May 3, 190G. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



We are just beginning to cut a heavy crop of the finest 

 Beauties coming to this. market. Last summer our Beauties 

 were the sensation of the town; they are as good this year. 

 Send us your orders. 



ROSES — Special grade of Brides and Maids; also a good cut of 

 fancy Kaiserin. 



CARNATIONS — By the hundred or thousand, as fine stock as 

 there is in the market. Let us quote you special prices on 

 large quantities. 



SWEET PEAS — A crop just coming; fine long stems, all shades 

 and colors. Order one day ahead as they sell on sight. 



LILIES— A heavy cut of very fine stock, $8.00 per 100; $1.25 doz. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL GREEN GOODS 



CnjRRENT PRICES 



BBA.TITIBB PerdOK. 



30 to 36-lnch stem tt.OO 



24-inchBtein 8.00 



20-lnch8tem 2.00 



15-incb stem l.&O 



12-lnch Btem l.OO 



Seconds t0.60 to .75 



XOSBS 



Bride and Maid per 100, tS.OO to tS.CO 



Liberty " 6.00to 1000 



Richmond " 4 00 to 10(10 



Golden Gate " S.OOto 8.00 



Perle " 3.00 to 6.00 



Kaiserin " 3.00 to 8 00 



Boses, our selection " 3.11O 



GABVATIOHB 



Select per 100, II 50 to $2 00 



Largre and Fancies " 3.OO 



MISCEI^I^AVEOnS 



Callas per doz $1.00 to •1.2> 



Harrloii " 125 



Valley per 100, 2.00 to 4.00 



Sweet Peas '• 1.00 to 150 



Tulips " 2.00to 4.00 



Pansles " .60 



Daisies " .75 to 1.50 



Violets " .50 to .75 



Poet's Narcissus " .76 to 1.00 



Mignonette per doz., .36 to .75 



DECOBATXVE 



Asparagus per string, $0.35 to $0.50 



Asparagus plumosus bunch, .36 to 1.00 



Asparagus Sprengeri " .26 to 1.00 



Galax 1000,$1.00, per 100, .16 



F£BN8 '• 2.00, " .26 



Leucoihoe Sprays " .76 



Boxwood per bunch .25 



Adiantum per 100, .76 



Smllax per doz. 2.50 



Prices Subject to Change Without Notice. 



E. C. AMLING 



Open till 

 6 P.M. 



32-34-36 Randolph St. 



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 Centrally Located 

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CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market 



Business was decidedly quiet at the 

 middle of last week, but on Friday there 

 was a good clean-up. It was accom- 

 plished by moderate quotations to the 

 buyers of large lots tor special Satur- 

 day sales. Saturday saw the market 

 with less stock and better prices than 

 at any time in the past fortnight. On 

 Monday the receipts were again consid- 

 erably beyond the requirements. Tues- 

 day was a wet day, and we hear no re- 

 ports of anybody being injured in a rush 

 to get stock. The accumulation prom- 

 ises again to be considerable until the 

 week-end sales afford another chance to 

 move the surplus. 



It is notable that with the greatly in- 

 creased cuts the quality of stock averages 

 probably better than this market ever has 

 known. Carnations have not increased 

 in proportion to rose crops. Beauties 

 are ahead of the demand and the best 

 stock in good lots is bringing consider- 

 ably reduced figures. Brides and Maids 

 for the first time in months are in sup- 

 ply greater than the requirements, and 

 the buyers make the price. It would be 

 a critical purchaser who could not be 

 pleased in any one of the wholesale 

 houses. Fine crops of Liberty and Rich- 

 mond are on and Chatenay is also su- 

 perb. Kaiserin is beginning to be a 

 factor. ^ ^ 



Carnations are not so much in the way 

 as last week. There are still more than 

 are needed for the legitimate demand 

 ami prices are low. The clean-up on 

 *io if^ showed many sales from $7.50 to 

 « 1 2.50 per thousand. There are many 



more violets than the market has use 

 for; quality poor. On Saturday Hudson 

 river stock was sold on the street at 10 

 cents per bunch of fifty. Sweet peas 

 are fine and sell well. They have dis- 

 placed violets in popular favor. 



The greatest glut is in belated Easter 

 lilies. These are sold with much diffi- 

 culty and those houses handling them in 

 quantity are never cleaned up. Callas 

 are in but little better state. Bulbous 

 stock is pretty well out of the way. 

 Lilac is in large supply and sells well. 



Smilax and asparagus are the only 

 items short of the demand. Other greens 

 are plentiful. It looks as though the 

 new crop of ferns would find the whole- 

 salers still carrying many cases of cold 

 storage stock. The loss on much of the 

 stock coming from storage is from one- 

 third to three-fourths. 



Various Notes. 



Winandy Bros, are building seven 

 houses at Rogers Park for Engel Bros., 

 a new firm of growers. The houses are 

 each 23x160, short span to the south. 



Mike Rocklin, long with E. H. Hunt's, 

 leaves Saturday night to go to Kala- 

 mazoo, where he is a partner in the 

 retail store of Fisher & Rocklin. 



Wietor Bros, report a big business in 

 chrysanthemum cuttings. 



John Mangel has been taking advan- 

 tage of the interest the society editors 

 show in the greenhouses of Miss Nina 

 Howard by displaying a sign "Sweet 

 Glencoe violets." 



John Schoepfle has made preparations 

 for a big spring season. He has a lot 

 of stock, pansies, etc., in frames. 



The .John C. Moninger Co. reports 

 that there is no let-up in the call for 



greenhouse material. For more than 

 three months they have booked orders 

 at the rate of one a day, and many of 

 the orders are for whole ranges of glass, 

 one of the first being for over 85,000 

 square feet. Although some of the or- 

 ders are from the extreme east, by far 

 the larger portion are in the southwest, 

 where our trade is at present having its 

 greatest development. 



Fred Strail has closed up his place on 

 Jackson boulevard and concentrated his 

 business at 164 Adams. 



Max Ringier, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 has been quite ill the past week. 



E. Bruecker has moved a block east 

 on Monroe street to the stand occupied 

 by Harry Rowe for the past couple of 

 years. Mr. Rowe moved across the 

 street a couple of months ago, to a store 

 in the Palmer House, and finds that 

 the change stimulated his trade not a 

 little. 



Moving day saw no changes among 

 the wholesalers. 



The Chicago Rose Co. is making a big 

 outdoor display of trees, shrubs, rose 

 ])lants, etc., and is doing a considerable 

 retail business in this class of stock. 

 Next year the retail seed and nursery 

 departments will be considerably ex- 

 tended. 



The George Wittbold Co. reports a 

 very great increase in the amount of 

 early outdoor work. They have a much 

 larger stock of geraniums than last 

 year. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is getting in 

 stock literally by the car-load. 



On April 27 there was a meeting of 

 the officers and trustees of the Florists* 

 Club at the office of the Benthey-Coats- 

 worth Co., at which a call was formu- 



