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1£at 11, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1513 



....PEONIES.... 



E^ ?v .;. V« *>*▼« '"»• White, pink and red. Most 

 ' : ^ popular flower for spring; weddingi. Enough for 



' y^ alL Also all other ttock. Let us have your orders. 



Tbe rxpreiB driven' itrike Is MIU on, bnt you wooldn't know it. 8o far aa we are con- 

 cerned, everythliiK KQing on as luual. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR SMIUX AND ASPARAGUS 



E. C. 3IVILING, 



Th* laavmt, Bast B«iilpp«a and Most OmtnOly Looat«d 

 WliolMiale Out nowsr Kous* la Obiomgo. 



i^iHrt«K«irteHKMi«.{ijjij;jMr»gfc«itr.i. CnicQgo^ 111* 



Per dot. 



KKSd-inob Item moo 



at-lncta Item SM 



30-lnob atem 2.00 



IS-inota Item iso 



12-lnob Item 100 



Sbort Item, per 100, 91.00 to $6.00 



Brides, Bridesmaids 93.0010 16.00 



Kalserin, Gtolden Gate 4.00to 800 



Liberty, Otaatenay 4.00 to 10.00 



Carnations.. i.soto 200 



_ , larce and fancy.... 3.00 



Peonies per doz., OOo to 75o s.oo 



Poet's NarolsMM 100 



Valley 200to 400 



OaUas per doi., $1.00 to •1.25 



Tulips 2.00to 4.00 



Easter LlUea per dos., 11.60 lo.oo 



2,T*?**^J" 76*o IM 



Mignonette 88to .76 



Margnerftes im 



Shasta Daisies iS 



Asparagns, per string, 2Sc to fiOo 



▲sparagos Sprengeri 2.00to 6.00 



Jem" per 1000, «.00 .ao 



?»»»x-- per 1000, 91.26 .16 



IjencottaoB i.jo 



Adlantom jIoq 



Bmllax perdos.,91JW 13.00 



Ask for special quotations on 1000 lots 

 Roses and Carnations. 



SiUMt to ahuge wttkMt Mtlee. 



well satisfied with trade this season, 

 which goes ahead of previous jears. 



Brown tail moth caterpillars are get- 

 ting in their work now with a vengeance 

 and people are crying out for immediate 

 action on the part of the state, which has 

 an appropriation of $75,000 to use this 

 season in fighting it. ' Many cities and 

 towns destroyed nests in thousands the 

 past winter and the warfare against the 

 pest will this year be on a larger scale 

 than ever before. 



Thomas Capers, a well known and 

 much respected florist, of Newburyport, 

 died on April 29, aged 66 years. Coming 

 from England to America while quite 

 young, he settled in Newburyport thirty 

 years ago, having been in private and 

 later commercial floriculture all that 

 time. He leaves a widow and one son. 



W. N. eaAio. 



Mention The Herlew when yon write. 



CHICAGO. 



TheMaAeU 



Not in a very long time has the mar- 

 ket been in so bad a shape as during 

 the past week. Beceipts are very much 

 in excess of the demand. There are fair 

 crops on in nearly all lines and various 

 circumstances have setved to limit the 

 demand. Because of the strike, the local 

 retail trade amounts to practically noth- 

 ing, particularly with the down town 

 stores. At the same time it seems that 

 every other market is suffering with a 

 glut of stock and there is no need for 

 buyers in many cities to send to Chi- 

 cago. Strange as it may ssem to those 

 unfamiliar with the circumstances, St. 

 Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pitts- 

 burg, where there are numerous whole- 

 sale houses, are usually among the best 

 patrons of the Chicago wholesalers. This 

 is not so at present. They have enough 

 stuff in their home markets to meet all 

 requirements. 



There is no great oversupply of Beau- 

 ties, or fine Liberties, but of first-class 

 Brides and Maids there are too many to 

 hold the prices and Chatenay and Golden 

 Gate are both in over-abundance and sell- 

 ing very cheap for splendid stock. The 

 value of carnations dwindled steadily all 

 through last week and this we$k bids 



fair to give the growers the lowest aver- 

 ages ever seen for the corresponding 

 grade of material, for much of the re- 

 ceipts are strictly fine. 



