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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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3vvt 1, 1909. 



We look for a good Summer business because we can supply 



Better Stock 



than the average — there's a good call in the 

 hot months if one only has a better grade of 

 goods than is seen at other places. :: :: 



Call on us when you need something right 



Vaughan & Spcrry 



~^^ VISIT US IN OUR NEW DOUBLE ^STORE flig JS 



52-54 Wabash Avenue, fen?;.^!?!'; CHICAGO 



Ottf Leaders 



Peonies 



$2.00 to $4.00 per 100. Fancy, $5.00 

 to $6.00 per 100. 



Roses 



$3.00 to $6.00 per 100. Special Kil- 

 larney and Kaiserin, $8.00 to $10.00 

 per 100. 



Sweet Peas 



40c to 75c per 100. 



Carnations 



Fine for the eeaeon, $1.00 to $2.00 

 per 100. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



MILWAUKEE. 



TheMaifcet 



Summer arrived in due time and with 

 it came the first really warm weather, 

 which has already proved that this sea- 

 son is practically at an end. The ex- 

 tremely warm nights hustled all indoor 

 and outdoor stock along; consequently 

 the supply was away ahead of the de- 

 mand. There was the biggest glut of the 

 season in peonies, carnations and roses, 

 with the exception of Beauties and Kil- 

 larneys. The only flowers holding their 

 own were sweet peas. And all this caused 

 a great deal of hustling, with no great 

 margin. It again showed that it pays 

 to grow good stock only, for the poor 



frades took a rapid exit toward the 

 ump. The first part of the week there 

 was not much doing to help relieve the 

 situation, but in the latter part there 

 were several commencement exercises that 

 helped some. Now that the schools are 

 closed, most folks leave for their summer 

 homes, thus putting an end, as it were, to 

 this season, which, from reports, has been 

 a most satisfactory one. 



Various Notes. 



In looking over past records, the Edlef- 

 sen-Leidiger Co. finds that business from 

 May 20 to June 20 this year surpassed 

 that of the same time in any of the five 

 previous years. 



The C. C. PoUworth Co. has the mate- 

 rial on hand for the addition of several 

 greenhouses. 



Posters are up announcing the fourth 

 annual picnic of the Milwaukee Gardeh- 

 ers' Association, to be held July 18 at 

 Jones' grove. Everybody is welcome. 



The premium list of the State Board 

 of Agriculture for the state fair, to be 

 held September 13 to 17, is out and any- 

 one interested in the flower bed division 

 can secure one by addressing John M. 

 True, secretary, Madison, Wis. Through 

 the efforts of our Florists' Club the 

 prizes were arranged in a more satisfac- 

 tory manner. 



Although the weather has been hot of 

 late, we have been blessed with showers 

 at short intervals and stock in the field 

 is in a fine growing condition. 



The Holton & Hunkel Co. has its two 

 new houses in fine fthape, and planted 



with Beauties and tea roses at this time. 



E. O. 



Last week was about the worst experi- 

 enced in this market for some time. 

 There was a continuous glut of stock 

 from one end of the week to the other, 

 due principally to the sudden warm 

 weather coming in the first part of the 

 week, crowding in all the peonies at one 

 time, as well as a heavy crop of carna- 

 tions and roses, which made it impossible 

 to move all the stock at respectable fig- 

 ures, and quite a quantity of it went to 

 waslie. Although there were quite a few 

 wedding orders as well as commence- 

 ment exercises in some of the schools, yet 

 this had little effect on the market, con- 

 sidering the stock coming in, and much 

 of the stock needed sorting over to a con- 

 siderable extent. 



The C. C. PoUworth Co. found it neces- 

 sary to add two propagating houses to 

 take care of the young stock. C. C. P. 



NEW YORK. 



TheMukeL 



The last week has broken all June 

 records for uninterrupted high tempera- 

 ture. At times the mercury touched 100 

 degrees and nothing under 90 degrees 

 was given consideration at all. A cyclone 

 of rain fell Friday night, June 25, and 

 Sunday, June 27. This week opens with 

 a record of 80 degrees, so it is hot 

 enough for anyone, and the indoor stock 

 of roses and carnations is largely un- 

 salable. If one asks an authority for 

 quotations, he is apt to get the cold 

 shoulder, which is the only cold thing in 

 the street, and is told, ' * Don 't quote any- 

 thing; there is no business! Nobody 

 wants nothing." And that about ex- 

 presses it. 



The highest quotations are for only a 

 little of the selected stock used by the 

 elite stores, where price always is a con- 

 sideration second to quality. These so- 

 ciety people pay the same for their 

 roses and orchids the year around and 

 know nothing about fluctuation in values 

 outside of Wall street. It is diflBcult to 

 make the final price at which the whole- 

 salers close out the surplus daily low 

 enough to indicate the slaughter. From 



Western Florists 



Save time and freight 

 by buying 



SUPPLIES 



from the largest supply 

 house in the west 



THE BARTELDES SEED GO. 



DENVER. COLO. 



Descriptive wholesale price list now ready 



MentloD The Review when you write. 



now until September money talks and 

 some of those department store plungers 

 will escape with a load of lilies, roses and 

 carnations and pay from $10 per thou- 

 sand down. 



All roses this week show the effect 

 of the heated spell and few arrive that 

 are salable at all. Beauties have to be 

 superb to sell at 10 cents. Peonies are 

 through. Some stock comes in daily and 

 stays in. The last storm ended their 

 beauty. Carnations can be bought from 

 1 cent down and the sleepy ones might 

 better have stayed at home. Sweet peas,, 

 when perfect, hold their values well. The 

 exhibition of them at the American In- 

 stitute of Natural History, July 7 and 

 8, will place them on a prouder pedestaL 

 The society and its exhibition promise 

 to be a great success. Secretary Bun- 

 yard has done much missionary work. 

 The interest awakened is remarkable. 



Plenty of orchids are arriving, splen- 

 did stock, worthy of double what is real- 

 ized for them. GladioU are here from 

 the south and the price is falling. The 

 local shipments cannot be long delayed. 

 Soon the old, familiar figure of 50 cents- 

 per hundred will be in evidence. 



