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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 2, 1911. 



Place Orders With Us. 



You will need more stock than ever before for 

 St, Valentine's day — place your orders now with 

 us, and you have the assurance of first selection 

 from a large supply of fine stock; every item 

 filled in full, just the grade you order. 

 Glad to quote prices on anything you will need. 



Headquarters 

 for Home-Grown Gardenias. 



JOHN KRICHTEN 



51 Wabasii Avenue ^°"«c?SSaVaff*°"* Ciiicago, lil. 



CURKENT PRICE I.I8T 



Oattleyas per doz., $5.00 to $7 JSO 



Gardenias ** 3.00 to 4.00 



BEAUTI£S Per doE. 



liongrstoma 15.00 



Sterna 30 Inches 4.00 



Stems 24 Inches 8.00 



Stems 20 Inches 2.S0 



Strmsie Inches 2.00 



Stems 12 Inches 1.60 



Shortstoms $0.76 to 1.00 



Per 100 



Klllarney 6.00to|10.00 



Richmond 5.00 to 10.00 



White Klllarney S.OOto 10.00 



Maid and Bride 6.00to 10.00 



MyMaryland 5.00to 10.00 



ROS£S, oar selection 5.00 



exira select 18.00tol5.OO 



Carnations, common 2.00 to 3.00 



fancy 4.00 



Violets 76to 1.00 



Valley S.OOto 4.00 



Easter LlUes per doE., $2.00 



Oallas .per doz., $1.50 to 2.00 



Paper Whites, Romans 



Tnllps. Jonquils S.OOto 



Sweet Peas 

 Asparairns Plnmosns. 



.76 to 

 .60 to 

 .36 to 

 2.00 to 

 .76 to 



.per string, 

 .per bunch, 



" Sprengerl per 100. 



Adlantum Oroweanum. — " 



Smilax per dos., $1.60 to $2.00 



Ferns per 1000, 2JM) 



Galax " 1.00 



Leucothoe " 7.50 



Mexican Ivy 



Boxwood per case, 



Sabject to Market Chansres 



8.00 



4.00 



1.00 



.76 



.60 



4.00 



1JM> 



15.00 



.25 



.16 



1.00 



1.00 



7.50 



MenUoo The Review when you write 



exactly double the same week of last 

 year. 



In the supply department of the A. L. 

 fiandall Co., Miss Tenner says business 

 is running much ahead of last year. 

 There are many calls for St. Valentine's 

 'day specialties. 



Bassett & Washburn are grafting 

 roses more heavily than last year. They 

 ordered 125,000 Manetti stocks, but the 

 European growers cut this down to 92,- 

 000 because of the season 's scarcity. A 

 house of giganteum lilies is a fine sight 

 just now. 



Chicago will be well represented at 

 Champaign during the coming week. 

 The largest number will go down 

 Wednesday morning, February 8. 



The Florists' Club meets at the Union 

 restaurant February 2. 



John Flint, of the Star Floral Co., 

 says Victory has been their most profit- 

 able carnation this season as well as 

 last. 



O. J. Friedman had the family order 

 for the Selz funeral January 28, includ- 

 ing a casket cover of violets. W. J. 

 Smyth sent two wagon loads of designs 

 and many others had good orders. 



Wendland & Eeimel will not put up 

 their new range until next October. 

 They are figuring on 32-foot houses and 

 4-foot benches. Mr. Eeimel thinks the 

 middle row, in a bench carrying five 

 rows of rose plants, is not a profit- 

 maker. 



It is reported W. S. Garland, Des 

 Plaines, will add one house 27 x 250 and 

 lengthen another. 



Matthews & Co. now are proprietors 

 of the Park Flower Shop, established at 

 206 Fifty-eighth street by Mrs. E. 

 Morton. 



At K H. Hunt's, W. E. Lynch says 

 he anticipates St. Valentine's day will 

 show another big increase in business 

 a^ain this year and that stock of all 

 kinds will have become plentiful by 

 then. 



E. F. Winterson was at St. Louis last 

 week for the opening of the bowling 

 congress. 



W. J. Smyth has lost another big 

 plate glass window, cracked by the 

 wind. 



The Deerfield Nurseries are reported 

 to be having such good success with 



VIOLETS 



For Valentine's Day 



PERCY JONES 



THE Wholesale Florist 

 27-29-31 Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



Mention The Review wben you write. 



gardenias that Frank Kottrasch, the 

 proprietor, has decided to build two 

 more houses this spring, John Kruch- 

 ten, who is their selling agent, says he 

 cannot confirm the report, but be- 

 lieves it. 



The George Wittbold Co. has just let 

 a contract for $1,200 worth of adver- 

 tising in the street cars and is getting 

 out two retail catalogues for spring dis- 

 tribution. 



Fred Sperry has tired of life in a city 

 flat; he has just closed the purchase of 

 a house in Oak Park, where his partner, 

 A. L. Vaughan, resides, to which he will 

 remove his family May 1. 



The death of Henry Mundt, once a 

 well known grower at Oak Park, is re- 

 corded in this week's obituary column. 



The Chicago Carnation Co. has de- 



^ Budlong's 



E Blue Ribbon VaOey 



livered 65,000 cuttings of Carnation 

 Washington, the dark pink Enchantress. 

 Wietor Bros, have gone into it to the 

 extent of 5,000. 



Kyle & Foerster report that Klehm's 

 Nurseries began cutting their annual 

 crop of ' * Novelty ' ' tulips January 25. 



Johnson & Chronis had a large order 

 last week for Mrs. J. T. Harahan, one 

 of the items furnished being five dozen 

 cattleyas. 



