APBiii 27, 1005. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1383 



Plenty Stock 



Receipts are very large in all lines and prices 

 low, even on best grade goods. We can fill 

 all orders at short notice to your entire satis- 



faction. Fancy Valley, and Adiantum always 



on hand. Let us have your orders. 



HEADQUARTERS EOR SMIUX AND ASPARAGUS 



E. C. AMLING, 



Til* Largest, Beat Equipped uid Most Centrally located 

 Wholssal* Out riowMT Kons* In Ohloa^o. 



32-34-36 Randolph St.. 



Lo.t 9Mmmcm T«l«phoM. {lUf SuJStk '^"*'*'* 



Chicago, IlL 



AmmzOJjr BBAUTT. Perdoi. 



80-3S-lnoIi Item $4.00 



24-lncta Item 8.00 



ao-lncta Item 2.00 



U-lnoli stem 1.M 



la-inoh Item 100 



abort Item, per 100. 14.00 to $8.00 



Per 100 



Bridei $3.00 to $0.00 



Brideamaldi S.OOto 6.00 



KaiBerln 4.00to 8.00 



Liberty 4.00to 10.00 



Golden Gate 400 to 8.00 



Obatensy 4.00to 10.00 



Oamatloiu.. ^ ••• l.50to 2 00 



larffe and fancy.... 3.00 



Poet iNarciMus 1.00 



VaUey ZOOto 3.00 



OaUai per doc. $1.00 to $1.26 



Tiillpi 2.00tO 4.00 



Daflodlli 8.00 



Easter Liliea.. . ... .per doc, $1.50 15.00 



Sweet Peaa 1.00 



Mignonette 35 to .76 



MargnerlteB 1.00 



Aaparagna, per itring, 25c to 60o 



Aaparagaa Sprenireri 2.00 to 5.00 



Fema per 1000, $8.00 .80 



Galax per 1000, $1.26 .U 



LencotboB 1.00 



Adiantum 1.00 



Smllax per dot., $2.00 16.00 



Aak for apecial quotationa on 1000 lota 

 Rosea and Oamatlona. 



BiUeet to 0hug« wltkrat Mtlee. 



Mention The Rcrlew when yog write. 



CHICAGO. 



This Week's Market. 



A good deal of stock came into the 

 market on Monday and more on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, and there was a very 

 light demand, with the result that prices 

 took a decided tumble. There is plenty 

 of everything, with the possible excep- 

 tion of smilaz, and quality is very good 

 all along the line, but it looks as though 

 there is no hope of high prices again this 

 season. The bottom of the market will 

 be fixed by what the Greeks and depart* 

 ment stores will give and the bulk of the 

 stock will go out through these outlets 

 in spite of the fact that a good man^ 

 orders have been booked by the retailers 

 for social and wedding decorations. 



Easter Wholesale Trade. 



The wholesale demand for cut flowers 

 established a new record for Easter. 

 Supplies of stock were very large, fully 

 adequate in most lines, but prices held 

 firm up to Sunday except on low grade 

 roses and one or two surplus lines, like 

 callas and white tulips, for which there 

 was little can. 



Shipping demand exceeded all previous 

 experiences but was mostly done on Fri- 

 day. Practically all orders were filled 

 except for colored carnations. Beauties 

 and Liberties were also short. Lilies of 

 good quality sold well and closed at the 

 highest point, 15 cents. Saturday's 

 shipping orders were filled in full on 

 staples by most houses, with plenty of 

 stock left for that day's city demimd, 

 which was later than usual in starting 

 because all the retailers had stocked up 

 more heavily than ever before with flow- 

 ering plants; naturally they wanted to 

 see these well on the move before they 

 made any effort to push cut flowers. 

 Sunday was a beautiful day but the ex- 

 pected demand did not come and, as 

 mid-day approached, prices broke and 

 the Greeks got a lot of bargains. But 

 it was impossible to dean up at any 

 price and a good many roses and carna- 

 tions were carried over to Monday, to- 

 gether with a lot of odds and ends. On 

 the whole a great deal more stock than 



usual was handled to make a moderate 

 increase in the total of sales. 



