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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 19, 1008. 



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BEAITIES 



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Tea Roses 



More plentiful and there has been quite a falling off in price. Brides 

 and Maids never better. Richmond in good cut and quality all that 

 can be asked. Other roses plentiful. 



Carnations 



In full crop and quality fine. In fact, at no time have we had such 

 elegant stock and so much of it. All other cut stock and Green Goods 

 in large supply. 



Send US an order and you'll come ag^ain 



E. H. HUNT 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. 



KstaliUslied 1878 



Lonsr Distance Pbone Central 1751 



Current Prices 



BEAUTIES Per doz. 



80to86-iDCb $4.00 



21to30-iDCh $2.00tO 3.00 



16to20-lnch 1.60to 2.00 



8tol2-incb 75to 1.00 



Shorts .75 



ROSES (Teas) Per 100 



Bride and Maid $..6.00 to9 8.00 



Richmond.... 6.00to 8.00 



Killamey 6.00to 8.00 



Perle 4.00to 6.00 



Roses, our selection 8.00 



CARNATIONS, medium l.SOto 2.00 



" fancy 2.00to 3.00 



MISCEL,I.ANEOUS 



Violets, double 60 to .75 



Bingrle 60to .75 



Harrisil Lilies 1200to 16.00 



Oallas lO.OOto 12.00 



Valley 3.00to 4.00 



Tulips 3.00 



Paper Whites 8.00 



Romans 3.00 



SweetPeas 60to .75 



GREENS 



Smilax Strings per doz., 1.60 



Asparagus Strings each, .40 to .50 



Asparagus Bunches " .85 to .50 



Sprengerl Bunches " .85 



Adiantum per 100, I.OO 



Perns, Fancy per 1000, 2.00 



Galax, Green " I.OO 



" Bronze " 1.00 



Boxwood 25c per lb.; 100 lbs., 16.00 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



carnations were ordered and delivered 

 Sunday and Monday for St. Patrick's 

 day, to be dyed green. This in itself 

 took a big load from the market and re- 

 lieved the glut so far as carnations were 

 concerned. It remains to be seen 

 whether conditions will be permanently 

 benefited. Growers claim that the cli- 

 max has been reached and that this week 

 will see business return to the normal. 

 It is to be hoped that these predictions 

 are correct. 



Michigan growers have been sending 

 large consignments of flowers to this 

 market and I am afraid that the re- 

 turns will not be very satisfactory, but 

 I suppose that they have been having as 

 dull business as we have and so will 

 understand. 



Various Notes. 



Wm. Murphy has moved his family 

 from their residence at Murphyville and 

 is now located on Wells street, Price 

 Hill. In the future Mr. Murphy will 

 devote his entire time to his commission 

 house, while his son and son-in-law will 

 look after the growing end, they having 

 rented the greenhouses. 



L. F. Benson left March 17 for the 

 southwest, where he expects to locate in 

 the future. He is making the move in 

 the hope of improving his health. 



Herbert Heller, of New Castle, Ind., 

 is receiving the congratulations of the 

 craft in this city. It's a boy and all of 

 us are sending our best wishes. 



Miss H. Van Meter, of Springfield, 

 O., was a caller, as also was J. T. Her- 

 degen, of Aurora, Ind. C. J. Ohmer. 



everyone of them will wear, I hope, a 

 green carnation, not that I approve of 

 the fashion or believe in coloring the 

 beauties of nature, but anything is wel- 

 come that will relieve the overstocked 

 market, and the sons of old Erin will 

 certainly make the white carnation sur- 

 plus look green. The shamrock is in 

 every retail window, from the tiny plants 

 in 2-inch pots upward, and the demand 

 for them has already demonstrated where 



NEVYORK. 



The Market. 



Gentle spring arrived this year on 

 an early train and all prophesies of 

 continued cold seem smashed into smith- 

 ereens. It is appropriate that I use 

 this word, writing on Monday, for Tues- 

 day is St. Patrick's day. There will 

 be 50,000 Irishmen in the parade and 



Please discontinue my classified 

 advertisement in 



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offering geranitun cuttings. With the 

 same mail that brought me the paper 

 came orders for 5,000 plants. 



HARVEY B. SNOV, 

 March 14, 1908. Camden, N. Y. 



all the emigrants from the old sod 

 have located and why New York will 

 use more of the tokens of sentiment 

 80 dear to the Irish heart than all the 

 rest of the country put together. 



Boses began to fall early last week, 

 but nAW we may expect the .present 

 range of values to hold until Easter. 

 Beauties fell to 20 cents for the best 

 the last of the week, and all roses joined 

 the procession. Carnations are already 



at summer prices, and violets are even 

 lower for the fresh arrivals than seemed 

 cheap for the second day leftovers of a 

 year or two ago. Thousands go at 25 

 cents per hundred on arrival. Imagine 

 where they fall when turned over to 

 the gentry of the streets for distribu- 

 tion. There is nothing now the street 

 merchants do not handle, except orchids 

 and gardenias. 



Spring flowers of every kind are here. 

 The windows are already entrancing with 

 these combinations and Easter plants 

 of every kind are arriving, the advance 

 guard of the largest and finest assort- 

 ment the growers have ever prepared 

 for the holiday season. 



Variotis Notes. 



It was a preliminary certificate and 

 not a certificate of merit awarded An- 

 ton Schultheis at the last meeting of 

 the New York Florists' Club for his ex- 

 hibit of the new Baby Rambler rose, 

 Apple Blossom. 



Members of the New York Florists' 

 Clttb /will be delighted to hear that their 

 old home, in the Grand Opera House 

 building on Twenty-third street, has been 

 secured for the club's future meetings 

 and that the next session, Monday, April 

 13, will be held there. There should be 

 a grand congratulatory reunion on that 

 occasion and a splendid exhibition. Ca- 

 terer Will Rickards expects to throw 

 himself for the celebration. 



St. Patrick's day was celebrated this 

 week by the veteran salesman, William 

 Elliott, and by the Cleary Horticultural 

 Co., in the first auction sales of the sea- 

 son. Hardy roses, bulbs, nursery stock, 

 shrubbery, all were under the hammer, 

 with an encouraging attendance, the 

 weather bringing out the suburbanites 

 in anxious anticipation of early plant- 

 ing. Every Tuesday and Friday these 

 clarion voices will ring out until June. 



The latest sensation is a projected 

 floricultural retail association, which, 

 rumor says, is to have branches in all 

 the large cities of the country, with a 

 noted Broadway florist at its head. In 



