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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



November 25, 1909. 



Reliable Christmas Greens 



We do not claim cheapness for our Christmas Greens except as "the best is always the 

 Greens. It is quality you veant and \ire offer. Don't be caught by lower prices; be sure 

 stock can be sold. 



MOUNTAIN LAUREL HOLLT WREATHS 



Medium Laurel Wreathing, per 100 yds.. 16. 00 12-inch, single, per dozen $ 2.00 



Heavy Laurel Wreathing, per 100 yds... 8.00 12-incb, single, per 100 12.50 



Branch Laurel, per bunch 75 12-incb, double, per dozen 3.00 



BEST DELAWARE HOLLY 



XXX Brand. Well berried, in full size cases. 



Per case $ 5.00 



5 cases 2.S.75 



10 cases 45.00 



WILD SMILAX 

 Best grade obtainable. 50-lb. case $5.00 



WINTER BERRIES 



Per case $ 3.00 



5 cases 14 00 



CHRISTMAS EVERGREEN 

 WREATHING 



Medium, per lOO yds $3.50 



Extra Heavy, per 100 yds 5 00 



cheapest," and this is specially true of Holiday 

 of the quality. Here is as cheap as the best 



Evergreen wreaths 



12-lnch, plain, double, per dozen $1.50 



12-inch, with Immortelles, per dozen 2.00 



MISTLETOE-Quality the best. 



1 lb $0.26 



5 lbs 1.20 



10 lbs 2.25 



ITALIAN BOXWOOD 



Per bunch 10.25 50-lb case $7.50 



This is especially imported and is of the 

 finest quality. 



All prices on above eoods subject to cbanees. Send for complete illustrated Price List of Cliristnias Specialties. 



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Red and Foliaife Green. No. 5, per bolt, 25c. No. 16, per bolt, 60c. No. 22, per bolt, 75c. No. 40, per bolt, 90c. No. 80, per bolt, $1.00. 



JAPANESE AIR PLANT 



Large lot of specially fine bunches just received. 



CORRUGATED BOXES 



Just what you need for shipping Wreaths, etc. 



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selling fairly vpell. Eichmond has sprung 

 into favor. 



Keally first-class carnations are hold- 

 ing up fairly well, but generally speak- 

 ing the carnation market is weak. With 

 the prices so low as they were, it is 

 only natural that the growers should 

 have saved up stock, hoping for an ex- 

 tra demand this week. This accumu- 

 lated stock has been selling according 

 to value, and some of it had hardly any 

 money value. The result is a wide range 

 in prices, with the usual disappointment 

 at averages. 



Chrysanthemums have sold better this 

 week than at any time recently. There 

 has been an adequate supply of the big, 

 fancy, late varieties; so many, in fact, 

 that they have not realized their full 

 value; but good small flowers have not 

 been equal to the demand at the price. 

 Chrysanthemums are now fairly well 

 cleaned up, but there will be mums in 

 the market for a month yet. 



Violets have not realized as much 

 money as they did last Thanksgiving. 

 Sweet peas are more abundant. There 

 is plenty of valley, but it has been sell- 

 ing well. Stevia, bouvardia and mignon- 

 ette, with Paper Whites, are now avail- 

 able. 



There is nothing new in the green 

 goods market, but boxwood of good 

 quality is again selling fairly well. 



Club Meeting;. 



The Florists' Club held an adjourned 

 meeting at the Union restaurant Novem- 

 ber 18 to felicitate itself on the finan- 

 cial outcome of its connection with the 

 fiower show and to voice the hope of its 

 members for still better things. This is 

 the first time on record that the club 

 has made a penny out of the show, and 

 many speakers thought the time has now 

 come when the club should be admitted 

 to full partnership in the exhibitions of 

 the Horticultural Society. 



According to reports presented by E. 

 F. Winterson, J. B. Deamud, Ed Enders, 

 Fred Lautenschlager and D. A. Eobert- 



son, for their various committees, the 

 club has a net profit on the show of 

 between $400 and $5 0, while the Horti- 

 cultural Society, in the face of the bad 

 last day, maue about $2,600 net. Of the 

 club's income, $472.13 came from the 

 flower booth, where the profit fell only 

 about $75 short of what was made in 

 the nine days during the national show 

 last year. The committee spoke a word 

 of appreciation for Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Bassett & Washburn, Wietor Bros., Peter 

 Keinberg, J. A. Budlong, George Eein- 

 berg, E. F. Winterson Co., Zech & Mann, 

 C. W. McKellar, J. B. Deamud, C. A. 

 Samuelson and Schiller, who donated 

 stock. All the committees were dis- 

 charged with thanks, and H. E. Philpott, 

 the member from Winnipeg, was given a 

 special vote of appreciation for his work. 



G. D. Eeid and Ed Assa were elected 

 to membership, and the names of A. C. 

 Kohlbrand, J. H. Prost and Joseph Ko- 

 boquist were proposed. 



The names of August Poehlmann and 

 C. L. Washburn were added to those of 

 W. N. Eudd, J. C. Vaughan and Leon- 

 ard Kill to consider the matter of ask- 

 ing for the 1911 S. A. F. convention. 



Fred Lautenschlager gave a short ac- 

 count of the St. Louis and Milwaukee 

 shows and the secretary was instructed 

 to express to the clubs of those cities the 

 congratulations of Chicago and the 

 club's thanks for hospitalities shown its 

 members. 



T. E. Waters acted as secretary in the 

 absence of Secretary Johnson, who was 

 out of town. Eefreshments were served, 

 as usual. 



Various Notes. 



Louis Bauscher and his son, James, 

 of Freeport, 111., have been in town buy- 

 ing supplies for the new store they plan 

 to open shortly. 



Fourteen young ladies, employees of 

 the W. W. Barnard Co., had a jolly time 

 Saturday evening, November 20, at a 

 theater party, preceded by a chop suey 



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supper. The boys were barred from the 

 festivities, as this was strictly ladies' 

 night, and the girls report the time of 

 their lives. 



The executive committee of the Horti- 

 cultural Society held a meeting Novem- 

 ber 19 to approve reports on the flower 

 show. It appears that the profit was 

 about $3,200, a few accounts yet remain- 

 ing to be adjusted. So successful did 

 this show prove, costing slightly more 

 than $9,000, that it already has been 

 decided to hold one in 1910, and George 

 Asmus has been appointed a committee 

 of one to draft a preliminary premium 

 list. J. H. Stockmans was voted $100 

 in recognition of the merit of his land- 

 scape plan for the last show, and Man- 

 ager Asmus, Press Agent Burdett and 

 Ed Hauswirth, who had charge of the 

 admission, each received a recognition 

 in cash for their good work, to which 

 the success of the show was largely due, 



