January 10, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



553 



If You Want Good Stock 



FROM A LARGE SUPPLY 



Send Today's Order 

 TO SMLING 



We have plenty of stock — all grades, including the kind the most 

 critical will approve. 



^2^p,^«^^S^P^^ are especially good — the best large lot to 



be found in the west. 



RAaii4iAA AnH Da AAA are both abundant and 

 Dt?ClUllt>3 anU ICUSCS fine. Try them today. 



Long, Heavy Strings of Asparagus and Smilax 

 VIOLETS AND VALLEY ALWAYS ON HAND 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



AMERICAN BBAUTIBS Perdoz. 



Stems, 30 to 36 InclieB 15.00 to $6.00 



Stems, 20 to24 inohea....-M-- 3.00 to 4.00 



Stems, 12 to 16 inches 1.50 to 2.00 



Seconds 76 to 1.00 



Bridesmaid per 100, 4.00 to 12.00 



Bride " 4.00to 12 00 



Ciiatenay '• 4.00 to 1200 



Golden Gate " 4.00 to 12.00 



Richmond and Liberty. . " 6.00 to 15.00 



CarnationB, select " 2.00 to 3.00 



" large and fancy " 4.00 to 5.09 

 Misoellaneoaa Stock 



Violets, N. Y. double.. .. " 1.00 



single " .76 to 1.00 



Valley, select " 2.00 to 4.00 



Callas perdoz. 1.50 to 2.00 



Harrisii " 2.00 to 2.50 



Mignonette " .60 to .75 



Stevia perlOO, 1.60 to 2.00 



SweetPeas " 1.00 to 1.50 



Romans " 3.00 



PaperWhites " 3.00 



Bouvardia " 2.00 to 6.00 



Jonquils " 4.00 to 5.00 



Tulips " 4.l)0to 500 



Green Goods 



Asparagus Plumosus, per string, .36 to .50 



" " per bunch, .35 to .75 



Sprengeri per 100, 2.00 to 5 00 



Adlantum " i.oo 



Smilax, per 100, $15.00 per doz. 2.00 



Perns, per 1000, $2.50; per 100, 25c. 



Leucothoe Sprays, per 1000, $6.00; per 100, 75c 



Galax, green and bronze, per lOOO, $1.00 



" " " " per case, 10,000, $9.00 



Boxwood 36c per bunch; $7.50 per case 



Subject to change without notice. 



Store open 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sundays and 



holidays closed at noon. 



E. C. AMLING 



The Largest, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicago. 



32-36 Randolph St. 



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CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



There was excellent business the latter 

 half of last week and no word of com- 

 plaint was heard, except from buyers 

 who luought prices were unseasonably 

 higli. Both city and shipping demand 

 was good, although some of the retailers 

 say they did not do so nuich business in 

 the first week of January as they did a 

 year ago. There was some superb stock 

 in the market, of both roses and carna- 

 tions; sui'prisingly good when one con- 

 siders the weeks wichout sun. Eoses 

 held their values better than did any 

 other item. There are plenty of Beauty 

 Jiiiu some remarkably fine Bride and 

 -Maid, also Eichmond and Killarney. 

 These held up to 20 and 25 cents per 

 hundred last week. 



This week opened with two days of 

 rain, which naturally had its effect on 

 the trade. Supplies are large and con- 

 sequently prices have weakened mate- 

 nally, but it will require only a couple 

 of days of seasonable weather, clear 

 and cold, to tone up the market and put 

 prices back where they were. The best 

 roses have not lost much in value and 

 even the shortest bring more money than 

 at this time last year. Carnations are 

 of superlative quality with many grow- 

 ers and the fancy stock fetches good 

 money. There is a large demand for 

 luneral work, the health department re- 

 porting a higher death rate than at any 

 time in ten years, and it has provided 

 an outlet for the white carnations, which 



mu^^^° slow sale since crops increased. 



The bottom has fallen out of the violet 

 »"arket. at least temporarilv. For this 



week not very heavy receipts are ample 

 to meet the needs of the trade and leave 

 some to be jobbed off when stale. Har- 

 risii and callas are more abundant. There 

 are now considerable numbers of tulips, 

 but with many growers the stems are so 

 short that they are sending in bulb and 

 all, and one grower on Monday shipped 

 his stock, flats and all, in which way it 

 sold well. There are increased supplies 

 of sweet peas. Poinsettias still are seen 

 and sell slowly. 



It is reported that bunched greens are 

 becoming scarce, but there continue to be 

 abundant supplies of fine strings of as- 

 paragus and smilax. 



The turn in the weather came Wed- 

 nesday, after tlie above market report 

 was in type. It is cold and clear. The 

 result doubtless will be to shorten stock 

 for a couple of days, after which the 

 plants will catch their winter stride 

 and cuts will be both larger and of bet- 

 ter quality. Good weather also will 

 stimulate the demand. 



Indications of Progress. 



One of the things entailed by adver- 

 tising and a large business is a large cor- 

 respondence, and prompt answers to all 

 business letters, and a large correspond- 

 once necessitates the use of a typewriter. 

 As an indication of the fact that most 

 of the wholesale florists are doing a 

 large business is the fact that a large 

 proportion of the houses now send out 

 their letters typewritten. George Eein- 

 berg is the latest to install a machine 

 and operator. Some of the houses which 

 have no machines have arrangements with 

 a public stenographer to come in every 

 afternoon, take the dictation and tran- 



scribe the letters in the stenographer's 

 own oflSce, delivering them ready for 

 signature beiore evening. It is a very 

 convenient way. 



Why Crops Vere Late, 



Why Christmas rose crops were not 

 as great as growers, and buyers, would 

 have liked is shown by the records of 

 the weather bureau. In December there 

 were only three clear days, eight on 

 which the sun shone a little while, and 

 twenty cloudy days. At the same time 

 it rained on eleven days, a total precipi- 

 tation of 2.46 inches, or more than in 

 any December in eleven years. 



Taking the whole year, 1906, there 

 were only 102 clear days, 128 partly 

 cloudy and 135 on which there was no 

 sun. 



Club Doinsfs. 



The Chicago Florists' Club gives every 

 promise of renewed activity under the 

 leadership of 11. N. Bruns. At the meet- 

 ing tonight he will announce his com- 

 mittees. The Toronto convention of the 

 American Carnation Society, January 22 

 to 24, will be up for discussion. Mr. 

 Bruns has informally announced that 

 P. J. Hauswirth will be chairman of the 

 club's transportation committee, so that 

 an early report on Toronto may be forth- 

 coming. Plans will be discussed for a 

 club carnation show in February. 



Various Notes. 



Otto Benthey, the grower for the 

 Benthey-Coatsworth Co., at New Castle, 

 who has had such excellent results with 

 Killarney, says that he gives Killarney 

 no special treatment and that anyone 

 can grow it who grows good Brides and 



