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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 20, 1911. 



KILLARNEY and WHITE KILLARNEY 



especially fine 



CURRENT PRICE LIST— Subject to change without notice 



BEAUTIES Perdoz. 



Extra Select $3.00 



36-inch stems 2.50 



30-inch stems 2.00 



24-inch stems 1.75 



20- inch stems 1.60 



15-inch stems 1.25 



12-inch stems 1.00 



Short stem 76 



Perioo 



Killarney, select $6.00 



" medium $3.00 @ 4.00 



ROSES, our selection, - 



White Killarney, select 



" " medium $ 3.00 @ 



Richmond, select 



medium 3.00® 



Carnations, fancy 



' ' good 



Easier Lilies 10.00 @ 



VaUey 3.0Q, 



Sweet Peas 7< 



New Ferns per 



Sprengeri and Asparagus Sprays per bl^icii, 



All Green Goods at market rates. 



- - $3.00 per 100 ^ 



Per 100 

 $ 6.00 

 4.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 

 2.00 

 1.50 

 12.00 

 4.00 

 1.00 

 , 1.50 

 .50 



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critical and are paying gladly fully as 

 much as the same Beauties would realize 

 in winter. One of the features of the 

 market in the last six days has been 

 the increase in the demand for short 

 roses. Previous to the middle of the 

 month there were plenty of the short 

 grade, the demand being largely for 

 the medium and long stems. This week 

 everything is selling, the short roses 

 being in active request for funeral 

 work, which seems to be heavy. Long 

 roses now are scarce, most of the stock 

 being medium to short, cut from young 

 plants. Killarney continues to show 

 splendid color. The novelties among 

 roses are selling well. 



Carnations are becoming less plenti- 

 ful day by day and it will not be long 

 until all the old plants under glass are 

 thrown out to make room for the new 

 stock. Such as are now being received 

 are of fair summer quality, the growers 

 having naturally thrown out the poorest 

 houses first. Anything that is at all 

 good in carnations is in active demand, 

 for the dry weather has resulted in 

 asters being later than usual. Few are 

 received and these few are mostly short 

 and small, but they sell well neverthe- 

 less. The outdoor crop of gladioli is 

 coming in much stronger this week and 

 prices in this department are lower 

 than they were a week ago, in spite of 

 a considerable improvement in the 

 quality of the stock offered. Even val- 

 ley has been short of the demand this 

 week. There is little call for cattleyas 

 and no heavy receipts. Sweet peas have 

 been burned up, though a few still come 

 in. The list of flowers is about at the 

 lowest of the year. 



Why It Pays. 



One thoughtful large producer of 

 roses for this market doubts if there is 

 any profit in summer roses. He says 

 the chief advantage is in making it pos- 

 sible to keep up his advertising and fill 

 his orders, thereby holding his cus- 

 tomers so that "the other fellow" can- 

 not win them away during a time when 

 good stock is scarce. 



Club Picnic. 



Ollie Zech, of Zech & Mann, who is 

 chairman of the Florists' Club's pas- 

 times committee, says that all arrange- 



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ments have been completed for the 

 biggest picnic the club has yet given. 

 The date is Sunday, July 23, and the 

 place is Ehrhardt 's grove, at Park 

 Eidge, 111. There will be a baseball 

 game between Wholesalers and Re- 

 tailers, racing, dancing, a pie-eating 

 contest and, as the posters say, other 

 "athletic" sports. It is to be a basket 

 picnic, but refreshments will be sold on 

 the grounds. Tickets are on sale in all 

 the wholesale houses at 50 cents each 

 person. This includes transportation 

 on the Northwestern railroad on the 

 trains leaving at 11 a. m. and 12:45 

 p. m., returning leaving Park Ridge at 

 8:27 p. m. and 9:28 p. ni. Hayracks 

 are provided from the depot to the 

 grove. Those who come by their own 

 conveyances will buy tickets at the gate 

 at 25 cents, each. Nothing is needed 

 but the crowd to malie the picnic a 

 success. 



Various Notes. 



A decided kick, delivered by Frank 

 Oechslin's automobile engine, when he 

 was cranking it recently, resulted in a 

 broken right arm. Mr. Oechslin hopes 

 to be able to remove the splints in a 



couple of weeks and is meanwhile at- 

 tending to business as usual. He says 

 that the new range, when completed, 

 will be filled with Bostons, palms and 

 dracsenas. His poinsettias are espe- 

 cially good this season. 



Announcement is made of the mar- 

 riage of Joseph Schreiber and Miss 

 Lynn Neuman. The wedding took place 

 in the St. Henry's church, Wednesday 

 evening, July 12. The groom is a 

 brother of Mrs. J. A. Schneider, the 

 carnation grower on Ridge avenue. 

 Mrs. Schneider acted as matron of honor 

 and served a wedding supper at her 

 home. C. M. Dickinson was the only 

 one present outside of the family. 



Nic Miller has recovered from the 

 effects of his recent fall and has taken 

 hold with Kennicott Bros. Co. E. E. 

 Pieser states that the company has 

 made a profit-sharing arrangement 

 with Mr. Miller and Michael Fink, 



At Niles, in the center of a florists' 

 colony, there is a justice of the peace 

 who delights in getting something on 

 the automobilists who pass through 

 the town. One of his prizes July 16 

 was George Reinberg, who was 



