FSBSDABT 2, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



60} 



At the drnation GMivention a speaker laid the Chicago 

 market was from 



Pittsburg to Denver 

 Duluth to New Orleans 



If you do business in this territory we can supply your 

 needsy and want your orders* All cut flowers in season* 



.,,,PANCY VALLEY gLWaVS ON HANP,~. 



E. C. 3NL1NG, 



Tli« £arg'*Btj Beit Banippad and Host Cratrally Iiooated 

 Wholeiale Cut Flower Konse in Chioaffo. 



Chicago, llh 



32-34-36 Randolph Sf., 



ftyitTnaig BBAUTT, Perdoi. 



ao-86-lncb stem t4.00to$5.M 



24-incb Item 8.00 



20-incb Item 260 



16-incb Item 2.00 



12-incb Item 160 



Bbortitem 76to 1.00 



Per 100 



Brides 16.00 to $15.00 



BridesmaidB SOOto 15.00 



Meteor O.OOto 150O 



OoldenGate 600to 16.00 



Obatenay 6.00to 15.00 



OamitlonB 2.00to 8.00 



large and fancy.... 4.00 to 6.00 



Violet! OOto 1.00 



Valley 2.00to 4.00 



OaUas per dos.. $1.60 



Paper Wbites, Romana 8.00 



Tulips 8.00to 4.00 



Jonqaili : 4 CO 



Sweet Peas 1-60 



MlKnonettea 60to .75 



Aiparaaus, per strinK, 85c to SOc 



Asparagus Sprengeri 8.00 to 6.00 



Ferns per 1000. 12.00 .26 



Galax per 1000. 11.25 .16 



Leucotboa .-W 



Adlantum l.OOto 1.60 



Smilaz ... per doz., $1.60 to $2.00 10.00 

 Wild Smilax, 251b. cases... 8 00 



851b. cases... 4.00 



60 lb. cases... 6.00 



BaljMt U chogo wttkovt HOttee. 



Mentloo The ReTlew when yon write. 



for the heavy drain of last season, but 

 1905 ehowB a deficiency of 164 degrees 

 over the normal temperature for Jan- 

 uary. 



Stollery Bros, say that they have about 

 200 Crimson Ramblers in course of 

 preparation for Easter and spring sales 

 and that when these are gone they are 

 through with it. They do not find it a 

 profitable forcing plant and for planting 

 out it is unsatisfactory on the north 

 shore unless given special attention. To 

 succeed it must be planted in a big hole 

 with a foot of cow manure and then 

 heavy clay soil. And it must not be 

 against a wall, as so many want it. 



"When the George Wittbold Co. re- 

 built the Buckingham place store last 

 summer, provision was made for a cold 

 storage room underneath where there are 

 now thousands of potted bulbs to be 

 brought on for spring sales, also a 

 quantity of rhododendrons, etc. The 

 room can be kept at any desired tem- 

 perature. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. reports 

 that Liberty is this year the most profit- 

 able rose on the place. They are two- 

 year-old plants and the first year did 

 not pay for their board; in fact, half a 

 house was thrown out. In view of this 

 season's results they wish they had kept 

 them all. 



C. L. Washburn says that he took 

 home a few blooms of M. A. Patten's 

 now carnation, Mikado, after last week 's 

 show, and has them yet. It is a varie- 

 gated, with much more color than Pros- 

 perity. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. is busy this 

 week taking inventory in the supply de- 

 partment. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. says the sale for 

 galaz is very heavy, wreaths of this 

 material being very popular for funeral 

 work. 



Lubliner & Trinz have opened a branch 

 store at 176 State street. 



A. L. Bandall Co. reports a very large 

 call for white lilac. 



J. E. Jensen on January 31 resigned 

 his position as foreman for the J. D. 

