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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



FXBBUABT 6, 1908. 



. Co. 



OrriCE AND SSLESROON, 33-3S-37 RANDOLPH STREET 



nSSSr^"" CHICaOO, ILL. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR 



Fancy Carnations^Special Roses 



LONG BEAUTIES 



If you want the Best stock the market affords, you will order of us. Also strong on regular grades 

 of Roses, Lilies, Narcissi, Romans, Jonquils, Tulips, Fancy Valley, Stevia, and all Qreen Qoods. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



Extra select, long $5.00 



SO-lnch, select 4.00 



24-lnch, select 8.00 



20-inch, select 2.50 



15 to 18-inch, select 81.50 to 2.00 



12-inch, select 1.00 



Sbortstem .75 



ROSES Per 100 



Maid, Bride, select $10.00 to $12.00 



medium 8.00 



" short 6.00 



Uncle John, select 8.00to 10.00 



" firsts 8.00 



*' medium 6.00 



Mrs. Potter Palmer, ex. select. 12.00 



select 10.00 



firsts 8.00 



medium... 6.00 



Chatenay, select 10.00 



firsts 8.00 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



Chatenay, medium 



Richmond, select, extra long.. 



long $12, 



" medium 8 



" good short 



Killarney, select, extra long... 



I' long 12. 



medium 8 



good short... 



Sunrise, Perle, long 



Good short stem Roses, our sel. 



CARNATIONS 



Ex. f cy Ench'tr's,red & white 

 First ^ality, Lawson & white 

 Split and ordinary 1. 



Harrisii 



Freesia, fancy long 



Tulips 3 



Narcissus Paper White 



Per 100 



$ 6.00 



18.00 



00 to 15.00 



Goto 10.00 



6.00 



18.00 



00 to 15.00 



00 to 10.00 



6.00 



6.00 



4.00 



50 to 



.00 to 



4.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 15.00 

 4.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 



Romans . 



Per 100 

 $ 3.00 



Jonquils $3.00 to 



Daffodils 8.00 to 



Valley 3.00 to 



Violets 75 to 



Mignonette, large spikes 



Stevia 



Adiantum 



Adiantom Croweanum, fancy.. 



Smilax 



Sprengeri, Plumosus Sprays ... 3.00 to 

 Plumosus Strings... each, $0.50 



Perns per 1000, 2.00 



Oalax, Green per 1000, 1.50 



Bronze ...per 1000, 1.50 



Leucothoe 



Boxwood 35c bunch; case, 50 lbs.. 



Wild Smilax per case. 



4.00 

 4.00 

 4.00 

 1.00 

 8.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 2.00 

 16.00 

 4.00 



1.00 

 7.50 

 5.00 



Our Extra Special Grade of Roses cbarsed accordingly. 



Subject to cbanee without notice 



Mention The Review when you write. 



there being a good quantity of funeral 

 work and a few weddings. The whole- 

 sale call for valley has been rather light, 

 but is improving. 



Tuesday evening, February 4, the Chi- 

 cago Eailway Equipment Co. celebrated 

 its fifteenth anniversary with a banquet 

 at the rooms of the Union League Club. 

 For this banquet J. F. Kidwell & Bro. 

 furnished an elaborate table decoration, 

 twelve feet in width, made entirely of 

 boxwood and red and white carnations, 

 and in general design resembling a wheel 

 without a rim. The six large 'spokes, or 

 radii, represented the six cities in which 

 the company transacts business. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



The cut flower business, as reported 

 in both wholesale and retail circles, was 

 good last week. The wholesalers say 

 they had plenty of stock in all lines 

 except white roses. These were much 

 in demand and scarce. The retailers all 

 had plenty of funeral work all through 

 the week, but in other lines there is not 

 anything of note going on. McKinley 

 day used up a great many pink carna- 

 tions, especially among the downtown 

 ■tores. 



At the wholesale houses February 3 

 there were plenty of American Beauties, 

 but for all other roses there is a large 

 demand and only few to be had. Carna- 

 tions of the colored varieties are plenti- 

 ful, but white is selling out clean, there 

 being a large demand. Violets are not 

 overplentiful and have gone up a few 

 cents in price. Bulbous stock in all 



lines is enough to go around; stock of 

 good quality. Tulips are selling fine. 

 All greens, too, have had a good call 

 all last week. 



Various Notei. 



Adolph Fehr, A. S. Halstead and 

 Henry Emmons, of Belleville, were call- 

 ers last week, buying suppUes, and all 

 report trade good. They will attend 

 our club's carnation meeting February 

 13. 



One of the features of the charity 

 play at the Odeon last week was a large 

 basket at the door, in which those who 

 attended the entertainment dropped cut 

 flowers on entering. The flowers were 

 sent to the different hospitals the next 

 day. 



C. A. Kuehn received large consign- 

 ments of carnations Wednesday, January 

 29, McKinley day. These were of extra 

 fine quality and brought good prices and 

 filled a large lot of advance orders. 



The Riessen Floral Co., Foster, Burk 

 and Siegel, downtown florists, report a 

 big run on pink carnations last week, 

 Wednesday, McKinley day. Other work, 

 too, has been good of late. Young & 

 Sons Co. and Ostertag Bros, were much 

 pleased with business done last week. 



Fred Ammann, of Edwardsville, is 

 cutting some extra fine quality of roses. 

 These include Richmond, Ivory and Kil- 

 larney, He will have his usual fine 

 Easter lilies this year. 



W. C. Smith & Co. are still receiving 

 the greatest number of violets that come 

 to this market and an extra good sup- 

 ply of carnations and bulbous stock. 



Secretary Bentzen, of the Florists' 

 Club, reports that he received a large 

 number of replies from carnation grow- 



ers that they will send their new va- 

 rieties to the club's carnation meeting 

 Thursday afternoon, February 13. As 

 none of our local carnation growers at- 

 tended the carnation meeting at Wash- 

 ington, they will come out in full force 

 to see the new varieties on exhibition. 

 As this is to be an open meeting, non- 

 members are invited to attend. Presi- 

 dent Young and the trustees are mak- 

 ing special efforts to make this the ban- 

 ner meeting of the club. All the special 

 features that will come up at this meet- 

 ing will be of great importance to all 

 the members. 



The death of Charles Flunker is re- 

 ported in the obituary column this week. 



Visitor: B. Eschner, of M. Rice & 

 Co., Philadelphia. J. J. B. 



NEW YORK. 



TheMaricet 



Zero weather in New York! The 

 change was a sudden one. From spring 

 temperature to a blizzard in an hour, 

 then from zero, in forty-eight hours, 

 to a furious rain storm, and now close 

 to the low record. The week begins 

 with the prospects of continued cold 

 and clear weather, the first real touch 

 of winter of the entire season to date. 



Roses are not plentiful. The demand 

 is quite equal to the supply and prices 

 are firm, with a rising tendency. Espec- 

 ially was this evident early this week in 

 the No. 1 and No. 2 Maids and Brides, 

 for which the prices realized were quite 

 satisfactory. Every variety of rose reach- 

 ing the market found ready purchasers. 

 The best Beauties were snapped up 

 promptly at 60 cents to 75 cents. The 



