OCTOBBE 21, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



29 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Vellow and White, $1.00 to $3.0O per doz.; Pink, $2.00 to $3.00 per doz. 



iCfliserin, extra fine flowers, from plants three to eight years old. Beauties, Kiliarney, Wllite 



Kiiiarney, Carnot, Riclimond and Perie. 



Try buying direct of the grower 



(I.IIIBBIOAH BBAUTIKS Per doz. 



£xtr» long $1.00 



seincbes 8.00 



24incliei $2.00 to 2.50 



18incbes 1.50 



121ncbeB 1.00 



My Maryland, Kalserln, Carnot, 

 White Kiliarney, Rhea Beld Per 100 



Extr* lone ftod select $8.00 



Goodlenarttas $5.00 to 6.00 



Medlom lengtbi 4.00 



Sbort ■terns 8.00 



PRICE LIST 



KUlaraey, Bride, Perle and Richmond 



Per 100 



Extra long; $6.00 to $8.00 



Goodlengtbs 500 



Medium lenrtbs 4.00 



Sbortstems 8.00 



Chryaanthemnma, 



per doz., $1.00 to $3.00 



Carnations 



Red. O. P. Bassett 5.00to 600 



Pink and white S.OOto 5.00 



I.Uy of the VaUey S.OOto 4.00 



Per 100 



Aaparasna apraya $2.00 to $8.00 



Aaparacna atrlnsa, ea., 50c-60c 



Sprengerl 2.00 



8mllaz...per doz., $1.50 to $2.00 



Adiantnm 1.00 



Oalax, bronze. ...per 1000, $1.25 



Oalax, green " 1.26 



Ferna, neir crop.. l.W 



O. p. BASSETT 



-Tiie Best Red Carnation- 



Larg:e^ strongs field plants 



per 100, $J2.00 



BASSETT & WASHBURN 



"^^SSSrid. OffloeaiidStora,76Wabuh*v6.,CHICA60 



celebrated by a formal opening, which 

 continued for a week. The former Joca- 

 tion, at 4861 Easton avenue, was inade- 

 quate for the increasing business, and 

 new quarters were necessary. The firm 

 was organized in 1904, and has enjoyed 

 a prosperous business from the first day. 

 Miss Lottie Schiess is manager. 



NEITYORK. 



ThcMukeL 



The week opens with a cold rain and 

 a most uninspiring outlook for the cut 

 fl )wer trade. Saturday, October 16, was 

 the only day of last week when business 

 was at all satisfactory. The cold snap 

 ;i 1(1 the tingle of the frost seemed to put 

 J .'e into the trade and there was a gen- 

 '--al cleaning up after the many days of 

 i activity. All asters, dahlias, coleus 

 '- d salvias have retired from view. 

 The flood of mums is rolling in from 

 !ry side. Every retail window is a 

 ' • wer show now because of them. Prices 

 ve fallen, naturally with such heavy 

 ' ipments, and only the largest and most 

 rfect command a value at all in line 

 th growers' expectations. "With the 

 rysanthemums so abundant and orchids 

 nning them a close race, prices of the 

 tter have also retreated so that the 

 lallest of the retail stores now can 

 'fely make these a part of their window 

 ' splays. Perfect orchid flowers of numer- 

 als varieties come in daily from many 

 )urces, several of the private green- 

 houses adding to the legitimate whole- 

 ;ile shipments to this market. 



The best Beauties hover around 25 

 'ents, but only for the fortunate few, 

 "id the rest drop at times to figures that 



are not worthy of honorable mention. 

 So is it with the few top-notchers of 

 Bride, Maid, Kiliarney and Richmond, 

 while the rest wait upon the buyer with 

 humility and quick acceptance. Carna- 

 tions lost their advance during the sum- 

 mer spell last week and nothing sold 

 above 2 cents. These rates hold this 

 week and $1 per hundred will buy good 

 stock in large lots. Possibly a cold spell 

 may lift values a little before the week is 

 old. 



Lilies broke in two again and the best 

 were selling at 6 cents Saturday, Octo- 

 ber 16. Vsdley joined the procession and 

 came down, and violets hung their heads 

 after the hot spell had done its deadly 

 work on quality, and even the street mer- 

 chants passed them by. The best sold 

 at 40 cents per hundred. Most of the 

 boxes were jobbed oflE and many thou- 

 sands could not be sold at all. Some 

 of the wholesalers looked up last year's 

 record for the same week, and declared 

 it was just as bad then, and from this 

 historically correct assurance some con- 

 solation may be obtained. 



Various Note*. 



The big flower show of November 3 

 at the Museum of Natural History is the 

 theme of conversation now in New York 

 floricultural circles. If Secretary Nash 

 can develop the publicity he seeks and 

 the local florists manifest their loyalty, 

 as now anticipated, it will be the great- 

 est success in this line the city has ever 

 known. The Horticultural Society and 

 the Florists' Club make a strong team, 

 and they can carry any load if they pull 

 together. The fall shows begin in earnest 

 next week on every side of us: at Madi- 

 son, Wednesday and Thursday; at Glen 



Cove, Thursday and Friday; at Lenox, 

 Tuesday and Wednesday; and at El- 

 beron, N. J., Wednesday and Thursday. 

 The following week the shows will be at 

 White Plains for the Tarrytown Society, 

 at Mount Kisco, at Hartford, Conn., and 

 at Dobb's Ferry, N. Y. That will be 

 about all until the Chrysanthemum Soci- 

 ety of America exhibits at New York, 

 November 10 to 12, at the American 

 Institute. 



Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Morgan left Sat- 

 urday, October 16, for their home in New 

 Orleans, after a visit at Kearney, N. J. 

 Mrs. Morgan is the daughter of J. K. 

 Allen. 



Adolph Meyer, formerly with H. War- 

 endorff, has opened a store at H. Hofl- 

 meir's old location on Broadway and 

 Eighty-second street, which he -calls The 

 Smart Set, the decoration scheme of 

 which is entirely in white. Flower stores 

 are numerous in this part of New York. 



Edward Falkner, the street evangelist, 

 is dead. He was a warm friend of the 

 Hanft Bros., Charles A. Dards and other 

 florists of the uptown section. 



Philip Kessler is nursing an injured 

 hand, received in a collision with a taxi- 

 cab last week. It was a close shave for 

 the athletic wholesaler. 



E. G. Wilson reports a good sale for his 

 handy corsage holder, which he exhibited 

 at the Cincinnati convention. Mr. Hicks, 

 formerly of Hicks & Crawbuck, is now 

 bookkeeper for Mr. Wilson. The Jap- 

 anese decoration in Mr. Wilson's win 

 dows is a most unique display. 



John Zschorna, the florist who died of 

 paralysis last week in Brooklyn, was for 

 several years located at the comer of 

 Nostrand and Jefferson avenues, and be- 

 fore that for ten years lived in Mexico. 



