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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



November 4, 1900. 



" Our last special adv. brought a nice order from Holland, and inquiries from France and 

 Germany, as well as orders and inquiries from nearer home." — L Y. Teas Co., Centervilie, 

 Ind., November 2, 1909. 



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SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS 



....For The Annual.... 



Special Autumn Number 



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" The Review is a fine paper, full of good 

 advertising."— A. H. Faxon, Southbridge, Mass. 



To Be Issued Next Wednesday 



Use a page, an inch, or a classified, as your 

 stock requires, but mail the copy at once. 



FLORISTS* PUBLISHING CO. 



630 to 660 Caxton Bldg., 334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



simply as an investment. This will per- 

 mit them to double their glass whenever 

 they are ready, and already the market 

 has advanced so that the purchase shows 

 a profit of at least 50 cents a box. 



Frank Benthey is again on duty at the 

 store, after having spent a fortnight 

 assessing damages on personal injury 

 cases. 



H. N. Bruns reports the arrival of the 

 new crop of valley pips in fine condition. 



The E. Wienhoeber Co. had the decora- 

 tion for the McCormick dinner November 

 1, one of the finest jobs of the season. 



The Fleischman Floral Co. will soon 

 be on the street with a swell new auto- 

 mobile delivery car, built expressly for 

 their work, with fifty horse-power, by the 

 Stoddard-Dayton people. 



Frank Farney is still confined to his 



bed. 



Frank Hayden, of the George Eeinberg 

 store, buried his father-in-law this week. 



John Kruchten says the dark colors in 

 pompon chrysanthemums sell much better 

 than the light colors. 



H. E. Hughes had large doings at his 

 store Hallowe'en. He gave a children's 

 party that taxed the capacity of the es- 

 tablishment and attracted so much at- 

 tention that he secured a front page 

 notice with three column illustration in 

 the Daily News. 



The A. L. Randall Co. has its supply 

 department decked out in elaborate style 

 this week in honor of the flower show 

 visitors. The decoration and display of 

 samples was arranged by T. E. Waters. 



Bassett & Washburn report an order 

 from Johannesburg, South Africa, for 

 field-grown plants of their O. P. Bassett 

 carnation. 



E. H. Hunt's are gradually getting 

 their exhibition room for supplies into 



shape. 



Weiland & Eisch grew a lot of. Killar- 

 ney plants in the field this season. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is this year grow- 



ing the pompon chrysanthemums in con- 

 siderable quantity. 



C. W. McKellar says white orchids are 

 in fine demand, for wedding work. 



F. E. Speakman, formerly of this city 

 but now connected with the Wright es- 

 tablishment at Los Angeles, Cal., is here, 

 called by the serious illness of his father. 

 He believes tuere is more money in the 

 flower business in the west than in any 

 other part of the country. 



Bowlins. 



The Carnations gained the lead in the 



Florists' Bowling League October 28 by 



defeating the Orchids three straight. The 



score : 



Orclilds. 1st 2d 3d 

 Huebner ..185 142 142 



Graff 130 129 110 



Vogel 96 132 103 



J. Zech 159 145 122 



Kingier ... 82 81 163 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



Carnations. 1st 2d 3d 



Ayers 128 162 160 



Krauss 164 108 171 



Farley 139 150 171 



A. Zech 176 198 1.S5 



Pasternlck 82 105 117 



Total ... 

 Violets. 

 Bergman . 

 E. Johnson 

 Lleberman 



Craig 



Yarnell . . 



.689 723 754 



1st 2d 3d 

 ,139 120 176 

 ,162 155 154 

 , 98 108 136 

 ,124 124 119 

 ,171 141 179 



Total . 



Roses. 

 .Tohnson . 

 Skafgard 

 (Joerisch 

 Pieser . . 

 Wolf . . , 



..652 629 640 



Ist 2d 3d 

 ..124 122 107 

 ..134 113 129 

 ..134 163 151 

 ..149 120 147 

 ..138 165 189 



Total ...694 648 764 Total ...669 683 723 



There will be no bowling this week, on 



account of the stag party at the Coliseum. 



Wheeling, W. Va. — John Hellstern, 

 the Pleasant Valley florist, has added 

 two greenhouses. 



Nashua, N. H. — George E. Buxton re- 

 cently celebrated the twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary of his establishment in business. 

 He started on Vine street with a single 

 house, 18x90, but his glass was soon in- 

 creased to four times that area. In June, 

 1896, he removed to his present fine loca- 

 tion on Concord street, where his houses 

 now cover more than an acre. For ten 

 years a store was run in connection with 

 the business, but in July, 1904, the store 

 was transferred to Mr. Buxton's clerk, 

 W. W. Powers, who still conducts it. 



No decided activity in social affairs is 

 manifest just yet, though each day adds 

 some one of importance to the resident 

 world, and the inclination to announce 

 winter plans seems more marked than 

 usual. The brides are still in the center 

 of the stage. The first of the debutante 

 teas is only a fortnight or so in the 

 future and, once these hospitalities begin, 

 the list is suflSciently long to keep them 

 going till the holidays, and the florists of 

 the nation's capital expect to be kept 

 quite busy with the many comings-out 

 of the season. 



Varioui Notes. 



A number of Hallowe'en decorations 

 were put up, Z. D. Blackistone probably 

 having the most elaborate, a ballrooir. 

 decoration at the home of a promineu: 

 resident of the northwest section. A 

 usual, pumpkins and autumn foliage were 

 quite in evidence. The decoration wa 

 much to the credit of Mr. Schottmeier 

 Mr. Blackistone 's head decorator. 



The Washington Florists Co. is a boon! 

 ing matrimonial bureau, another mate' 

 being added to the list last week, tl. 

 marriage of Miss Blanche Dart, who f" 

 the last six years has been their booK 

 keeper, this affair being the fourth at 

 fair of this kind in the last three month 



F. H. Kramer's new store is rapid! 

 being completed and when once occupio ' 

 will be one of the best shops in the cit.^. 



The auto delivery wagon of Gude Bro: . 

 Co., while making a delivery last week, V' 

 some way caught fire and was considei- 

 ably damaged. W. F. 



The annual flower show of the Wasl.- 

 ington Florists' Club will be held at tli-^ 

 old Masonic Temple, at Ninth and )' 

 streets, November 8 to 14. It is expecteil 



