October 27, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



31 



SUCCESS WITH BEDDING BULBS 



Depends ENTIRELY on their QUAUTY and 

 TRUENESS. If you want your own customers 

 to be pleased, secure FIRST, LAST and ALL 



MicheH^s "Distinctive" Quality 



Nind you, we do not charge extra for Quality. 

 In fact, our prices "DEFY COMPETITION" 



A Few Special, Good Tulips for Forcing 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Artus, scarlet $1.10 $ 9.75 



Belle Alliance, scarlet, large 1.80 16.25 



Chrysolora, yellow 85 7.25 



Cottagpe Maid, pink and white 1.00 8.75 



Couleur de Cardinal, finest deep 



crimson 1.35 11.00 



Keiierskroon, scarlet, yellow border. . 1.25 11.00 



La Reine, white 90 7.50 



Yellow Prince, golden yellow 85 7.75. 



Superfine Mixture 85 7,50 



If you need other varieties, we have them — in 

 fact, " Everything " you may need for bedding 



Henry F. Nichell Co. 



518 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA 



NOTE OUR NEW NUMBER 



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WE ARE IN A POSITION TO FURNISH 



Strictly First-class Cut Carnations 



The beat varieties, from now up to June let or July Ist. We 

 would be pleased to receive bids on our entire cut of 25,000 plants, 

 or. any amount desired each week, at a straight price throughout 

 the season, or the above specified time 



We Guarantee Satisfaction 



Chas. Knopf Floral Co., Richmond, Ind. 



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nounces that Thomas E. Meehan will 

 speak before the club on Tuesday, No- 

 vember 1, on "A Few Hints on Prun- 

 ing." Mr, Meehan will bring speci- 

 mens and give a practical demonstra- 

 tion. Phil. 



Godfrey Aschmann has reached home 

 from his trip to Europe, inspired to 

 make things move with greater celerity 

 than ever on West Ontario street. His 

 arrival will be followed by a large num- 

 ber of cases of plants from Belgium and 

 Holland and his trip included visits to 

 many prints of horticultural interest in 

 Fran€«, Switzerland and other coun- 

 tries; he tells many interesting tales of 

 the wonderful things he has seea. lit. 

 Aschmann is an enterprising advertiser 



and on his trip he found time to mail to 

 customers at home more than 1,500 

 souvenir post cards. 



A pumpkin of extraordinary size has 

 occupied the front of the store of the 

 Johnson Seed Co. for some days and 

 been a center of attraction, causing 

 even more comment than several gigan- 

 tic stalks of Austin's Colossal corn, 

 said to measure sixteen feet in height 

 and carry ears seventeen inches long. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Qrand Island, Neb. — John Ellsworth, 

 president of the Ellsworth Qreenhouses, 

 who added four houses in the autumn 

 of last year, has lately been continuing 

 the work of expansion by building some 

 lettuce hou&es and iciitailing a new 

 boiler. 



I cannot remember the wholesale mar- 

 ket in New York experiencing a week 

 of greater discouragement than it en- 

 dured from October 17 to 23 this year. 

 The long-continued drought, the summer 

 temperature and lastly the pouring rain 

 of Saturday, all combined to produce 

 widespread demoralization. The ship- 

 ments ^L chrysanthemums were enor- 

 mous, a^n their domination of the mar- 

 ket leaves little encouragement for the 

 shippers of roses and carnations. Special 

 Beauties were down to 10 cents on Sat- 

 urday, and all the other roses were of- 

 fered as low as $10 per thousand, in 

 boxes. Carnations fell to the same fig- 

 ure, and even in small quantities could 

 be purchased at $1 per hundred. There 

 seemed to be no demand at the close of 

 the week. Retail stores that had 

 stocked up for a prospective Saturday 

 trade found business paralyzed by the 

 storm. The wholesalers' ice-boxes were 

 bulging at the week end and the cellars 

 were filled with chrysanthemums, beau- 

 tiful stock that was a bargain at $4 per 

 dozen in other years selling for less 

 than half that figure. 



So rapidly have the mums developed 

 that some predict a shortage before 

 Thanksgiving. It seems impossible that 

 tho^ tremendous inflow can ba main- 

 tained much longer. 



