March 15, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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NO! SIR! 



We do not divide up our time and attention; no 

 greeniiouses, no supplies. We handle 



CUT FLOWERS 



only, from 7 o'clock in the morning till 6 o'clock at 

 night. We can and do give every flower received our 

 undivided attention until YOUR (?) address is on the 

 box and it is delivered to the Express Co. This looks 

 like good business policy. It has brought us success. 



If yon want the best Jellies for Easter, give ns 

 yonr order VOW. All advance orders packed at 

 the ffreenhonses. Ton gfet select stock without 

 hrnising'. Price, $2 doz. ; $15 lOO; $125 lOOO. 



Large Supplies of Strictly Fancy Carnations 



PRICE LIST. 



AMBBIOAV BBAUTT, Per doz. 



30 to 36-inch stem tS.OO to I 6.00 



24-inch stem 4.00 



20- inch Btem 3.00 



16-lncli stem 2.OO 



12inch8tem 1.50 



Seconds 75 to 1.00 



Bridesmaids per 100, 6.00 to 10.00 



Brides " 6.00 to lO.OO 



Chatenay " e.OOto 10.00 



Golden aate " 6.00 to 10.00 



Liberty, Richmond " 6.00 to 12 00 



Perles " 4.00 to 6.00 



Carnations " 1.50 to 2.00 



" large and fancy " 3.OO 



Violets, single '• .50 to .75 



" fancy N. Y. double " .50 to 75 



Valley " 2.OO to 3.00 



Eastar Lilies per doz., 1.50 to 2.00 



Callas " .75to 1.60 



Paper Whites per 100 3 00 



Romans " 3^00 



Daffodils, Jonquils " 3.00 



Sweet Peas " j'qq 



Mignonette per doz., .75 to 1.00 



Tulips, common per 100, 2.00 to 3.00 



extra fancy " 4.00 to 5.00 



Asparagus per string, .35 to .50 



Asparagus perbuncii, .36 to 1.00 



Asparagus Sprengeri ....per 100, 3.00 to 6 00 

 Galax, green and bronze, 



per 1000, $1.00; per 100. .15 



Adlantum " .76 to 1.00 



Leucothoe Sprays " 75 



Smllax per doz., 12.00 " 1500 



Fancy Ferns. ...per 1000, 2.00...." !25 



Subject to cluuicre without notice. 



E. C. AM LING 



op»uu*p.M. 32-34-36 Randolph St. '^KaH^* Chicago, 111. 



The Larg^est, Beat 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut 

 Flower Houae in 

 Chicago. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



CHICAGO, 



The Great Central Market. 



We have had another touch of winter 

 this week. On Sunday more snow fell 

 than on any previous day this season, 

 and Monday morning the thermometer 

 registered to within 13 degrees of zero. 

 Again on Tuesday snow fell steadily all 

 day. The result has been a noticeable 

 retarding of production and the rose 

 market has stiffened to about where it 

 was a fortnight ago. Beauties are in 

 active demand, with supplies, except on 

 shorter grades, rather under market re- 

 quirements. It is not always possible 

 to fill late orders. There are enough 

 Brides and Maids to go around and qual- 

 ity is excellent in a large part of the cut, 

 but demand is more brisk and each day 'b 

 receipts are cleaned up at better aver- 

 age prices than last week. Chatenay is 

 not in abundant supply, but tnere are 

 increased receipts of Liljerty and Rich- 

 mond, both of superior quality. 



The cold, cloudy weather has had less 

 effect on the carnation crop. At least, 

 receipts are nearly as heavy as they were 

 a week ago, although it is possible that 

 had the sun shone we would now be in 

 the midst of a glut. There has not 

 been one full day of sunshine thus far 

 in March. Early this week the market 

 VFas oversupplied with colored carna- 

 tions, which were sold cheaply, although 

 of fine quality. At the same time there 

 was a shortage of whites, possibly be- 

 cause the growers are storing them up 

 for St. Patrick's day, when white prom- 

 ises to be in demand for turning into 

 green. N. J. Wietor says that Ladv 



Bountiful is the sort the experimenters 

 have found best adapted to dyeing. 



Mignonette is one of the surpluses. 

 Harrisii lilies are more than abundant, 

 large quantities of very short-stemmed 

 stock being diflScult to move. Bulbous 

 stock is less pressing than last week, but 

 it is all slow sale except the finer va- 

 rieties of tulips. Hauswirth used sev- 

 eral thousands of these in yellow and 

 red for the Merchants' Club banquet at 

 the Auditorium Saturday evening. Vio- 

 lets are in the dumps, iney are mak- 

 ing lower averages than at any time 

 this season. It is impossible to sell out 

 clean at any price. The green goods 

 market has taken a pause. 



Various Notes. 



Interest in "red violets" has given 

 place to discussion of another para- 

 mount issue: Who has the best carna- 

 tion dye? It looks as though the supply 

 of green carnations for Saturday con- 

 templates a whole bouquet for every son 

 of the old sod. 



On March 8 the secretary of state li- 



ised the incorporation of the Chicago 

 Wholesale Florists' Association, organ- 

 ized for the promotion of business in- 

 terests. The incorporators named are 

 the organization committee, Chas. M. 

 Dickinson, E. E. Pieser and Leonard 

 Kill. 



One of the benefits resulting from the 

 debate at Handel hall March 6 is that 

 the wholesale houses no longer permit 

 crape chasers to make up work in their 

 places. The crape chasers, however, as- 

 sert that it is no great calamity which 

 has befallen them. They say that, not 

 being beholden to any wholesaler, they 



are buying enough cheaper so that they 

 can afford a small outlay for rent. 



In the item last week as to the Weil- 

 and family of florists it might have been 

 stated that the Weilands are first cousins 

 of the Wietor brothers. If one under- 

 took to mention the second cousins iu 

 the trade it would require enumerating 

 about all the growers on High Kidge. 



E. F, Winterson and Fritz Bahr paid 

 a visit to Joliet on Monday. It will 

 cause regret to Mr. Bahr's many friends 

 to know that his eyes are giving him 

 as much trouble as at any time in the 

 past couple of years. 



Weiland & Eisch say that their Brides 

 and Maids are a pretty weu off crop, but 

 Killarney is still blooming at the old 

 stand. 



E, H. Hunt has just received a big 

 consignment of birch bark and twig nov- 

 elties for Easter. The Dresden fibre 

 ware and the Leichen baskets are verv 

 attractive specialties. Twig baskets are 

 now made in Michigan cheaper than in 

 Germany. They are of green twigs in- 

 stead of dry. 



The vase of Kate Moulton roses shown 

 at the club's exhibition March 8 was 

 still on display at the store of the 

 Chicago Eose Co. on March 13 and were 

 in very much better form than when 

 seen at the club meeting. 



The Chicago Eose Co. had its formal 

 opening March 8, with refreshments for 

 the many visitors, 



O. W. Frese, at Poehlmann 's, calls at- 

 tention to the fact that the cut of the 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co. is now of better 

 quality than it has been at any date this 

 season; much better than when it took 

 the flower show prizes in November 



