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The Weekly FIb«§t&VR*view. 



Mat 12, 1910. 



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^BEAUTIES 



Very lar je crop of Ion j stems. They are the best quality In this market. 



....ALSO X BIG CUT OF.... 



Roses and Carnations 



BUY DIRECT or THE GROWERS 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



Extra fine, new Common Terns, large and fresh, $2.00 per 1000 



AMKRICAN BEAUTIKS 



Per doz. 



Extra loag •3.00 



30 tx) 36 inches 2.60 



24 Inches 2.00 



ISinches $1.00to 1.50 



Short steins per 100, 13.00 to $4.00 



White and Pink Killarney, Richmend, Maid« 

 Parle and Bride. Perioo 



Extra long and select 18.00 



Good lengths 6.00 



Medium lengths $4.00 to 5.00 



Shortstems 2.00to 3.00 



CARNATIONS Per 100. 



Fancy red, extra long O. P. Bassett $3.00 



Fancy White Enchantress $8.00 to 4.00 



Fancy pink Enchantress and Wlnsor 3.00 



MISCBLLANIOUS 



ULT or TBX VAXXKT 



SWSKT PXA8 



A8FARAOUB SPRATS. . 

 ASPARAGX7S STRINGS.. 

 SPRSHGKRI 



.per string, 50c 



BMTT.AX, very long and heavy per dozen, $2.50 



AOIAMTUM 



GAIiAX, green or bronze per 1000, $1.00 



FKRKS, now Southern " 2.00 



3.00 



1.00 



3.00 to 4.00 



2.00 to 3.00 



1.00 



Bassett & Washburn 



Office and Store, 76 Wabash Ave , Chicago 



GRKKNHOUSXS. HINSDALX, IIX. 



Mention The Review when vo" write. 



for the Clow funeral May 8, one of the 

 largest of the season. 



On the death of King Edward, Fred 

 Sperry's thoughts went back to the day 

 at Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, when 

 he participated in the festivities on the 

 occasion of King Edward's coronation. 



Lubliner & Trinz say business is excel- 

 lent; they need more salespeople. 



The handsome refrigerator in the Haus- 

 wirth store has reverted to Orr & Lockett, 

 by whom it was built. 



Fred Lautenschlager, of Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co., returned last week from a 

 month 's trip in the eastern states. 



P. L. McKee, of the John C. Moninger 

 Co., is completing a fortnight's term of 

 jury service. 



Riverview park is open for the season. 

 "Stogie," who has spent the winter in 

 Peter Reinberg 's store, has the concession 

 for three ball-throwing games in which 

 flowers are given as prizes. He says he 

 has spent $1,000 in fixing up his places, 

 putting in refrigerators, etc. This will 

 be an outlet for large quantities of low- 

 priced stock. 



A. L. Randall says that the buyers need 

 not take alarm at the Mothers ' day prices 

 of white carnations ; that the growers did 

 not appreciate what an extra demand was 

 coming, but that next year they can be 

 counted on to at least double the supply. 



A, L. Vaughan, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 reports the Mothers ' day demand doubled 

 their sales as compared with a normal Fri- 

 day and Saturday. 



John Zech says he thinks he never has 

 seen roses so good in May as they are 

 this year. 



John Michelsen, of E. C. Amling's, says 

 that ]a«t week wa» about the best and 



Peonies 



W. X. REIMAN, Vincennes, Ind. 



12 acres in good crop, 

 enough to meet all de- 

 mands. Special prices 

 made to large buyers. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



most satisfactory, all around, of any he 

 has seen in the years since he forsook the 

 retail for the wholesale end. 



Henry Van Gelder, manager of the 

 Percy Jones business, says some of the 

 growers made the same old holiday error 

 for Mothers' day — held their .stock until 

 too late to ship it. 



W. F. Hoerber says the supply with 

 Hoerber Bros, is not nearly equal to the 

 demand. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. looks for an ex- 

 ceptionally good business in the next six 

 weeks; conditions appear unusually favor- 

 able. 



The growers all are busy plantipg car- 

 nations in the field. 



M. Shattels has gone out of business. 



Among the week 's visitors were : P. N. 

 Obertin, Kenosha, Wis.; J. E. Meinhart, 

 Wichita, Kan.; Frank Stupy, St. Joseph, 

 Mo.; N. H. Long, Dixon, 111.; M. Reu- 

 kauf, of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadel- 

 phia; George Heinl, Toledo; Mrs. F. A. 

 Forbes, PlymoutfiV'^^'f;; J- H. Newhall, 

 Aurora, 111; W. Van Kleef, Jr., of W. 

 Van Kleef & Sons, Boskoop, Holland, 

 who is on his tenth annual visit to Chi- 

 cago. 



Bowling^ 



Following is the standing of the bowl- 



ers in the six games rolled since the close 

 of the tournament : 



Plaver. Games. Pins. 



L. H. Vaughan /3 548 



E. Johnson 3 541 



E. Farley « 1000 



J. Huobner « 1009 



Wm. Graff ^.6 969 



F. Pasternlck B 968 



A. Wlezoswoski 3 480 



V. Bergman 6 037 



Geo. Asmus 3 409 



T. Yarnall 6 867 



Wm. Wolf 3 428 



F. Llebermanii 6 831 



O. Goerisch 3 404 



E. Wlnterson 3 398 



F. Ayres Tt 3*2 



F. Krauss 3 359. 



T, Vpgfcl 3 35? 



Ave. 

 183 

 180 

 168 

 168 

 162 

 161 

 160 

 166 

 166 

 146 

 143 

 189 

 135 

 188 

 121 

 120 

 119 



CINCINNATI. 



The Market. 



A large volume of business was trans- 

 acted last week in the wholesale houses, 

 but the stock is' Still so plentiful that 

 prices have not s^PHetAd. Mothers' day, 

 owing to the inclement weather and the 

 fact that popular demand practically 

 centered upon the white carnation alone, 

 was more or less of a disappointment; 

 still, the money total from the week's 

 business was quite gratifying. 



A littldimore than a suffifiency of all 

 kinds of roses is apparent, and the 



