medium 4H)0 to 6.00 



Bridesmaid 4.00 to 6.00 



Bride 4.00 to 6.00 



Ivory 4.00 to 6.00 



Perle 4.00 to 6.00 



ROSES, our selection 3.00 



CARNATIONS 



$2.00 per 100 



Per 100 



Valley $3.00 to $4.00 



Easter Lilies dos., $1.60 



Callas " 1.60 



Asparagus Plumosus, extra quality, per bunch, .60 to .76 

 Fancy Ferns per lOOU, $3.00 



Peter Reinberg, '"-ThV^oo 



MentloD The Revlfw when tou write- 



Hill, of the Hill Floral Co., Geneseo, HI., 

 resting up after a three days ' Decoration 

 day. 



( Bassett & Washburn have begun to cut 

 • ^rom their range of Beauties and Kais- 

 erin, grown for the summer crop. 



Weiland & Eisch are now cutting 

 Kaiserin, and within three weeks will 

 begin to cut from the young plants of 

 Killarney. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. received 

 old red peonies from Park Ridge June 1. 



J, A. Budlong is bringing in a crop of 

 summer Beauties of excellent quality. 



N. J. Wietor believes there will be a 

 first-class market for Beauties through 

 June. 



Zech & Mann have a consignor who is 

 sending in several thousands a day of 

 special fancy outdoor valley. The out- 

 door valley now in the market is in most 

 cases fully as good as the indoor stock. 



The bowlers will have a prize contest 

 Friday night, and at the same time start 

 a series of thirty games to determine the 

 make-up of the convention team. 



Ionia, Mich. — Decoration day trade 

 this year was a record breaker. Every- 

 thing in the greenhouses that was in 

 bloom was cleaned out. M. Wetterling, 

 aa \isual, had an exceptionally fine lot of 

 hybrid perpetual roses in pots. Some of 

 these bore as many as eight full-blown 

 flowers. Most of these were purchased 

 by the farmers. The farmers around 

 here are unusually prosperous this year, 

 owing to the fact that they are getting 

 high prices for their produce, and also 

 because Ionia county went "dry" this 

 season. 



NEW YORK. 



TheMai^et 



Glorious weather for the Decoration 

 day business, and all through the three 

 days up to Monday noon. The demand 



faVERY now and then a well 

 ■3 pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is ttie means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florists' use 

 not at present advertised* 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Cazton BIdg. Chicago 



for wreaths of every kind, and cut flow- 

 ers, and even plants, has been insistent 

 and encouraging. Prices mended rapidly 

 after Monday, May 24, in the wholesale 

 market, and each day up to Saturday 

 showed improvement. But by noon Mon- 



day of this week the influence of larger 

 shipments began to be felt seriously, and 

 even on Monday morning it was evident 

 the boom was over. Top Decoration day 

 prices were 35 cents for Beauties, 15 

 cents for Bichmond and Killarney, 10 

 cents for Bride and Maid and 4 cents for 

 carnations. At these prices the leading 

 stores absorbed the best stock, and even 

 for firsts and seconds good figures pre- 

 vailed. The backward wave began to 

 roll in Saturday evening, and Sunday 

 was hardly up to expectations. Whole- 

 sale houses closed at noon Sunday, and 

 on Monday at the same hour. 



Tuesday, June 1, came the flood, and 

 from now on there will surely be enough 

 of everything to go around, and summer 

 values will prevail. Lilac has about 

 passed on, and now the snowball holds 

 the fort. These are in every window, and 

 were in great demand for decorative 

 work, especially among the cemetery flo- 

 rists, where an enormous business has 

 everywhere been done. The plant trade 

 was fully up to expectations. 



The Plant Market. 



Saturday morning, hours before the 

 sun rose, the great New York Covent 

 Garden market, where John Birnie is 

 king, and nearly every grower of impor- 

 tance, and dozens of the lesser grade, 

 are represented, was a scene of aggres- 

 sive activity that augurs hopefully for 

 the coming larger enterprise, where un- 

 der its own roof and with proper space 

 and facilities this echo of the great Lon- 

 don market may become a plant center 

 worthy of the name. Hundreds of grow- 

 ers and buyers were there even as early 

 as 1 a. m., and over $4,000 worth of 



