May 10, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



1787 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



We have a heavy crop of the finest Beauties coming to this 

 market. Last sutamer 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 — Fancy stock; 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. 



FANCY VALLEY FOR WEDDING WORK 



CURRENT PRICES 

 BBAUTXBS Per doz. 



30 to 36-lnch stem 14.00 



24-inch8tem 3.00 



20-lnch stem 2.00 



15-incti stem 1.60 



12 inch stem 1.00 



Seconds $0.50 to .76 



BOSBS 



Bride and Maid per 100, 13.00 to I6.0O 



Liberty " 6.00to 10.00 



Richmond " 4.00 to 10 00 



Golden Gate. " 3.0U to 6.00 



Perle " 3.00to 6.00 



Kaiserin " S.OOto 800 



Roses, our selection " 3.00 



CABVATIOVS 



Select per 100, »i.50 to $2.00 



Large and Fancies " 3.00 



MIBCBi;XiAVBOUB 



Peonies, red and pink.... per doz. $ .GO to $ .75 



Callas " 1.00 to 1.25 



Harrlsli " 126 



Valley per ICO, 2.00 to 4.00 



Sweet Peas " l.OOto 1.60 



Tulips " 2.00to 4.00 



Pansles " .60 



Daisies " .76 to 1.50 



Violets " .50to .75 



Poet's Narcissus " .75 to 1.00 



Mignonette per doz., .35 to .75 



DECOBATIVE 



Asparagus per string, $0.35 to $0.60 



Asparagus plumosus bunch, .36 to 1.00 



Asparagus Sprenperi — .. " .26 to 1.00 



Galax 1000, $1.00, per 100, .15 



FERNS " 2.00, " .26 



Leucothoe Sprays " .76 



Boxwood per bunch .25 



Adiantum per 100, .75 



Smllax per doz. 2.60 



Prices Subject to Change Without Notice. 



E. C. AMLING 



The Largfest, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flow- 

 er House in Chicag^o 



fTii' 32-34-36 Randolph St. 



Lonff Distance Telephones, 



1978 and 1077 Cent.al, 



7846 Automatic 



Chicogo, III. 



Mention The RcTJew when yoo write. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Trade was quiet last week. Stock was 

 carried over each day until Friday, when 

 there was a good clean-up of carnations, 

 but a surplus of roses still remained. 

 This week conditions are a little better. 

 Demand is stronger and supplies some- 

 what reduced by several days of unsea- 

 sonably cool weather. The shipping de- 

 mand is beginning again to be felt in 

 some force. 



One of the heaviest cuts of roses ever 

 known in this market has been on the 

 past week. Practically every house has 

 been loaded. The Beauty crops are com- 

 ing in exceptional quantity and in gen- 

 eral the stock is of first-class quality. 

 There has been a good sale for the better 

 grade of goods at prevailing prices, but 

 a large quantity of cripples have found 

 their way to the street merchants. The 

 short stock has moved slowly. Brides and 

 Maids have brought low averages be- 

 cause there is enough select goods to go 

 around and the poorer qualities are diffi- 

 cult to dispose of. Some very fine Rich- 

 mond is seen, also good Liberty. Chate- 

 nay is among the best of roses, stems in 

 many instances being almost as long as 

 on Beauty. Uncle John is also in fine 

 shape. Kaiserin is received in a number 

 of houses and Carnot at Bassett & Wash- 

 burn 's is excellent. 



The carnation crop is passing off. 

 Supplies are much less than in the period 

 since Easter and prices are slowly stiffen- 

 ing. There is some complaint as to the 

 quality of stock, but much of it is still 

 excellent. 



"Violets are gone and sweet peas have 



their place. Much good stock is received 

 and sells well. Daisies are abundant and 

 many of them remarkable for size and 

 stem. They are largely used in dinner 

 table centerpieces. Some outdoor bulb- 

 ous stock still accumulates and longi- 

 florum lilies are difficult to move. The 

 supplies are very large. Callas are quite 

 abundant. The spring weddings make a 

 demand for valley which keeps this item 

 moving. Green goods are a little more 

 abundant. 



Various Notes. 



Bohannon & Ganger have dissolved 

 partnership, John Ganger continuing the 

 State street store. Lovelace R. Bohannon 

 has succeeded John Ghormly in charge 

 of Fleischman's North State street store. 



Joe Gurran, for years at Friedman's, 

 is now with Henry Klunder, where they 

 report a very heavy run of funeral work 

 the first of this week. 



The Benthey-Goatsworth Go. is making 

 a very considerable saving by shipping 

 its cut from New Castle to Chicago in 

 large corrugated paper boxes. The light 

 weight saves the cost of the box every 

 trip and the boxes are good for from 

 four to six trips each, being returned to 

 New Castle by freight at a cost of one- 

 fourth the express company's return 

 charges. No ice is used and the stock 

 arrives in better shape than in the ordi- 

 nary wood cases. 



George Eeinberg reports last week to 

 have been the best first week in May he 

 ever enjoyed. If prices were low, the 

 size of his Beauty crop compensated. 



The Retail Florists' Association sent a 

 request to the city council last Monday 

 evening asking that the chief of police 

 be directed to enforce the ordinance 



against street stands. It was referred 

 to the judiciary committee. 



George Walther, president of the Re- 

 tail Florists' Association, states that the 

 secretary is in receipt of letters from 

 about half the wholesalers agreeing to 

 cut out red violets ' ' wherever possible. ' ' 



A. L. Randall spent Saturday and Sun- 

 day at his farm in Michigan. 



George R. Scott is back at his old 

 stand with the E. F. Winterson Co. 



The J. B. Deamud Co. is handling some 

 very good lilae in quantity. 



O. P. Bassett has sold his gasoline 

 automobile and now runs a White 

 steamer. He is said to be the dean of 

 the Chicago chauffeurs, 71 years of age. 

 Some of his friends tell him it is not 

 safe to go steaming through the country 

 carrying 500 pounds pressure, more or 

 1«5S, but Mr. Bassett says it is nothing; 

 that all his life he has sat on a safety 

 valve of one sort or another. 



At J. A. Budlong's they think highly 

 of Nelson Fisher carnation. A fine cut 

 is on at present. It holds its color much 

 better than Lawson. 



The Florists' Club meets tonight. 



L. Baumann & Co. have a specialty that 

 goes well in natural Asparagus plumosus 

 that is prepared the same as are cycas 

 leaves. It endures for months. 



Thomas Allen has despaired of eradi- 

 cating the microscopical worm in his 

 Beauties, and will plant Brides for next 

 season. Prior to last year Mr. Allen's 

 Beauties were among the cream of the 

 market. 



Frank Smith, of Smith & Fetters, 

 Cleveland, was a visitor last week. 



Albert Amling has discarded the big 

 hanging pots in which he has grown 



