February 14, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



935 



Send Your Order to Amling for 



SWEET PEAS 



White and Pink. Other colors to follow soon. For years this 

 house has been headquarters on Sweet Peas — and we are starting 

 right in NOW for the season of 1907. Finest quality, large sup- 

 ply. Send your orders. 



CARNATIONS 



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

 tions — certainly no other house has so large a supply when only first- 

 class stock is considered. 



Violets Bulb Stock 



Double and Single. 

 Fine quality and 

 lots of them. 



Plenty of white and yellow Tulips; also Jonquils 

 and Daffodils. Increasing supplies of Keizerskroon 

 and Proserpine. Paper Whites abundant. 



FANCY VALLEY ALWAYS ON HAND 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



ABIBRICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Stems, 30 to 36 Inches tS.OO to 16.00 



Stems, 20 to 24 inches 8.00 to 4.00 



Stems, 12 to 16 inches 1.60 to 2.00 



Seconds 76 to 1.00 



Bridesmaid per 100, 6.00 to 15.00 



Bride " 6.00to 15 00 



Ohatenay " 600to 12.00 



Golden Gate " 6.00to 12.00 



Richmond and Liberty... " 6.00 to 15.00 



Carnations, select " 2.00 to 8.00 



large and fancy " 4.00 to 5.00 



BItacellaneoas Stock 



Violets, N. Y. double " .75 to 1.00 



single " ( .75 to 1.00 



Valley, select •' 2.00 to 4.00 



Callas perdoz. 1.50to 2.50 



Harrtsli " 2.00 to 2.50 



Mignonette " .60 to .76 



Sweet Peas per 100, .75 to 1.60 



Romans " 3.00 



Paper Whites " 3.00 to 4.00 



Jonquils, Daffodils " 3.00 to 4.00 



Tulips, all colors " 4.00 to 6.00 



Green Goods 



Asparagus Plumosus, per string, .35 to .60 

 " " per bunch, .36 to .7o 



Sprengeri per 100, 2.00 to 5.00 



Adiantum " 1.00 



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



Ferns per 1000, 12.50; per 100. .25 



Leucothoe Sprays, per 1000, te.iiO; per 100, 76c 

 Oalax, green and bronze, per 1000, 11.00. 



per case, 10.000, 19.00 

 Boxwood 35c per bunch ; fr.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. ANLING 



The Larg^est, Beat 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicago. 



32-36 Randolph St 



LoBff OlitSDce Telephoaei, 



1978 and 1977 Central, 



7846 Aitomatic 



Chicago, III. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon writs. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The out-of-town demand has increased 

 materially since last report. Detroit is 

 an especially good buyer. It appears 

 that everywhere through the wide terri- 

 tory served fron- the Chicago market 

 there is a pronounced shortage of stock. 

 This is especially true of roses. Carna- 

 tions are in less demand, and of bulbous 

 stock there seems to be plenty in every 

 country town. The probability is that 

 the demand for carnations will increase 

 as prices recede. Local trade also is 

 good and practically every wholesaler 

 subscribes to the report of one of the 

 best week's business so far this season. 



Several days of bright, cold weather 

 have had a decidedly beneficial effect 

 on the quality of stock. There can be 

 no complaint at the quality of roses, 

 but on the score of quantity nothing 

 new can yet be said. A number of 

 growers report fine crops not far away 

 and the receipts throughout the market 

 show some increase. Prices hold their 

 own and it will require much more stock 

 than we have had at any time since 

 Christmas to put quotations back to the 

 normal level for this season. There has 

 not been a day in two months when all 

 rose orders were filled. 



Receipts of carnations are much heav- 

 ier than they were a week ago. Some 

 houses report crops to be double what 

 they were a week ago. There was a 

 steady weakening following the turn of 

 last week and it is predicted that the 

 latter part of this week will see prices 

 lower than they have been at any time 



since Christmas. In fact, there are now 

 more pink than can be moved at quoted 

 rates and clean-up sales are in order. 

 The quality generally is excellent, al- 

 though with some growers Lawson is 

 poor and with many stems are not so 

 strong as usual. There is some com- 

 plaint as to shipping quality, but this 

 will pass with a few more days of crisp 

 weather. 



There are large receipts of violets for 

 St. Valentine's day, but a large part 

 are already sold on advance orders, which 

 were more numerous than has ever been 

 known before. The result is that the 

 price holds fairly steady. There are 

 some splendid singles in addition to the 

 doubles from New York. 



♦*ithin a week receipts of bulbous 

 stock have increased materially. Daf- 

 fodils rather hang fire and it is always 

 possible to pick up considerable quan- 

 tities of tuUps, many of them of fine 

 quality. There are plenty of callas but 

 not many Easter lilies. 



Green goods are in better supply than 

 a week ago. 



Gas Ruins Stock. 



John Lang, at Melrose and Robey 

 streets, has met with a severe loss which 

 he attributes to a leak in the gas main 

 in the street. He has a range of seven 

 houses, four in carnations and three in 

 bedding stock and miscellaneous plants. 

 A week ago the carnation plants in the 

 house nearest the street began to turn 

 yellow and give every indication of the 

 presence of gas, although there was no 

 odor. One by one the other houses were 

 affected, in spite of the fullest possible 

 ventilation. Neighboring growers agreed 



with Mr. Lang that gas from the street, 

 seeping in through the floors of the 

 greenhouses because it could not escape 

 through the frozen ground outside, was 

 at the root of the trouble. As the loss 

 seems likely to reach several thousands 

 of dollars, Mr. Lang proposes to sue the 

 gas company. 



W^ill Drop Carnations. 



George Reinberg has found so good a 

 market for roses and has figured that 

 space devoted to them pays so much bet- 

 ter than space devoted to carnations, 

 that he has concluded to confine his 

 operations to roses next year. He is 

 propagating some carnations for summer 

 bloom and some for the rooted cutting 

 trade, but unless he changes his mind 

 will plant none in the houses next fall. 

 This will give six additional large houses 

 for American Beauty and three houses 

 for teas. All the old houses on his 

 place are to be taken down this spring 

 and replaced with modem structures. 



Honorable Mention. 



It develops that a few weeks ago 

 John G. Kruchten, of Kruchten & John- 

 son, became the father of a vigorous 

 baby boy. He is none the less entitled 

 to honorable mention beeause he saw 

 fit to suppress news of the event. 



Wild Lawsons. 



A good many local growers are com- 

 plaining of what they call "wild Law- 

 sons" in their benches. These are 

 plants of rank growth, said sometimes 

 to reach a height of three feet or more, 

 and so strong they rob the adjacent 

 plants — but they never produce a flower. 



