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July 7, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



305 



ALWAYS *Se'8^ce 



With supplies of the best stock the market 

 affords at this season of the year* Your 

 orders will receive as careful attention as ever. 



All Cut Flowers in Season. 



SEND US 

 YOUR ORDERS. 



E. C. ANLING, 



The XiargreBt, Best Sqnipped and Most Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flower House in Ohioaffo. 



32-34-36 Randolph St., ChinAnn III 



Long DIetaiico Telephones 1 978 and 1 977 Central. ^^ ** • ^O t| V ^ H I ■ • 



MJOAX BBAVTT. 



SO— 36-iDcb stem 



Per dot. 

 $8.00 



24-inch stem 2.60 



ao-incb stem 2.00 



16-lnch stem 1.60 



12-lnch stem 1.00 



Sbort stem 



50to .75 



Per 100 



Brides and Maids $8.00to (5.00 



Meteors and Gates 8.00to 5.00 



Liberty 4.00to 8.00 



Kaiserin 4.00to 8.00 



Camattons l.OOto 1.60 



large and fancy.. .. 2.00 



Peonies per doz., 35c to 75c 



Valley 4.00to 5.00 



Marguerites 50to .76 



Sweet Peas 25to .50 



Oallas. per doz II 00 to $1.25 



Auratum lilies, doz.. $1.25 to Sl.tO 

 Longiflorums. doz., $1.00 to $1.50 

 Asparagus, per string, 40 to 60c. 



Asparagus Sprengeri 8.00 to 6.00 



Ferns per 1000. $1.00 .15 



Oalaz per 1000, $1.25.... .16 



Adiantum 75to 1.00 



Smllax per doz.. $1.50. . . 



Sskjeet to ehsice wttboat sotlce. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market* 



Receipts have decreased materially 

 during the past week. Many growers 

 have come to the conclusion that it was 

 useless to carry their stock farther into 

 the summer. Results are particularly 

 mauifest in the rose department. The 

 cuts of Beauty are now very light and 

 there is very little stock of what can be 

 called good quality. Bride and Brides- 

 maid are more plentiful, but there are 

 few of the latter which are of good color, 

 and mildew is still very prevalent. 

 Brides seein in much better shape than 

 Maids and are in fair demand, as funeral 

 work has been plentiful in the last few 

 days. The best stock is finding a good 

 market, hut the lower grades are still 

 jobbed off to the Greeks. There is 

 a ready sale for the few Chatenay which 

 are in the market, and liiberty is in 

 good demand because of the shortage of 

 Beauties. Kaiserin is not plentiful and 

 selling well. 



While receipts of carnations are less 

 than they were a week ago, there ara 

 still more than the market can consume. 

 Only a small part of the receipts can be 

 sold ^at anything like a satisfactory price 

 to the growers, and it is difficult to dis- 

 pose of the low grades at any price at 

 all. There are still quantities of sweet 

 peas in the market, but the quality has 

 improved and they are in better shapf. 

 Dnring the week the candidum lilies from 

 Benton Harbor have been arriving. Thi:i 

 is a crop of short duration and this 

 year of little profit, for it has been dif- 

 ficult to move the large receipts at even 

 $1 per 100, where the market was for- 

 merly $2 to $3. There are quantities of 

 peonies still to be had, but there is a 

 noticeable tendency to steer clear of the 

 quantities of poor stuff that are offered 

 and pay a fair price for good goods. A 

 few asters are seen. Water lilies are 

 salable for window decorations and 

 feverfew and such items find an outlet for 

 the same purpose. 



The shipping demand has been verv 

 light in the last few days and the local 

 trade is largely confined to funeral work, 

 conditions which are likely to prevail 

 for the next two months. 



Various Notes. 

 E. Kitzinger. who has been doing a 

 thriving busine.^s at 568 X. Ashland ave- 



nue, will move into more spacious quar- 

 ters August 1 and has leased the store 

 at 183 W. Division street, corner of Mil- 

 waukee avenue. 



E. Amerphol, proprietor of the Janes- 

 ville Floral Co., Janesville, Wis., has 

 bought two of the Albert Fuchs green- 

 houses and will remove them for re- erec- 

 tion at his place. 



