JULV 19, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



525 



BEAITIES 



If you want the best Beauties the market 

 affords — that means Our Beauties. Send 

 your order as early as possible, for demand 

 is brisk for ''the best Beauties in the 

 Chicago market." 



/%^) I m%J3 are arriving and we have 

 fine Kaiserins, Lilies, Valley, Sweet 

 Peas, Carnations and all stock in season. 



AN ABUNDANCE OF FINE SMILAX 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Siema, 46 to 48 Inches 18.00 



Stems, 24 to 80 Inches 2.50 



Stems, 20 Inches 2.00 



Stems, 16 Inches 1.60 



Stems, 12 Inches 1.00 



Shortstems t0.60to .75 



ROSES 



Kalserln per 100, 18.00 to $8 00 



Bnae and Maid " 2.00 to 6.(90 



Richmond " 3.00 to 8 tO 



Chatenay " 3.00 to 6.00 



OoldenOate " 2.00 to 6.00 



CARNATIONS 



Select, all colors per 100, 11.00 to $2.00 



MISC EL,L ANEOUS 



Asters per 100 II 00 to $2.00 



Harrlsli per doz., $1.50; per 100, $10.00 



Auratum Lilies.. .per doz., 1.50; per 100, 10.00 



Sweet Peas per 100, $0.20 to .60 



Cornflowers " .60 



Valley " 2.00to 4.00 



Daisies " .60to 1.00 



Gladioli " 6.00to 8.00 



DECORATIVE 



Aspara^rus per string, $0.36 to $0.60 



Sprengrerl per lOU, 2.00 to 5.00 



Galax 1000, $1.00, per 100, .15 



FERNS •• 1.26, " .15 



Adiantum per 100, .60to .75 



Smllax per doz., $1.60; per lUO, $10.00 



Prices Snbject to Changre Without Notice. 



During: July and Aagxist we close at 5 p. m. 

 Sundays and Holidays closed at noon. 



E. C. AM LING 



The LoLrgeaU Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flow- 

 er House in Chicagfo 



32-34-36 Randolph St. 



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Chicago, III. 



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CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Trade was fair last week and no com- 

 plaint is made. This week started off 

 with a good shipping demand, but an 

 absence of local buying. Receipts of 

 roses are on the increase, and it is diffi- 

 cult to move the lower grades, although 

 extra Kaiserins bring $10 per hundred. 

 Beauties are rather more abundant, but 

 the best are selling well at regular sum- 

 mer prices. Good carnations are scarce 

 and the receipts of indifferent stock are 

 lighter than at any time this summer, 

 for nearly all growers are now engaged 

 in clearing their houses in preparation 

 for a fresh start. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. reports the laat 

 100 dozen peonies taken from cold stor- 

 age Monday morning. One or two others 

 have small lots, but all will be cleaned 

 up within a day or two, although the 

 demand is now light. It has been a fine 

 peony season, lasting ten days later than 

 usual. Auratum lilies have become abun- 

 dant. There are still plenty of longi- 

 florums, but candidum has passed. 



Outdoor flowers are seen in quantity, 

 interest now centering upon the aster 

 crop. The first arrivals were not on 

 time, but this week will see receipts in 

 considerable quantity. It appears that 

 the dry weather in June, for we are 

 more than six inches short of the normal 

 rainfall to date, has seriously affected 

 the aster crop. The plants are small 

 with many growers and are starting to 

 flower weakly on short stems. Those 

 growers who have had better luck will 

 be likely to realize good prices until the 



later varieties come in, which are said 

 to be in better shape. 



Dry weather has also affected the 

 sweet peas. Receipts run into the hun- 

 dreds of thousands, but quality is in 

 many cases poor, and careless bunching 

 subtracts further from the value of the 

 crop. There is simply an enormous glut 

 of sweet peas now in the market. 



Cornflowers, gaillardias, valley, daisies 

 and other items are abundant. Daisies 

 are especially good. 



The Way to Do It. 



Frank Schramm, who does business 

 under the name of Schramm Bros., 

 Arlington Heights, and has six houses 

 of carnations, says the past season has 

 been an excellent one, both for size of 

 cut and average price of blooms. He 

 says that the grower who takes the 

 money is the one who produces a good 

 medium grade of stock, not the extra 

 fancy stock, nor yet a poor grade, but 

 the kind of stock everybody wants every 

 day. That he is qualified to speak is 

 shown by the fact that he has just in- 

 vested a part of his surplus in a Thomas 

 flyer, eighteen horse-power, with all the 

 latest automobile fixin's. 



The Plant Trade. 



The big growers of young plants for 

 the trade have been complaining that the 

 sale of rose stock was not as brisk as 

 it should have been, but in the last few 

 days demand has taken a spurt and stock 

 is going out at a fair rate. The de- 

 mand for chrysanthemums from small 

 pots is something to marvel at. It seems 

 more and more every year that grow- 

 ers are buying their cuttings or young 



plants of chrysanthemums from pots in- 

 stead of propagating their own. There 

 is a prospect of a big sale of field-grown 

 carnation plants. Those growers who 

 have their stock on low ground have 

 fine plants, but those on high ground 

 are suffering from drought. Last Sun- 

 day's heavy rains did not reach a num- 

 ber of the carnation fields north and 

 west of town. 



Street Men Missed. 



It is generally conceded that stock 

 is realizing .slightly lower average prices 

 than last year, the decrease falling upon 

 the lower grades, not those used by 

 the better class of stores. ' In search 

 of an explanation a number of growers 

 have come to the conclusion that it is 

 because street salesmen are not operat- 

 ing. They consider that if a few bas- 

 kets were on the street the unwieldy 

 accumulation of sweet peas all would be 

 taken care of. Not only would the peas 

 themselves bring a fair return to the 

 grower, but other itemls, especially those 

 of medium or low grade, would sell much 

 better and the whole tone of the market 

 would be improved. Incidentally, the 

 present complaint of dull local business 

 is largely from down-town stores, where 

 the advertisement formerly afforded by 

 stands now is lacking. 



Marriages. 



Mr. and Mrs. George Wittbold an- 

 nounce the marriage of their daughter, 

 Marie, to Fletcher A. James, on Wednes- 

 day, July 12. Mr. James is carnation 

 foreman for the George Wittbold Co., at 

 Edgebrook. The couple have gone east 

 for a bridal trip. 



