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February 23, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



769 



Send us your order if you want the finest Smilax that 

 is coming to this market. Plenty of long, fancy Aspar- 

 agus. Adiantum enough for all. Send us your order. 



....FANCY VSLLEY SLWffYS ON HAND.... 



E. C. AMLING, 



The Iiaxguat, Best Equipped and Most Centrally J^ooated 

 Wholesale Cnt Flower House In Chioaifo. 



Chicago, llh 



32-34-36 Randolph St. 



Lee, Dieteec. Telepheee. { Igf J^^JS 



7 Central. 



aaOAM BBAVTT. Perdoi. 



8»-8ft-incta Btem $6.00 



24-iiicb Item 4.00 



ao-lnob stem 8.00 



15-laeta atem 2.00 



12-lncb Btem 1.60 



Short atem 75 to 1.0* 



Per 100 



Brides $4.00 to $10.00 



Bridesmaids...... 400to 10.00 



Liberty O.OOto 16.00 



Golden Gate 4.00to 12.00 



Otaatenay 4.00to 12.00 



OamatiODS a.00to 8.00 



" large and fancy.... 4.00 to 6.00 



Violets 60to 1.00 



VaUey 2.00to 4.00 



Oallas per dos., $1.60 



Paper Whites, Romans 3.00 



Tulips S.OOto 4.00 



Jonquils. Daffodils 400 



Sweet Peas 1.60 



Mignonettes 50 to .75 



Asparagus, per string, 86c to 60c 



Asparagus Sprengeri '8.00 to 5.00 



Ferns per 1000, $2.60 .80 



Galax per 1000, $1.26 .16 



LeucothOB .76 



Adiantum l.OOto 1.26 



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

 Wild Smilax, 26 lb. cases... 3.00 



361b. cases... 4.00 



601b. cases... 6.00 



SoUeet to ekaage wttkoat Hottee. 



Mention The Rgrlew ■wtxtax yon wrlta. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Conditions showed a distinct improve- 

 ment the past week, on one or two days 

 hardly a flower remaining unsold. The 

 weather has continued very cold, but for- 

 tunately snow has kept away. Boses 

 have been in quite brisk demand, the 

 best grades fetching higher prices. 

 Some select Beauties have made up to 

 $65. There has been a scarcity of 

 Brides, the very finest making $25. The 

 popular priced stock at $10 to $12 has 

 cleared out quickly, there being a heavy 

 demand for funeral work. Bridesmaids 

 have held previous quotations. Carna- 

 tions are very little changed in price, 

 continuing to sell well. 



Violets have made 30 to 50 cents, ex- 

 cept for extra select stock, which went 

 at 75 cents. Daffodils have been the 

 greatest surprise in the market. Prices 

 on these have advanced to $3, with no 

 surplus. These flowers seem to catch the 

 popular fancy this season. Other years 

 they have been rather a drug. Lilies, 

 callas, valley and other flowers, as well 

 as green goods, remain about the same. 



Various Notes. 



Dr. George T. Moore, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, deliv- 

 ered an exhaustive and most instructive 

 lecture on "Bacteria as Fertilizers" be- 

 fore the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety on February 18. He had a large 

 audience^ which seemed to take a keen 

 interest in his talk, and in the views on 

 the screen which illustrated the differ- 

 ence between inoculated and uninocu- 

 lated crops, which showed clearly the 

 value of these beneficial bacteria under 

 certain conditions. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 meeting on February 21 was once more 

 a very successful one. The lecture by 

 W. W. Rawson on the increased output 

 of vegetables under glass during the 

 past twenty-five years and the large ad- 

 ditional productiveness of the houses was 

 very interesting. A more extended re- 

 port must wait for our next issue. 



We inadvertently omitted mention of 

 A. Boper's fine vase of Chester Roper 

 carnation in our last issue. At the same 

 exhibition Backer & Co. showed a vase 

 of a fine seedling yellow variety. 



