APBIL 18, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



1679 



ROSES 



Large 8upi)ly of Maids and Brides; excellent quality. Our famous summer 

 crop of Kaiserin is just coming on; first crop now being cut. 



Carnations 



Steadily the best in the market. 



Mignonette 



A special fancy crop now on. 



Sweet Peas 



Our Annual Spring Crop of Special Fancy Sweet Peas is now ready— white 

 and pink. These are specially popular for Spring Weddings and for table 

 center-pieces. 



SMI LAX and Other Greens 



You can get them of us every day in the year. 



FANCY VALLEY ALWAYS ON HAND 



PRICE LIST 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



Stems, 3U to 36 Inches 13.00 to 



Stems, 20 to 24 Inches 2.00 to 



Stems, 13 to 16 inches 1.00 to 



Shorts per 100, 4.00 to 



Bridesmaid " 3.00to 



Bride *' 3.00to 



Chatenay " awto 



Golden Gate " 3.00to 



Richmond " *W*° 



KiUarney " *-55^° 



Perle " 3-OOto 



Carnatloni. select " 2.00 to 



" large and fancy 4.00 to 



Per doz. 



•4.00 

 2.60 

 1.60 

 6.00 



8.00 

 800 

 8.00 

 8.00 

 10.00 

 10.00 

 6.00 



300 

 5.00 



MUcellaneona Stock 



Valley, select " 2.00 to 



Callas per doz. 



Easter Lilies per doz. 1.50 to 



Mlgrnonette per doz. .60 to 



Sweet Peas per 100, .76 to 



Marsruerites " „ 



Jonquils, Daffodils " 3.00to 



Tulips, all colors " 3.00 to 



Green Ooodi 



Asparagus Plumosus, per string, .35 to 

 •> " per bunch, .36 to 



' ' Sprengerl perlOO, 2.00to 



Adiantum '' 



Smllax ^^^PJi- 



Perns per 1000. 13.00; per 100, .-- 



Leuoothoe Sprays, per 1000. $7.60; per 100, 1.00 

 Galax, green and bronze, per 1000, »1-00. 



" " " " per case, 10.000, »7.60 



Boxwood 35c per bunch; $7.60 per case 



Subject to change without notice. 



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



holidays closed at noon. 



4.00 

 1.60 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 1.60 

 1.00 

 400 

 4.00 



.60 



.76 



6.00 



1.00 



3.00 



.80 



E. C. AMLING 



The Largeat, Beat 

 Equipped and Moat 

 Centrally Located 

 >Vholesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicago. 



32-36 Randolph St. 



Long Distance Telephones, 



1978 and 1977 Central, 



7846 Aatomatle 



Chicago, 111 



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CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The Chicago market is known far and 

 wide for its violent fluctuations. "When 

 j)rices are on the topmost pinnacle it 

 often is but a matter of hours until they 

 are at the foot of the toboggan; and 

 last week the ascent was of equal celer- 

 ity. The cool weather following Easter 

 had produced little apparent effect in 

 .size of crops until Thursday, April 11. 

 The next day found receipts reduced at 

 least one-half and it also found most of 

 the wholesale houses with many thousand- 

 lot orders for Friday shipment which it 

 Mas impossible for them to fill. The 

 market was firm in all departments. Top 

 prices did not advance to any marked 

 extent, but there was no longer need of 

 any sacrifice sales, so that average prices 

 received the latter part of the week were 

 a wonderful improvement over those re- 

 corded the first of the week and the 

 preceding week. 



Monday found the market with in- 

 creased supplies of stock and a brisk 

 demand. The telegraph orders made it 

 apparent that the cold weather has short- 

 ened crops everywhere through the Chi- 

 <?ago territory, which means from Pitts- 

 burg to Denver. 



There are abundant supplies of roses 

 of all kinds to take care of the legiti- 

 mate demand. The Beauty market, par- 

 ticularly, is stronger. Monday there was 

 a special demand for long Beauties for 

 use at the council. The quality of all 

 roses is excellent and the demana for 

 shorts for funeral work is enough to 

 keep them well cleaned up. 



The carnation market opened strong 

 Monday, supplies having been reduced 

 much more than in any other depart- 

 ment.. Single violets are gone and the 

 doubles appear to be on their last legs; 

 a few warm days will finish them. Tu- 

 lips, daffodils and jonquils are less 

 abundant. There continue to be plenty 

 of Easter lilies for all requirements, also 

 callas, but the glut of the latter appears 

 to have passed. Sweet peas are wanted 

 and all good ones clean up quickly. Con- 

 siderable quantities of pansies are re- 

 ceived and sell briskly. Small quantities 

 of southern lilac are received, but the 

 stock is poor and does not sell. Green 

 goods continue in first-class demand. 



Demand had slowed down by Wednes- 

 day, as it always does in the middle of 

 the week, but stock was clearing well. 



Qub Meeting. 



The attendance at the meeting of the 

 Florists' Club April 11 was not so large 

 as had been anticipated, but those who 

 stayed away were also losers. 



The Easter business was the theme for 

 discussion. All the retailers agreed it 

 was the biggest Easter on record, all 

 spoke of the increase in the sales of 

 plants and all said bulb stock in pots 

 and pans sold especially well. Louis 

 Wittbold said they carried over a few 

 plants, but cleaned them all up the fol- 

 lowing week. W. L. Palinsky said the 

 only trouble was that all the retailers 

 wanted their stock delivered at the same 

 moment. 



George Asmus said he wanted to put 

 in a knock on the single lily in a pot; 

 that its delivery in any considerable 



number of orders at a busy time is 

 "something fierce'' and that it seldom 

 gives satisfaction to customers, because 

 they will not give water enough to make 

 it open its buds. He strongly urged 

 that retailers push the sale of cut lilies 

 instead of the single plant in a pot, as 

 affording better satisfaction to all con- 

 cerned. He gave it as his opinion that 

 the Crimson Eambler has had its day, 

 stating that every retailer who bought 

 it in any quantity for Easter had some 

 left. He urged a greater variety of 

 stock. Louis Wittbold said his firm has 

 tried a great variety of stock, but has 

 thus far failed to find anything which 

 would pay, either in a wholesale or re- 

 tail way, for the attention diverted from 

 the staples. 



P. J, Hauswirth gave an account of 

 his recent trip to Philadelphia, New 

 York and the Washington rose show. 

 One item of information not heretofore 

 published was that M. H. Walsh paid 

 $195 express charges from Woods Hole, 

 Mass.. to Washington on his exhibit. 

 The Kose Society meets in Chicago next 

 March. Mr. Hauswirth spoke of the 

 variegated bougainvillea, Ficus pan- 

 durata and gardenias with fifteen to 

 twenty buds selling at $1.25 and $1.50 

 as among the good plants he saw at 

 Philadelphia. 



A discussion as to how the club may 

 have a voice in the management of the 

 new small parks caused E. C. Aniling 

 to bring up the subject of securing 

 greater publicity for the cut flower in- 

 terests. Various methods of getting into 

 the newspapers with helpful suggestions 

 to flower buyers were talked over. Some- 

 thing definite and of value to every re- 



