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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



S£axch 18, 1009. 



Long Distance Phone 

 Central 6004 



Seedsmen Plantsmen 

 Nurserymen 



Winterson's Seed Store 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



FOR EASTER 



We have a complete stock of all requleites, including: fancy zinc lined baskets, 

 suitable for bulbous stock, and many other new shapes. Also fresh stock of 

 Waterproof Crepe, Velvet Two Toned Crepe, Waterproof Pleated 



Crepe. Adjuatable Waterproof Paper Pot Covers (all sizes). Common 



^^^^^^^^____Hi_M_^^^^_^^_^^^^^^ Tissue Crepe Pot Covers, assorted colors, $1.50 per 100. 



CHIFFONS and RIBBONS, all colors and sizes. 



JAPANESE AIR PLANT, nice fresh stock. Can supply in any quantity. 



BIRCH BARK HANDLE BASKETS AND CANOES 



Per doz. Per doz. Canoes, large (with chain)... per doz, $1.25 



Baskets, small $1.25 Canoes, small $1.00 Blroli Bark Handle Baskets (4 in nest), 



Baskets, medium 1.50 Canoes, medium 1.25 $9.10. (Nest, 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c each.) 



Write for our new Supply Catalogfue. It contains prices that are '* MONEY SAVERS " 



Mention The Review when you write. 



C. W. NcKELLAR... 



Long: Distance Phone, Central 3698 



51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



Beauties, 

 Roses, 

 Carnations, 



Valley, Violets and all Fancy Flowers, Farleyense and all Fancy 

 Greens and Decorative Stock, Violet Ties and Ribbons 



SKND rOR COlfPLBTK 

 PBICK U8T 



Boxwood Fancy Ferns 



Mention The Review when you wnte. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



The month of March is getting itself 

 disliked rather more than usual. To date 

 its average temperature has been lower 

 than that of other years. The last week 

 was cold, raw, rainy, blustery and dis- 

 agreeable. The present week opens, how- 

 ever, with sunny skies and the shipments 

 of roses, especially, have increased im- 

 mensely. Prices have begun to recede 

 and before the week ends will surely have 

 found a considerably lower level. A few 

 of the best Maid and Bride were held at 

 8 cents Monday, March 15, and Beauties 

 were top at 50 cents, vrith the promise of 

 greatly increased shipments before the 

 week 18 over. 



Carnations are abundant, as quotations 

 indicate, and the stock of inferior qual- 

 ity finds a fickle and unresponsive market. 

 The best white lilac holds steady and 

 will, until the southern shipments in- 

 crease. Violets have slipped another cog 

 and 40 cents will secure the best in the 

 market, while vast quantities are cleared 

 to the moguls of the street at 15 cents 



per hundred. The sidewalks are blue 

 with them. Orchids and gardenias are 

 now society's only choice and are likely 

 to remain so as long as present prices 

 for them prevail. The southern daffodils 

 are selling at 25 cents per hundred. The 

 street handles the bulk of these. Of 

 sweet peas, freesias and tulips the sur- 

 plus daily is discouraging. There can 

 be but little change for the better until 

 April. Acacia seems abundant and pop- 

 ular. 



Vafiotu Notes. 



Every retail vdndow is featuring the 

 shamrock. Green carnations also ap- 

 peared March 15. 



The auction season is now open in 

 earnest and every Tuesday and Friday 

 at Elliott's and at Cleary's vast quan- 

 tities of Easter plants, hardy roses, 

 rhododendrons, retinosporas, biUbs and 

 nursery stock are sold to the suburban 

 public and to the retail florists of the 

 big city at persuasive values. Hardy 

 roses brought from 5 cents to 16 cents 

 March 12. The attendance is encourag- 

 ing, considering the early start and the 

 continued frost. Nurserymen in this 



vicinity report a large demand already 

 and all agree that no season has ever 

 started in so early and so encouragingly. 



In the department stores everything is 

 in readiness for the spring demand and 

 an encouraging feature is the better 

 prices advertised, a sure indication of 

 better times for the growers of nursery 

 stock. Bulbs and flower seeds are far 

 above the prices of other years. 



The Retail Florists* Association of 

 Brooklyn had its first public reunion 

 Tuesday evening, March 16, a large at- 

 tendance being present. The celebration 

 included an evening's entertainment at 

 the Orpheum theater, followed by an 

 elaborate supper at one of the swell res- 

 taurants of the city. This society in- 

 cludes Robert G. Wilson, John V. Phil- 

 lips, H. H. Jahn, S. Masur and many 

 of the leading retailers of the city of 

 churches. 



Wednesday evening, March 17, the ban- 

 quet of the National Association of Gar« 

 deners took place. A large attendance 

 was present and an excellent exhibition 

 was opened March 17. 



There is a good attendance from New 

 York and vicinity at the American Bose 



