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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 3, 1910. 



Oar new Spring crops of Beauties are now on and they are the best in thii market. 

 We can supply them in very large quantities. Remember the extra long stems are 

 always the best quality. Killarney, Richmonds, MaldSt Brides and 

 Perles are also in with a big crop. Prices are falling every day. We bill out at 

 the lowest market prices each day. 



EASTER LILIES THIS WEEK, $12.00 per 100 



Write for our Weekly Price List. We keep you posted on the market. 



Office and Store, 76 Wabash Ave., 



BASSETT & WASHBURN, 



Greenhouses, HINSDALE, ILL. 



Chicago 



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be taken as an indication of dull business 

 in other cities, but a more general cause 

 for cancellations is the increase in local 

 supplies. The shipping trade always is 

 the backbone of the Chicago market, and 

 it has been especially so the last week 

 or two, but the backbone weakens when 

 cuts are on in all the towns through the 

 Chicago shipping territory. Many of 

 the largest users of stock have some 

 glass of their own, or some home source 

 of supply for a part of their needs. 

 "When this home glass is in full crop not 

 much need be drawn from Chicago. Just 

 now it appears that crops are coming on 

 everywhere and Chicago wholesalers will 

 be left to rely in a large degree upon the 

 local outlet and the shipping orders of 

 those who can use quantity at a price. 

 There has been some improvement in 

 quality within the last week. 



Beauty crops have increased consider- 

 ably, but are not yet what anyone could 

 call heavy. There are, however, plenty 

 of Beauties for all buyers and prices are 

 easier. Some splendid Killarney are seen 

 in all lengths. The average quality of 

 this rose with all growers is good; only 

 an exceptional one is turning out other 

 . than first-class stock. But there are one 

 or two who do not yet understand Killar- 

 ney, and the difference in the selling 

 price of their cuts as compared with the 

 price of the perfect flowers is consider- 

 able. There are some splendid Bride and 

 Maid, plenty of Kichmond, fine Jardine, 

 good Field and Uncle John. Eose crops 

 have increased to the point where prices 

 have become extremely reasonable in 

 comparison to the high quality of the 

 goods. 



The carnation growers will find little 

 satisfaction in the returns of the last 

 week or ten days. The receipts have 

 been much the heaviest of the season. 

 Some of the stock is of superior quality, 

 but there continues to be a large per- 

 centage of splits and other low grades. 

 There has been a fair call for fancy 

 white and occasionally a brisk inquiry 

 for good reds, but by far the largest part 

 of the cut has had to be jobbed off when 

 a day old to those who run the cheap 

 sales, and there bus been loss of flowers 

 for which no buyer could be found at 

 any price. Carnation averages probably 

 never were lower for a week in February. 



We Claim That 



APHINE 



Ib the most effective ineecticide now on the market for the destruction 

 of the MEALY BUG, BROWN and WHITE SCALE. 



Others mty claim their remedy to be "jast as good"— but we claim 

 ours to be better— and have publicly proven this beyond a doubt. 



We also claim Aphine to be no less effective against Green, Black 

 and White Fly, Red Spider and Thrips. 



We are prepared to guarantee a uniform product at all times and one 

 that will do all we claim for it. 



For Green, Black and White Fly it is used at the strength of 1 part 

 Aphine to 40 parts water. 



For Red Spider, Thrips, Slugs and Ants, 1 part Aphine to 25 parts 

 water. 



For Mealy Bug, White and Brown Scale, 1 part Aphine to 15 parts 

 water. 



Price, $2.50 per gallon 



Aphine is becoming universally recognized as the leading general 

 insecticide for the greenhouse and garden. 



Your spring order will not be complete if it does not include Aphine. 



If your supply house does not yet handle Aphine, write us for names 

 of our nearest selling agents. 



APHINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Madison, New Jersey 



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But the carnation grower can get con- 

 solation from his neighbor whose crop 

 is violets. The quality of the eastern 

 violets is nothing to brag of but the 

 supply is not extremely large. The local 

 singles are fine and the crop is heavy. 

 The best stock has been sold in small 

 lots at fair figures, and the poorest has 

 been thrown away. Far the greater part 

 of the receipts have been sold at from 

 $2 to $4 per thousand in .large lots. As 



the local growers of singles did not get 

 in crop in season to get the high prices, 

 they need even more sympathy than the 

 carnation grower does. 



Sweet peas have come in like a deluge. 

 It seems that pretty nearly every grower 

 of any other crop, and especially every 

 carnation grower, has found a place for 

 a few sweet peas. The stock so pro- 

 duced seldom possesses the necessary 

 quality to realize a profitable price. The 



