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The Florists' Review 



SBPXBMBEIt 3y 1914. 



We Want Yon to Try Onr Beanties 



We kaow there are no better Beauties coming into this market and we have a large supply— larger 

 than at any previous time this summer. We want especially to hear from regular buyers— we want to 

 show what we can do. Plenty of 18-inch to 24-inch stems. 



CAN FURNISH GOOD SUMMBR KOSIS IN ALL VABIBTIKS. 



Headquarters for Lilies, Giganteum and Rubrum 



We are prepared to fill all orders for Gladioli and Asters, any color, 



with first-class stocic 



A. L. VAUGHAN & CO. 



(NOT INC.) 



161 N. Wabash Ave. 



I Central 2571 



TELEPHONES^ Central 2578 



I Auto. 48-734 



CHICAGO 



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affecting the salability and price of 

 Beauties. There continue to be more 

 Beauties than the market really needs. 

 The prices all summer have been too 

 low. 



Carnations again begin to be a factor. 

 There are considerable quantities of 

 field-grown flowers and the new crop 

 from under glass has increased to a 

 point where it is to be reckoned with. 

 Of course the cut under glass is short 

 in stem, but the flowers are good. Some 

 of the late varieties of asters now of- 

 fered in increasing quantities are of 

 really excellent quality and the low 

 grade early and mid-season sorts have 

 practically passed out. Gladioli are 

 less abundant but still more than equal 

 to the demand. Prices appear to be all 

 that can be expected under the circum- 

 stances. 



One of the principal problems with 

 the wholesalers at present is how to 

 merchandise the large receipts of lilies 

 at prices which will make it possible 

 for the growers to break even. August 

 31 the storage spaces of several whole- 

 salers were seen each to contain from 

 2,000 to 5,000 lilies, in the afternoon 

 after most of the day 's business had 

 been done and after the views of prac- 

 tically every buyer had been met. The 

 lilies are fine and it seems strange that 

 buyers do not seek the opportunity to 

 use them in quantity at the prevailing 

 quantity prices. Rubruuis also are 

 abundant. 



Nothing new is to be said of cat- 

 tleyas; they are not in heavy supply, 

 hut the usual late summer demand has 

 not developed. The effort to raise the 

 price of valley has not yet met with 

 much success. Although no one knows 

 when new pips will be available, only 

 small quantities of the finest stock can 

 be sold at 5 cents, there still being 

 plenty of good valley sold at 4 eents 

 and even 3 cents because the buyers 

 will pay no more for it. Chrysanthe- 

 mums now are available in considerable 

 quantity. The yellow is Golden Glow 

 and the few whites are Smith's Ad- 

 vance. There are varying reports as to 

 the demand, some houses saying the 

 miims are hard to sell, while others re- 

 port that the buyers are beginning to 

 look for them. Cosmos is plentiful and 

 good. Dahlias are scarcely in evidence. 



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Dutch Bulbs Burned. 



The International Forwarding Co. has 

 abandoned a carload of Holland bulbs 

 received via the B. & O. R. R. in a 

 damaged condition. While on the Phila- 

 delphia & Reading road the car caught 

 fire and the contents was more or less 

 injured. Some of the cases were quite 

 badly charred, while others show no 

 mark of fire. The bulbs look good, but 

 it is the opinion of some of those who 

 have seen them that no one would care 

 to take a chance on the stock, knowing 

 what it has been through. There are 

 ninety-six cases in the lot, once worth, 

 possibly, $3,000, as the car contains nar- 

 cissi, tulips and hyacinths. The bulbs 

 were a combined shipment from C. J. 

 Speelman & Sons, Sassenheim, con- 

 signed to the forwarding agents at Chi- 

 cago, here to be split up and shipped to 

 the buyers. Some of the parcels bear 

 marks indicating that they were to be 

 used near Chicago, but the majority 

 appear to have been destined to Lin- 

 coln and other Nebraska points. They 

 are now in the B. & O. freight house 

 and probably will be sold at auction. 



Various Notes. 



A. Henderson writes interestingly 

 from Paris, where he arrived August 10. 

 His experiences of European travel in- 

 clude a military escort in cases where 

 it was thought he might be an emissary 

 of one of the warring powers. In com- 

 jiaiiy witli W. B. Van Eyck, of Van 



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McNeff-Swenson Co. 



High-Grade Floral Publicity 

 224 South Michigan Avonue 



ChicasfOy Illinois 



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Gelderen & Co., Mr. Henderson was 

 placed under military arrest at Bos- 

 koop, but the Chicagoan was escorted 

 back to Rotterdam. He says he found 

 the trade firms in Holland, France -^ni 

 England still doing business and that 

 shipments will, in most cases, come for- 

 ward with only slight delay. Mr. li 'i' 

 derson met Julius Roehrs, of Rut!'"''' 

 ford, N. J., in London, and L. C. 1' 'b 

 bink, of the same town, in Amsteni'iii. 

 A cablegram from Mr. Hendci-on 

 stated he expected to leave Liveri lol 

 August 28 on the Calgarian, arrivin at 

 Quebec September 3. 



Albert Amling and family arri en 

 home from Europe August 29, ha^ "? 

 sailed from Copenhagen, which nen 'a' 

 port they reached after an exciting t me 

 in Germany. They made their way i- •i'" 

 across the German empire after •"" 

 broke out. 



Visitors at the store of Poehim ''" 

 Bros. Co. are congratulating Otto ^*' 

 Frese on the arrival August 29 of 'to 

 W. Frese, Jr. Little Miss Alice F' "sc 

 has now reached the mature ag< "^^ 

 fourteen months. 



