December 7, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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QUALITY 



HRISPt wintry weather has caused production 

 to slacken but has improved quality all 

 along the line. Demand is good and we 

 are filling all orders and with splendid stock. 

 Beauties are fine ; so are Tea Roses. Carnations 

 leave little to be desired; finest Enchantress in 

 town. We are shipping many New York Violets. 

 Are you using them ? Let us supply you. 



**(jreen Goods'* are always to be had of us. 

 Christmas is only three weeks away. Better 

 send for prices at which we will positively supply 

 accepted orders. 



Fancy Valley Always on Hand 



PRICE LIST. 



AMBBZOAV BBAtTTT. 



36 to 40-lnch stem per doz., 15.00 



24 to 30 Inch stem " 4.00 



20-lnch stem " 3.00 



15-lnch stem " 2.00 



12-lnch stem " 1.60 



Short stem " 1.00 



Bridesmaids per 100, 14.00 to 18.00 



Brides " 4.00to 8.00 



Chatenay " 4.00 to 8.00 



Golden Gate " 3.00 to 8.00 



Liberty, Richmond " 6.00 to 10 00 



Ivory " 3.00 to 8.00 



Carnations " 2.00 to 3.00 



" large and fancy " 4.00 to 6.00 



Chrysanthemums, fancy. perdoz., 3.00 to 4 00 



medium. " 1.25 to 2.00 



Violets, single per 100, .76 to 1.00 



fancy N. Y. double " 1.50 



Valley " 2 00 to 4.00 



Easter Lilies per doz., 2.00 



Callas " 2.00 



Paper Whites per 100 3.U0 



Romans " 3.00 



Asparagus per string, .25 to .50 



Asparagus perbimch, .35 to .75 



Asparagus Sprengerl per 100, 2.00 to 4.00 



Galax, green and bronze, 



per 1000, 11.00; per 100, .16 



Adlantum '• 1.00 



Ivy Leaves " .50 



Leucothoe Sprays " .76 



Smilax per doz., $2.00.... " 15.00 



Fancy Perns.... per 1000, 1.50.... '• .20 



Subject to clianere TTitbout notice. 



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E. C. AMLING 



op«.«H6P.M. 32-34-36 Randolph St. ".««£» Chicago, 111. 



The loLvgemt, Beat 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut 

 Flower House in 

 Chicago. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



market, handling hundreds of bunches 

 daily of this useful little flower. 



A large window of Lorraine begonias 

 and adiantums at Hoffman's, on Massa- 

 chusetts avenue, was very effective the 

 past week. 



We are at last getting some copious 

 rains. Not for many years had we so 

 dry a fall, it being necessary to water a 

 large proportion of trees and shrubs 

 planted during November. 



H. R. "Werdmuller, of Medford, is able 

 to be but after a two months' siege of 

 typhoid fever. 



Oakes Ames is home from a European 

 trip. W. N. Craig. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Receipts are considerably reduced this 

 week. The cold weather has probably 

 had its effect and it is said by the grow- 

 ers that rof^e crops are going off, but 

 there are still abundant supplies of Beau- 

 ties and tea roses for the demand; in 

 fact short Brides and Maids are still a 

 drug. Carnations have also shortened 

 up but are equal to the requirements, ex- 

 cept that red is scarce. White varieties 

 are especially abundant and hard to clean 

 up. 



Chrysanthemums are approaching the 

 end of their season and in some houses 

 receipts are very light but there are still 

 quantities of good blooms coming in and 

 not moving very briskly. Tuesday the 

 market was very quiet. The call for 

 green goods is good, with plenty of as- 

 paragus strings but a shortage of plu- 

 mosus bunches. Smilax is also in mod- 



erate receipt. All other greens are plen- 

 tiful. 



Thanksgiving. 



Thanksgiving did not equal the ex- 

 pectations of the trade and possibly the 

 retailers were more greatly disappointed 

 than the wholesalers. The bad weather 

 of the day itself was a large factor in 

 c-utting down their business. 



Thanksgiving came after a two weeks' 

 glut. We usually have a period of too 

 abundant supplies early in November 

 but this time it came at the end of the 

 month. Long Beauties were cleaned up 

 only at a concession. First-class tea roses 

 moved freely, but it was impossible to 

 sell all the short and weak-stemmed 

 stock. White carnations did not clean 

 up, but the fancy stock, especially in 

 colors, brought quoted prices. (Jhrysaii- 

 themums shared the general weakness. 

 The one item that was short of the de- 

 mand was the red rose, both Richmond 

 and Liberty being in strong request. 



Taken on the whole the week 's business 

 was about the same as last year, where 

 a good increase had been expected. No- 

 vember as a whole shows a nice gain and 

 there was stock enough for a good in- 

 crease at Thanksgiving had the demand 

 been as active as was expected. But 

 average prices were not so good as last 

 year. 



Violets. 



The principal complaint among com- 

 mission men is as to the result of violets 

 for Thanksgiving. For two weeks be- 

 fore the holiday the New York producers 

 were excusing light shipments on the 

 score of a strong New York City demand 

 and light crops. Conditions must have 

 reversed very suddenly, for the re- 



ceipts on Monday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday run into the hundreds of 

 thousands. So disastrous a slump in 

 prices has never before been known in 

 the local violet market. Where prices 

 started at $1.50 to $2 per hundred for 

 good Hudson river stock, they closed at 

 $2 per thousand, and not even all the re- 

 ceipts could be sold at that price. One 

 wholesaler reports selling 22,000 to one 

 customer at $3.50 per thousand and 

 many cheaper sales are on record. Many 

 retailers who bought largely, turned the 

 flowers back to the commission men to 

 be sold for their account. This was when 

 the weather turned unfavorable. It 

 shows that the retailers' experience was 

 as unsatisfactory as that of the whole- 

 salers. Some violets received were very 

 stale. 



Various Notes. 



Two years ago, in his quest for knowl- 

 edge as to how things go in the various 

 branches of the trade, E. C. Amling 

 bought a retail flower store near his 

 home in Oak Park. He advertised exten- 

 sively, carried good stock and plenty of 

 it at all times and more than doubled 

 the business. He says it was a valuable 

 post-graduate course (he had primary 

 training as a grower), but he is now 

 satisfied to devote all his energies to 

 his wholesale business and has sold the 

 retail store to A. H. Schneider, who was 

 its former owner. 



N. .T. Wietor says he is well satisfied 

 with Thanksgiving. A big crop of Beau- 

 ties enabled him to increase his sales. 



The five generations of the Hauswirth 

 family have been reduced to four by the 

 passing of the oldest; the great-great- 

 grandmother of the Hauswirth babies 



