Fbbbuaby 27, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



Glass for Greenhouses 



We are prepared to quote on any size and in any quantity, and now is the time if you 

 want to get in on the right prices. All sizes— A and B quality— single and double strength. 



pcpTII |7CpC AH the leading brands at lowest INSECTICIDES ^^ carry your favorite insecticide 

 p)riC6S> mu iii£tiiiii&CuUr6r s pncGS* 



RUBBER HOSE, APRONS, GLAZING MATERIAliS and all other growers' requisites. 



FOR THE RETAILER 



RIBBONS AND CHIFFON 

 CYGAS LEAVES 



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If InC UilOIUIlO wire-work is better than ours. It IfnCIII OIiCIItLO Italian wheat, made up by 



isn't true, nor can anyone make lower prices. skilled people. If you use sheaves you owe it to 



Write us before you order. yourself to get acquainted with our stock. 



We carry the largest line of any house in the West, if not the entire country. By buy- 

 ing for cash in loom lots, we can quote prices lower than jobbers pay who buy less. 



Now is the time to replenish DIDpil DADIf llfADC In a gi^^at variety of shapes 

 your stock. DlnolI'DllnlV If AlfC and sizes. 



A. L. Randall Co 



Wholesale Florists "^Sl^-"' 19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



Mention The Itovlew whep yon write. 



than at this date last year, but that the 

 stock is in specially fine shape. Fred 

 Schramm is using Nieoticide over evapo- 

 rating lamps and helping Kennicott 

 Bros. Co. to push the sale of this fumi- 

 gant. 



C. W. McKellar has placed an order 

 for a new Orr & Lockett ice-box, and 

 will completely rearrange his store. 



At E. C. Amling's it is said the short- 

 age of Beauties will be at an end with- 

 in a fortnight. 



The Alpha Floral Co., Adams street 

 and Wabash avenue, is making a trial 

 of advertising in the Tribune. Febru- 

 ary 22 their advertisement read: "Ex- 

 tra! Extra! They are going fast! 30,- 

 000 carnations, 25 cents per dozen. 10,- 

 000 sweet violets, 15 cents per bunch. 

 50,000 New York violets, 25 cents and 

 50 cents per bunch. Flowers ordered 

 by phone guaranteed to meet your ap- 

 proval. ' ' 



Vaughan & Sperry have put in a line 

 of jardinieres, fern dishes, hanging bas- 

 kets, and similar plant receptacles in 

 several styles of ware. 



Among last week's visitors were J. 

 A. Peterson and Mrs. Peterson, of Cin- 

 cinnati. They had a line of samples 

 of begonias, adiantums, etc., at the Palm- 

 er House. J. A. Peterson, Jr., is with the 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., at Morton Grove. 



Miss Nell W. Sisler, secretary of the 

 E. H. Hunt corporation, has been ill 

 for several days. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market. 



The wholesalers unite in saying there 

 is no change in the market. Prices re- 

 main at the low standard of last week 

 and, with the clear weather and increas- 

 ing shipments, there is little on which to 

 build much encouragement, but Easter 

 is only six short weeks away. The grow- 

 ers who come to town are not cheerful, 

 but they see for themselves and are 

 accepting the inevitable with resigna- 



tion. It has been a hard winter, es- 

 pecially for those with the smaller green- 

 house establishments, most of which 

 make carnations a specialty. 



At the low prices now prevailing, and 

 with the warmer weather, • fortunately 

 everything arriving can be disposed of 

 at some figure, and so retailers and 



The vincas are all sold; the 

 classified adv. was a good invest- 

 ment.— E. A. Mtichow, Clarencet 

 N. Y., Febrtiary 20, 1908. 



Why don't you send the Re- 

 view a classified adv. offering 

 something, no matter what, that 

 you wottid like to turn into cash ? 



the merchants of the pavement, who 

 have been enabled to buy of late at 

 prices never before reached in Febru- 

 ary, have no legitimate complaint. Car- 

 nations still lead the procession in num- 

 bers and depressed values. A year ago 

 they sold at twice and three times pres- 

 ent rates. No one ever saw better stock, 

 nor greater variety, than daily floods the 



New York market. There seems to be 

 no stemming of the tide. Those not 

 sold the day of arrival, go to the street 

 at any price. 



Koses have held up fairly well, con- 

 sidering the cheapness of other stock. 

 The best Beauties have brought 50 cents, 

 and Maids and Brides have commanded 

 8 cents and 10 cents. The supply has 

 not been up to the demand and the 

 street-men have to be contented with 

 carnations, narcissi, valley and violets. 

 Of these there is no end. The southern 

 daffodils are on the way. What shall we 

 do with them? 



Valley is most abundant. Violets 

 seldom go above 40 cents on arrival. 

 Imagine the price when they are scent- 

 less. The street corners are blue with 

 them. 



Washington's birthday gave the mar- 

 ket a slight thrill and brought some 

 sunshine to the wholesale section. Prices^ 

 did not advance, but the boxes werj 

 emptier, and the present week began with 

 a fairly hopeful foundation for improve- 

 ment. 



Great quantities of flowers were used 

 at the funeral of the daughter of Oliver 

 Belmont, and at the Emeral and French 

 balls, the two great opera houses, the 

 numerous theaters, etc., the constant 

 travel to Europe, but all combined failed 

 to create a shortage in last week's 

 enormous receipts. 



Various Notes. 



Handsome decorations are assured, and 

 an interesting program, at the Florists' 

 Club 's annual banquet February 29. This 

 is the last call to dinner. Telephone 

 Chairman Sheridan that you will be 

 there, if you have not already done so. 

 It is the only chance you may ever 

 have to dine February 29 at a New 

 York Florists' Club celebration. 



L. B. Craw, of the Lord & Bumham 

 Co., tells me there is no let-up to the aver- 

 age .and aggregate of greenhouse build- 

 ing. Numerous contracts for the pres- 

 ent season's work give a most encour- 



