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Mabch 0, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



887 



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PULB STOCK! 



We are handling a large quantity of the finest Tulipi 

 coming to this market. La Reine, Keizenkroon, Yellow \ 

 Prince, Double Murillo, etc* Also plenty fine Daf f o- 

 dils, Jonquils and Valley, Callas, Harrisfi. r' ; - ; 



Large Receipts of Fine Roses and Carnations 

 GREEN GOODS FOR ALL REQUIREMENTS! 



E. C. AM LING, 



Til* ItMXgmmt, a«Bt Bquippcd and Most 0«BtxaU7 Aooatcd 

 Wholesale Cnt now«r Kons* in Ohioaffo. 



Chicago, IlK 



32-34.-36 Randolpii St., 



Lou* DtoUac llephoM. {^UfSuiStte **"*'''* 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



Prices have made a still further reces- 

 sion since last report. Dark and colder 

 weather has served in a measure to check 

 the increase in receipts, but there are 

 ample supplies in all departments and 

 values have weakened all along the line. 

 [t is an instance where "the flowers 

 that bloom in the spring, tra la," have 

 everything to do with the case. There 

 are very large receipts of tulips, daf- 

 fodils, jonquils and valley. The qual- 

 ity is exceptionally good, but the re- 

 ceipts are in excess of the demand and 

 prices are not only low but exercise their 

 effect upon staple stock. New York vio- 

 lets have been coming in more heavily 

 than ever before and prices have varied 

 widely. Seventy-five cents per hundred 

 has been the top and Hudson river 

 stock is sold as low as $1 per thousand. 



There are not so many Beauties and 

 the quality is nothing extra, so that 

 prices have not receded. Brides and 

 Maids are coming down in sympathy 

 with the rest of the market and because 

 of large receipts. Carnations are re- 

 ceived in very great quantities, but of 

 superior quality. It is still noticeable 

 that after the early buying the stock 

 left on hand is very largely Mrs. Law- 

 son and clea>-up sales are made at very 

 low prices. Such sorts as Sport com- 

 mand small figures in the beguining. 



Beceipts of callas have increased ma- 

 terially and there is a bad glut in this 

 department. Harrisii are not so numer- 

 ous. Wild smilax is again coming into 

 the market. There is a good demand 

 for greenhouse smilax, but all orders can 

 be filled. There are ample supplies of 

 asparagus and Sprengeri is selling so 

 cheaply that plantings of it will be 

 somewhat reduced for next season. 



Local trade was fair the last week of 

 the "social season" and shipping trade 

 good but New Orleans did not take so 

 much stock for Mardi Qras as in recent 

 years. Lent began yesterday but it has 

 had little effect the past few years and 

 is not feared as it once was. 

 Too Many Carnations. 



With the street fakirs already han- 



dling a large part of the receipts of 

 carnations, it is to some discouraging 

 news that production is again to be 

 largely increased next season. Not only 

 will the season's building add consid- 

 erably to the glass devoted to the car- 

 nation, but the Weber and Bistow places 

 heretofore in roses will be turned over 

 to carnations. Payne, at Hinsdale, who 

 never grew carnations will plant 10,000 

 to 15,000 square feet of glass with them, 

 and there are others. It looks to the 

 pessimist as though the market might 

 be overdone, but doubtless all will find 

 an outlet then as now. 



Long Distance Violets. 



Up to last season practically all the 

 Bhinebeck and Poughkeepsie violets were 

 sold" and used in New York. Last win- 

 ter several millions were shipped to Chi- 

 cago, but it has remained for this sea- 

 son to see the distribution carried still 

 farther. Chicago has shipped other 

 flowers to New Orleans, Texas, the west 

 and northwest for years but violets have 

 not figured in the shipping business. 

 Now, however, the wholesalers, always 

 awake to the possibilities, have standing 

 orders for regular shipments of Hud- 

 son river violets to customers as far 

 away as the market reaches. Poughkeep- 

 sie violets are 2,000 miles from home in 

 New Orleans. 



