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Skptember 1, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



7J7 



Now Then ! FOR BUSINESS. 



It hasn^t been a bad Summer^ but Autumn is at hand and 

 we want to make things hum. We can't do it without your help. 

 Send us your orders and we'll take such ^ood care of them 

 that we'll all do more business this season than ever before. 



ALL CUT FLOWERS IN SEASON. 



E. C. AN LING, 



The Ziarffest, Beat Equipped and Moat Centrally Xiooated 

 Wholeaale Cut Flower Honae In Chloasro. 



32-34.-36 Randolph St., 



Loim Distance Telephones 1978 and 1977 Central. 



Chicago, III. 



AKBBIOAV BBAUTT. Per dot. 



80-36-iiich Stem W.OO 



24-inch stem 2.60 



M-inch stem 2.00 



le-lnoh stem 126 



12-incb stem 78 



Sbort stem $3.00 to $1.00 per 100. 



Per 100 



Brides and Maids f2.00to $5.00 



Meteors and Gates 2.00to 5.00 



Liberty S.OOto 6.00 



Kalserin 3.00to 8.00 



Carnations l.OOto 160 



Asters 60to 2.00 



Valley 2.00to 4.00 



Gladioli per doz., 25c to 85c 



Tuberoses, " 8Sc to 50c 



Auratum lilies, " $1.25 to $1.60 

 Longiflorums " 1.60 

 Asparagus, per string, 35 to 60c. 



Asparagus Sprengeri 2.00 to 8.00 



Perns per 1000, $1.00 .15 



Galax, Green and Bronze, per 



1000,$1.26 16 



Leucothce -76 



Adiantum -76 



SmUax per doz.. $1.25 8.00 



Sabject to ehuiffe wltkoat aotlee. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Several times this season we have re- 

 ported the dullest week of the summer, 

 only to find one duller, but that should 

 be a safe designation for the present pe- 

 riod for it is certainly the worst to date 

 and it doesn't seem possible that things 

 could be more stagnant. There is a 

 fair amount of shipping but it is almost 

 impossible to fill orders with any degree 

 of satisfaction, so poor are the average 

 receipts. Local demand is very light, 

 funeral work having amounted to very 

 little for some time. 



Beauties are not quite so plentiful as 

 a week ago, but there are plenty of the 

 moderate lengths. Other roses are com- 

 ing in much more freely and Brides and 

 Maids average very poor. Prices are 

 lower than for a long time, plenty of 

 short stuff being offered at $5 per thou- 

 sand. The best stock cut is from old 

 plants. Chatenay is also plentiful and* 

 receipts of Liberty are ahead of require- 

 ments. Kaiserin is in demand. Carna- 

 tions are sold very cheap because of large 

 receipts, low quality and lack of de- 

 mand. A few are now being cut indoors 

 but are so short that the outdoor stock 

 generally finds preference. 



The aster glut is heavier than ever and 

 prices run all the way from 2 cents a 

 bunch to 2 cents apiece, occasionally 

 higher for fancy stock, and one sale of 

 15,000 was reported last Saturday at 

 1 cent a bunch. A great many go to the 

 dump. Gladioli are in nearly the same 

 fix as asters. Not many dahlias are 

 seen, but enough. Tuberoses move slowly. 

 There are large offerings of "green 

 goods," especially asparagus. 



Various Notes. 



H. H. Battles, the well known Phila- 

 delphia retailer, was a caller at the 

 Review office while in Chicago for a 

 couple of days on his way home from the 

 World's Fair, where he was one week 

 behind the conventionites. Another caller 

 was Wm, Falconer, president of the 

 Pittsburg Florists' Club, who was in 

 town to attend the convention of the 

 Amerian Association of Cemetery Su- 

 perintendents. 



George Weinhoeber says that, while 

 there has been little doing this summer. 

 It has been no more dull than last year. 



when they felt that they did a very fair 

 summer business. 



Ed Winterson took four days ' vacation 

 last week, which is worthy of note be- 

 cause of the way he is sticking to busi- 

 ness these times when persuasion is 

 wasted on the buyers. 



