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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febkdary 3, 1910. 



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Hunrs is the Place 



Violets are special with no. We have the finest Home Grown and 

 Eastern in the market. Valentine Day is coming. How many are you 

 going to need? How about Boxes, Ribbons and Pins? We have the 

 former in all shapea, alao the latest styles in Ribbons and Pins. 



Supply this week is somewhat increased, though quite a shortage in 

 Jonquils and Daffs. Tulips, however, are plentiful. Yellow has the call. 

 We can supply anything to be had on this market. 



E. H. HUNT 



Established 1878. OMest Hmmc la the West Isoorporatcd 190S 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. 



- BBAVTOEB Per doi. 



SOtoSe-Inoh $8.00 to 95 00 



MtolO-lnob 2.00to 2.G0 



18to20-lDCta 1.60 to 2.00 



13tol6-lach 1.36 to 1.60 



StoU-inch 75to 1.00 



R08K8 (T«M) Per 10* 



Bride and Maid 16.00 tollO.OO 



Bichmond, KlUamey e.OOto 1200 



White KUlarney 6.Mto i2.«l 



My Maryland e.OOto 12.00 



Perle 6.00to 8.00 



Roiei, our lelectioii 4.00 



OAKN ATIONS, medlmn 2.00 



fancy 8.00 



" extra fancy.. 4.00 



mSCKIJLAMKOUS 



HarrialiUliea 16.00 



VaUey S.OOto 6.00 



VIoletB 76to 100 



Paper Whites 8.00 



Romans 3.00 



Jonquils S.OOto 6.00 



Mlmonette 4.00to 8.00 



Sweet Peas 76to 1.00 



OaUas 15.00 



GBBBNS 



BmOazStrlnn perdoi., 1.60to XOO 



Aipararoa Stnngrs each, .60to .00 



▲aparagtu Bunchei .S6m M 



BpreDiceri BoBctaea .86to W 



▲diantam perlOO, .76to 1.00 



Ferns, Ooinmon per 1000, 2.00 



Galax 1.00 



Lencothoe .76 



Boxwood n>., 26c 



WUdSmilaz t2.60, SS.60 and 4.60 



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white and Killarney have been entirely 

 cleaned out for the day. 



Last week there was an excellent busi- 

 ness on carnations. Nobody made any 

 eflfort to feature McKinley day, but there 

 were nevertheless some nice orders re- 

 ceived on this account, for buyers had 

 found they could get good stock at mod- 

 erate prices. At the end of the week car- 

 nation values firmed up and the beginning 

 of this week found a light supply and a 

 stiff market. It is unfortunate that the 

 market should fluctuate as it has the last 

 couple of weeks. No sooner do the buy- 

 ers become aware of the fact that there 

 is a good supply at prices they can afford 

 to pay than the market stiffens up and 

 they find they are charged higher rates 

 than they expected. The result is to bring 

 in kicks and to shut out orders, where- 

 upon the market falls back to a point 

 lower than where it started. The quality 

 of carnations has been considerably im- 

 proved by a few days of bright weather. 

 During the long month of dark days the 

 carnations became soft, and many were 

 the protests at the quality of stock 

 shipped; with bright, crisp weather, we 

 are getting bright, crisp stock, the kind 

 that ships well. 



Tulips are now in good supply, running 

 the whole range of colors and with stems 

 of usable length. There is an increased 

 supply of callas, and Easter lilies once 

 more are abundant. Not so many Paper 

 Whites are seen, and freesia is not over- 

 plentiful. Jonquils, on which many 

 growers scored a failure with their 

 earliest lots, are now giving better re- 

 sults and are more abundant; there also 

 are a few daffodils, and both jonquils and 

 daffodils sell well. Valley meets with a 

 steady demand and some splendid stock is 

 seen. Sweet peas are not increasing in 

 quantity as rapidly as was expected, prob- 

 ably because of the unfavorable weather 

 through January, but some good, long- 

 stemmed stock is now offered in moderate 

 quantities. Orchids are in good supply 

 once more, but prices are well maintained. 

 White lilac sells well. 



The outdoor hardy greens are in heavy 

 supply and the price of ferns has been 

 cut at a time when it usually is advanc- 

 ing. Indoor greens are not in large sup- 

 ply. 



Wilson's Corsage - Bouquet Holder 



Award ot "Hlcbly Conunended" at the 8. A. F. Trade 

 Kxliibltlon at Cincinnati 



Holds Corsage-Bouquets securely and gracefully. 



Prevents damage to apparel. 



Adjustable to any diameter of bouquet stem. 



Adaptable to anything from Violets to Roses. 



Does away with corsage pins. 



A handsomely silver plated article and ornamental in itsdf. 



Samples to the trade, 25o each, by mail postage paid. By 

 tbe dozen, $8.00, postage paid. Oorrespondence solicited. 



Address 



ROBERT 6. WILSON, 



Fulton St. and 

 Qreene Ave., 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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January Business. 



On the whole, January made an excel- 

 lent record in this market. The first part 

 of the month the supply was unusually 

 large and prices unseasonably low, but 

 after ten days the reverse of the situation 

 became true; supplies shortened more 

 suddenly than often is the case, and 

 prices advanced abruptly. After a week 

 of famine, cuts increased and prices fell, 

 the change affecting carnations more than 

 roses, which latter were higher in price 

 than usual for the balance of the month. 

 In the aggregate the market seems to 

 have done more business in January than 

 in the same month a year ago, but it is 

 open to question if the increase was what 

 the increase in glass area was. 



January W^eather. 



January was a dark month, unfavor- 

 able for cut flower production, there be- 

 ing only thirty-four per cent of the pos- 

 sible amount of sunshine. It was not a 

 cold month, but the wind movement aver- 

 aged sixteen miles per hour and increased 

 coal consumption. The snowfall was 14.8 

 inches, there being only five clear days, 

 sixty partly cloudy and twenty that were 

 cloudy. 



Various Notes. 



J. A. Valentine was in Chicago for sev- 

 eral days this week on his way home 

 from Pittsburg. 



Klehm's Nursery has been sending 

 Novelty tulips to Kennicott Bros. Co. for 



The Public 

 Aphine Tests 



Held in New York in December, 

 and in Boston in January, have 

 given Buch satisfactory resnlts to 

 themannfactarersof Aphine, that 

 another test will be held in Phil- 

 adelphia on Lincoln's birthday, 

 February 12th, 1910. 



Further particulars in next 

 week's issue. 



If you are not familiar with the 

 new insecticide discovery, APHINE, 

 send for descriptive circular. 



If your supply house does not 

 yet handle APHINE, write us for 

 names of nearest selling agents. 



Aphine Manufacturing Co. 



Madison, N. J. 



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 writing advertisers. 



