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The Florists' Review 



June 4, 1914. 



PEONIES 



Specially Strong on Valley and Fancy Butterfly Peas 



You will need these in quantity for your June Wedding work. We can supply you with the best stock in quantity. 



All other flowers in season, of course. 



A. L. VAUGHAN & CO. 



1SI N. Wabash Ave. 



(NOT INC.) 



Central 2571 



TEI:.EPH0MB:S-( central »57» 



Anto. 48-734 



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CHICAGO 



Mention The R«Tlew when yon writ*. 



Carnations «"d Roses 



Largest blooms, boot kooplnc 

 qualltlos and plonty of thorn 



We have this year the Roses cut from 100,000 feet of modem, 

 up-to-date greenhouses; fine stock, sure to satisfy. 



DAISIES ?eiioV°' - SWEET PEAS - PEONIES - GREENS 



We have a full line of good stock and can take the very best of care of your 

 full order— send you all you need for your spring trade. 



We guarantee safe delivery in perfect condition. 



Chicago Carnation Co. 



A. T. PYTEK, FUiager 



30 E. Randolph St., CHICAGO 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



OABHATIONS Per 100 



Estra laivefancr $ 2.00 @ $ S.OO 



1000 lots $10.00 e $16.00 



B08E8 



Klllarner ) „ 



White KllUrney.. J, Special 6.00 @ 8.00 



S?«*T.^:::::::: S short 



Extra specials billed accordingly. 

 Am. Beauties, per doz.$2.00 @ $3.00 



MI8CEIXANE0VB 



Peonies 6 



Harrlsll, best grade 10. 



Oallas 10. 



Valley 8. 



Sweet Peas 



" Fancy Butterfly 1. 



Snapdragon 6. 



Daisies. White 



Daisies. Yellow 1. 



Adlantnm 



Ferns. perlOOO 



Smllaz, per dozen 1. 



Galax, per 1000 



Asparagus Plumoens. per string. . 

 Asparagus Plumosus, per bunch.. 

 Asparagus Sprengerl, per bunch . 

 Mexican Ivy, per 1000 



.00 @ 



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7S 



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76 



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609 



60 

 36 

 26 < 



4.00 



8.00 



12.00 



12.00 



4.00 



1.00 



1.60 



12.60 



1.60 



3.00 



1.00 



4.00 



3.00 



1.00 



.76 



.60 



.60 



6.00 



Snbjsct to market ohangM. 



Mention Tbe Herlew when yon write. 



expected. The stock was so soft that it 

 went to sleep in the boxes. Many thou- 

 sands were thrown away by the whole- 

 salers, being totally unfit for sale. Only 

 the best flowers were shipped, but com- 

 plaints are numerous. The average 

 price, as the result of low quality and 

 heavy waste, is the lowest obtained at 

 Memorial day in many years. 



The heat brought a flood of peonies. 

 It was an impossibility to sell so many. 

 This week there still are thousands of 

 dozens in cold storage, left over from 

 Memorial day. These flowers were 

 picked and shipped to market in the 

 high heat, and most of them, even the 

 ■ best, now scatter their petals when a 

 bunch is shaken. With a heavy cut of 

 fresh local peonies now on the market 

 and likely to last for another week, 

 there seems little possibility of realiz- 

 ing anything for most of the leftover 

 stock in storage. 



Beauties and roses also came in 

 heavily for Memorial day, but they 

 stood the heat better than did the car- 

 nations and peonies. There were large 

 quantities of long Beauties that popped 

 open and which were sold to the Greek 



fruit stores at next to nothing, and 

 there were many thousands of wide 

 open roses that found their principal 

 outlet in much the- same direction, but 

 in general roses, while they sold cheap- 

 ly, gave better satisfaction all around 

 than did any other flowers on the 

 market. 



There is some variation in reports, 

 but most of the wholesalers say they 

 had a fair shipping business Thursday, 

 May 28, while the following day was 

 extremely dull for the biggest flower 

 holiday in the year. The city trade 

 seemed lighter than usual, but perhaps 

 it was due to the buyer being loaded 

 up at his own price at the first place 

 visited. It was one of the deplorable 

 facts that while business was best flow- 

 ers were poorest and that the quality 

 of the stock, favored by cool weather, 

 began to improve rapidly as business 

 fell off. 



The market continues to be heavily 

 loaded this week, everything being in 

 full crop, with light demand. If the 

 market was oversupplied last week, 

 the overstock this week is just as 

 heavy by comparison with the demand. I 



There is more than the market needs, 

 of everything. The temperature hav- 

 ing been back to normal for several 

 days, the quality of most of the stock 

 is excellent, especially the home-grown 

 peonies. A few shipments of cape jas- 

 mine arrived before Memorial day and 

 sold excellently when the general con- 

 dition of the market is considered, but 

 shipments received this week have not 

 realized express charges. Sweet peas 

 are approaching the end of the season, 

 the Maywood growers being about the 

 only ones who still are picking. The 

 peas fared badly in the fortnight be- 

 fore Memorial day, but are doing bet- 

 ter now, probably as well as anything 

 else on the market. The call for wed- 

 ding flowers is cleaning up good quan- 

 tities of valley and cattleyas also are 

 selling w«ll, though at only moderate 

 prices. 



Betailers' Association. 



Monday evening, June 1, the month- 

 ly meeting of the Retail Florists' Asso- 

 ciation was held at 170 West Jackson 

 boulevard. The meeting was called to 

 order at 9 o'clock with about twentv 



