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The Florists* Review 



JPLT 11, 1912. 



SOME OF OUR SPECIALTIES 



Asters, Shell Pink $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $3.00 per 100 



Augusta Gladiolus, Fancy $4.00 @ 5.00 per 100 



Valley 3.00 @ 4.00 per 100 



Sweet Peas 40 @ .75 per 100 



Roses 3.00 @ 8.00 per 100 



Fancy Ferns, best in Chicago 1.25 per 1000 



Mexican Ivy 75c per 100; 6.00 per 1000 



We want a few new, live buyers. You cannot miss it buying of us. 



A. L. VAUQHAN & CO. 



(MOT INC.) 



151 North Wabash Avenue C H I C A Q O 



MmitloB The BctIcw when too writ*. 



BEAUTIES 



First-class stock, long stems, at reasonable prices. 



FANCY PEONIES, 3c, 4c, 5c and 6c. 



Batavia Greenhouse Co* 



Greenlioasea: 

 BataTla. XU. 



L. D. Pkene 

 t90i Bandolph 



Stores 30 E. Randolph St., CHICAGO 



Mentton The Rerlew when yon write. 



Carnations are still good and in ex- 

 cess of the demand. Large cuts still 

 prevail in almost all varieties, although 

 the aster is slowly but surely making 

 progress, and the supply of these is on 

 the increase. The greater part of the 

 asters are pink, although other colors 

 are to be had in small quantities. Out- 

 door sweet peas are now on the market 

 in full force. The quality of both the 

 indoor and outdoor peas is hardly en- 

 couraging to either the buyer or the 

 wholesale man, as the heat has pre- 

 cluded anything in the way of hard 

 flowers. No special demand for valley 

 was noticed during the week and the 

 cuts have been in oversupply. Lilies 

 are having a little demand for the usual 

 funeral work, but no large quantities 

 are being moved. Peonies are still be- 

 ing moved in large lots. The general 

 effort has been to move the poor stock 

 along as rapidly as possible and hold 

 the better ones that will stand a few 

 more weeks of cold storage treatment. 



Gladioli are abundant, all colors ex- 

 cept America. Auratum lilies are in 

 large supply and almost as difficult to 

 sell as the candidums. Cattleyas are 

 not abundant, but nobody wants them. 

 Hydrangeas have arrived. Gaillardias, 

 coreopsis, bachelor's buttons and daisies 

 sell only in limited quantities. 



Greens are meeting with no special 

 demand, although plenty of good stock 



can be had, including smilax, plumosus, 

 adiantum, galax and ferns. 



Various Notes. 



The Brant & Noe Floral Co. is con- 

 testing in court the action of the city 

 tax authorities, who spread an assess- 

 ment at the wrong rate. The error is 

 admitted, but, as Mr. Brant says, 

 "Strangely enough, the only business 

 concern in the city unable to correct an 

 error is the city itself." 



Peter Eeinberg's force at the farm is 

 busy throwing out carnations, rebuild- 

 ing the benches and replanting. Young 

 Beauties are already being cut in quan- 

 tity. 



Frank Ayres, C. W. McKellar's chief 

 assistant, leaves July 13 for a month's 

 camping trip in Canada, north of the 

 Soo. 



Frank M. Johnson returned to his 

 desk with the A. L. Bandall Co. July 8, 

 after his honeymoon trip up the lakes. 

 Mr. Bandall has gone to his farm in 

 Michigan. W. W. Bandall is on the 

 Pacific coast. 



Those who feel discouraged at the 

 present state of the cut flower market 

 will be cheered by a talk with Charles 

 Klehra, who has been making his head- 

 quarters with Kyle & Foerster since 

 the opening of the peony season. Mr. 

 Klehm says that if florists will only 

 look back a few years they will find 



that what is now called the dull busi- 

 ness of July is as good as the brisk 

 business of June was then; as many 

 flowers now are consumed in July as 

 were used in June only a few seasons 

 ago. 



E. Wienhoeber says that the season 

 now closed was an excellent one, equal- 

 ing the best record for his company. 



Anton Then returned July 4 from his 

 trip south. He is thinking of investing 

 in Alabama lands. 



Julius Schaeffer, a former Chicago 

 boy now employed by Mrs. M. M. 

 Ayres, St. Louis, was in town last week 

 on his vacation, the guest of Fred 

 Dinger, of Smyth's. Saturday evening 

 Mr. Schaeffer gave a "party" for old 

 times ' sake at a south side caf 6. There 

 was dinner and cards, with about 

 twenty-five invited. 



Tim Waters, manager of the florists' 

 supplies department of Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., was at Hammond, Ind., July 5, 

 when it was 114 degrees in the street, 

 investigating the process of preparing 

 oak and other foliage for the supply 

 trade. He arranged for magnolia 

 leaves and oak branches in quantity 

 and a little later will have southern 

 smilax dyed, perpe< aated and fire- 

 proofed by the same process. 



George C. Weilaiid, at Evanston, 

 says that as cow manure has grown 

 scarce he has been using constantly in- 



