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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 25, 1006. 



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CARNATIONS 



For McKinley Day — A large supply of first-class stock. 



White Lilac — Now ready. Quality first-class. The latest 

 only novelty on the market, $1.50 per doz. sprays. 



Tulips — Fancy stock in all colors; good stems, $3.00 to $4.00 

 per 100. 



Mignonetle — The best stock in the market; no other Mignon- 

 ette compares with our best, $6.00 to $8.00 per 100. 



Sfevia — You need it for all your very good work. Quality is 

 $1.50 per 100. 



Roses — Our stock is not to be beaten for substance, color, size 

 or stem. Special selection, $8.00 to $12.00 per 100. 



Florists' Supplies 



Our Supply Department is now open and doing business. 

 Our catalogue is ready and will be mailed this week. Watch for it. 

 It will save you money on Bright, New, Fresh Goods. No odds 

 and ends about our stock. 



p. 8.— If you don't get the catalogue, drop us a postal. 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



AMERICAN BEAUTY Per 100 



Long »50.00 



24 to 3 -inch 36.00 



15to-20-inch 25 00 



Bride, short $5 00 to 6.00 



medium 8.00 



" select lO.OOto 12.00 



Maid, short 3.00 



medium 6.00 



" select lO.OOto 12.00 



UncleJohn 6.00to 8.00 



Liberty 4.00 to 12.00 



Carnations, common 2.00 to •<.• 



fancy 4 00 to 600 



Red and Enchantress 5.00 to 6.00 



Valley 3.00 



Violets l.f'O 



Smilax 15.00 



Adiantum 1.00 



Asparagus Plumosus, f prays 3.00 



strings 35.' 



" Sprengeri 3.00 



Ferns per KOO, $2 00 



Galax perlOoO, 1.00 



Callas and Longiflorum 15.06 to 20 00 



Romans and Paper Whites 3.00 



Stevia 1.50 



Mignonette 6.00 to 8.00 



I >afTodils and Jonquils 4 .00 



Tulips, fancy 4.00 



White Lilac per doz. sprays, $1.50 



Subject to change without notice. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 

 Randolph St. 



Mentlou The itf?lew wheu you Mrite. 



Asmus went to New York Saturday and 

 thence to Boston. James Hartshorne, 

 J. E. Jensen and one or two others went 

 Monday night. Nick Zweifel, of Mil- 

 waukee, passed through to Boston on 

 Monday. 



C. E. Morton, the Cottage Grove ave- 

 nue retailer, has gone to California for 

 six weeks. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. reports having 

 handled a very few cases less than 3,000,- 

 000 ferns in 1905. 



Klehm's Nursery is installing the 

 Louis Wittbold watering device in one 

 of its rose houses. 



Zech & Mann, in addition to large 

 receipts of bulbous stock, are handling 

 some especially fine California violets. 



A local dealer in rooted cuttings re- 

 cently received an order of good size 

 from a party of whom he had never 

 heard, and who named no references, to 

 which was added instructions to "pre- 

 pay express and add the amount to your 

 bill." He didn't want much, did hef 



Recent visitors to the Poehlmann plant 

 report it to be in better condition than 

 usual. The posts are all set for next 

 spring's big addition. 



Coal is cheap. The mild weather is 

 making business slack for fuel dealers. 

 The railroad yards are crowded and de- 

 murrage is piling up. 



A. C. Spencer, of Peter Keinberg's, re- 

 ports the rooted cutting business start- 

 ing rather better than usual. Fred 

 Klingel, the bookkeeper at Keinberg's, 

 has resigned and gone to Arizona for 

 his health. 



A. L. Vaughan's little daughter has 

 been ill the past week and Mr. Vaughan 



has been away from business for several 

 days. 



Mrs. A. L. Kandall has been quite seri- 

 ously ill this week. 



C. M. Dickinson was at Richmond, Ind., 

 the latter part of last week. He reports 

 the stock of all growers there in excel- 

 lent condition, quite a little of it being 

 handled through E. H. Hunt's. 



D. J. Murphy, of the Chicago Rose Co., 

 has been taking a vacation the last few 

 days, but is again on duty. 



Weiland & Risch say that the demand 

 for Killamey is growing steadily. They 

 have a large cut, but are unable to sup- 

 ply the blooms except on notice, orders 

 being booked far ahead. They report 

 selling the select stock this week at $3 

 per dozen. The demand for plants is also 

 large. 



The E. F. "Winterson Co. is handling 

 a good sized shipment of Japan lilium 

 longiflorum multiflorum bulbs for which 

 they report an active demand. 



L. Coatsworth, of the Benthey-Coats- 

 worth Co., has been at New Castle this 

 week. It is planned to add to the com- 

 pany's plant there. 



The Chicago Rose Co. announces that 

 the new Wabash avenue wholesale store 

 will be ready for business about Febru- 

 ary 5. 



The George Wittbold Co. had the 

 family order and the university students' 

 order for Dr. Harper's funeral. 



Among the week's visitors were B. 

 Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., Philadelphia; 

 H. A. Stoothoff, the tobacco dust special- 

 ist, of New York, and Wm. Dittman, of 

 New Castle, who is preparing to add to 

 his range; D. B. Hazen, Batavia, 111., 

 the landscapist; J. W. Furrow, of Fur- 



row Bros., Guthrie, Okla., getting prices 

 on material for two 300-foot houses. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Though business has not been so very 

 brisk the past week, still there is enough 

 doing to keep the market pretty well 

 cleaned up. 



From the looks of things at the whole- 

 sale houses on Saturday evening one 

 would' think that flowers were becoming 

 extinct in Detroit. Carnations, espe- 

 cially, are very scarce. 



Bulbous stock is coming to the aid of 

 the retailers this week, especially Ro- 

 mans, Paper Whites, and white tulips, or 

 any of a delicate color which can be 

 used to advantage in funeral work. 

 White and light pink azaleas are also be- 

 ing used as a background in funeral 

 work and last but not least, that old, 

 faithful friend, the cape flower, is wor- 

 shiped this week, for without its help 

 we would sometimes be in a bad hole. 



We are having an unusually warm 

 winter, making it bad for stock in gen- 

 eral. Carnation cuttings are also suf- 

 fering. 



Although at present writing all stock 

 is at a premium, there has been an over- 

 abundance of Lawson carnations and 

 those of Lawson color all along. This 

 seems to be the case every year. W)iat 

 we need in this vicinity is more whole 

 carnations, especially some grown with- 

 out disbudding. Flora Hill is a very 

 good variety for this purpose. By sell- 



