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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AnauST 12, 1909. 



FANCY FERN 



riNEST 



MICHIGAN 



STOCK 



FANCY FERN 



Per IOOO9 $1.25. Special price on large lots. 



Green and Bronze Galax $1.25 per 1000; $8.50 per 10,000 



Leucotlioe Sprays, green $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1000 



Spliagnum Moss per bale, $1.25; 6 bales, $7.00; extra fine. 



Full line Cut Flowers at all limes. 



MichlEan Gut Flower Exdiange, 3840 Broadway, Detroit, Mich. 



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Why 



Use 



Galax Leaves §r Magnolia Leaves 



WHEREVER FLORISTS* SUPPLIES ARE SOLD. OR FROM 



Green and Brown 

 $1.75 per Basket of 

 1000 Leaves. 



Geller Florist Supply Co., we.t > 



8^6°th"s1eet. Ncw Yorfc City 



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DENVER. 



The Market. 



Gladioli and asters now have the call. 

 Both are of good quality and have a fair 

 sale. Carnations are nearly out of the 

 market, although a few of the growers 

 are cutting a few new ones. New Beau- 

 ties are coming in slowly, but there will 

 be plenty of them a little later, and the 

 stems are getting longer. My Maryland 

 and Killarney are the other two best roses 

 just now and they are uniformly good. 

 Sweet peas are much in evidence and some 

 sell for a song. Business has been quiet 

 for the last week or so. 



Colorado Florists' OrgAtdze. 



The Colorado florists organized a soci- 

 ety August 6, with a charter membership 

 of seventy-three, all but a dozen of whom 

 live in Denver. Its object is to get to- 

 gether those engaged in the florists' and 

 allied trades in the state. All florists and 

 professional gardeners, seedsmen, nursery- 

 men, superintendents of parks and manu- 

 facturers of supplies for florists' use and 

 others commercially interested in horti- 

 culture and floriculture, are eligible to 

 membership. The following officers were 

 elected: 



President — J. A. Valentine. 

 Vice-president — T. D. Long. 

 Secretary — A. H. Bush. 

 Treasurer — John Berry. 



Selection of trustees and the appoint- 

 ment of different committees will take 

 place at the next monthly meeting, Sep- 

 tember 9. 



It was a social gathering, with refresh- 

 ments and speeches, the meeting being 

 held in the new rooms which have been 

 rebuilt for the Denver Wholesale Florists 

 Co., 1435 California street. 



Various Notes. 



All the talk now is of going to the 

 S. A. F. convention. Through the efforts 

 of President Valentine a special Pullman 

 car has been placed at our disposal from 

 here to Chicago, with many other cour- 

 tesies, which is going to make the trip 

 thoroughly enjoyable. Stop-over privi- 



rCRNS, $1.25 per 1000. 



GALAX. $1.00 p«r 1000. 



Send Me Your Cut Flower Orders 



ROSES Per 100 



Kalserin $2.00 to $4.00 



KillBrney 2.00 to 4 00 



Cochet 2.00 to 4.60 



Per 100 



Carn»tlonB $2.00 



Asters $1.0O to 2.00 



^lumosus. Bprenarerl, Leuootlioe. 



Green Moss and SpliaKnam, $1.00 per bale. 



WILLIAM MURPHY, Wholesale Commission Florist 



311 Main Street, CINCINNATI, OHIO 



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Log Mosses 



Natural and Perpetuated 



Special prices for quantity lots for future 

 delivery. 



E. A. BEAVEN, Evergreen, Ala. 



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leges at different cities may be had 

 should any of the party see fit. 



The bowling team expects to practice in 

 the aisle of the car going through Kansas 

 and Nebraska. E. S. K. 



HUMEA ELEGANS GIGANTEA. 



Humea elegans was introduced from 

 Australia, where it is a native, about a 

 century ago. According to the Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle, it flowered in the garden 

 of Lady Hume, Wormleybury, Hertford- 

 shire, and was named in compliment of 

 her by Sir James Edward Smith, who 

 published a figure of it in his Exotic 

 Botany in 1804. It is a robust-growing 

 biennial, six to nine feet high, with 

 tobacco-like leaves and an inflorescence 

 which certainly does not suggest a mem- 

 ber of the compositsB, the very small flow- 

 ers arranged on a large, loose panicle, 

 with gracefully pendulous branches 

 clothed with red, involucral bracts, hav- 

 ing more the appearance of the plume of 

 the pampas grass. The plant is popular 



Rochester Quality 



br(y Snow Drift and Maiiet 



ASTERS 



In Good Supply. 



GEO. B. HART 



84 Stone St., ROCHESTER, N.Y. 



for conservatories and for sub-tropical 

 bedding, the strong balsamic odor of the 

 leaves and the elegance of the flower pan- 

 icles being its chief attractions. It sets 

 seeds freely under cultivation, and these 

 should be sown not later than July. 



About twenty years ago the late Baron 

 Mueller, then director of the Melbourne 

 Botanic Gardens, sent to Kew seeds of a 

 humea which he thought was either a new 

 species or a well-marked variety of H. 

 elegans. Plants were raised, and they 

 flowered in the temperate house, but, 

 failing to set seeds, they were not per- 

 petuated. Two years ago seeds of humea 

 were again sent to Kew from the Mel- 

 bourne Botanic Gardens, and the plants 



