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June 1, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



85 



CARNATIONS 



$1.50 to $3.00. We daim the finest line of 

 Carnations in Chicago. 



$J.50 to $6.00. Good 

 color and clean foliage. 



American Beauties. We have 

 plenty, both long and short. 



Liberties. $3.00 to $8.00. Fine stock. 



ROSES 



From now on we 

 expect to have 

 plenty. $3.00 to $6.00 per JOO. 



We can supply fine 

 Valley at $3.00 and 

 $4.00. Some outdoor now at 60c to $1 per 100. 



PEONIES 



VALLEY 



Fancy Ferns 



$3.00 per 1000. 



Plenty of good cold 

 storage stock at 



A. L RANDALL CO., 19 Randolph St, CHICAGO 



Mention Thp Bevlfw whpn you write. 



a retail store in New York has been 

 without them. 



Killarney seems to be growing in fa- 

 vor, if the demand for young plants 

 is an indication. Some of our eastern 

 rose growing experts declare the supply 

 can never meet the increasing demand. 

 The nurserymen have taken it in hand 

 and are making it a specialty for out- 

 door planting, as it has proved itself 

 perfectly hardy. The gardeners on pri- 

 vate estates are very enthusiastic about 

 it. Colen Ogston, who succeeded the 

 late George Savage at the Kimball es- 

 tate, Rochester, planted 200 Killarney 

 last year and Mr. Siebrecht says he is 

 so well pleased that he has sent orders 

 for enough plants to completely fill one 

 of his large greenhouses. 



Michael Rovatzos, formerly at 44 

 West Twenty-ninth street, has filed a 

 petition in bankruptcy with liabilities 

 of $5,368 to fifty-four creditors. He 

 has no assets. Part of the debts were 

 contracted as a partner in the firm of 

 Rovatzos & Moltz. Among the cred- 

 itors are J. I. Raynor, $1,076; De- 

 metrius Pronstzos, $450; Thomas 

 Young, $363, and R. Dreyer, $315. 



Bowling. 



The bowlers of the New York Club 

 have commenced practice again and 

 from the weekly averages made from 

 now until the first of August, the team 

 to represent New York at the Wash- 

 ington tournament will be selected. 

 Thum's alleys, Broadway and Thirty- 

 first street, have been decided upon and 

 all desiring to compete for the honor 

 of team membership are requested to 

 b<> on hand promptly at 8 o'clock every 

 Friday evening. No better facilities 

 for practice can be had in the city and 

 the conveniences are perfect. The scores 

 last Friday evening were: 



Player. ]8t 2d 3d 4th 5th 6th 



HolTmeyer 150 137 140 



Kessler 151 133 120 139 



Manda 143 146 151 125 141 ... 



fnaw- 145 118 134 130 125 ... 



Guttman 130 160 154 140 184 186 



t^enrlch 152 171 191 167 158 201 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Paxton, III.— E. B. Morgan has be- 

 gun rebuilding operations at the Paxton 

 Greenhouses. 



Harrisburg, Pa.— Harry Miller did a 

 big Decoration day business, having 

 stands at the Verbeke street market and 

 an extra one for a couple of days at the 

 Kuss building. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. , 



Memorial day trade has again been 

 very satisfactory and general opinion 

 seems to be that it went ahead of last 

 year. Csrtainly stock of all kinds sold 

 remarkably well. "While a good many 

 flowers came in on May 29, the market 

 on May 27 was the heaviest, a tremen- 

 dous quantity of flowers appearing. 

 Roses sold out remarkably well. Ameri- 

 can Beauties made up to $30; Liberties 

 in a few cases $15 to $20; select Brides 



Please stop our advertisement of 

 carnations ; all sold. 



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does it every time. This time all 

 w^ere sold in three days after the 

 advertisement appeared. 



A. RELYEA & SON. 

 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

 May 18, 1905. 



and Maids went up to $10 and $12, other 

 grades from $2 to $8. Carnots and 

 Kaisejins sold at from $4 to $10. Some 

 fine flowers of these were seen. In car- 

 nations extra fine Harry Fenn, Prosperi- 

 ty and one or two other kinds made $5 

 to $6, other grades making from $2 to 

 $4, whites as usual going the slowest. 

 Fair Maid, Enchantress and Lawson went 

 well. The first named seemed to be in 

 especially good demand. 



Easter lilies were very scarce and 

 made $12.50 per hundred. Many more 

 could have been sold. Very few callas 

 were seen. Gladioli made $10 to $12 

 per hundred for the best, small spikes 

 making half these prices. Candytuft 

 and feverfew made 50 cents per bunch, 

 spiraea $2, single stocks $1 and double 

 $2 to $2.50 per hundred stalks. Sweet 



peas were rather scarce. Thp best made 

 $1.50. Lilac was abundant and good, 50 

 cents per bunch being average price. 

 The abundance of outdoor lily of the 

 valley softened the price of this flower, 

 prices ranging from $1 to $2.50 per hun- 

 dred. Spanish iris made $4. The only 

 other bulbous stock noted was small lots 

 of Narcissus poeticus and its double 

 form. 



Lilac was in splendid condition for 

 Memorial day. Only a few of the late 

 tulips and narcissi remained, owing to 

 the drought. Some German iris were 

 available, but Spiraea Van Honttei, 

 deutzia, Viburnum opulus and other 

 shrubs sometimes available were hardly 

 in season. Asparagus Sprengeri and 

 plumosus, adiantum and hardy ferns all 

 had a big sale. 



Various Notes. 



Houghton & Clark will remove from 

 their present quarters in the basement 

 of the Hotel Berkeley to 396 Boylston 

 street, where they will have commodious 

 quarters and a splendid show window. 



A fire caused by a spark from a loco- 

 motive caused considerable damage to J. 

 Tailby & Son, ,of Wellesley, on May 25. 

 All their packing cases and many flower 

 boxes, etc., were consumed. One of the 

 employes was burned about the face in 

 fighting the flames. 



We are pleased to repoxt the genial 

 E. Sutermeister as impzqving nicely 

 from his recent accident. His many 

 friends hope to see him around again 

 very soon. 



Galvin, on Tremont street, had a nice 

 window of nymphseas in variety the past 

 week, also some good plants of Calla 

 Elliottiana. 



The picnic arranged by the members 

 of the two flower markets will be held on 

 the farm of Robert Montgomery, at Na- 

 tick, on June 3. As many as possible 

 will leave Boston at 12 o'clock. A base 

 ball game between the two markets and 

 a general good time is being arranged 

 for and good weather only is needed to 

 make it a success. 



E. N. Peirce & Son had 100,000 spikes 

 of spiraea for Memorial day, which 

 found a ready market. 



Bernard A. McGinty, for ten years 

 with Welch Bros., and for the past two 

 years salesman for N. F. McCarthy & 

 Co., will open a wholesale commission 

 business on his own account on or about 

 September 15. Mr. McGinty is widely 

 and favorably known among both grow- 

 ers and retailers and we feel sure will 

 succeed in his undertaking. 



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