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August 17, 1905. 



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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



699 



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Weiland & Risch 



Leading) Western Orowers and Shippers of Cut Flowers 



61 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Long Distance Phone, Central 879. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIB8— Per Doz. 



3«-lnchBtem8 • »3.00 



80 " " 2.50 



24 " " 2.U0 



18 " " 1.50 



12 " " 1.00 



Short " 60 



K08E8— Per 100. 



Maids $?.U0 to $5.00 



Brides 2.00 to 6.00 



Killamey 4.00 to 8.00 



Liberty a.OO to 6.00 



GoldenGate 3.00 to 6.01) 



Chatenay 3.00 to 6.00 



CABNATIONS- 



Pair Stock 1.50 to 2.00 



niISOBI.I.ANEOUS 8TOCK- 



Valley 3.00to 4.00 



Auratum Lilies 12.00 to 15.00 



Easter Lilies 12.00to 15.00 



Asters 50 to 2.00 



Sweet Peas .50 



Daisies .50 to 1.00 



Gladiolus 2.00to 4.00 



Tuberoses 5.00 to 6.00 



DECORATIVE- 



Ferns .15 



Sprengerl 2.00 to 4.00 



Asparagus Strings 26.00 to 50.00 



Adiantum 75 to 1.00 



Galax .15 



Smllax lO.OOto 12.00 



Subject to change \rlthoat notice. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Conditions have remained very quiet 

 during the past week. Several days 

 of extreme heat did much to lower 

 the quality of stock and to destroy 

 what little life there was in the mar- 

 ket. The influx of very poor as- 

 ters was something remarkable, but 

 something of a change for the better 

 has now been made. The first asters 

 brought good money, no matter what the 

 quality, and naturally the growers were 

 anxious to send in everything possible, 

 but when they received their returns after 

 the glut began, they saw the folly of 

 shipping anything but the best of their 

 crop. The result has been a diminution 

 of receipts and an improvement in the 

 average quality. 



Beauties continue in very fair supply 

 and prices have weakened a little in the 

 last week or two. There are very few 

 summer roses this year and those grow- 

 ers who have made an effort in this di- 

 rection are doing very nicely. There are 

 plenty of roses from young stock, but 

 they are yet very small. Liberty is in 

 good demand and Chatenay is called for. 

 Few indoor carnations are now seen and 

 most of the stock from plants in the 

 field is of indifferent quality. There are 

 many orders for the best carnations, but 

 the wholesalers do not like to ship the 

 present receipts. 



Easter lilies are again a glut. Eeceipts 

 continue to increase and there is no out- 

 let save for funeral work. Auratum lilies 

 were never so plentiful as this season, 

 but not many album and rubrum are 

 now seen. Most of the wholesalers have 

 more gladioli than they know^wha^-tb 

 do with. Dahlias are on the increase. 

 Sweet peas are seldom seen. Huge pots 

 of Rudbeckia Golden Glow are offered 

 cheaply. Phloxes, some of them splendid 

 heads of bloom, are seen in most of the 

 wholesale houses. The "green goods" 

 situation remains unchanged. 



Flower Show Plans. 



Although nothing has yet been done 

 in the way of definite arrangements, Chi- 

 cago is sure to have a first-class show 

 this fall. Interested parties are search- 

 ing the city for a place to hold the show 

 and the consensus of opinion is that the 

 best place ever available for the pur- 

 pose is Brooke's Casino on Wabash ave- 



nue. It is within walking distance of 

 the loop, is on the ground floor, provides 

 twice the space available last year and 

 the hall is a beautiful one. The refusal 

 of certain dates in November has been 

 obtained. 



Various Notes. 



In these days of abundant supplies in 

 the cut flower markets the wholesalers 

 are compelled to look up new outlets for 

 their stock. The time is past when a 

 wholesaler could restrict his sales to those 

 conducting legitimate flower stores. Now- 

 adays any sort of a buyer in quantity is 

 welcome. The wholesalers are compelled 

 by circumstances to encourage all kinds 

 of stores to use flowers for decorations 

 and to sell them. Occasionally this 

 brings a protest from a retailer who is 

 hit, but in a broad way it is of benefit 

 to the trade, as the universal use of flow- 

 ers is certainly to be desired. 



Peter Keinberg will not plant as many 

 carnations as usual this year. He could 

 not see his way to cut down his plant- 

 ings of any rose and more space was 

 demanded for Chatenay, Liberty and 

 Eichmond. The new addition to the glass 

 houses is 40,000 additional Beauty plants. 



E. E. Pieser, treasurer of the Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., plans a trip to Lake Su- 

 perior for three weeks, beginning Aug- 

 ust 26. 



We have had much more than the usual 

 rain since the carnation plants were put 

 in the fields and for a number of growers 

 the stock has been flooded most of the 

 time since it was planted outside. The 

 plants are not only small but they are 

 very soft in many cases and the growers 

 who have been thus unfortunate are ask- 

 ing themselves if they can count on this 

 stock to give them good crops next sea- 

 son. 



John Mangel has maintained an at- 

 tractive show window all summer. A fea- 

 ture of his window for some months has 

 been the showing of made-up floral 

 pieces. The style here is the solid 

 wreath, with a loose cluster of flowers 

 at one side and ribbon added liberally. 

 A wreath in his show window will last 

 for several days, but they change the 

 cluster of flowers and ribbon daily, so 

 that the design has the appearance of 

 being perfectly fresh. 



L. Baumann & Co. have a collapsible 

 wooden cut flower shipping box, on 

 I which a patent has been applied for. 



August Poehlmann is completing a 

 very fine colonial mansion at Morton 

 Grove. 



Bassett & Washburn are now cutting 

 Easter lilies from cold storage Harrisii 

 bulbs which had been grown in the 

 Azores. They are so well pleased with 

 them that they will increase their order 

 for Azores bulbs this year at the ex- 

 pense of the order for Japanese longi- 

 florums, 



Martin Peterson reports the call for 

 funeral work active on ,West Division 

 street. 



The north end florists and gardeners 

 will have a picnic next Sunday at 

 Brudy's grove, Lincoln avenue and Wi- 

 nona street. 



Wietor Bros, have a field of nearly 

 three acres in asters and are cutting in 

 quantity. They report a big sale for 

 field-grown carnation plants. 



Miss Lillian Tonner, of E. H. Hunt's 

 force, is again on duty after a month's 

 trip on the Pacific coast. 



P. J. Foley reports everyone more 

 than pleased with the progress of the 

 western lumber and mining venture in 

 which he and several others in the trade 

 are interested. They inspected the prop- 

 erty while on their recent trip to the 

 Yellowstone. 



H. P. Gerhardt is reglazing his houses. 

 He lost nearly 200 boxes of glass in a 

 spring hailstorm. 



Miss Helen Scott, daughter of Wm. 

 Scott, of Buffalo and Corfu, was in 

 the city a few hours on Monday. Miss 

 Scott was on her way to Denver for a 

 visit with her brother Phil and wife and 

 the two little Scotts. 



Adolph Fehr, of Belleville, 111., visited 

 the trade this week. 



The business of the firm of W. W. 

 Barnard & Co. has been taken over by 

 The W. W. Barnard Co. The officers of 

 the new company arc W. W. Barnard, 

 president; A. H. Goodwin, vice-president; 

 Arnold Eingier, secretary. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Lewis Ullrich, Tiffin, Ohio, submits 

 for registration seedling zonal geranium, 

 Tiffin; flowers single, brilliant scarlet; 

 clusters large, freely produced; foliage 

 green, no zone; growth, free, bushy; 

 tested eight years. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. 



