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The Weekly Florist?^ Review* 



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KILLARNEY 





We have a grower who is cutting a splendid crop of Killamey. You can order these with the certainty that yon 

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Wholesale Florists -f^l^^^itr |9-2I Randolph St., Chicago 



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CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Convention week is always one of the 

 quietest of the year; not only are many 

 of the buyers and ^grholesalers away from 

 home, but it is approaching the turn of 

 the tide, and the K)ld saying is that it 

 always is darkest just before dawn. The 

 wholesalers all are looking for fine busi- 

 ness this autumn, %ith trade beginning 

 to pick up September 1. 



In spite of the ^og days, those houses 

 which make a feature of summer stock 

 are doing a good business. There is an 

 excellent demand for good roses, and 

 carnations, or astez^, if of good quality, 

 find ready sale. Also, lilies are selling 

 steadily. In certain quarters it is de- 

 cidedly quiet, because there is nothing 

 to do business witb^ but the houses that 

 looked forward for summer business 

 have not been disappointed. The ship- 

 ping demand continues better than local 

 trade. , 



There are slightly increased supplies 

 of roses, a fact which probably may be re- 

 corded in each issue for the next several 

 weeks. The cut ftom young stock does 

 not amount to mikch as yet, and what 

 Beauties are received hardly suffice to 

 meet the orders already booked; it is 

 not easy to fill on late telegrams. Nor 

 is it possible to nil all orders for Kil- 

 larney, although the supply is increasing. 

 This rose has so -thuch the best of the 

 demand that it usually is sold out early. 



There is still a good call for asters, 

 although last week's rain did much to 

 improve the cut and prices are lower, 

 particularly on th^ poorer grades, which 

 were commanding figures considerably 

 above their real value. There are now 

 considerable quantities of field-grown car- 

 nations, of coursd short in stem, but 

 otherwise of good quality and selling 

 well. Indoor carnations are not often 

 seen. 



Qladioli are largely used for window 

 decorations, and the light colors in 

 funeral work, but asters and lilies are 

 the standby of the design-maker. Au- 

 ratums are about through, but there is 

 an abundant supply of Easter lilies, pro- 

 viding enough time is given to get the 

 stock in from the greenhouses. There is 

 little stirring in the market for green 

 goods. 



Profited by Early Purchases. 



The two advances recently made in 

 the price of window glass put that com- 

 modity back almost to where it was be- 

 fore the financial upheaval, and Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Oo. i« a good, big winner 



through having bought nearly 5,000 

 boxes of glass when prices were at the 

 bottom. 



The new range, which has been under 

 contemplation for several months, will go 

 up in September and will require about 

 4,800 boxes of glass. There are to be 

 thirteen houses 27x350, nine houses 27x 

 250 and one house 18x265, making a 

 total of twenty-three houses, covering 

 over 188,000 square feet of ground. 



The Rain. 



The rain August 11 and 12 was of 

 inestimable benefit. It not only gave 

 the aster crop a fresh start, but it 

 made a lot of money for the carnation 

 growers who have plants in the field. 

 In addition, it put renewed life into al- 

 most all lines of business. 



In twenty-four hours the precipitation 

 was 4.35 inches, which is the heaviest 

 day's rain recorded in Chicago since 

 August 3, 1885. It followed ten weeks 

 of drought. 



Varioot Notes. 



The Parkside Greenhouses, at the cor- 

 ner of Seventieth street and Adams ave- 

 nue, not far from Oakwoods cemetery, 

 seem to be getting a fair share of the 

 midsummer retail trade. Mr. Collins, 

 the proprietor, began business there 

 seven years ago, renting the establish- 

 ment for five years. At the expiration 

 of the five-year lease he purchased the 

 property, including nearly an acre of 

 ground. At present he has two houses 

 in ferns and palms, one house in chry- 

 santhemums and one in carnations, be- 

 sides a good quantity of bedding stock. 



The membership list of the Chicago 

 Association of Commerce, under the 

 head of florists shows only two names, 

 those of Percy Jones and John Man- 

 gel, but E. H. Hunt is found included 

 among the seedsmen. The association is 

 doing good work in advertising Chi- 

 cago, "the great central market." 



Peter Beinberg will have no carnations 

 at the home p&ce this year, the new 

 range of houses on the farm being de- 

 voted exclusively to this flower. At the 

 home place practically the entire estab- 

 lishment will be in roses, except for a 

 little asparagus and space for valley, 

 Easter Ulies, etc. 



The Schillo Lumber Co. says this is 

 an excellent opportunity for growers to 

 buy pecky cypress, not only for their 

 needs the balance of this season, but 

 for next year. The price is lower than 

 it has been in two years, and it is 

 likely to advance with the return of ac- 

 tivity in general business. 



Convention 



There is a daily convention at oar 



J >lace— attended by every standard 

 orm and size of Wire Design. We 

 offer special prices on all orders 

 for quantities booked in August — 

 delivery now or later. 



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A.L.RandalICo. 



Cblcaso's Mall Order Supply Houm 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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C. L. Washburn said' at Niagara Falls 

 on Wednesday that he had met with re- 

 markable sales of the O. P. Bassett car- 

 nation. Total sales are 85,000. Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co: has taken 5,000. 



There was a large attendance at the 

 golden wedding celebration of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Gottfried Amling August 14, all 

 the children, grandchildren and great- 

 grandchildren being present. One son 

 came from Berlin, Germany, and a 

 daughter from Orange, Cal. The daily 

 papers gave the affair extended notice 

 because of the fact that the worthy 

 couple have lived for the entire fifty 

 years almost in sight of the place where 

 they were married. Quite a few trade 

 friends of the sons, who are florists, at- 

 tended the reception. 



C. L. W. Snyder, of the El Paso Car- 

 nation Co., El Paso, 111., was in Chicago 

 this week, buying supplies for the new 

 store recently opened by the company at 

 Clinton. 



Louis Wittbold was one of the first of 

 the Chicagoans to start for the conven- 

 tion. He left Thursday, August 13. 



Emil Buettner, at Park Bidge, is 

 equipping some more of his boilers with 

 the Martin rocking grates. 



E. T. Waazer, at Wheaton, wants to 

 interest the large growers around Chi- 

 cago in the fair at Wheaton August 25 

 to 29. It is called a country fair and 

 takes in everybody, even the city grow- 

 ers. There will be a large attendance. 



H, F. Port, of Maywood, has been the 

 subject of attention by the daily papers 

 this week because he was given a pass 

 back to New Mexico at the intercession 

 of James S. Harlan, member of the In- 



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