The wholesalers wUl next week begin 

 keeping open until six o'clock. Most of 

 them this week resumed issuing their 

 weekly price lists. In Hunt's list we 

 read that "Chatenay will be more abun- 

 dant the coming season than last and 

 promises to be a big factor from now 

 on." And then there is this cheerful 

 report : ' ' The past dull season has been 

 one of the liveliest dull seasons for July 

 and August that we have ever had." 



Frank Fischer will give up his lease on 

 the old Hilmers place at Blue Island 

 and will probably go back to Joliet. The 

 place has never been wholly repaired since 

 the big hail storm two years ago. 



August Dressel, Louis Gresenz, Sam 

 Pearce, George Damm and Alex. Hen- 

 derson were over to St. Joe the other 

 day on a fishing" expedition. They tell 

 some great stories of Pearce 's success 

 as a fisherman, but he owns up that he 

 didn't get even a bite. 



The F. E. Butler Floral Co. has been 

 incorporated by F. E. Butler, S. Butler 

 and J. F. Butler, capital stock $2,500. As 

 stated last week, they will soon open a re- 

 tail store at 291 Dearborn street. 



Mrs. J. B. Deamud is recovering from 

 an illness of a couple of weeks' duration. 



J. A. Budlong has had a particularly 

 good cut of Beauties this summer. His 

 place is all in nice shape and the boys 

 at the store are looking forward to a 

 very good season. 



D. W. Brant is cutting roses from car- 

 ried over stock. His carnations, the 

 plantings of which have been increased 

 this year, are looking good. 



M. Winandy is now operating ten 

 houses which have heretofore been leased 

 to a vegetable grower and has them all 

 planted to carnations. This gives him 

 twenty houses in this flower. 



The Sprague, Smith Co. sold two car- 

 loads of glass at Saginaw to repair the 

 recent loss by hail. 



Sinner Bros, say that they find Liberty 

 a good money maker, better than Meteor 

 at all seasons. 



S. S. Skidelsky was a recent visitor. 

 He reports having sold over 40,000 of the 

 carnation Fred Burki. This is the white 



which made such a good impression at 

 the Carnation Society's show at Detroit. 

 It is to be sent out in January. Wietor 

 Bros, have ordered 2,500. 



Frank Banning, of Kinsman, O., is 

 sending local commission houses some 

 very fine gladioli of a variety called 

 Reuben H. Warder. Amling received a 

 box of them Sunday morning so badly 

 bruised by rough handling in transit as 

 to be almost unsalable. 



F. W. Timme cut his first asters 

 August 29. He has a particularly good 

 strain which he has spent years in work- 

 ing up. 



Mr. and Mrs. George Asmus have been 

 visiting at their old home in Buffalo. 



Visitors: J, F. Sullivan, Detroit; L. 

 Cole. Battle Creek; C. P. Mueller, Wich- 

 ita, Kan. 



HARRISON'S PEONY MANUAL. 



A Manual on Propagation and Cultiva- 

 tion of the Peony has Just been issued by 

 C. S. Harrison, of York, Neb. In the in- 

 troduction we find it stated that the 

 pamphlet was written and compiled for 

 two reasons; first, because there was no 

 work on the subject in the English lan- 

 guage; second, because there ought to be. 

 A chapter is devoted to each phase of 

 peony growing, discussing it from the 

 standpoint of one who has spent almost 

 a lifetime with the flower. Then there 

 are a number of extracts from the writ- 

 ings of well known peony growers and a 

 long list of varieties with descriptions 

 generally as a result of the author's 

 trials. All this makes up a book very in- 

 teresting to every peony grower, but the 

 idea of the manual is to introduce the 

 flower to the masses. 



THE YOUNGEST FLORIST. 



Here are some more young florists. 

 Byrne Bros., of Buffalo, are aged 20 

 and 22. They conduct a retail store at 

 658 Main street and now have in course 

 of erection two large modern green- 

 houses on a tract of seven acres of well 

 adapted land which they bought to af- 

 ford opportunity for expansion. 



Saginaw, Mich. — The Wm. Roethke 

 Floral Company is very busy repairing 

 the damage done by the hail storm July 

 22. Their entire place of 80,000 feet of 

 glass was practically destroyed and the 

 task on which they are now engaged is 

 in many respects worse than starting new. 



