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Septembee 7, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



879 



We Are Ready For Business 



With new stock coming on we are able^ and shall 

 be contmually, to supply the best stock the market affords — 

 Beautiesy Tea Roses, Carnations and all stock in season. We are 

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

 agus^ SmilaZf Adiantum, Galax, Leucothoe and Ferns. 



Asters in any quantity and fine quality. 



Extra Fancy Fancy Common 



$2.00 to $3.00 per tOO $(.50 to $2.00 per )00 $5.00 per )000 



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 



op«.au.P.M^ 32-34-36 Randolph St. ^^g^-Hg* Ciiicago, 111. 



The Largrest, Beat 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 "Wholeaale Cut 

 Flower House in 

 Chicago. 



Mention Thg Review when you write. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The close of last week was very quiet, 

 but cooler weather has brought a short- 

 ening in receipts and an awakening in 

 business. Monday was Labor day and 

 saw practically no city demand but ship- 

 ping was fairly active and handled with 

 great difficulty. The express companies 

 suspended service, both in and out, on 

 that day, and the wholesalers were com- 

 pelled to go to the depot for incoming 

 stock and with out-going shipments. The 

 result was that a great many orders were 

 cut more or less. 



Though supplies have shortened, there 

 continue to be good receipts of Beauties, 

 both quality and quantity equal to most 

 requirements. With tea roses the few 

 days of cool weather has done, something 

 toward putting quality into ths stock, 

 but it is still difficult to dispose of the 

 large proportion of shorts. Chatenay is 

 showing considerable improvement. Lib- 

 erty is fairly abundant and a few Eich- 

 mond are seen. 



There are enough carnations for all 

 requirements and a considerable part of 

 the stock is of fair quality. Some of 

 the painstaking growers are cutting good 

 stock in the fields in spite of the heavy 

 rains. Other growers are beginning to 

 bring in the first crop grown under glass, 

 short of stem but fair in quality. Whits 

 carnations have had the call. 



There is no diminution in the receipts 

 of asters. The good ones are bringing 

 fair prices, but too many short, small 

 and yellow-centered flowers are received 

 and must be sold, if at all, at very low 

 prices. 



^ There are not so many Easter lilies 

 and very few album and rubrum are seen 

 now. Valley is one of the short items, 

 prices ranging up to $5 per hundred. 

 Gladioli are still abundant but not 

 crowding the wholesalers the way they 

 have for a month or six weeks past. 

 Green stock of all kinds is abundant. 



The wholesale houses are now open to 

 6 p. m. 



The Summer Business. 



The general report is that July and 

 August were ahead of recent years. July 

 was much better than usual with nearly 

 all the houses and the same story is told 

 of the first half of August, but the lat- 

 ter half was no better than usual. Sev- 

 eral of the commission men report hav- 

 ing made a little money this summer and 

 others say they escaped without loss in 

 July and August, something quite out 

 of the ordinary. The prospects now are 

 for a fine autumn business. 



Poehlmann's Place. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. is grading 

 at Morton Grove and has given Geo. M. 

 Garland an order for iron gutters for the 

 early erection next spring of the largest 

 addition they have ever put up in a sin- 

 gle season. About twenty-five houses 

 will be built, ranging from 300 to 500 

 feet in length. A large part of this ad- 

 dition is at what was the Adolph Poehl- 

 mann plant before the incorporation of 

 the company. 



Various Notes. 

 The growers who have stock in the 

 field are all complaining of too much 

 rain. We have had five inches more than 

 normal this summer and the excess keeps 

 right on growing. 



They are very busy in the supply de- 

 partment at E. H. Hunt's, working 

 nights to get out orders. A handsome 

 new catalogue recently put in the mails 

 is a considerable factor. 



Wm, McKaig, formerly with the Geo. 

 Wittbold Co., is now in the store of 

 Weiland & Eisch. This firm is handling 

 some especially fine tuberoses. 



Kennicott Bros, Co. has just redecor- 

 ated its store in anticipation of the busy 

 fall season. 



Johnson & Lundgren have bought out 

 the old established business of McDougal 

 & Neuman, 804 Milwaukee avenue. Mr. 

 Johnson is of the firm of Johnson & 

 Carlson. Mr. McDougal contemplates re- 

 moving to California. 



The Martin Grate Co. is installing a 

 number of its rocking grates for growers 

 north of town. After trying three of 

 them for several months Peter Eeinberg 

 is putting in twelve more. 



Sinner Bros, are cutting the last of 

 their first crop of Harrisii from cold 

 storage bulbs. The first made low prices 

 but the last few weeks brought up the 

 average. They plan a steady supply. 



The three Poehlmann brothers and 

 their wives were the rear guard of the 

 returning conventionites. They reached 

 home September 2, after visiting a num- 

 ber of pleasure places and many of the 

 best growers in the east. 



The Beach Amusement Co. will build 

 a two-million-dollar amusement park at 

 Harrison and Desplaines streets, in which 

 gardening will play a more conspicu- 

 ous part than in any other amusement 

 park in America. 



W. N. Eudd goes to Washington Sep- 

 tember 17 to attend the convention of 