Easter at RetalL 



Chicago retailers prepared for the 

 largest Easter on record and it came up 

 to their expectations in every way except 

 that Thursday was so wet and I^riday so 

 windy that the rush on Saturday was 

 past all possibility of handling to 

 best advantage. Sunday was a beautiful 

 day and a great help. Every store was 

 stocked to its utmost capacity with 

 flowering plants. Little novelty was 

 shown except in the pot covers. Crimson 

 Bamblers were more numerous than ever 

 and bulb stock scarce. Although, of 

 course, some orders called for cut flow- 

 ers, most retailers pushed plant sales 

 until fairly well cleaned out and then 

 turned to cut flowers and did a good 

 business in this department Saturday 

 night and Sunday. In the end they were 

 as well cleaned up as could be expected 

 where stocks were so large at the start. 



G. A. Samuelson had a great variety 

 of plants, including pyramidal azaleas, 

 candidum lilies and baskets of Soupert 

 roses. 



"WSenhoeber offered his plants "in the 

 natural," using little embellishment. 

 Here was a splendid stock of azaleas. 



Fleischman still follows the fashion 

 of almost obscuring the plant by the 

 accessories. They had an extra store for 

 plants. 



Smyth says that, after all is said and 

 done, the lily is still the thing. He had 

 a fine lot. 



Muir's first Easter in the new store 

 was ahead of the best at the old place. 



Friedman had a splendid bougainvUIea 

 in one window and a ^uge acacia in the 

 other. 



Hauswirth had some fine lilies and hy- 

 drangeas. He bought azaleas not so ful- 

 ly out as many had them, finding that 

 customers like them with a good many 

 buds to open. 



Wittbold was strong on lilacs and rho- 

 dodendrons and sold a big lot of lilies. 



C. H. Bowe showed the best tulips seen 

 down town. He had many Bamblers. 



Mangel did not stock with plants so 



heavily as many. He had some splendid 

 Bamblers and his samples were lavishly 

 decorated. He sold 19,000 violets. 



Klunder had some very fine Pink Bam- 

 blers. 



Bohanan & Conger had extra good 

 Crimson Bamblers. 



Schiller, where Geo. Asmus holds 

 forth, reports a big business in all lines. 

 Bruns' specialty was valley. 



Death of Mrs. Reinberg. 



Mary L. Beinberg, wife of George 

 Eeinberg, died on April 21 after an iU- 

 ness of several months' duration. A 

 weakness of the heart prevented her re- 

 covery. She was 38 years of age and 

 le'aves her husband with a family of 

 eight, the oldest of whom is 16. The 

 funeral was held on Monday and was at- 

 tended by many neighboring growers 

 and many others in the trade sent flow- 

 ers. Interment was at St. Henry's, 

 High Bidge. Mr. Beinberg has the deep- 

 est sympathy of everyone in the trade in 

 his great loss. 



Various Notes. 



Prof. A. C. Beal was in town for seT- 

 eral days this week to see if anything 

 could be done to rejuvenate the florists' 

 bill in the state legislature. There was a 

 meeting of those most active in the mat- 

 ter at Peter Beinberg 's on Tuesday 

 morning and, while it was acknowledged 

 that things look pretty black for the few 

 days remaining of this session, it was 

 decided to keep at the project until those 

 much-needed greenhouses are a reality at 

 the State Experiment Station. 



It is a very easy thing to understand 

 that by using iron gutters and posts the 

 growers with connected houses get one 

 more bench in each house than by the 

 old, big wooden post method. But it is 

 worth pausing a while to think of the 

 fact that by his rebuilding operations 

 this season Peter Beinberg will gain 24,- 

 380 square feet of bench-room under the 

 same glass 1 His gain in bench-room by 

 the move is more than many a prosper- 

 ous place contains. 



The Grand Bapids' Florists' Associa- 

 tion has gone out of business, its space 



