The Florists' Review 



Apbil 16, 1914. 



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W« pr«ff«r to be known as the BEST, 



rather than as the LARGEST 



Carnations De Luxe 



Largest blooms, longest stems, best 

 keeping qualities and plenty of them 



We have this year the Roses cat from 100,000 feet of modern, up-to-date 

 greenhouses ; fine stock, sure to satisfy. 



DAISIES ^'^^^^^"'^ 



Yellow 



SWEET PEAS • BULB STOCK - GREENS 



We have a full line of good stock and can take the very best of care of your 

 full order— send you all you need for your spring trade. 



Chicago Carnation Co. 



A. T. PYTER, Manager 30 E. Randolph St., CHICAGO 



Special 6.00 



Short 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



CABNATIONS Per 100 



Eitrttlargrefancy $ 3.00© % 4.00 



KOSES 



Killarner 



While Klllarney. 



KlchmoDd 



Mrs. Ward 



Kxtra specials billed accordingly. 

 Am. Beauties, per doz.$2.00 @ $1.00 

 MISCELLAKEOUS 



Harrlsll, best grade 10.00 @ 



Oallas 10.00© 



Valley 3.00 @ 



violets, New York Double 



violets. Single 



Sweet Peas 76 @ 



Tulips 



Daisies, White 75 @ 



Daisies. Yellow 1.00 @ 



Adlaatum 



Ferns, per 1003 • 



Smllax, perdrzen l.SO @ 



Galax, per 3000 



Asparagus Plumosus. per string... .60 n 

 Asparagus PlumoBus, per bunch... .36 @ 

 Asparagus Sprengerl, per bunch . . .25 @ 

 Mexican Ivy, per 1000 



Subject to market ohangM. 



8.00 

 4.00 



12.00 



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4.00 



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1.60 



3.00 



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2.00 



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4.00 



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.76 



.60 



.60 



6.00 



ready been replanted, twelve of Kll- 

 larney and eight of one-year-old stock 

 American Beauties. 



A contract for one of the largest and 

 finest florists' refrigerators in the state 

 of Iowa has been awarded to Buchbind- 

 er Bros, by the Kemble Floral Co., of 

 Oskaloosa. The contract also covers 

 complete and modern fixtures for an 

 up-to-date store. 



The sodding of the new Federal 

 league ball park, an area of about 

 three acres, is being done by the George 

 Wittbold Co. A small army of men 

 and over 100 teams are at work. 



When the new establishment of H. N. 

 Bruns was completed a lot to the east 

 was left vacant and Mr. Bruns now has 

 his men at work converting it into a 

 small park, filled with boxwood and 

 hay trees. 



The branch store of the George 

 Wittbold Co., 1309 North Clark street, 

 which has been in' charge of Victor 

 Young for the last two years, made a 

 fine showing at Easter. Mr. Young be- 

 lieves in individuality as an advertise- 

 ment. 



One of the visitors at The Review 

 oflice bright and early April 13 was 

 E. J. Coster, proprietor of the Sas- 

 katchewan Greenhouses, Prince Albert, 

 Sask. He said that he obtains most of 

 his supplies from this market and had 

 come down to look the place over. He 

 went to Morton Grove that afternoon. 



A visitor this week is Mrs. Kirby E. 

 Boerstler, of Little Rock, Ark., who is 

 preparing to open a flower store to be 

 known as Kirby 's Palace, at Arcade 10. 



A caller at The Review office April 

 13 was G. A. Dennison, chief of the de- 

 partment of horticulture at the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition. He is on his way 

 home to San Francisco after a visit to 

 the principal trade cities in the east. 

 Six acres of gardens will surround the 

 horticultural palace at the exposition, 

 but Mr. Dennison says it will not suffice 

 for all the garden exhibits. The trade 

 has responded liberally. 



WASHINGTON. 



Tbe Market. 



While the Easter business proved 

 satisfactory, yet it was hardly better 

 than that of 1913. The depression that 

 has been felt since Christmas was ap- 



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parent during the week, regardless of 

 the hustle and bustle within the stores. • 

 The buying seemed to be in the less 

 expensive plants and flowers, the higher 

 grades moving but slowly. One of the 

 biggest surprises was the entire lack 

 of call for snapdragon, which had been 

 nursed into perfection for Easter by 

 many of the growers and which came 

 into the market with 4-foQt and 5-foot 

 stems. Gardenias moved but fairly 

 well until Saturday evening, when they 

 grew in popularity. The ruling price 

 at wholesale was $2, and apparently the 

 cause for the slow moving of these 

 flowers was the fact that they could be 

 had from the street venders at 10 cents 

 each at retail. 



Carnations brought $5 and $6 per 

 hundred, as against $2 and $3, and even 



less, prior to the beginning of the 

 week. Roses sold a{ from $4 to $20, the 

 red roses bringing extremely high 

 prices. 



Various Notes. 



Inquiry among the various florist* 

 proved that all were satisfied. Many 

 found it hard to obtain the large num- 

 ber of additional employees the extra 

 business demanded. Gude Bros. Co. 

 required the services of nearly eighty 

 delivery boys to move the indi- 

 vidual orders, while the greenhouses 

 sent in more than twenty-five men to 

 help the store force. At Kramer's it 

 was impossible to find out how many 

 extra bicycle boys he had. "Too busy 

 to talk," was all that could be obtained 

 from Mr. Kramer. George Shaffer^ 



