Adodst 6, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



17 



Fancy Asters 



BEAUTIES 



We fitill have a big crop of 

 those famous Summer Beauties— 

 enough for all who order early- 

 best you can get. Wire your needs. 



KAISERINS 



Our summer crop of Kaiserins 

 is not less famous than our Beau- 

 ties. If you want the best white 

 roses, order Kaiserins of us. 



GLADIOLI 



Fancy Gladioli in all colors, 

 but our Augusta (white) and 

 America (pink) , are especially fine. 



VALLEY 



You need Valley every day in 

 the year— and we can supply the 

 best in the country. 



LILIES 



Plenty of fine, hard Easter Lilies 

 that will ship well. Also a large 

 crop of big Auratums. 



GREEN GOODS 



Large supply of good Smilax, As- 

 paragus strings and bunches. Best 

 Ferns in the mai^et, $1 per 1000. 



By the hundred, 

 thousand, or ten 

 thousand :: 





We have for years been head- 

 quarters in this market for fancy, 

 high grade Asters. We again 

 are in position to supply the best 

 Asters the season affords, in lots 

 of 100, 1000 or 10,000— all colors. 

 We can take care of any order. 



ALL OTHER STOCK 

 IN SEASON 



We can at any moment supply 

 everything: which is to be had in 

 Chicago. It is our aim -to make 

 our place at all times your most 

 satisfactory source of supply. 

 Write, telegraph or telephone. 



Dviring July and Augpiat we dose 

 at 6 p. m. 



PRICE LIST 



BKADTIKS Per dos. 

 Stama, 34 to S6 lnobM...$3.00 to $8.00 



Steins, 80 Inchos 1.80 



atoms, IS Inches 1.00 



Stems, 18 Inobes 75 



ShortStems 50 to .00 



R08K8 p„ joo 



Kaiserins $S.0u to $8.00 



Brides and Maids.... 8.00to 8.00 



Rlobmond.., 8.00to 6.00 



Klllamey 8.0Oto 8.00 



Chatenay 8.00to 8.00 



nnoleJonn.. S.OOto 8.00 



Roses, our selection 8.00 



CARNATIONS 



Common 1.00 



Larse and fancies S.OOto 8.00 



A8TBR8 



Common SOto 1.00 



Lars* and fancies 1.50to 8.00 



mSCKIXANSOUS 

 GladloU Per doz. 



Fancy America, $1.00 



Fancy Aurusta. . . .50 



Common S5c to 85c 



HarrlsU, dom., $1.50 10.00 



VaUey, fancy......... S.OOto 8.00 



Shasta IHOsles..,,, SOto .75 



DKCORATIVX 

 Aaparaaras....pmrstrlnB, .tsto .50 



Asparaarus. bunches 85 to .75 



Snrencerl per 100, S.OOto 5.00 



G&dax, per 100, ISc; 1000, 1 .00 



FKRN8. ** ISc; " 1.00 



Adlantum per 100, I.OO 



Smllaz... dos., $1.50; too, 10.00 



Boxwood bunch, ' .85 



** perfiaseof SOlbs., 7.50 



Special Stock charared aocordluKly. 



SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHODT NOTICE 



Store open from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m. 



Sundays and Holidays closed at noon 



EX. AM LING 



The Lmrapemt, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrallj Located 

 Wliolesale Cut Flower 

 House in Chicage 



32-34-36 Randolph St, "s.P^^p- Chicago, III. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Cental Market 



The market has been gradually slow- 

 ing down. We are having one of the 

 hottest summers on record, and two weeks 

 of high temperature and no rain have had 

 their effect in several ways. The local de- 

 mand for flowers becomes exceedingly 

 light with the thermometer registering 

 above 90 degrees, and only two things 

 support the market. Most important of 

 these is the shipping demand; the other 

 item is funeral work. The continued heat 

 and drought have affected the outdoor 

 flowers so that the quality of these is 

 poor and it is impossible to realize any- 

 thing but the lowest of prices for them, 

 which makes the volume of sales less 

 than it would otherwise be, for this mar- 

 ket never is so badly off but that there 

 is a sale for strictly flrst-dass stock. 



The Beauty crops are behaving 

 strangely ; they come on quickly and seem 

 to pass off in a day or two. Ordinarily 

 one would be justified in expecting a 

 crop, once on, to. last two or three weeks, 

 but from a (iondition of abondaftt supply 



last week the Beauty market now is short 

 and it is not possible to fill all orders as 

 exactly as would be liked. 



There are increasing supplies of other 

 roses, but Killamey continues to lead the 

 market. Quite a number of houses are 

 cutting fine stuff, the best of it readily 

 commanding as much as 12 cents. Kil- 

 lamey easily has established itself as the 

 best summer rose. Kaiserin leads in 

 white, but is not plentiful. The Brides 

 and Maids from young stock are improv- 

 ing, but no good roses of these varieties 

 are to be expected with the temperature 

 in the shade running for days at a time 

 around 90 degrees. August 3 the official 

 temperature, at the top of the post-office 

 dome, was 96.4 degrees, the warmest day 

 in seven years. 



There are few carnations, for the old 

 stock has practically all been thrown out 

 and the flowers from the field are poor 

 as a result of the drought. Asters are in 

 ample supply, but they are not as good 

 as they would be if we had less heat and 

 more raip. Still, there are asters which 

 sell as high as 3 cents. 



Th« principal glut at present is of 

 gladioli. There are too many of the bet- 



ter grades to bring high prices and of 

 the poorer grades there are many which 

 are not worth express charges. There 

 continue to be large supplies of auratum 

 lilies and adequate receipts of rubrum 

 and album. Considerable quantities of 

 Philippense come in, but not much can 

 be done with them. Comparatively few 

 sweet peas are received, the dry weather 

 having been their finish. 



There is considerable doing in fema 

 and galax, but asparagus strings and 

 smilax go slowly. Several wholesalers 

 have quantities of last year's crop of 

 boxwood eating its head off in cold stor- 

 age. The losff, when they finally dump it, 

 will destroy the profit on what was sold 

 last winter, and the wholesalers are can- 

 celing their orders for this fall 's delivery. 



The Weather in July. 



July was hot and dry. Only 1.45 inches 

 of rain fell, as against a normal precipi- 

 tation of 3.62 inches. There were nine 

 perfectly clear days, eighteen partly 

 cloudy, but only four wholly cloudy. On 

 five days we had 100 per cent of the pos- 

 sible sunshine and on seven others more 

 than ninety-two per cent of all that could 