Leonard Kill, Mirs. Kill and Mrs. Peter 

 Reinberg leave tonight to spend two or 

 three weeks at Colorado Springs. 



N. J. Wietor went to Hackley, Wis., 

 Tuesday evening to spend a couple of 

 weeks at fishing. 



Sam Graff has returned from a trip 

 to Mt. Clemens and Buffalo. 



E. C. Amling went to Lake Marie with 

 his family yesterday to spend a week 

 with the bass. 



E. E. Pieser, of the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., is planning a vacation trip into 

 British Columbia, where he has interests, 



Webster Randall is spending his vaca- 

 tion at his old home in Pennsylvania. 



F, F. Benthey says it is notable the 

 way the crop of Brides is holding out. 

 They are cutting about 2,000 a day, very 

 fair stock. 



The carnation plants in the field are 

 doing well in spite of the lack of rain. 

 We have had very cool weather so far, 

 the deficiency as compared to normal 

 hoing 018 degrees. Many of the growers 

 are ready to begin benching within a 

 week or ten days. 



Weiland & Risch are first in the field 

 with carnation plants ready for benching. 

 They have a big stock of Lawson in fine 

 shape. 



Mr. and Mrs. P. ,1. Hauswirth and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Kochman are spending a 

 week at The Dells of Wisconsin. ' Mrs. 

 Kochman is better known to the trade as 

 Annie Kreitling. 



In the practice bowling match Tuet.- 

 d.iy evening, the "scrubs" were givon 

 a handicap of sixty pins over the St. 

 Tjouis convention team and beat the ex- 

 perts bv just that number of points 



S. W. Pike, of St. Charles, 111., \vas in 

 town Tuesday. 



For Sweet Charity. 



The wholesale houses in Chicago arc 

 being overrun every day by Sisters from 

 the different institutions asking for flow- 

 ers. This practice has grown from where, 

 a few years ago, only one Sister would 

 call occasionally to now not less than 



ten a day, and on special church holi- 

 days up to fifteen to eighteen. They vis- 

 it all of the houses, so that when they 

 leave the market they have both arms 

 full of packages. Some even have 

 a wagon or buggy in waiting. These 

 flowers are taken to hospitals, churches, 

 convents and schools. The habit has 

 grown on them so that they ask for cer- 

 tain kinds, not what you want to get 

 rid of and can spare. Certain feast days 

 require certain colors. If I should have 

 white to spare and they want pink, they 

 tell me so. What began as a charity 

 we all favored has got to be a nuisance. 



Now let us look at the other side, from 

 the retailers' viewpoint. Formerly these 

 institutions bought what they needed 

 from a florist in the neighborhood, or 

 came down town and bought what they 

 needed. Their purchases would range 

 from $2 to $15, as the occasion demand- 

 ed. The school children, for confirma- 

 tion or communion days, would buy flow- 

 ers from the florist. Now they buy, and 

 are asked to, from the Sisters in charge 

 of the schools. We wholesalers give 

 them the flowers; the retailer sits there 

 and looks on. In some cases I am told 

 that they call on the florist and buy the 

 ferns. Why, we ought to supply the 

 ferns also. I don 't see why we don 't. 



Are we doing justice to ourselves and 

 to the retailers? I say, "No." I for 

 one will cut this traffic out and hope 

 that all the wholesalers will do the same, 

 and give the retailer the trade he is en- 

 titled to. We look for his business and 

 if we give away flowers to his patrons, 

 we are only cutting off our own noses 

 for sweet charity's sake. We have lost 

 the business of the public schools 

 through the ban put on flowers by Mr. 

 Cooley. We have only the sectarian 

 schools left. I^t them buy their flowers; 

 they will, when they find they cannot get 

 them given to them. Most institutions 

 use them for altar decoration. All of 

 these institutions are able to pay for the 

 flowers, charity hospitals excepted. I 

 know a number of florists who look for 

 this business for their support and, whilo 

 they used to have it, they don't any 



O. W. Frese. 



more. 



Sterling, III. — Robert Lunstrom, who 

 recently bought F, A. Belt's place, has 

 ordered material for a new house, 22x85, 

 and is remodeling the heating apparatus 

 throughout the establishment. 



