Decbmbeb 3, 1908- 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



17 



75,000 Beauty Plants 



Do You Think We Should Be 

 Able to Supply You ? 



We are marketing the cut from 75,0010 Beauty Plants— excellent stock in all lengths 

 — and invite you to order of us. You'll see that we can be depended on to give 

 satisfaction. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: - " 



CARNATIONS 



The country does not show a finer large lot, day after day. Try them, that's all we ask. 



TEA ROSES 



Large supply of fine stock in all varieties. Killarney, Maid, Bride, Richmond, Rhea Reid, 

 Kaiserin, Wm. R. Smith, etc. Order of us and you will be satisfied with every shipment. 



VIOLETS 



We certainly are getting the stock. Our supply of the Cream of the Hudson River 

 Doubles is very large and we have fine Home-grown Singles. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Fine, late varieties in large supply. The kind of stock YOU can do business with. 



VALLEY 



Fancy Valley, always on hand, in 

 quantity. 



LILIES 



A large aop of fine Easter 

 Lilies. 



All Green Goods Constantly On Hand 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BSAUTXS8 Par dos. 



Lone $S.OO 



Stems, SO Inobes 4.00 



8t«ma, S4 Inobes S.OO 



Stems, 80 Inobes 2.00 



Stems, 10 Inobes l.SO 



Stems, 12 Inobes 1.00 



Sbort Stems 100, $0.00 



ROSKS p^f 100 



Kalserlns $4.0utot8.00 



Brides and Ualds 4.00to 8.00 



Rlobmond 4.00to 10.00 



Klllamey 4.00to 10.00 



Roses, our seleotlon 4.00 



CARNATIONS 



Ck>mmon 2.00 



Select, lar are and fancy. S.OO 



CHRTSANTHKMUMS 



Laree and Vancy doz., S.OO 



Medium l.SOto S.OO 



MISCBIXANSOnS Per 100 

 Violets. Fancy N.Y.doublesfl.O** to fl.50 



** Single l.OOto 1.25 



HarrisU dos., $1.50 12.00 



CaUa8,doz.,$1.00to 1.50 



Stevia l.OOto 1.50 



Paper Whites 3.00 



Valley, select S.OO 



** special 4.00 



Sweet Peas 75 to 1.00 



•* •• Extra fancy... 1.50 



DKCORATIVX 

 Asparaa:us....perstrinar, .SSto .50 



Asparasrus, bunobes SSto .75 



BnrenKeri per 100, 2.00 to 6.00 



Galax, per 100, iSo; 1000, l.OO 



nCRNS. " 20o: " 1.50 



Adlantum per 100, .75 to 1.00 



rarleyense ** S.OOtolS.OO 



Smllax... doz., $1.50; 100, 10.00 



BoxT^ood bunob, .S5 



" per case of 50 lbs. , 7.50 



Leucotboe, per 100,75c: per 1000, $0.50 



Special Stock obarKCMl aocordinarly. 



SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHODT NOTICE 



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



Sundays and Holidays closed at noon 



E.C.AML1NG 



The Largest, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut Fbwer 

 House in Chicsfe 



32-34-36 Randolph St, 



Lobs Diitaaee Telepkoflei 



1978 and 1977 Central 



78^6 Antomatlo 



Chicago, III. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



Following Thanksgiving there came a 

 couple of dull days, during which the 

 surplus from Thanksgiving either was 

 cleaned up at midsummer job lot prices 

 or lost altogether. Saturday, however, 

 found the market in much better shape 

 and the hope of returning prosperity was 

 revived. Wholesalers were busy, however, 

 pleading lack of responsibility for the 

 poor shipping quality of the stock sent 

 out at Thanksgiving. Not in a long time 

 has there been so much complaint. The 

 long season of unprecedentedly warm, 

 ■damp weather made everything soft. 

 <Juality the last two weeks has been far 

 below what it usually is at this date. 

 This does not help the man whose carna- 

 tions were asleep and whose roses were 

 mushy when the box was opened, but 

 really the wholesaler was powerless. Na- 

 ture, not the wholesaler or even the 

 grower, controls quality in such cases. 



Monday saw no improvement and it 

 looked like a dull week, not much busi- 



ness and a great deal of poor stock, but 

 Tuesday, December 1, brought the long 

 hoped-for cold weather and things began 

 to take on new life. There was a drop 

 of 40 degrees over night. There is an 

 abundance of everything in the market, 

 but if the seasonable cold weather holds 

 the quality will improve with great rapid- 

 ity, receipts will be reduced and demand 

 will increase. The local supply of chrys- 

 anthemums is passing. There will be 

 mums for a long time yet, but not any- 

 where near so many as in the last month. 

 But what will help the market most is 

 the passing of the mums grown by those 

 who look to this market for a part of 

 their supplies. As soon as these local 

 lots throughout the country are cleaned 

 up the demands on this market will in- 

 crease materially. The reduction in sup- 

 plies of mums has already resulted in an 

 increased price for the small and me- 

 dium sizes. There are still hundreds of 

 bunches of Garza. This little favorite 

 sells well when the supply is light, but 

 when every wholesale bouse has bucket- 

 fuls of it nothing much can be done 

 with it. 



Interest already is beginning to center 

 on Christmas and advance orders are 

 being booked. The buyers of quantities 

 of long Beauties are getting their orders 

 on file, and those who want the choicest 

 roses are speaking early. The market for 

 bouquet green and holly has been stead- 

 ily weakening, which is not a situation 

 that is liked either by those who have 

 taken or given advance orders at a stipu- 

 lated price. Cold weather doubtless will 

 do something to steady the market. 



Thanksgivingf. 



The condition of the wholesale market 

 for Thanksgiving was reported in last 

 week's Review. It need only be said 

 that about the only stock the wholesalers 

 found in active demand was the Beauty 

 rose and the Rhinebeck violet. At first 

 it was impossible to meet all demands for 

 violets, but heavy late shipments were 

 received, some of them in not the best 

 of condition, and the close of business 

 on the holiday found some violfets still on 

 wholesalers' hands. It is worthy of note 

 that retailers whose orders for violets 

 were cut down Wednesday morning, in 



