June 27, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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AMERICAN BEAITIES 



Our Beauties are easily the best in this market and we 

 believe it will be difficult to find their equal anywhere. 

 They are in every way as good as our famous crop last 

 summer — and most Beauty buyers know what that 



means. 



PEONIES 



The favorite flower in its season. Big show for little 

 money. We have large supplies. White, pink; best 

 sorts, cut right, bunched right, by t^ie oldest and most 

 experienced shipper. No one can give you better satis- 

 faction on Peonies. 



FERNS 



Kaiserins 



We are now receiving daily ship- 

 ments of new ferns of good quality 

 and can supply on all orders. 

 $2.00 per 1000. 



Good crop of fancy Kaiserin, best 

 summer rose. Also heavy cuts 

 of other roses; quality as good 

 as the market affords. 



Sweet Peas VALLEY 



One of our specialties on which 

 no other house can compete, for 

 abundance of supply, high qual- 

 ity of stock, wide range of colors. 



Choice valley always on hand; 

 you can wire us any day in the 

 year and be sure of getting any 

 reasonable quantity by next trains 



PRICE LIST 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



StetnB, 24 to 36 Inches $3.00 to t4 00 



Sterna, 20 Inches 2.00 



Steins, 15 Inches 1 60 



Stems, 12 Inches l.oo 



Short^tems 50 to .75 



ROSES 



Per 100 



Kaiserin |3.00 to 



Bride and Maid 3.00 to 



Klcbmond 3.00 to 



Liberty 8.00 to 



Chatena.v 4.00 to 



Golden Gate 3 00 to 



Koses, our selection 



Carnations, select, common l.oo to 



larg^e and fancy.... 2.00 to 

 Miscellaneona - 

 Peonies, fancy pink and whlto, 

 doz., 50c to 75c 



" common 2.00 to 



Harrisll per doz., $1.60 



Auratum Lilies. ...per doz., 2.00 



Sweet Peas, fancy 50 to 



" " medlutn 26 to 



Valley 2.00 to 



Marguerites 



Daisies 1.00 to 



Decorative 

 Asparagus Piumosus, per string, .35 to 

 " per bunch, .36 to 



Sprengreri per 1 00, 2.00 to 



Galax per 100, lSc:.1000, 



" per cuse of 10 000, 



Ferns per 100, 26c: 1000, 



Adlantum per 100, 



Hmllax per do>., $2.00; 100, 



Box wood bunch. 



Subject to ctaanKe without notice. 



During July and August, store open from 



7 a. m. to 5 p. m. Sundays and holidays 



closed at noon. 



$8.00 

 6 00 

 8.00 

 8.00 

 8 00 

 600 

 3.00 

 1 50 

 3.00 



3.00 

 10.00 



.75 

 .40 



4.00 

 .76 



2.00 



.60 



.76 



600 



1.00 



7.50 



2.00 



1.00 



16.00 



.36 



E. C. AMLING 



The Larffeat, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicago. 



32-34-36 Randolph St 



Lone Diitaaee Telephoaei, 



1978 aad 1977 Ceatral, 



7846 Aatoaatie 



Chicago, 111. 



Mention The Review when .von write. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The week of June 17 to 22 has gone 

 on record as the poorest this market has 

 seen in many months. The demand was 

 light and the supplies of stock some- 

 thing enormous, with the result that only 

 a small part of the daily receipts realized 

 anything like quoted prices and the waste 

 was something sad to contemplate. 



This week shows some change for the 

 better. Many growers have come to 

 realize that such poor stock as their 

 worn out plants are now producing is 

 hardly worth the time it takes to cut it, 

 and that energies might much better be 

 directed toward preparations for next 

 season. The result is that receipts at the 

 first of this week were not more than 

 half what they were for the same period 

 a week ago. Quality is nothing to brag 

 about, except with those growers who 

 are producing stock especially for sum- 

 mer cutting. A number of the big grow- 

 ers now provide for the demand which 

 usually follows throwing out and replant- 

 ing in early summer. These bouses are 

 just coming into crop and the stock is 

 good. It brings fair prices. 



The receipts of Beauties are consid- 

 erably above the market requirements, 



but much of the stock has lost its color 

 through the fierce sun of the last week 

 and many open flowers are going to the 

 sidewalk merchants at their own prices. 

 They do not care to handle other roses 

 in quantity. Outside of some good 

 Kaiserin, Kichmond and Chatenay are 

 the best roses now received, though Kil- 

 larney withstands the heat better than 

 any. 



Good carnations are hard to find. The 

 hot, damp weather lias softened the stock 

 until it goes to sleep at the slightest 

 provocation. Colored sorts are faded 

 badly. There are still' large supplies of 

 carnations, the growers of these seeming 

 not so ready as the rose growers to throw 

 out the old stock. Probably it is be- 

 cause they foresee that young stock will 

 not be ready for benching until later 

 than usual. 



The last week has seen the height of 

 the peony season and naturally has af- 

 fected the market in all departments. 

 Sweet peas are abundant and not so 

 good quality as usual. Most of them 

 still are from un'der glass, but in a few 

 days there will be large receipts of out- 

 door peas. Longiflorum lilies are less 

 plentiful and callas practically out of the 

 market. A few water lilies are received. 

 Valley is abundant, the weddings being 

 practically over. The same factor has 

 lessened the call for green goods. Fancy 



ferns are now abundant and prices down 

 to .$2 per thousand. 



Most of the wholesalers anticipate a 

 stronger market in a few days, but en- 

 courage preparations for next season. 



In accordance with the usual custom, 

 practically all the wholesale houses in 

 the Chicago market will close at 5 p. m. 

 during July and August. 



Peonies. 



The local crop of peonies is practically 

 at an end, having passed off in record 

 time because of the hot weather in the 

 last week. The largest growers say they 

 cut their crop in five days. The peonies 

 now being received are mostly from 

 Minnesota. 



While peonies have been jobbed off at 

 low prices in the last week, the receipts 

 are not so large as had been anticipated. 

 A surprising proportion of the local 

 plants are blind and many of the buds 

 are soft, containing nothing worth cut- 

 ting. While dozens of nurserymen and 

 other growers who have not heretofore 

 shipped to this market, each contributed 

 his quota, still the quantity in cold stor- 

 age this year is not much greater than 

 last season. Booth's storage house re- 

 ports having only one lot in storage. 

 The Western Cold Storage Co. has rather 

 more than ever before. There is fear ex- 

 pressed in certain quarters that the 