At Hinsdale. 



One of the season's improvements at 

 Bassett & Washburn's is the consolida- 

 tion of several separate heating plants 

 into one central station, containing ten 

 150 horse-power boilers. The new stack 

 will have a flue seven feet six inches in 

 diameter and will be 150 feet high. 

 Standing on top of a hill it will be 

 quite a landmark. Across the drive 

 will be a shed capable of storing 4,000 

 tons of coal. Six new houses, each 576 

 feet long, are now being built. Tne iron 

 gutters are up. 



Vaiiout Notes. 



John Peahrson, the manager of the 

 Clark street store of the George Witt- 

 bold Co., has the sympathy of all in the 

 trade who know of his recent bereave- 

 ments. It is only two months since the 



lOAM BmaUTT, Perdu. 



MHM-lncli stem $6.00to|6.00 



St-lncb Item..... 4.00 



29-lnoli stem :,.... 8.00 



15-incb Item 2.00 



13-inota item 1.60 



Staortstem tsto 1.00 



Per 100 



Brides $8.00 to 18.00 



Bridesmaids S.OOto 8.00 



Liberty , 4.00tO 13.00 



Golden Gate S.OOto 8.00 



Obatenay 4.00to 10.00 



Oamatlona 1.60 to 2.00 



large and fancy.... 8.00 to 4.00 



VioleU goto .76 



Valley 2.00to 8.00 



Oallaa per dor, $1.26 8.C0 



Tullpe.. 8.00to 4.00 



Daffodil! 8.00 



Freealai 800 



Jonqoila 3.00 



Forget-me-not 1.80 



EaaterLiUee dos.,8l.60 



Sweet Peas 76to 1.00 



Mignonettes eoto .76 



Aaparagns. per string, 2&c to 6O0 



Asparagus Sprengeri 2.00 to 6.00 



Ferns per 1000, n.60 .80 



Galax per 1000. 11.26 .16 



LeuoothOB ,76 



Adiantom l.OOto 1.28 



SmUax ... per doi., 11.60 to 12.00 lo.OO 



Bailee* t* ehau« wItkMt Mtle«. 



baby died and on Friday the mother 

 passed away. Mrs. Peahrson came to 

 America to join him only a couple of 

 years ago. He met her in New York 

 and they were married there. 



E, C. Amling is handling some very 

 good sweet peas. He says bulbous 

 stock and in fact all receipts are of 

 unusually good quality just now. He 

 has a big cut of smilax ready. 



C. W. McKellar has been getting in 

 very nice gardenias from the east. 



The George Wittbold Co, had one great 

 object in view when they built the new 

 range at Edgebrook a few years ago, 

 and that was to get space to grow on 

 stock to the larger sizes. It was slow 

 work, even with increased glass, for their 

 trade has increased steadily, but they 

 have at length succeeded in getting up 

 a satisfactory stock in decorative sizes, 

 something which has not heretofore ex- 

 isted in the west. They are particularly 

 strong on large kentias. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. reports last 

 Saturday's receipts of violets to have 

 totaled 85,000. They have been getting 

 regular shipments of orange blossoms. 



A discussion of corncob pipes has been 

 arranged for tonight's club meeting. 



Peter Eeinberg, P. J. Hauswirth and 

 George Asmus were in the party which 

 went to Springfield last week. 



Mrs. Leonard Kill, who has been ill 

 for many weeks, is now convalescing 

 slowly. 



J. A. Budlong, who had a big crop 

 of fine mums last year, will not plant 

 any this spring, the intention being to 

 give the^ additional space to Beauties, 

 with which they have done especially 

 well this season. 



The house of E. H. Hunt says in its 

 weekly review of the market "Outside 

 trade continues fair. Qty trade is 

 somewhat improved but not so much but 

 that we could stand more. The street 

 men are busy at last; they have got 

 their inning, and are making the best 

 of it." 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 says that all of a sudden the buyers 

 have taken a decided preference for sin- 

 gle violets. 



George Eeinberg is still getting quite 



