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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 9, 1910. 



No! First-class, long-stemmed 



B E A I T I E S 



ARE NOT SCARCE 



You can figure on your June work with the cer- 

 ' tainty that we can supply Beauties in any quantity — 

 stock that will be sure to please. 



CARNATIONS 



We can handle the largest orders, supplying 

 first-class goods, for our growers are in full crop. 



GLADIOLI 



Fancy white and red, $1.00 to $1.50 per dozen. 



Current Price List 



AM:^BICAN beauties Per doz. 



Long etoms 43.00 



30-lnch stems 2.60 



24-iDch steins 2.00 



20-lnch stems IJOO 



16-lDch stems 1.25 



12-lnch stems 1.00 



Short stems $0.60 to .76 



MAID ■» Per 100 



BRII>E [Good I 4.00 to $ 6.00 



S41EIL„,^; ("select 6.00 



KAISERIN J 



RICHMOND.... I Good 4.00 to 6.00 



KILL ARNEY.. (Select 6.00to 8.00 



ROSES, our selection 3.00 



PEONIES . . .per doz.. 60c to $1.00 



CARNATIONS 



Good 1.50to 2.00 



Fancy 3.00 



Red 3.00to 4.00 



HarrisU 12.50 to 15.00 



Gladioli, fancy, per doz.. $1.00-$1.50 



Sweet Peas 50 to 



Valley 3.00 to 



fancy 



Daisies 76 to 



Pansies 1.00 to 



Adiantum 



AsparaKUS, strings, each 60c to 60c 

 AsparaguB, bunches, each 35c to 60c 

 Sprengerl, bunches, each 25c to 50c 



Ferns per 1000, $3.00 



Galax per 1000. 11.00 to 1.26 



Smilax per doz., 2.00 to 2.60 



Subject to change without notice. 



1.60 

 4.00 

 6.00 

 2.00 

 1.60 

 1.00 



VAIGHAN & SPERRY 



52-54 Wabash Avenue, 



L. D. Phone, 



Central 2S71 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



man in the retail florists' circles, has 

 taken a position with the Bentzen 

 Floral Co., at the Grand avenue store. 

 Mr. Barnard was formerly employed 

 with Grimm & Gorly. 



William C. Young, of C. Young & 

 Pons Co., left last week for a visit to 

 Chicago, Milwaukee and other northern 

 points, to inspect the large plant grow- 

 ers' places. He says he will be back 

 in time for the big club meeting Thurs- 

 day, June 9. 



Miss May Burns has been engaged 

 by Fred Foster to run the branch store, 

 known as the Paris Floral Co., at 507 

 Olive street. Miss Burns is well known 

 in retail circles. 



Domenic Bova, who runs a big cut 

 flower stand at Union Market, reports 

 a big Memorial day business. Mr. Carr 

 and F. Gutzman, the plantsmen at the 

 market, say they cleaned up nicely 

 May 30. 



Ostertag Bros, put in a busy week, 

 having several large wedding decora- 

 tions. School-closing work, too, kept 

 them hustling; in fact, Henry Ostertag 

 says it is the biggest week they have 

 had this season. 



Henry A. Eirick, florist and land- 

 scape gardener of "Webster Groves, 

 has made application for membership 

 in the Florists' Club. 



C. Young & Sons Co., as usual, did 

 the planting of the Delmar Garden and 

 the fashionable St. Eegis apartments. 



City Hall park has a handsome ap- 

 pearance since the bedding has been 

 completed. All parks are looking their 

 best this year. 



Frank A. Weber, of the H. J. Weber 

 & Sons Nursery Co., and J. H. Schuette 



and family left Monday, June 6, to at- 

 tend the convention of the American 

 Association of Nurserymen at Denver. 

 A big delegation from Rochester, N. Y., 

 Alabama and Georgia got in Monday 

 morning and left with them on a special 



rSIVERY now and then a well- 

 *=9l pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a 

 new advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated* 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised* 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



train. Mr. Weber reports that they 

 will pick up the Kansas City and 

 Omaha delegation en route and all will 

 travel on the same train to Denver, 

 where the convention takes place this 

 week, June 8 to 10. 



W. J. Vesey and daughter, of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., spent Sunday, June 4, in 

 the city, visiting the trade in company 

 with Miss Tillie Meinhardt. 



C. A. Kuehn, in company with Pierre 

 Schnider, foreman of the Oakland 

 Floral Co.; ati ;Kirkwood, visited J. F. 

 Ammann 's place Sunday, Jxme 4, in Ed- 

 wardsville, HI., and found, as usnalr 

 everything in tip-top shape. 



The W. C. Smith Wholesale Flora) 

 Co. is having a great run on fancy 

 sweet peas, which are coming in fine 

 ffoni their Kirkwood growers. 



The first Sunday opening of this year 

 at the Missouri Botanical Garden took 

 place June 4, with an attendance of 

 17,406. Director William Trelease, Su- 

 perintendent Irish, J. W. Thompson and 

 G. Bring, assisted by a large force ei 

 students, showed the visitors through. 

 J. J. B. 



NEW BEDFOBD, MASS. 



The Market. 



Business was good last week. After 

 the strenuous time at Memorial day. 

 things are now back nearly to normal 

 again. Carnations are quite plentiful 

 and retail at 50 cents and 60 cents per 

 dozen. Roses of good quality sell a* 

 $1.50 per dozen. Sweet peas from in- 

 doors are getting poor and retail at $1 

 per hundred blooms. Snapdragons sell 

 at 75 cents and $1 per dozen; lilies at 

 $2 per dozen. Callas are getting scarce 

 and poor now. Outdoor flowers in the 

 hardy line are now quite plentifnl- 

 Geraniums, salvias, coleus, ageratuniSr 

 vincas and other bedding plants seH 

 well and at fairly good prices. Pansie* 



