Februabt 14, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



943 



CARNATIONS 



Now within the reach of all classes of trade. 

 YoQ can get what you want of us. We have the goods at all times. 



TULIPS VALLEY 



Now ready In quantity, all colors. We can always supply your needs. 



Would like a share of your bueinesa 



E. H.HUNT 



76-78 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. 



CURRENT PRICES 



BKAUTIBS Per doz. 



Nto3S-lnch t6.00to 6.00 



Mto28-iiich 8.00 to 4.00 



Uto30-lnch 1.60 to 3.00 



8tO 13-inch 60 to 1.00 



Shorts .76 



R08B8 (TeM) Per 100 



Bride and Maid r.OO to $12.00 



Richmond, Chutenay 6.00 to 12.00 



Golden Gate and Uncle John 6.00 to 12.00 



Hoses, our selection 6.00 



CA&MATlOirS 2.00 



" fancy 8.00 



" extra fancy 4.00 to 6.00 



MISCBIXAKSOUS 



Violets, double 1.00 



Violets, single 75 to 1.00 



HarrlaU Lilies per doz. i 3.60 



CaUas " 2.00 



Valley 4.00 



Paper Whites 8.00 



Romans 3.00 



Tulips 3.00to 4.00 



Daffodils, Jonquils 4.00 to 6.00 



GRKBNS 



Smilax Strings per doz. 1.60 to 2.00 



Asparatrus Strinrs each .50to .60 



▲sparacms Buncnea. " .36 to .60 



Sprengeri Bunches " -86 



Adlantum perlOO 100 



Ferns, Common per 1000 2.60 



Galax " l.OOto 1.50 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.50 



Boxwood per 60 lb. case, 7.60 



SUBJBOT TO MARKET GHANOX. 



M^nttoti The ReTlew when yon write. 



Headquarters g^^i RoSesl 



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and all other stock in season now removed to Room 202, on the second floor of 

 the Atlas Block, cor. Wabash and Randolph, where we shall be better fixed than 

 ever, and just as anxious to serve our customers. 



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j The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. i 



I Wholesale Cut Flowers, 35 Randolph St., Chicago I 



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are the best on the market; large- 

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Columbia, S. C. 



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prices are offset by a distressing scarcity 

 of good stock. The wholesaler finds it 

 hard to meet the regular demand for 

 quantity and the retailer has found the 

 public, apart from the natural increase 

 in funerals, not enthusiastic. Then, too, 

 the bears down in Wall street are squeez- 

 ing the money spenders and, as a prom- 

 inent ±'ifth avenue retailer said to me 

 on Saturday, "Those rich brokers and 

 bankers will not spend money for flow- 



ers when the market is going down ; ' ' 

 and there you have the situation just as 

 it is today. 



Before the end of the present week 

 everything may be seen through opti- 

 mistic glasses. The sun may shine stead- 

 ily, the roses take on color and quantity 

 and balls and weddings grow more abun- 

 dant. In fact, of the latter the bookings 

 are very cheering. Each of the leading 

 retailers has his books comfortably cov- 



ered up to Easter. Lent began Wednes- 

 day, but less and less every year do the 

 400 or the 4,000 feel the influence of the 

 religious sentiment that brings self-sac- 

 rifice. The modern Babylon, this great- 

 est city of all the ages, has not enough 

 old-fashioned orthodoxy left to use a 

 barrel of ashes or a ream of sackcloth 

 from Lent's beginning to its close. 



Prices are about the same as a week 

 ago; stock just about as scarce. Beau- 

 ties, the best, have brought $12 per 

 dozen. Brides and Maids were quoted at 

 $12 to $15 per hundred, but a few could 

 * ' go you five better, ' ' as the speculators 

 say. 



Carnations are down ; the best from $6 

 to $8 and so on down to $1.50; many 

 of them the worse for wear. Valley is 

 everywhere and lots of it sold at $1 and 

 $2. The best does not go over $3. Nar- 

 cissi were so abundant last week one was 

 justified in thinking the southern stock 

 had already arrived. I heard one South 

 Carolina lady visitor telling a retailer she 

 "reckoned her yard was full of *em in 

 flower neow, " and maybe it is. Lilac 

 has gone down a peg and lilies are n6 

 more numerous and hold their advantage 

 well at about double Easter priSes, and 

 Easter only seven weeks away. 



Violets have had to hustle, or at least 

 the distributors have, to realize 75 cents 

 per hundred. Thousands were closed out 



