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January 3, 1907. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review^ 



487 



ROSES— CARNATIONS 



Large crops and quality sure to please you. Also abundant supplies of VIolets 

 from the same New York growers we have represented for years, the ones who 

 made the reputation of Rhinebeck Violets in the west. Also 



FANCIEST MIGNONETTE, VALLEY, PAPER WHITES, ETC. 



You can tend us your orders with confidence. This month completes our first year handling; 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



and the result has justified our belief that the trade would welcome a bright, new, 

 complete stock of up-to-date Supplies in connection uji^ the house so many look 

 to for Cut Flowers. The first year's business in Supplies is, in fact, ahead of our 

 rather sanguine expectations. 



Our Cut Flower buyers have not only bought our Supplies, but our fine line of 

 Supplies has brought new trade to the old established Cut Flower department. 



Of course we aim to do much more in I907. We are still opening 

 new lines of Supplies of every description. We aim to be able to supply at a 

 minute's notice every requisite of the business, from tin-foil and toothpicks to the 

 finest of baskets and novelties. Send US an order today. You will find 



ail your needs illustrated and priced in our New Catalogue. If you haven't 

 it hung on a nail beside your desk, a postal card will bring it to hang there. 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



19-21 Randolpii St., 



CHICAGO 



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more stock than any other in this city at 

 its new location. 



Jacob Tobler has been ill for some 

 time with lumbago. He reports a good 

 trade, especially on holly wreaths, and 

 could have sold a third more than he did 

 if he had had them ready. 



Miss M. Dalley had a fine display in 

 her windows and did a fine business for 

 Christmas. 



William L. Eoek Flower Co. had the 

 handsomest window decorations during 

 the holidays of any store on "Walnut 

 street. They carried a full line of cut 

 flowers an'd made-up baskets of plants 

 of the most artistic character. 



Of course Sam Murray had a big 

 week's business; he always gets a lion's 

 share. 



Ed Humfeld reports business for 

 Christmas week to have been a record- 

 breaker. 



Miss J. E. Murray had a fine display 

 find did a rushing business. 



William Bastian had an excellent trade 

 at his new location on Thirteenth and 

 Grand avenue, making holly wreaths 

 ^vhile the customers waited. 



The W. II. Humfeld Floral Co. re- 

 ports its business the heaviest for flfteen 

 years. 



K. S. Brown has been ill for some time 

 •tnd could not take an active part in 

 Christmas trade, but reports good busi- 



Charles Schwake, of Charles Meyer, 

 ^ew York, was in the city last week. 



Ed Ellsworth, formerly manager of 

 'jeorge Kellogg 's Grand avenue store, is 

 now about to build a store at Woodworth 

 avenue and Main street. W. H. H. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Since Christmas trade has been quiet. 

 Owing to the mild weather which has 

 prevailed, more flowers have arrived than 

 had been anticipated and with a rather 

 light demand the supplies have been 

 more than suflScient for all requirements. 

 Prices have dropped to figures prevailing 

 ten days before Christmas. Both roses 

 and carnations are in good supply. Top 

 prices on the latter have fallen to $6. 

 Violets are in rather oversupply. Aver- 

 age price for good stock is $1 per hun- 

 dred, but some doubles have sold lower. 

 Chrysanthemums are still seen but the 

 quality is now poor. 



Lilies and callas are arriving suifi- 

 ciently for all needs. Some good mig- 

 nonettes are seen and there is an oversup- 

 ply of Paper Whites and Roman hya- 

 cinths. Quite a lot of stevia is still sent 

 in but it sells slowly. Tulips and yellow 

 narcissi are not yet of good quality. 

 Quite a little freesia is seen in the retail 

 stores, but this flower is not much han- 

 dled at the wholesale market or commis- 

 sion houses. Fischer's Purity is seen 

 with long stems. Poinsettias met with 

 a slow sale after Christmas. In sweet 

 peas, Mont Blanc is most in evidence, 

 some Earliest of All being also seen. 

 There is no change in green stock, for 

 which the demand is not brisk at pres- 

 ent. 



Later reports on Christmas trade in- 

 dicate an increased volume all around 

 over 1905. Growers who threw quantities 

 of flowers on the market on Christmas 

 day had to take lower prices. We heard 

 some complaints of plants arriving from 



retailers in a frozen condition owing ,to 

 being insufficiently wrapped up. 



New Year never makes more than a 

 trifling difference in the market here. 

 Violets sold well. These, lily of the val- 

 ley and roses were used as gifts to some 

 extent, but the effect on prices was hard- 

 ly noticeable. 



Various Notes. 



Robert Cameron sailed on the S. S. 

 Admiral Sampson on December 26 for 

 Jamiaca. He will collect plants for the 

 Harvard Experimental Station at Soli- 

 dad, Cienfuegos, Cuba, where Robert M. 

 Grey, late of North Easton, is located. 

 After spending some time in Cuba Mr. 

 Cameron will return by way of Havana 

 to New Y'^ork. 



The inaugural meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society for the 

 year 1907 will be held at noon January 

 5 in Horticultural hall. Business will 

 include inaugural address by the new 

 president, Gen. S. M. Weld; reports of 

 trustees and of various committees. The 

 winter lecture course will, it is expected, 

 commence on January 12. 



F. E. Palmer has been confined to his 

 bed by sickness the last few days. 



Some remarkably fine Fischer's Purity 

 freesia is coming in from William Nich- 

 olson, the stems being of exceptional 

 strength. 



Fair Maid carnation holds its own 

 well in the local markets. Such flowers 

 as A. Roper and J. W. Foote are sending 

 to the Music Hall market are hard to 

 beat. 



Edward Wood, of -Lexington^ is bring- 

 ing in some excellent sweet peas from his 

 new house. 



H. A. Stevens Co. will grow the light 