 Thompson Carnation Co. at Joliet and 

 his fellow employees made his departure 



the occasion for presenting him with a 

 Masonic emblem. Mr. Jensen will make 

 a trip to the west before he closes a 

 new deaL He will be succeeded at Mr. 

 Thompson 's by another of Peter Fisher 's 

 graduates. 



The club will meet February 9. Busi- 

 ness of importance is scheduled. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business has resumed its normal con- 

 dition, interrupted by last week's fierce 

 storm. On one day, Thursday, the ex- 

 press companies declined all shipments 

 of flowers, whUe for two days and a 

 half there were no trains over the Balti- 

 more Central railroad. The wholesalers 

 distributed the Long cards advertising 

 McKinley day, but it did not seein to 

 create much popular enthusiasm, owing 

 possibly to the unfavorable weather. 

 Shipments of carnations were so light 

 that they would not have sufSced for 

 much more than the common business. 



The opening event of this week was 

 Founders' day at the Union League, cel- 

 ebrated on Monday. There were many 

 distinguished guests, among them the 

 President of the United States. The club 

 house was elaborately decorated with 

 American Beauties, Liberties, tulips, daf- 

 fodils and other spring flowers, with wild 

 smilax and plants by the Wm. Graham 

 Co. 



The increase in the quantity and vari- 

 ety of spring flowers is a feature of the 

 market. Single tulips are to be had in 

 all the leading colors. First double daf- 

 fodils have made their appearance, while 

 freesia and white lilacs are at their best. 

 Cattleyas have sold well but are getting 

 scarcer. Other orchids are about over 

 for the present. Gardenias are much 

 more plentiful and have fallen in price. 

 Carnations and all kinds of greens have 

 been selling well. Beauties took a jump 

 last week but, while in demand, they 

 have fallen this week. Brides and Maids 

 are scarce; many more of the best could 

 be used. Valley is seUing better. Vio- 

 lets are only in fair demand. Callas 

 sell welL 



A Fine Decoration. 

 J. J. Habermehl's Sons arranged a 

 very handsome decoration in the ball 

 room of the Bellevue-Stratford on Tues- 

 day evening for Ex-Senator Emory's 

 dinner to his old associates at which 

 106 gentlemen were seated at a square 

 table adorned with long-stemmed En- 

 chantress carnations in tall vases. The 

 boutonnieres were of the same flower. The 

 hollow space in the center of the great 

 square formed by the table was com- 

 pletely filled by a beautiful garden 

 scene arranged in pink, white and green. 

 There were choice specimen plants of 

 azaleas in garden vases, with beds of 

 tulips here and there relieved by the 

 restful green of wild smilax lying grass- 

 like on the floor. 



A New Company. 



On the fourteenth day of December, in 

 the year of our Lord one thousand nine 

 hundred and four, certain citizens of the 

 town of Atco, in the state or New Jer- 

 sey, incorporated as the L. K. Peacock 

 Co. Their object was to form a strong 

 concern that would enable L. K. Peacock, 

 the famous dahlia specialist, to further 

 enlarge his big industry. In a word, as 

 he expressed it, to "do things as he 

 would like to do them." The incorporar 

 tors include the head men on the place. 



The immediate results are a great in- 

 crease in land for dahlia culture and a 

 wonderful new packing shed. The noise 

 of these things having reached the Re- 

 view, that most progressive paper, Phil 

 was promptly dispatched, despite cold 

 and snow, to Atco to see what was do- 

 ing. Mr. Peacock's carriage was in 

 waiting, driven by a former fellow 

 townsman and Mr. Peacock himself was 

 at the greenhoilees with a hearty wel- 

 come. 



The increase of land owned and leased 

 is very large. The home farm at Atco 

 now consists of 160 acres and the new 

 farm, one mile out of town on the Penn- 

 sylvania railroad, consists of 208 acres. 

 Little more than one-third of these large 

 tracts will be planted next season. Some 

 of the ground will be used for other pur- 

 poses, and some may be or may not be 



