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The Weekly Fforists' Review. 



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JULZ 6, 1911. 



GOOD CROP of ROSES 



WHITE KILLARNEY especially fine 



CURRENT PRICE LIST— Subject to change without notice 

 BEAUTIES Perdoz. 

 Extra Select $3.00 



Per 100 

 $6.00 

 4.00 



36-inch etems 2.50 



30-inch stems 2.00 



24-inch stems 1.75 



20- inch stems ; 1.60 



15-inchv8f^i 1.25 



12-inch Btems 1.00 



Short stem 76 



Per 100 



Killarney, select $6.00 



" medium $3.00 @ 4.00 



White Killarney, select 6.00 



" " medium 3.00 @ 4.00 



ROSES, our selection, 



Jardine (finest pink rose), select 



" " medium... $3.00 @ 



Uncle John, select 6.00 



" " medium 3.00 @ 4.00 



Richmond, select 6.00 



" medium 3.00 @ 4.00 



Carnations, fancy 2.00 



" good 1.60 



Easter Lilies 8.00 @ 10.00 



VaUey 3.00 @ 4.00 



Sweet Peas 76 @ 1.25 



New Ferns per 1000, 1.50 



Spreng^eri and Asparagus Sprays . . . .per bunch, .60 

 All €hreen Gk>ods at market rates. 



- - $4.00 per 100 



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tae really better than one would ex- 

 pect to be able to get after the mer- 

 cury in the thermometers had been boil- 

 ing over intermittently for six weeks 

 or more. The greatest trouble is to find 

 roses that have enough stem. The great- 

 er part of the receipts are short, small 

 and open. A few fine Kaiscrin are seen, 

 but the variety has been discarded by 

 most of the growers, they being willing 

 to put their dependence in White Kil- 

 larney. The shipping orders almost all 

 call for roses, as they are the best flow- 

 ers now to be had. 



Gladioli are in increased supply and 

 a few auratums have arrived to rein- 

 force the Easter lilies. In the last few 

 days these have begun to sell much bet- 

 ter, for the heat seems to have no effect 

 on their quality. Valley is abundant; 

 the weddings are over. Sweet peas are 

 about down and out because of the heat ; 

 such as are holding up are selling well. 

 Cattleyas are not overabundant. There 

 are quantities of field daisies and also 

 some fine Shastas. 



Greens are in fair supply and are 

 selling as well as could be expected at 

 a season of the year when a large part 

 of the demand is, of course, for funeral 

 flowers. 



Jane Weather. 



The month of June, 1911, was the 

 warmest June of oflScial record in Chi- 

 cago. Two decidedly warm periods 

 marked the month — June 1 to 11 and 

 June 19 to 26 — during which time maxi- 

 mum temperatures of 90 di-grees or 

 higher were recorded on six days. The 

 rainfall was deficient by nearly one- 

 third of the normal amount, and about 

 four-fifths of it occurred during the last 

 half of the month. Sunshine was con- 

 siderably in excess of the normal, 

 amounting to seventy-nine per cent of 

 the possible. 



July started with another heat wave, 

 in which the mean temperature ran for 

 several days nearly 20 degrees above 

 normal. 



June Business. 



, The business for June was a disap- 

 pointment, all because of the weather. 

 The first part of the month there was 

 a flood of stock, and the latter part of 

 the month correspondingly little. All 



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through the month the quality of the 

 greater part of the supply was poor, 

 -because of the heat. Early in the 

 month prices averaged as low a return 

 as flowers ever have made in this mar- 

 ket, and later the supply was so light 

 that the better prices made no con- 

 siderable sum of money, so that on the 

 whole June does not compare favor- 

 ably with the month last year, when 

 June was especially good. The year's 

 increase in glass was reflected in the 

 production of flowers, but not in the 

 money received, but practically every- 

 one believes the outcome was due solely 

 to the heat and that with normal 

 weather conditions business will be bet- 

 ter than ever. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. W. E. Horton, of Bassett & 

 Washburn, lost $45 and tickets to Star 

 Lake, Wis., when a pickpocket went 

 through her handbag in the Saturday 

 night crush on the Northwestern ele- 

 vated platform at Eandolph street and 

 Wabash avenue. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is cutting 

 blooms of the new rose Prince de Bui- 



^ Budlong's 



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garie. In the New York market this 

 is known as the Mrs. Taft rose and has 

 sold at the highest prices. These first 

 flowers are not typical of the variety. 



Vaughan & Sperry received their first 

 auratum lilies July 1 and say the buy- 

 ers preferred them to longiflorum lilies, 

 which have been in oversupply ever 

 since Easter, but are again selling well. 



Phil Schupp is keeping bachelor's 

 hall, the family being at Lake Geneva. 

 A. H. Budlong spent the Fourth there. 



Kyle & Foerster report the arrival of 

 their first outdoor asters June 30, com- 

 ing close on the heels of the last 

 peonies. 



George Asmus was at St. Louis June 

 28 to attend the quarter-century cele- 

 bration of the florists' club there. 



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