Mabcu 29, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J 297 



LILIES!! 



If you want the best Lilies for Easter, give us your 

 order NOW. All advance orders packed at the 

 greenhouses. You get select stock without bruis- 

 ing. Price, $2 per doz.; $J5 per 100; $J25 per 

 J 000. 250 at J 000 rate. 



We have large receipts of Roses and Carna- 

 tions — no better stock to be had anywhere — and 

 prices are so reasonable that you can use the better 

 grades in quantity. 



WE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL GREEN GOODS 



PRICE LIST. 



AKISIOAV BBAVTlr. Per doz. 



30 to S6-inch stem 16.00 



24-lnohBtem 4.00 



20-inch stem 3.00 



16-inch stem 2.00 



12-inch stem 1.60 



Seconds 76 to 1.00 



Bridesmaids per 100, 4.00 to 8.00 



Brides " 4.00to 8.00 



Ghatenay " 4.00to 8.00 



Oolden Gate *' 4.00 to 8.00 



Liberty, Richmond " 6.00 to 10.00 



Perles " 4.00to 6.00 



Carnations " 1.60 to 2.00 



" larcre and fancy " 3.00 



Violets, single " .60 to .60 



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



Valley " 2.00to 3.00 



Easter Lilies per doz., 1.50 to 2.00 



Callas " l,2f to 1.50 



Paper Whites per 100 3.00 



Jonquils " 3.00 



Daflodlla " 3.00 



Sweet Peas " l.oo 



Misrnonette per doz., .36 to 1.00 



Tulips, common per 100, 2.00 to 3.00 



" extra fancy " 4.00 to 5.00 



Asparacrus per string:, .36 to .50 



Asparacrus per bunch, .35 to 1.00 



Asparagrus Sprengeri — per 100, 3.00 to 6.00 

 Oalax, green and bronze, 



per 1000, 11.00; per 100, .15 



Adiantum " .76 



Leucothoe Sprays ..." .76 



Smilax per doz., 12.00 " 15.00 



Fancy Ferns .... per 1000, 2.00 .... " .26 



Subject to cbangre without notice. 



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CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The market has been in a decidedly 

 Ibad way the past few days. Last week 

 there was nothing special doing, outside 

 of a few department store decorations 

 and some special sales. The forepart of 

 this week even these outlets were not 

 iivailable for the largely increased re- 

 .ceipts of stock and there have been ac- 

 cumulations in all departments. The 

 weather has been unfavorable to tran- 

 isient trade. The call for funeral work 

 has slackened and the wholesalers are 

 -confronted with the problem of working 

 •oflf big cuts with no demand. 



The item which seems best to hold its 

 •own is American Beauty in the longer 

 ;grades. There are great quantities of 

 short stock, hard to sell. Quality is ex- 

 .cellent. Tea roses are very fine, but the 

 receipts have increased so greatly that 

 prices are weak all along the line. Of 

 .course, the best grades hold their values 

 "best; it is the shorter stock that is hard 

 to move, but there is more choice stock 

 than the demand will take at quoted 

 rates. Bed roses are not so largely in 

 evidence. 



The carnation market is at an even 

 weaker stage than a week ago. It is 

 .stated that clean-up sales have been 

 made as low as 5 cents a bunch where 

 •splits, stale stock and everything else 

 was taken. This is by no means a mar- 

 "ket value, however, for the depsirtment 

 store orders for special sales on Friday 

 -were shipped at around $15 per thou- 

 sand. On Tuesday of this week thou- 

 sand lots were quoted at $7.50. The 



quality is excellent, but the accumulation 

 is still largely Mrs. Lawson, this variety 

 being received in some houses in greater 

 number than all other sorts combined. 



Since Saturday noon, when buying 

 practically stopped, violets have been al- 

 most immovable. Of course a few small 

 and choice lots have been sold at regular 

 prices, but many thousands more than 

 the demand have been received and these 

 have sold as low as 10 cents per hun- 

 dred for the New York stock. The 

 Californias do a little better. 



There is an abundance of bulbous 

 stock in all lines, but tulips are not in 

 so large receipt as earlier in the season. 

 There are many more callas than the 

 trade can use and the same is true of 

 short longiflorums. Keceipts of sweet 

 peas are on the increase and quality is 

 excellent. 



Smilax is about the only scarce item. 

 There is an abundance of all other 

 greens. 



Easter Prospects. 



All thoughts are now centered on 

 Easter. The indications are that there 

 will be larger supplies of lilies than in 

 any previous year, but a large part of 

 the stock is known to be short in stem 

 and of very indifferent quality. At the 

 same time there is much stock of a qual- 

 ity to leave nothing to be desired. Ad- 

 vance quotations are on the basis of 

 $125 per thousand for choice stock. The 

 chances are that there will be a large 

 number of lilies which will be well sold 

 if they bring much less money. 



The consensus of opinion is that there 

 will bo an abundant supply of roses and 

 carnations, but there is an occasional 



dissenting voice. One or two growers 

 report their crops now at their height 

 and likely to be pretty well off by 

 April 12. 



Prospects are that there will be a tre- 

 mendous quantity of violets and, with 

 the market in its present state, there is 

 doubt if prices will average as high as 

 last year. 



Various Notes. 



One of Vaughan & Sperry's out-of- 

 town customers is ordering his stock by 

 aerogram. The American DeForest 

 Wireless Telegraph does not reach many 

 towns, but the service is first-class and 

 the rates cheaper than by wire. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. missed an order 

 for 5,000 carnations for shipment last 

 Friday; the letter did not reach them 

 until Saturday morning. The new Chi- 

 cago postoffice, which cost $6,000,000, is 

 having difficulty to handle the mails 

 promptly and there are many complaints 

 on this score. 



Hild Bros., of Lake Forest, are send- 

 ing very fine stocks to McKellar. They 

 grow Beauty of Nice and several others 

 to perfection. 



Bassett & Washburn are nursing their 

 chief engineer. He cautioned the fire- 

 man to look out for a big frozen mass 

 of coal at the top of the shed and then 

 stood there while it came down and 

 broke his leg in two places. 



There is a report of the illness of 

 August Dressel, of Hammond. 



It develops that one Michaels, well 

 known in the market as energetic in the 

 pursuit of crape, is a nephew of Mrs. 

 Netcher, owner of the Boston store. 

 He is to have a window there and what 



