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Decembeb 6, 1906. 



ThcWeekly Rorists' Review. 



159 



In spit© of general reports of slow business, the last month 

 was the biggest November we ever had. It shows WE 

 PLEASE THE BUYERS. We start December with 



CARNATIONS 



in large supply and quality superb. We never handled 

 better stock; Enchantress especially good, and lots of 

 them. 



OTHER SPECIALTIES— Sweet Peas, Bouvardia Mig- 

 nonette, Fancy Valley, Finest New York Double Violets 

 and home-grown Singles. 



Plenty of all Roses in all grades. Give us a call. 



PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW FOR 



Poinsettias for Christmas 



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Special fancy, $4 per dos.; Smaller grades, $8 to $3 per dox. 



Shipped in original boxes of 50 as packed at the srreenliouses 



E. C. AMLING 



The Larg^est, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicago. 





32-34-36 Randolph St. 



Long Distance Telephones, 



1978 and 1977 Central, 



7846 Aatomatlc 



Chicago, III. 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



By Monday of this week the market 

 already was feeling the revival conse- 

 quent upon the departure of the 

 chrysanthemum. Not that there are no 

 more mums, for considerable quantities 

 still are to be marketed, but compara- 

 tively speaking their season is over. 

 There are quantities of small, weak 

 stock, but nothing like such an avalanche 

 as came in a week ago. Beally good 

 mums now are hard to find and it looks 

 as though the late sorts will bring 

 equally as good prices as prevailed dur- 

 ing the first month of the mum season. 

 During the height of the season prices 

 certainly have been in the buyers' favor. 



The increase in the demand for roses 

 Avas most welcome, for nearly all growers 

 are beginning to cut in large quantity. 

 The report is that from now on until 

 after Christmas big crops may be ex- 

 pected. The cut is increasing on all 

 varieties, including Beauty, but with the 

 possible exception of Liberty, which is 

 giving place to Richmond. The quality 

 has suffered because of the long period 

 of dark weather, and Maids are badly 

 bleached, but it will only take a few 

 crisp days with bright sun to make rose 

 qualities all the most critical could ask. 



Since Thanksgiving there have been 

 plenty of carnations. The stock car- 

 ried over from Thanksgiving served to 

 keep the market going until the grow- 

 ers had rested up and begun to cut 

 again. The result is that prices are 

 more nearly normal than they have been 

 at any time this season. The quality 

 >vith many growers is superb, although 



quite a number have not yet been able 

 to get much stem on Lawson. En- 

 chantress is fine with nearly everyone, 

 Paper Whites and Romans are plentiful. 

 There are enough lilies, both Harrisii 

 and calla, and valley is again down in 

 price because of increased supply. Vio- 

 lets were scarce at the end of last 

 week, but beginning with Monday there 

 have been all the market could use. 

 Mignonette and stevia are now regular 

 items of stock. Green goods of all 

 kinds are abundant. 



Thanksgiving Aftermath* 



Now that the returns are all in it 

 appears that the aggregate sales were 

 just about .equal to last year — which was 

 the best ever — and that the dissatisfac- 

 tion which exists was caused by the 

 unusually heavy supplies. The great 

 quantities of stock seeking a market at 

 advanced prices precluded a clean-up. 

 Quiet business for three weeks before 

 Thanksgiving and the expectation of a 

 heavy demand for flowers to go with the 

 turkey afforded the best of conditions 

 for accumulating stock. Receipts were 

 double, treble, even quadruple what they 

 were the week before, and naturally the 

 market appeared weak, although a vol- 

 ume of business equal to any previous 

 year was being done. 



Carnations were carried over in large 

 quantities and even New York violets, 

 of which receipts were not especially 

 heavy, were carried from Wednesday 

 until Saturday. 



The Mum Glut Did It. 



In sizing up recent business in the 

 wide territory that draws supplies from 



the Chicago market, E. C. Amling says: 

 ' ' Demand was active in October. Since 

 November 6 the Chicago market has had 

 supplies of chrysanthemums so heavy 

 that they constantly were forcing a sale. 

 From all reports the same thing has 

 been true in every town from Pittsburg 

 to Omaha, from Duluth to New Orleans. 

 Every man who has any glass at all was 

 loaded up with mums. Naturally he 

 pushed them to his trade instead of 

 pushing Chicago roses and carnations. 

 In spite of this most of the Chicago 

 wholesalers had a fairly satisfactory 

 November. I look for a big boom in 

 business as soon as the mums are out of 

 the way." 



Christmas Prospects. 



With Christmas less than three weeks 

 away all eyes are set upon the prospects 

 for the holiday. Everything goes to 

 show that the demand will be big — but 

 supplies of stock will be large and grow- 

 ers are warned against accumulating 

 stock at the expense of quality. Christ- 

 mas buyers want only the best and will 

 not buy stale stock at any price. Rose 

 crops are about right, with favorable 

 weather, for big Christmas crops. Car- 

 nations will be in large supply. The 

 Chicago market will be fixed to do busi- 

 ness for Christmas. 



Hit By a Train. 



Ferdinand Kading, who was a packer 

 at the greenhouses of the Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., Morton Grove, was instantly 

 killed Thanksgiving eve while walking on 

 the St. Paul tracks, returning from a 

 dance at Glen View, which he had attended 

 with Robert Hand, one of the section 

 foreman. They were struck by a freight 



