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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jdnb 24, 1909. 



PEONIES 



Good, 25q medium, 35c; fancy, 50c to 75c per doz. 



ROSES of all varieties 

 Fancy Carnations In Large Supply 



All othmt Cut no'wsrs In aMMon and •▼•rythlnc In Baskets, Bibbona and 



Otb«r R«quialtes. 



E. H. HUNT 



Established 1878. Oldest House in the West Incorporated 1906 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. 



BKAUmS Par do.. 



SOtoSS-ihoh SS.OOtoSl.OO 



attoSO-incti 2.00 to 8.00 



Utoao-inob 1.60to 200 



StoU-inob .75to 1.00 



Sborta .$4.00 per 100 



B08K8 (T.ai) Par 100 



Bride and Maid $4.00 to • 6.00 



Ricbmond 6.00to 8.00 



Klllamey 4.00to 8.00 



Perle S.OOto 7.00 



Boaes. oar aelection 8.00 



OABNATION8. mediom 1.00 



" fancy 1.60 to 2.00 



HI8CBIXANBOUS 



Harriiil Uliea 10.00 



Oallas 10.00 



Valier S.OOto 4.00 



SweetPeaa Mto 1.00 



Peonies 2.00to 6.00 



OladioU 4.00to 8.00 



Mignonette 4.00to 6.00 



Panfeies doz. buncbes, 60c 



OBBBIfS 



SmUaz Strlnn perdoi., 1.60 to 2.00 



Aaparagua 8trinn>- eaob, M 



Aaparagua Buncnea .86to .60 



Sprenaeri Boncbea " .25 to M 



Adlantam par 100. 1.00 



rama, Common par 1000. 160 



Oalax " 1.00 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



grown here and the local market has 

 been kept well supplied. At the older 

 and smaller place on West Mulberry 

 street, where Mr. Unglaub has for many 

 years lived and conducted a local retail 

 business in miscellaneous plants, chrysan- 

 themums will hereafter be grown. Mr. 

 Unglaub is a hard and indefatigable 

 worker, who has paddled his own canoe 

 until it has now arrived at a destina- 

 tion of some importance. 



The recently completed new house of 

 the Leedle Kosary has been planted with 

 Kichfhond and Killarney, which, with 

 Bride, Maid and Ehea Reid already pro- 

 ducing, will give Springfield a much 

 greater variety and quantity of roses 

 than heretofore enjoyed and also enable 

 the company to supply more to buyers 

 in the large cities. The plant now con- 

 sists of two houses, each 30x300, and 

 one 24x125, making a total of 35,000 

 feet of glass. In the smaller house car- 

 nations have been grown, but these have 

 been discarded and Bride and Maid 

 roses planted in their place, the future 

 policy being to grow roses exclusively. 

 Nothing but own-root stock has been 

 planted, Springfield-grown as far aa ob- 

 tainable, and most excellent results have 

 already been achieved in the growing 

 department, while the sales and shipping 

 have been successfully managed by A. 

 C. Leedle. A new Gem City marine 

 boiler of ninety horse-power will be in- 

 stalled, in addition to the one of fifty- 

 four horse-power of the same type, both 

 having double fire boxes. A concrete tank 

 has been provided, for liquid manure, 

 which will be pumped through the water 

 pipes as occasion may require, by means 

 of a steam pump. This is the first at- 

 tempt in thia vicinity to grow cut roses 

 on a commercial scale and is being 

 watched with interest by the local fra- 

 ternity, all of whom have for years been 

 too much absorbed in more diversified 

 and constantly expanding lines to make 

 any attempt in this direction, but there 

 seems to be no reason why Springfield 

 should not become as prominent in the 

 cut rose industry as in the growing of 

 rose plants. Ge Dale. 



Bay City, Mich. — Schweers & Potratz 

 have dissolved partnership. The busi- 

 ness will be continued by Carl B. 

 Schweers. 



ROCHESTER. N. Y. 



