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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 28, 1907. 



Lilies for Easter 



Our lilies are better than ever this year and we will have a big lot just 

 right for Easter. We will book now a limited number of orders at 

 $15.00 per 100; $150.00 per 1000. Later market sure to be higher. 



All Cut Flowers Now in Good Supply 



LET YOUR 

 ORDERS COME 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Extra long $6.00 



30 to 36-lnch 4.00 



20 to 24-inch 8.00 



15 to 18-inch 2.00 



PerlOO 



Short $8.00to $12.00 



Richmond, select, 86 in. stem. . . 18.00 



fancy 12.00 to 16.00 



Medium 8.00to 10.00 



short 4.00 to 6.00 



Maid and Bride, select, long... 10 .00 to 12.00 

 medium 6.00 to 8.00 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



PerlOO 



Maid and Bride, short $3.00 to $4.00 



Ubatenay, Gate, select, long 12.00 



" medium 8.00 



" short 4.00to 6.00 



Perle, Sunrise, select, long 8.00 



" medium and short 3.00 to 6.00 

 Oarnations, Lawson and white.. 2.00 to 3.00 

 Select red. Enchantress, 



Prosperity 4.00 



Good Split 1.60 



Harrisii Lilies 20.00 



Freesias 3.00 to 4.00 



PerlOO 



Paper Whites, Romans $3.00 



Valley, fancy 3.00 



Jonquils and Daffodils 3.00 



Mignonette, fancy, large spikes. 6.00 



Snapdragon, fancy yellow 10.00 



PlumoBus Sprays, Sprengeri.... 3.00 



Strings 50.00 



Smllax 16.00 



Galax per 1000. $1.25 



Ferns per 1000, 2.50 



Adiantum 1.60 



Tulips S.OOto 5.00 



Write or wire for special quotations on large lots. Subject to change without notice. 



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cancy will take place a year from this 

 spring, which will be filled by the St. 

 Louis riorists' Club. 



John Burke reports that he has leased 

 the corner of Sixth and Locust streets 

 for ten years and will open one of the 

 finest stores in the country. 



The Foster Floral Co., at 507 Olive 

 street, will soon have to vacate its 

 store. Fred Foster says that he has 

 now quarters in view near the old stand 

 riud will make known the new place 

 within the next ten days. 



Himmers Bros., out at Meramec 

 Highlands, are cutting thousands of 

 extra quality California violets. Nick 

 Himmers reports that they will build a 

 few new houses this summer. 



E. W. Eastlick, who has established 

 an office here of the Bombayreed Manu- 

 facturing Co., Columbia, S. C, reports 

 quite a number of orders from the local 

 trade and surrounding towns in Illinois 

 and Missouri. 



Mias Newman, at Spring avenue and 

 Olive street, is making a grand show of 

 blooming plants and choice cut flowers. 



Charles Schoenle, on the south side, 

 says that they have not as yet felt 

 Lent. Business has been good in all 

 lines, and it must be so from the 

 amount of stock he buys each morning 

 at the commission houses. 



Walter Retzer, with Mrs. M. M. 

 Ayers, on Grand avenue, is becoming a 

 bowling fan. Walter was high man 

 February 20 out of eight florist bowl- 

 ers. J. J. B. 



New Castle, Ind. — Meyer Heller, of 

 the South Park Floral Co., has been in 

 New York for several days. 



NET YORK. 



The Market. 



Over in Connecticut the papers say the 

 trailing arbutus has already lifted its 

 sweet face above the snow. But that 

 was a week ago and now we have the 

 long, cold winter back again, .the winter 

 prophesied by William Scott and the 

 beavers, and later by the ground-hog, 

 whose prophesy to come true has only 

 two weeks more to run. Saturday it was 

 hugging zero again. Sunday we had a 

 blizzard and all day the snow came down, 

 until there were six inches on the level. 

 Monday streets were impassable and 

 business was at a standstill. Towards 

 evening it moderated, so that the street 

 merchants appeared with their violets 

 and "25 cents a bunch" again was the 

 cry for all the best shipments of Satur- 

 day and Sunday, for on Saturday night 

 there were half a million violets in the 

 boxes of the wholesalers. Scores of 

 thousands were closed out as low as $2 

 a thousand and for the best of the few 

 shipments Monday evening never more 

 than 50 cents was offered. There is not 

 any likelihood of advance from these fig- 

 ures before Easter, which now is only 

 four short weeks away. 



The American Beauty has surely dem- 

 onstrated its place through all the de- 

 pression as the queen of the floral realm. 

 Its price does not retrograde, for of the 

 best stock there is not enough for the 

 demand. Maids and Brides fluctuate in 

 price, top grades holding well at $12 and 

 seldom for the poorest roses in the mar- 

 ket has the cleaning out process taken 

 them below $3. 



Carnations are abundant and never 

 were of better quality. But there are so 

 many that prices have been greatly 

 shaded and $3 to $4 will buy the finest 

 of the new varieties. The bulk of the 

 sales are ma^e at $3 and under. 



There are altogether too many tulips. 

 Never has the market been so completely 

 flooded at this season ; $5 a thousand was 

 the price Saturday for most of them, 

 and $10 for narcissi. Valley in every 

 grade is excessive in quantity and low in 

 price. There are plenty of orchids. 

 Gardenias have been cut in two, but lilies 

 are maintained at last week's prices. 



With clearer and warmer weather this 

 week we look for a great increase in 

 shipments of every kind of stock and we 

 hope business may improve generally. 

 To study the social calendar of the Sun- 

 day journals would indicate an exten- 

 sive crop of events requiring flowers. 

 But the call of Europe and the sunny 

 south is depleting the ranks of the flower 

 buyers rapidly. Many have already gone 

 to France and the Mediterranean voyage 

 is becoming popular. 



The holiday last week hardly caused a 

 ripple in the wholesale sea. A few loyal 

 florists made their windows gay with red, 

 white and blue effects, but the majority 

 evidently forgot that the immortal 

 George had ever lived. 



The Club Dinner. 



The Florists' Club's annual dinner, 

 February 23, was a great success, ex- 

 cept that where there should be 200 at 

 these functions we have to be satisfied 

 with little more than a quarter of that 

 number. The hope of the toast-master 

 that the room and tauies would be dou- 



