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PBCEMBBB 28, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



29 



New Year's 



We shall do our part to make it 



HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 



for all who look to us far stock. Remember that in 1912, as in previous years, we shall prefer to be known as The 



> Best rather than as the largest. We lead on Fancy Carnations. 



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NEW YEAR'S PRICE LIST 



^ CARNATIONS Per 100 



Fancy ;p>ite t 4.00 



Fancy lESchantress and Rose-pink $5.00 @ 6.00 

 Fancy Red 8.00 



ROSKS 



White Killarney 6.00® 12.00 



Klllarney 6.00© 12.00 



My Maryland 6.00 @ 12.00 



Richmond 6.00® 16.00 



Sztra lenctba of roses billed aooordlnsly 



American Beauties per doz., 13.00 @ $8.00 



MISCKIXANXOUS Per 100 



Easter Lilies 112.00 @ tl5.00 



Valley 3.00® 4.00 



Per 100 



Violets $1.26 ® $1.50 



Sweet Peas 1.00® 1.26 



Paper Whites a.^il^ 2.00® 3.00 



DBOORATIVK 



Asparagus Plumosus 



per string $0.50 @ $0.76 



AsparatruB Plumosus 



per bunch .86® .60 



Asparagus Sprengeri 

 perbunch 26® .50 



Adiantum, fancy, long 1.00 



Smilax per doz., $1.50 @ $2.00 



Ferns per 1000 2.00 



Boxwood large bunches , .25 



Subject to Market Changes 



CHICAGO CARNATION COMPANY 



Salesroom: 30 E. Randolph Street, 



OreenliouseB, 

 JOUKT. ILL. 



CHICAQO 



viunrioi' Vhm UpvA^w whAP vr>n vrrito 



model the store, rearranging to bring 

 the office to the front and throw the 

 shipping room to the rear. 



F. C. Hoerber says the holiday busi- 

 ness ran ahead of his rather sanguine 

 expectations. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. reports having 

 cut 4,500 cattleyas, Percivaliana and 

 Trianae in the week before Christmas — 

 and then they ran short. 

 *'E. C. Amling says December 23 was 

 considerably the largest day in the his- 

 tory of his house. John Michelsen says 

 they handled slightly more than 300,000 

 violets in the three days before 

 Christmas, 



Kyle & Foerster report as a Christ- 

 mas visitor, John Holden, of Bens- 

 selaer, Ind. 



For Christmas C. W. McKellar had 

 some large consignments of eastern 

 Beauties that were of excellent quality. 



Adam Zender says that in so far as 

 hi can see growing conditions have been 

 exactly like other years, but that he 

 never has had such a fight against 

 mildew as during the last few months. 



Sonstant vigilance has been the price 

 ( keeping his stock clean. 

 • A. JU Eanda^-Xo^jjwas in trouble 

 DecemlBer 23, ifeieJtiJHie Beauty train 

 was late, not getting the shipment to 

 the store until 8:15 p. m. A large 

 number of ordet*. were held up. Tin 

 the next sixty minutes the tickets writ- 

 ten for outgoing" boxes amounted to 

 $2,000. 



J. P. Risch says that his fears of 

 the effect of dark weather were ground- 

 less so far as Weiland & Eiscn were 

 concerned, their crops coming as nearly 

 right for Christmas as they ever expect 

 to get them. 



MeutioD The Review when you write. 



Mrs. D. E. Freres was her husband's 

 chief assistant in the store during the 

 holiday rush. 



Wietor Bros, far eclipsed all previous 

 Christmas records. In addition to large 



cuts of roses and carnations, they had 

 quite a few Merry Christmas mums, the 

 only mums noted. 



The venerable but indefatigable Mr. 

 Weiland was down from Evanston early 



