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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fkbhuaby 24, 1910. 



Easter Lilies 



We are cutting now an average of 1000 Lilies per day. Very choice stock, large 

 flowers, long stems and fine foliage. They are the best flowers in the market and are 

 in great demand during this severe shortage of Beauties and Roses. We are selling 

 them at $15.00 per 100 or $2.00 per doz. Buy direct of the grower and get fresh stock. 



American Beauties, Roses, Fancy Carnations, 

 Tulips, Daffodils, Valley, Easter Lilies and Greens. 



Write us for our ▼eekly Price List* We keep you posted on the market. 



Office and Store, 76 Watwsh Ave., 



B\S$En & WASHBURN, 



Qreenhouses, HINSDALE, ILL. 



Chicago 



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also slaokenod. Eastt-r lilies are not as 

 abundant as they were and oeeasionally 

 it has been difficult to fill orders. ^lod- 

 erate quantities of callas seem to suffice 

 for tlie demand. Orchids, gardenias and 

 white lilac are available for all orders 

 on which a few hours' notice is given. 



There is little change in the violet sit- 

 uation. Beceipts are not quite so heavy 

 and quality not quite so good, and prices 

 have traveled in the same direction as 

 quality. ^ While it seems possible to sell 

 most of the doubles, if the price is made 

 low enough, the singles do not go as well, 

 though the quality is fully as good. 

 Violet growers will find little incentive 

 toward increased production in the re- 

 turns of the last few weeks and things 

 seem to be getting worse instead of bet- 

 ter. 



The situation in green goods shows no 

 change. Asparagus bunches still are 

 comparatively scarce, with extremely 

 light demand for asparagus strings and 

 an abundant supply jf everything else. 

 It is reported that some of the whole- 

 salers have met with disappointment in 

 the matter of the ferns in storage, and 

 the apparent anxiety of some of the 

 ori^al sources of supply to unload 

 their stock gives rise to the belief that 

 ferns are spoiling in first hands. An ad- 

 vance in price for good stock is there- 

 fore anticipated, although prices now 

 are lower than ordinary at this season. 



Various Notes. 



The prospect for lilies for Easter is 

 already occupying attention. The gen- 

 eral report is that the stock is nowhere 

 near along as it should be and that the 

 supply wifi be only a fraction of what it 

 usually is. The growers all say that on 

 lookiiiff around they find the other fel- 

 low will only get ya a part of his stock, 

 that some of it is weeks behind, but each 

 grower adds that he expects to flower all 

 his own bulbs on time. 



Ed. Roehrs and R. Muller, of the 

 Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J., 

 were in town several days last week and 

 report has it that they sold a lot of or- 

 chid plants to local cut flower growers. 



Anton Then, Jr., is out after an ill- 

 ness of thirteen weeks with typhoid 

 fever. 



Peter Beinberg's campaign for reelec- 



tion to the city council is progressing 

 quietly. Thus far the republicans have 

 not placed any one in the field against 

 him. 



Weiland & Risch say business is bettor 

 than usual in Lent. 



At J. A. Budlong's comment is made 

 on the light call for Beauties. They 

 assert that the number of wholesalers 

 buying of them speaks plainly of the 

 quality of the stock, but say the demand 

 has not cleaned up their moderately 

 heavy cut for some days; everything else 

 seems to be selling better than Beauties 

 at the moment. 



John Zech says he thinks the growers 

 will find a means of flowering a fair 

 proportion of their lilies for Easter, so 

 that everybody can get some. 



Alois Frey, of Crown Point, is pre- 

 paring to send out a set of five of his 

 new seedling single and pompon chrysan- 

 themums. The set which he sent out in 

 1909 sold extremely well and he has al- 

 ready booked a considerable number of 

 orders for the 1910 set. 



Frank Garland, at Des Plaines, says 

 that he is behind with his propagating 

 this year, not having secured as yet all 

 the carnation cuttings he will require for 

 his own use. 



Tiie entertainment committee of the 

 Florists' Club announces that ladies' 

 night will occur March 3, with dinner at 

 the Union hotel at 8 p. m. This is tlie 

 regular meeting night. There will be a 

 fine niusical entertainment. 



August Poehlmann says that Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. has 22,000 lily plants at 

 Morton Grove, looking about as well as 

 he could ask. 



Wendland & Keimel, at Des Plaines, 

 started February 15 on the erection of 

 three new houses 27x200. Next season 

 they will have 9,000 White Killarney, 

 18,000 Killaiiioy and one house which 

 may be used either for Richmond or My 

 Maryland. 



Emil Buettner will this season add 

 four new houses to his range of 140,000 

 feet at Park Ridge and also rebuild one 

 of the older houses. He plans to plant 

 5,000 more White Killarney in the ad- 

 ditional space. 



Bassett & Washburn have had a big 

 cut of Formosa Easter lilies and while 

 the market was well supplied put a 



Will do at Public Tests 

 It will do for You 



At these demonBtratione we proved 

 conclnBively that within a very abort 

 time it will destroy Black, Green and 

 White Fly, Mealy Bag and Scale. 



It is equally effective against Red 

 Spider and Thripe. 



ItB comparativs cost with other 

 iniecticidea makes APHINE one of 

 the most economical remedies now 

 on the market for greenhouse and 

 outdoor work. 



Send for name of nearest 

 selling agent. 



APHINE MANUPACTURING CO. 



MADISON, N. J. 



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quantity of the greenest in cold storage. 

 Last week when lilies became suddenly 

 scarce they took them out, in splendid 

 condition, and got better prices than the 

 average Easter affords. 



At E. H. Hunt's it is said that the so- 

 called Italian baskets are proving as 

 good sellers as any Easter novelty in 

 years. 



LubUner & Trinz have joined the 

 ranks of the retailers Avho are advertising 

 in the leading daily paper. Lange set 

 the pace. Now Fleischman, Wittbold 

 and Bohannon are pretty regular adver- 

 tisers and find it pays, while Samuel- 

 son, Smyth and others do something in 

 the pubUcity line at holiday time. 



W. J. Keimel brought home the splen- 

 did Killarneys and White Killarneys 

 Wendland & Keimel exhibited, at the 