Quite a number of the craft have vis- 

 ited Fairhaven this week to see the an- 

 nual exhibition in the Winsor green- 

 houses, where Peter Murray has charge. 

 All where delighted with what they saw. 



Prospects are good for the approach- 

 ing show of the American Rose Society, 

 which opens on March 22. The Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club will entertain 

 visiting members at a banquet at the 

 Copley Square Hotel. 



James Farquhar, who has been in 

 Porto Rico for some time, hopes to re- 

 turn to Boston early in April. He hopes 

 to return there each winter for a few 

 months. He has planted a large quanti- 

 ty of bulbous stock on land secured 

 there, including the Lilium Philippin- 

 ense they are introducing next fall, and 

 all are doing finely. 



The meml^rs of the Seed Trade Bowl- 

 ing League, which comprises the firms 

 of Schlegel & Fottler, Farquhar & Co., 

 Joseph Breck & Son and W. W. Raw- 

 son & Co., held their annual banquet on 

 February 21 under the presidency of Wil- 

 liam E. Cahill. It was an enjoyable and 

 highly successful affair. President Ca- 

 hill was the subject of a highly compli- 

 mentary illustrated sketch in the last 

 issue of the Boston Sunday American. 



Penn Bros, appeared with a very hand- 

 some new delivery wagon on February 

 18, with uniformed driver, which at- 

 tracted favorable notice, 



Carbone, on Boylston street, is showing 

 some fine Phaius grandifolius and some 

 excellent Azalea mollis. 



McMulkin had a very effective yellow 

 window the past week, using genistas, 

 acacias, tulips, narcissi, English prim- 

 roses, carnations and roses. 



Morse & Gomperts have opened a new 

 store on Tremont street in close proxim- 

 ity to Keith's new theatre. 



Galvin had the decorations for the 

 ball given by Mrs. H. P. Quincy for her 

 debutante daughter at the Somerset 

 Hotel on February 17. The prettiest ef- I 



feet was in the supper room, where each 

 of the forty tables had a basket of flow- 

 ers, no two of which were alike. 



Narcissi which are chiefly grown for 

 our market are Trumpet MAjor, Von 

 Sion (double), Henry Irving, Golden 

 Spur, princeps and poeticus ornatus. 

 Princeps does not take so well as the 

 other sorts. Emperor, Horsfieldii and 

 other sorts are not in evidence yet. 



J. A. Pettigrew has been quite seri- 

 ously sick, but we are glad to report is 

 now much improved. W. N. Craig. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



A few days of bright and moderate 

 weather have produced a very appreciable 

 effect in greenhouse crops. There are 

 many more roses than the market has 

 seen in weeks and prices have taken a 

 drop, although strictly fancy stock is 

 still bringing good figures. Beauties 

 are the one item of which it can be said 

 that there is not an ample supply, as 

 crops are now pretty well off. Bride 

 is a little less plentiful than Brides- 

 maid but there is enough good stock of 

 each so that low grades have lost half 

 their value. The receipts of carnations 

 have iucreased materiaUy and very fine 

 stock is now selling at moderate prices, 

 with a considerable quantity of pink 

 hanging fire and selling at cheap rates 

 in job lots. The Greek venders are now 

 retailing carnations at 15 cents per 

 dozen. The scarcity of Harrisii is a 

 thing of the past, for receipts are now 

 large, but the quality is not up to the 

 standard. There are plenty of fine cal- 

 las. The receipts of La Reine tulips 

 are heavy and prices low considering 

 the high quality of stock. Good red 

 and yeUow tulips sell fairly well. 

 Paper Whites are again in heavy sup- 

 ply and immovable. There are large 

 quantities of bulbous stock in pans of- 

 fered for the retailers and most of them 

 make this class of material a feature 

 of their window decorations. Violets 

 are not coming in as heavily as a few 

 days ago, but are more than equal to 

 all requirements. Some fancy mignon- 