Easter lilies have become absolutely 

 immovable. It is not a case of cleaning 

 un at cheap prices, but one of dumping 

 the lilies when they are no longer pre- 

 sentable. Callas are in almost as bad a 

 way. There are now large receipts of 

 outdoor tulips, including some of the 

 finest ever seen in the market. Parrot 

 tulips being particularly good. There is 

 a fair demand for valley for wedding 

 work and McKellar reports many ad- 

 vance orders for cattleyas. 



Peonies began to come in at the end 

 of last week. The old red was quickly 

 followed by the later sorts and all colors 

 are now offered in quantity. The crop 

 seems likely to come all at once this year 

 and on May 9 quantities of Missouri 

 goods went into cold storage. It is re- 

 ported that in certain quarters the crop 

 will be lighter than usual, but there 

 promises to be enough for everyone un- 

 less conditions change radically. We es- 

 caped the large lots of lilac from south- 

 ern Ilinois because the express companies 

 would not accept consignments except 

 where special arrangements had been 

 made, and these did not interest the 

 wholesalers with so much other material 

 in the market. There is now a goodly 

 lot of local lilac. 



There are increased receipts of smilax 

 and poor stock does not bring as much 

 as it did a week or two ago. Southern 

 ferns appear, but there are yet several 

 hundred thousand Massachusetts ferns 

 in cold storage. 



The Strike Situation. * ZZ^Z 



The situation as regards the express 

 drivers' strike has changed very little 

 in the past week. The wholesalers ' team- 

 ing arrangements are still serving to get 

 the outgoing shipments of "funeral 

 flowers" to the depots without trouble, 

 the union favoring the trade very, great- 

 ly in this respect. Individual arrange- 

 ments are still in force as to getting the 

 incoming stock from the depots to the 

 wholesale houses. The express companies 

 are willing to make deliveries under 

 guard but this the wholesalers do not 



wish. Practically all greenhouse stock 

 which usually reaches this market is get- 

 ting in safely, but the outdoor stuff, such 

 as southern lilacs, has been largely elimi- 

 nated, as with so great supplies the green- 

 house grown flowers the wholesalers did 

 not care to guarantee charges, assume all 

 risk of damage and go to the depot t* 

 get this class of material. Otherwise the 

 express companies would not accept it 

 from consignors. The same thing is likely 

 to occur with cape jasmines if the strike 

 continues so long. However, in so far 

 as the regular cut flower trade is con- 

 cerned, it may be said that our trade ia 

 practically uninterrupted and in mani- 

 festly better condition than any other 

 business which is in any measure depend- 

 ent upon the express companies. 



Decoration Day. 



Everyone hopes that the strike will be 

 over before Decoration day, but so long 

 as conditions are as at present business 

 will not be interfered with. Decoration 

 day is constantly growing in importance 

 and great quantities of stock are called 

 for from this market. Inquiries to hand 

 would indicate good business again this 

 year. 



Various Notes. 



B. F. Rubel, who is the head of the 

 Fleischman Floral Co., 3 Jackson boule- 

 vard, has taken the store at North State 

 and Division streets, which proved a los- 

 ing venture for T. D. Mosconesotes, and 

 will place it in charge of John Gormley, 

 formerly with the Ernst Wienhoeber Co. 

 The down town store is now in charge of 

 George Wienhoeber, ^ a nephew of Mr. 

 Wienhoeber. 



The Florists' Bowling Club took up 

 regular practice on Tuesday evening. 

 From now until convention time there will 

 be a weekly meeting at Bensinger's al- 

 leys, 114 Monroe street, and the players 

 who make the best averages will be en- 

 titled to represent the club at Washing- 

 ton. Everyone is invited to try his 

 hand. There will also bs bowling by the 

 ladies on an adjoining alley. E. F. Win- 

 terson, J. S. Wilson and Fred StoUery 

 are the committee in charge. There will 

 be a regular meeting of the Chicago Flo- 

 rists ' Club tonight. 



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