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he Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mat 5, 1910. 



Coming heavier and better every day. Can supply buyers, large or small, at $4.00 to $20.00 per 100. 



CARNATIONS PEONIES 



Good Btock per 100, $1.50 to $2.50 



White, for Mothers' Day per 100, 4.0a to 6.00 



Good stock per doz., 50c to 75c 



Special fancy per doz., $1.00 



All kinds of Roses of fine quality 



ORCHIDS, SWEET PEAS, VALLEY, BULB STOCK AND GREENS. 



Call on U8 for everything you need. We've got the goodB.^= = 



Now booking orders for PEONIES for Decoration Day— write us about your needs. 



Vaughan & Sperry 



and 54 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



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cost .$10,000 and work is to be started at 

 once. 



Winandy Bros., greenhouse contractors, 

 are having a busy season. Among their 

 largest jobs are those for Wietor Bros, 

 and Hoerber Bros. At Wietors' the 

 Winandys have the rebuilding operations 

 far enough along so that all the houses 

 are up and glazing is in progress. At 

 Hoerber Bros.' the superstrucluro is -^o- 

 ing up. 



The Atlas Floral Co. now occupies the 

 entire store at 35 Eandolph street. 



At E. H. Hunt's, W. E. Lynch reports 

 the arrival of the first Sarcoxie peonies 

 May 2. 



Rhea Eeid is not largely grown for 

 this market, but Bassett & Washburn 

 have quite a quantity of it and say it has 

 come in handy to take the place of short 

 and medium Beauties. They have been 

 cutting 300 to 500 a day. Mr. Washburn 

 reports last week as the best week of the 

 year to date, with the single exception, 

 of course, of Easter week. 



E. E. Pieser states that Kennicott 

 Bros, began storing southern peonies 

 May 2. The crop of Kennicott & Co., 

 Carbondale, also began going into storage 

 that day. Mr. Pieser says it will be 

 an impossibility to sell without cold 

 storage all the peonies that will reach 

 this market in the next two weeks or 

 so, but that he looks for an unproeedent- 

 L'd demand the last five 1;iys of this 

 mr nlli. 



Fred Sperry, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 has been on the sick list for several days, 

 suffering with the grip. 



April 30 C. Clemer.sen np.niod his now 

 store at South Chicago. He now has one 

 of the nicest places in this vicinity, store 

 and greenhouses, and is doing a big 

 business. 



Henry Van Gelder, manager of the 

 Percy Jones business, says that Frank 

 Garland, at Des Plaines, is maintaining 

 his reputation as a grower of Kaiserins, 

 the early crop this season being as good 

 as anything Mr. Garland ever has cut. 



A. L. Randall has returned from West 



Peony Cut Flowers ^price'" 



Write for prices, they will interest you. 



GILBERT H. WILD : : Sarcoxie, Missouri 



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Baden. Frank Johnson, of the Randall 

 Co., is making a southern trip. 



Vaughan & Sperry report receiving 

 many orders from the southeast, from 

 territory usually considered outside the 

 Chicago shipping radius. They say the 

 Beauties, though in inL"-(.MSi'o siipfily, oie 

 moving satisfactorily. 



Frank Lonigan, brother of Jack Lon- 

 igan, of Winterson's, was killed Friday 

 morning at the Marshfield avenue station 

 of the Metropolitan elevated railroad. 



Peter Reinberg has just received a 

 new French automobile that is one of 

 the finest things on the street. 



C. W. McKellar is on duty again this 

 week, but is twenty pounds lighter be- 

 cause of his fortnight's illness. 



Kyle cc Foerster say t!i .'v think vlic in- 

 crease in the supply of sweet peas is 

 more apparent than real. They lay the 

 accumulation entirely to the bad weather, 

 and think the peas will move briskly 

 again as soon as pleasant days call peo- 

 ple out. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. reports that so 

 far as can be seen the carnations in the 

 field have suffered no injury from the 

 freeze. 



At Zech & Mann's it is said that the 

 shipping trade is excellent, as good as it 

 ever was at this date, with much busi- 

 ness in sight for the end of the week. 



Miss Bloom, of Bassett & Washburn's, 

 has returned from a week's visit to To- 

 ledo and Cleveland. 



George Reinberg is busy putting his 

 place in first-class shape for next 

 season. 



Phil Schupp had a telegram May 2, 

 stating that the body of Charles Treanor, 



who died at Miami, Fla., will pass 

 through Chicago Thursday, May 5. 



E. C. Amling says he deplores the 

 way the Mothers' day demand has cen- 

 tered on white carnations, l^u: 'ooks for 

 the demand eventually to broaden and 

 the day become one of the principal 

 flower days of the year. 



Weiland & Eisch report that Edward 

 Amerpohl, of Janesville, was in town 

 the other day with word of financial 

 disaster having overtaken a shoe store 

 that also deals in flowers at Fond du 

 Lac. 



Winterson's Seed Store has sold the 

 greater part of its carload of bay trees. 



Ned Washburn, who is at Pasadena, 

 Cal., has sent home a number of plants 

 of roses that do particularly well there 

 and which have been planted out at 

 Hinsdale. Four of tl»e plants, he writes, 

 are a variety that is practically thorn- 

 less. 



A grower named Paul Rycerski, last 

 employed by Bassett & Washburn, broke 

 into the daily papers this week by tak- 

 ing tiirce shots at a Chicago doctor with 

 whom he had an altercation. 



P. C. Struvy has for the time being 

 abandoned the idea of selling out his two 

 retail flower stores and the property they 

 occupy and removing to California. He 

 has restocked the stores and will continue 

 the business unless someone comes along 

 who will meet his terms. 



Lord & Burnham Co. last week signed 

 the contracts which insure the erection 

 of its plant at Des Plaines, the deal hav- 

 ing hung fire for several weeks. It is 

 expected that it will be possible to begin 

 the actual work of construction, before 