The Market 



The month of June to date has been 

 a busy one, weddings and commence- 

 ments creating a good demand for roses 

 and sweet peas. Both of these flowers 

 have been short of the demand. There 

 seems to be a falling off in the quan- 

 tity of flowers used for commencement 

 exercises in comparison with previous 

 years. Carnations have been a glut on 

 the market for some time, and almost 

 impossible to move at any price. The 

 plant trade shows a remarkable increase 

 and practically everything salable is 

 cleaned up. 



Variotts Notes. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Rochester Commercial Florists' Associa- 

 tion was held June 14. Plans of the 

 forthcoming flower show were shown and 

 met with the approval of those present. 

 A. H. Seeker, vice-president of the as- 

 sociation, announced his resignation, be- 

 ing about to remove to Philadelphia. E. 

 P. Wilson was elected to the office made 

 vacant by the resignation of Mr. Seeker. 



That the trade is in a flourishing con- 

 dition is evident from the number of 

 new houses going up. E. H. Eeuston is 

 putting up a new house for asparagus; 

 Purssell & Cragg have two rose houses 

 in process of construction; Charles Lee 

 has his new house planted to asters for 

 an early crop, the plants looking fine. 

 George Crooke & Co. contemplate adding 

 to their plant. 



W. T. Fonda has gone to Niagara 

 Falls to attend the seedsmen's conven- 

 tion. H. B. S. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



Southern Society Dead. 



The New Orleans Horticultural Society 

 held its monthly meeting June 17. The 

 most important subject discussed was 

 what to do with the Society of Southern 

 Florists, which was formed some time 

 ago. It is to be regretted that the south- 

 ern states did not take the matter in 

 hand with more will, and the interest 

 manifested in the society has been so 

 cold that the originators of the project 

 found that the best way was to disband 



the association. No society can exist 

 without at least its members paying their 

 dues, and Secretary P. Abele said that 

 almost every member was neglecting to 

 do this. It was decided to have the 

 N. O. H. S. outing meeting at Milneburg, 

 one of the resorts of Lake Pontchartrain, 

 where a banquet will be given July 15. 

 At the same time the election of officers 

 for the ensuing year will take place. H. 

 Papworth, Paul Abele and Henry Cook 

 are of the arrangements committee. 



H. Dressel was presented as a new 

 member. 



Various Notes. 



The aster crop has suffered from the 

 change of the weather. It seems that 

 the plants raised on benches stand bet- 

 ter. To illustrate this new process of 

 growing B. Eichling brought to the last 

 club meeting a few blooms as a sample 

 of a patch growing at U. J. Virgin's. 



Business is quite dull, the stores being 

 idle when not doing funeral work. 



M. M. L. 



MOUNT KISCO, N. Y. 



The exhibition of the Westchester 

 Horticultural and Agricultural Society 

 took place in the Mount Kisco Opera 

 House Friday, June 18, 19 and 20. 

 There was a splendid display of roses, 

 strawberries and perennial flowers. H. 

 A. Spavins, a local florist, worked 

 hard to make the exhibition the success 

 that it was and is entitled to great credit 

 for his decoration of the exhibition hall. 

 There was a particularly noteworthy dis- 

 play in the peony class, the first prize 

 going to W. Cowdin, Matthew Ball gard- 

 ener, and the second to Clarence Whit- 

 man, W. Wills gardener. The second 

 prize exhibit was remarkable in that fifty 

 varieties of the finest peonies were ex- 

 hibited, all correctly named, but, unfor- 

 tunately, the flowers were a little past 

 their best. A collection of pressed na- 

 tive flowers, exhibited by Charles Hilder- 

 brandt, gardener to Senator Agnew, was 

 of much interest. 



Among the other prize winners were 

 the following: J. Borden Harriman, M. 

 J. O'Brien gardener; Moses Taylor, B. 

 W. Beatty gardener; Hon. Seth Low, 

 Hugh Birch gardener ; J. D. Laying, 

 David Fraicis gardener; Col. Jay, A. L. 



