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Fbbbuabt 27, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



13 



FLOWERS 



ON COMMISSION 



HS WE handle nothing but 

 Cut Flowers, and greens 

 pertaining to the cut flower 

 trade, we are naturally able 

 to take better care of your or- 

 ders than are those who devote a 

 part of their time, thought and 

 energy to the management of 

 greenhouses or the pushing of 

 other lines as well as cut flowers. 

 We have large supplies in all 

 lines ; quality never was better. 



"The proof of the pudding is in the eating 

 thereof, and not in chewing the string." 



Send us your orders and be 

 convinced. :: :: :: :: :: :: 



PRICE LIST 



AMERICAN BKAUTT 



Long steins 



Stems 36 inches 



Stems 30 inches 



Stems '24 inches 



Stems 20 inches 



Stems 16 inches. 

 Stems 12 inches. 



Per doz. 



$6.00 

 5.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 

 2.50 

 2.00 

 1.50 



Shorts per 100, $6.00 to $8.00 



Per 100 



Bridesmaid $4.00 to $10.00 



Bride 4.00to 10.00 



Chatenay 4.00to 10.00 



Killarney 4.00to 10.00 



Richmond 4.00 to 10.00 



RUHliiS, our selection $4.00 p«r 100 



CABNATIONS Per 100 



Common $1.50 to $2.00 



Select, large and fancies 3.00 



MISCELLANEOUS STOCK 



Violets, New York double .50 



single 50to .75 



Valley, select 3.00to 4.00 



Callas per doz., $1.50 to $2.00 



Harrisii " 1.50 to 2.00 



Mignonette " .50 



SweetPeas 50to 1.00 



Romans 2.00 to 3.00 



Paper Whites 3.00 



Jonquils (Golden Spur or Trumpet).. 3.00 



Daffodils 2.00 to 3.00 



Tulips 3.00 



DECORATIVE 



Asparagus Plumosus per string, .35 to .50 



per bunch, .35 to .75 



Sprengeri per 100, 2.00 to 6.00 



Adiantum " 1.00 



Smilax per doz, $1.50: " 10.00 



Ferns per 1000, 2.00: " .25 



Leucothoe Sprays, " 6.50: ' .75 



Qalax, green and bronze ..per 1000 1.00 



" per case, 10,000 7.50 



Boxwood, per bunch, 35c: per case of 50 lbs., 7.50 



Sabject to obance wlthont notice 



E. C. AMLING 



The Largest, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Liocated 

 Wholesale Cut Mower 

 House in Chicago 



32-34-36 Randolph St., 



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night temperature of 50 to 55 degrees, 

 they should come in nicely for Easter, 

 which comes this year on April 19. If 

 you can count the buds the first week in 

 March, they will flower on time. So 

 much depends on climatic conditions that 

 some allowances must always be made 

 on this account. It is better, hpwever, to 

 get your plants along now, as it is com- 

 paratively easy to retard them when once 

 you can see the buds expanding. 



C. W, 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



It may have been Washington's birth- 

 day, with its dinners, or it may have 

 been some other factor, but at any rate 

 the market enjoyed a fine day's busi- 

 ness February 21, and Saturday also 

 was satisfactory. This was not because 

 of increased prices, but because it was 

 possible to move an immense quantity of 



stock at low rates for all except the 

 choicest. 



The present week opened with one 

 of the dullest Mondays this market ever 

 has known, and Tuesday, as it almost 

 always is, was worse than the day be- 

 fore. There is no price for anything ex- 

 cept roses, and roses are so much more 

 abundant than they have been that values 

 in this department are on the down 

 grade in spite of splendid quality. 



There is naturally much discussion 

 among growers and wholesalers as to 

 the cause of the present condition in the 

 market. Business in nearly every line 

 in Chicago is quiet just now, and some 

 florists assert that the state of the mar- 

 ket shows we are feeling the effect of 

 slow business in general lines; but 

 others say that it is only another case 

 where a general increase in supplies 

 throughout the territory which Chicag* 

 looks to for its business, has resulted in 

 giving Chicago's customers a local sup- 



ply, so that they need not draw upon 

 this market, by which reasoning they 

 account for the falling off in the ship- 

 ping trade. Those who look at the mat- 

 ter in this light .point out that this con- 

 dition has confronted this market regu- 

 larly several times a year and that it 

 may be expected to do so as frequently 

 in the future. At the same time, it 

 usually is only a matter of a couple 

 of weeks before the heavy cuts pass off 

 and the demand springs up again in full 

 force almost in a day. 



At present the supplies of carnations 

 are greatly beyond the possibilities of 

 any legitimate market. The only chance 

 for a clean-up is by cheap sales to the 

 departnqent stores and others who can 

 use large quantities of stock when they 

 can get what they want at their own 

 flgure. The quality of carnations is 

 superb. 



The price of New York violets ranges 

 from 50 cents per hundred to the point 



