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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 2, 1912. 



SPECIAL FOR 



MOTHERS' DAY 



CARNATIONS 



$3.00 to $6.00 per 100 



WHITE ROSES 



Good ahort, $26.00 per 1000 



JOHN KRUCHTEN 



162 N.Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111. 



Long Distance Phone, Central 6269 



OUBREMT PRICE LIST: 



Cattleyaa perdoz. $6.00 



Oardenia* " 2.00 



BEA.UTIE8 



Per dos. 



Long Stoms $4.00 



Sterna St Inches.. 3.00 



2.S0 



2.00 



$7.60 

 3.00 



Steins 80 Inches. 

 Stems 24 Inches. 



Klllarney 



White Klllarney 

 Richmond 



Per doz. 

 Stems 20 Inches. .$1.6o 

 Stems 16 Inches. . 1.26 

 Stems 12 Inches.. 1.00 

 Stems 8 Inches.. .76 

 PerlOO 

 Extra Select.. $ 8.00 



Select 



Maryland [ Medium $ 4.00 



Hilda ( Short 



Bride or Maid 



i/arnatious, common 1.00 



grood 



" fancy 



Valley 



Easter Lilies 8.00 



Callas 8,00 



Tulips 



Jonquils 



Daffodils- 



Sweet Peas 60 



Stocks per bunch. .60 



Pussywillows per bunch, .36 



Asparagus Plumosus . . per string, .60 i 

 " " ..per bunch, .26 



Sprengeri.. " " .26 



Adiantum per 100 .76 



Smllax per doz., $2.00 



Ferns per 1000. 3,60 



Galax " 1.00 



Leucothoe " 7.60 



Mexican l7y per 1000, 6.00 



Boxwood per bunch 



Subject to Market Chances 



6.00 

 6.00 

 3.00 



1.60 



2.0O 



8.00 



3.00 



10.00 



10.00 



3.00 



8.00 



S.OO 



1.00 



.75 



.60 



.76 



.60 



.60 



1.00 



.40 

 .16 

 1.00 

 .76 

 .26 



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Easter Lilies 



ALL YEAR ROUND 



Qrown by 



Hofbneister Floral Co. 



LIckrun, Cincinnati^ Ohio 



Sperry, now A. L. Vaughan & Co., 

 arrived back in Chicago April 20 to 

 look after business matters for a few 

 days after having been in California 

 for three months. He expects to re- 

 turn to the coast after closing up some 

 real estate deals. 



Master Lawrence Story Washburn 

 celebrated his first birthday Saturday, 

 April 27, and acted as host to a large 

 number of Hinsdale friends. The 

 guests' ages ranged from 8 months to 

 2 years. 



Hoerber Bros, report that the last 

 week the demand for White Killarneys 

 was almost abnormal. Practically 

 every order called for them. 



The marriage of George T, Elliott, 

 eldest son of William H. Elliott, 

 Brighton, Mass., and Miss Alma Broc- 

 hart, of Morton Grove, was solemnized 

 Thursday, April 25, Eev. Joseph Hayes 

 Chandler officiating, T, E, Waters acted 

 as best man, with Miss Ethel Brochart, 

 a sister of the bride, as bridesmaid, 

 Mr, and Mrs. Elliott left on the evening 

 train for Council Bluffs, la., where Mr, 

 Elliott will take up duties for the King 

 Construction Co. He formerly was with 

 the Poehlmann Bros. Co. at Morton 

 Grove. 



T, F. Keenan, the south side florist, 

 has taken a position as salesman with 

 the W. W. Barnard Co., at its new store 

 on West Madison street, during the 

 busy season. 



An unusually large attendance is ex- 

 pected at the meeting of the Florists' 

 Club tonight to hear S. A, Jamieson, of 

 the Universal Portland Cement Co., on 

 "Concrete in Greenhouses." 



Tim Matchen says that Peter Eein- 

 berg's force is taking advantage of the 

 fine condition of the soil after the rain 

 to rush a few hundred thousand carna- 

 tion plants into the field. Most of the 

 growers are busy planting this week. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co. states that it has 



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^ Budlong's 



E Bk Ribbon VaDey 



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under construction the largest hot water 

 boiler ever constructed for greenhouse 

 heating. The new size. No. 18, has a 

 capacity of 106,800 square feet of glass, 

 and will be used for a new range of 

 houses near Toledo, 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation reports the arrival last week of 

 the first Gladiolus Colvillei and also of 

 cut sprays of the pink spiraea. Queen 

 Alexandra, Mike Fink took charge of 

 city sales there April 29, 



C. A, Samuelson has recently substi- 

 tuted a White delivery car for the 

 Packard used last year, 



Wietor Bros, say that the way Mrs. 

 Jardine is acting since spring days ar- 

 rived has made them hesitate over their 

 determination to dispense with it after 

 this season. 



At Wellworth Farm Kidwell & Ells- 

 worth are putting up a new house, 

 30x200. Carnations are to be dropped 

 and all the space given to Killarney and 

 White Killarney except a few benches 

 of Mrs. Ward and Sunburst, 



A. Miller, of Henderson & Co., is home 

 from a trip to Texas. 



Mrs. K. N. Cooper, manager of the 

 Auburndale Goldfish Co., says the gold- 

 fish supply is running short, particu- 

 larly in the large, fancy fish, but she 

 expects to have a fresh supply shortly. 



L. Baumann is now reported in 

 Switzerland. 



Mr. Pontius, who has been visiting 

 the greenhouse owners in the Chicago 



THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



Crcpc Flowers 



BBHIS la the season of the 

 ■■ year when these beauti- 

 ful and lasting flowers are 

 mach in demand. We have 

 a large stock of them in a 

 complete assortment of varie- 

 ties: roees, orchids, carna- 

 tions, chrysanthemums, 

 wistaria, lilies and cape 

 flowers. 



Our factory is at your command for all Memo- 

 rial Day Supplies and so is Our Silent Salesman. 



See our olTers on pages 34 and 38. 



H. BAYER8DORFER & CO. 



1 129 Arch Street. PhiMdphia. Pa. 



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vicinity for the Superior Machine and 

 Boiler Works, says he was interested 

 in noting that many of the cut flower 

 growers are taking up vegetables, and 

 vice versa. Apparently each branch of 

 the trade thinks the other branch has 

 the best of it, 



"Florists repeatedly come to us ask- 

 ing for better quality in supplies, but 

 when we tell them the price is higher 

 in proportion they take the cheaper 

 article. Why is itf Don't they realize 

 the better supplies are more than worth 

 the additional cost?" This was from 

 Mr, Gelderman, of L, Baumann & Co.. 

 apropos the article "A Eetailer's La- 

 ment" on page 10 of the April 18 

 issue of The Review. 



Visitors: Philip Breitmeyer, De- 

 troit; Louis Busses, Madison, Wis. 



