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AucysT 31. 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



825 



aSTERS 



Extra Fancy Fancy == Common 



In Any Quantity 

 and Fine Quality 



$2.00 a JOO 



$L0O to $(^0 a (00 $4.00 to $5.00 a 1000 



The new season is at hand and we ztt, and shall be 

 continuallyf able to supply the best stock the market affords — 

 Beauties^ Tea Roses» Carnations and all stock in season. We are 

 headquarters for ** Green Goods i** an inexhaustible supply of Aspar- 

 afusr Smilaxy Adiantum, Galax^ Leucothoe and Ferns. 



We want your business now and all through the season. 



Fancy Valley always on hand 



DEPARTMENT OF MADE-UP WORK. 



While trade is quiet and you do not wish to carry much stock 

 you can rely on our Department of Made-Up Work. We are pre- 

 pared to execute orders for any kind of funeral piece^ from the cheap- 

 est to the most expensive. Usual trade discount allowed* 



E.C.AMLING 



Beginning Sept. 5 



▲KBBZOAH BBAVTT. Per doi. 



8»-40-iDob stem $4.00 



2i-80-iiiob Item 8.00 



ao-incb Item 3.00 



U-inoh stem 1.00 



12-incli Item 1.00 



Sbort Item, per 100. $4 00 to $6.00 



Per 100 



Brldea. Bridesmaids $2.00 to $ 6.00 



Kaiserin S.OOto 8.00 



Obatenay SOOto 8.0O 



Golden Gate S.OOto 0.00 



Liberty S.OOto 8.00 



OamatlonB 1.60 to 2.00 



Asters l.OOto 2.00 



" common.. 1000. I4.00-$S.OO 

 Valley 4.00 



Auratums per dos., tl.B0 10.00 



Easter Lilies per dos., 1.60 



GladloU l.OOto 2.00 



fancy varieties S.OOto 6.00 



Sbasta Daisies 50to 1.00 



Asparagus, per string, 26c to 60o 



Asparagus Sprengeri 2.00 to 4.00 



Galax , bronze per 1000. $1.26 .16 



" green, new crop. " 1.00 .16 



Adiantum .76 



Leucotboe Sprays .76 



Srails* per dos.. $1.60 10.00 



Fancy Ferns per 1000, $1.00 .16 



BaWeet to ehuve wtthoat ■oOee. 



The Larflfest, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut 

 Flo^irer House in 

 Chicago. 



SS^uSTpV 32-34-36 Randolph St. "g%^:a^»r Chicago, III. 



Mention Thi> Revlpvr when you write. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market 



There has been little change in mar- 

 ket conditions in the past week. This 

 is fortunate, for whatever change there 

 has been was for the worse. The 

 weather has continued quite warm and 

 it has had the result of making the 

 stock retrograde in quality. 



The supplies of Beauties are above 

 normal for the season, but prices are 

 satisfactory, for the stock averages of 

 very good quality. Kaiserin is the lead- 

 er on the small roses, but a number of 

 growers are now cutting Brides and 

 Bridesmaids of very fair size and stem 

 for so early in the season and it looks as 

 though the plants were in shape to give 

 very good results this fall. Liberty is 

 in fair supply and also Chatenay, but 

 the latter is not a hot weather rose. A 

 few good Meteors are seen. Good roses 

 are selling well but it is next to impos- 

 sible to do anything with the large pro- 

 portion of short, soft flowers. 



There are few carnations in the mar- 

 ket and none are of what could be called 

 better than fair quality. The many 

 rains have injured the outdoor blooms 

 and no one is cutting anything to speak 

 of under glass. But the absence of the 

 oarnation is not deeply felt, because of 

 the large receipts of asters, some of 

 which are of splendid quality. While 

 the receipts are more than the market 

 can consume, and averages are not high, 

 the best asters are selling up to $3 

 and occasionally $4 per hundred. Many 

 growers report that the carnation plants 

 are soft and small and are not likely to 

 produce early crops of good quality. The 



late asters should be very good property. 

 Gladioli continue in very large sup- 

 ply. A few sweet peas are again seen. 

 Lilies are still plentiful and garden 

 flowers of all seasonable kinds are to be 

 had at cheap prices. Retail business con- 

 sists largely of funeral work and for 

 this purpose the outdoor flowers are not 

 wanted. A few Tritoma Pfitzeri are re- 

 ceived and make attractive window dis- 

 plays. 



Handling Roses. 



When a Chicagoan goes away from 

 home it is his practice to boom his town. 

 Chicago had many boomers at the con- 

 vention, but one of them encountered a 

 set-back when he tried to tell a leading 

 retailer inside the Chicago shipping ra- 

 dius that he ought to buy his roses in 

 this city. The retailer said that the 

 Chicago stock reached him so badly 

 bruised by careless handling that he 

 could not use it for good trade and that 

 the past season he bought most of his 

 stock from a Canadian grower and paid 

 a duty of twenty-five percent, making 

 it cost more than the best stock from 

 Chicago. He ventured the opinion that 

 the careless handling is not in the 

 wholesale houses, but on the part of the 

 growers themselves. They do not seem 

 to appreciate the importance of hand- 

 ling good stock well and packing it so 

 that it will retain its freshness. This 

 is a point not difficult to remedy and 

 every wholesaler and every grower 

 should give it his attention. 



Death of George Piepgras. 



George Piepgras died at Mercy hospi- 

 tal August 21, of Bright 's disease. He 

 was forty-two years of age and a well 



known figure in the wholesale market, 

 having at one time been engaged in the 

 commission business on his own ac- 

 count. Lately he had been employed by 

 the Benthey-Coatsworth Co. and by J. 

 B. Deamud. He left a wife and a large 

 family of children. 



Various Notes. 



Monday, September 4, is Labor day 

 and there will be but one mail delivery. 

 Those sending orders to this market 

 should wire unless they can post the 

 letter to reach Chicago by 7 a. m. that 

 day. 



C. L. Washburn and son are on their 

 annual fishing expedition in Wisconsin. 

 They expect to return about September 

 15. 



John Degnan, of the E. F. Winterson 

 Co., is back at his desk after several 

 days spent at home suffering with a 

 poisoning in his face. Mrs. L. H. Win- 

 terson is convalescing from an attack 

 of typhoid fever. 



Paul Beyer has returned from a visit 

 in New York. He will henceforth be 

 located at South Bend, Ind., his old 

 home. 



E. C. Amling has spent a few days 

 visiting growers and others north of 

 town as far as Milwaukee. He reports 

 that in some places the carnation plants 

 are above usual condition at this season 

 but that in other places the stock is 

 small and soft because of so much rain, 



E. E. Pieser, of the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., is in Canada, and expects to be 

 absent until September 15. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co. report a very 

 good season but with orders rather later 

 than usual in coming in. Fred Lauten- 



