January 31, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



789 



Send Your Order to Amiing for 



CARNATIONS 



If you want good stock 



We believe no other house in the West has so large a supply of 

 carnations — certainly no other house has so large a supply when 

 only first-class stock is considered. See for yourself. Order today — 

 you will order tomorrow if you do. 



Roses and Beauties 



Cut not large at present but stock averages good quality. 



Violets 



Big, dark Hudson River dou- 

 bles and fragrant home-grown 

 singles ; large supply. 



Bulb Stock 



Plenty of white Tulips and 

 increasing supplies in colors. 

 Paper Whites abundant. 



FANCY VALLEY ALWAYS ON HAND 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



AM£RICAX BEAUTIES Per 



Stems, 30 to 36 inches 15.00 to 



Stems, 20 to 24 inches 8.00 to 



Stems, 12 to 16 inches 1.60 to 



Seconds 76 to 



Bridesmaid per 100, 6.00 to 



doz. 



16 00 



4.00 



2.00 



1.00 



15.00 



16 00 



12.00 



12.00 



15.00 



3.00 

 5.00 



Bride " " 6.00 to 



Chatenay " 600to 



Golden Gate " 6.00 to 



Richmond and Liberty... " 6.00 to 



Carnations, select 



" large and fancy " 4.00 to 



M iicellaneons Stock 



Violets, N. y. double " .76 to 1.00 



single " .76 to 1.00 



Valley, select •' 2.00 to 4.00 



Callas per doz. 1.60 to 2.50 



Harrisii " 2.00 to 2.50 



Mignonette " .50 to .75 



Sweet Peas per 100, 1.00 to 1.50 



Romans " 3.00 



Paper Whites " 3.00 



Jonquils, Daffodils " 5.00 to 6.00 



Tulips, all colors " 4.00 to 5.00 



Green Gooda 



Asparagus Plumosus, per string, .35 to .60 

 " per bunch, .36 to .76 



Sprengeri per 100, 2.00 to 6.00 



Adiantum " 1.00 



Smilax. . . .per 100, $15.00: per doz. 2.00 



Ferns per 1000, 12.50; per 100. .26 



liCucothoe Sprays, per 1000, 16.00; per lOO, 76c 

 Galax, green and bronze, per 1000, fl.OO. 



per case, 10.000, $9.00 

 Boxwood 35c 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. AM LING 



The Larg^est, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Ijocated 

 Wholesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicago. 



32-36 Randolph St 



Long DiBtanee Telephones, 



1978 and 1977 Central, 



7846 Aatomatle 



Chicago, III. 



Mention The BcTlew when yon write. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



A few clays of genuine winter weather 

 have done something to improve the 

 quality of stock but little toward in- 

 creasing the quantity, for most of the 

 time it has been cloudy. There are now 

 liberal supplies of carnations and it is 

 usually possible to fill all orders unless 

 received at such a late hour that just 

 the grade or color wanted have been 

 sold. McKinley day, January 29, did 

 not make even a ripple on the surface. 

 The demand continues to be principally 

 for white, but red is first cleaned up be- 

 cause in lightest supply. Prices, in the 

 face of increased receipts, have made a 

 slight advance in the days when demand 

 showed itself strongest. The market 

 has been erratic, some days brisk, and 

 some days dull. 



If the dark weather continues much 

 longer we shall be wholly without roses. 

 Eeceipts are steadily on the down grade. 

 The only limit to prices is the point be- 

 yond which retailers can no longer use 

 the stock; in fact, many of them say 

 they are not now able to make a profit 

 on roses, the price on shorts being above 

 where they can use them to advantage 

 for funeral work. Best Bride and Maid 

 occasionally sell for $20 per hundred, 

 and Killarney and Kichmond still bring 

 $25 per hundred for the small propor- 

 tion of extra fancy stock received. Of 

 course the bulk are in the class bring- 

 ing from $8 to $15. Chatenay is not 

 much in evidence. • 



There are liberal receipts of violets 

 and they sell none too well. Bulbous 



stock is more abundant. There are large 

 quantities of white tulips and yellow is 

 received in much larger numbers. Ked 

 and other sorts are steadily gaining in 

 volume. Paper Whites and Eomans are 

 not so plentiful as they were and are 

 bringing a shade better prices. Easter 

 lilies are scarce, and callas frequently 

 are hard to find. Daffodils sell well and 

 freesia usually moves quickly. A few 

 poet's narcissi have arrived. The better 

 class of stores are handling mignonette 

 quite freely, but only the best will do. 

 Sweet peas clean up within the hour re- 

 ceived. 



Green goods are in light supply. There 

 is a shortage of bunches of plumosus 

 and Sprengeri. Adiantum, too, is scarce 

 and advancing in price. The strings of 

 smilax are short and light and one fre- 

 quently has to skirmish to find strings 

 of asparagus. There is plenty of cold 

 storage wild smilax and it is selling well. 



Winandy Sale. 



The trustees in bankruptcy having in 

 charge the assets of Michael Winandy 

 have secured an order looking to the 

 sale of all the personal property of the 

 bankrupt and his interest in the real 

 estate. Bids are to be received up to 

 10 a. m. Wednesday, February 6, at 

 which hour they are to be presented be- 

 fore Sidney C. Eastman, referee in bank- 

 ruptcy. The trustees are Peter Eeinberg, 

 Carl Ickes and Peter Kransz. 



Retailers^ Association. 



The Retail Florists' Association held 

 its annual meeting at Handel hall Janu- 

 ary 24. The following officers were 

 elected: President, George Walther; 



vice-president, George Asmus; secretary, 

 A. Lange; treasurer, C. H. Fisk. 



The association has been resting on 

 its oars the last few months. President 

 Walther proposes to have the matter of 

 credits taken up. There is no doubt 

 that every retailer is carrying more 

 money on his books than good business 

 would justify, and the same may be said 

 of the gentlemen from whom the retail- 

 ers buy. 



The Lily Prospects. 



W. L. Palinsky ventures the opinion 

 that lilies will not be especially abun- 

 dant for Easter. Because of the early 

 date the stock cannot waste time or it 

 will not be ready. Then, too, much dis- 

 ease has developed. He took 5,000 longi- 

 florum multiflorum from three sources. 

 Each lot is about like the others and 

 the loss is twenty-five to thirty per cent. 

 Mr. Palinsky says Sam Pearce told him 

 his own loss would be close to forty per 

 cent. 



The Best Carnations. 



August Poehlmann says that of all the 

 new sorts seen at Toronto, Beacon looks 

 best to him, although he will not go 

 back on Victory, which he says is by all 

 odds the best money maker of any red 

 the Poehlmann Bros. Co. ever has grown. 

 One of its best attributes is its shipping 

 quality. He says seeing Winsor as shown 

 at Toronto has proved to him that he 

 was right when he bought 10,000 of this 

 variety. Half of this number will b? 

 grown this year, the other half being 

 turned over to the Thomson Carnation 

 Co., of Joliet. Winsor looks a splendid 

 shipper, and a carnation that doesn't 

 ship is no good in the Chicago market. 



