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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 24, 1910. 



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WE HAVE LARGE SUPPLIES OF 



EVERYTHING 



You Need For Easier 



No matter what you need, let us know and we will help you out — Cut Flowers or 

 Supplies — if stock is available in this market we have it. 



Write us for after-Easter quotations on large lots. 



A. L. Randall Co 



Wholesale Florists '^.^^^r* r9-2l Randolph St, Chicago 



Meuuon 'ititi Kcview vvueii yuu write. 



and a good many who order one are 

 likely to get the other, simply because 

 80 many more Killarney now are grown 

 than Maid. 



Fancy carnations were not plentiful 

 at the ' beginning of this week, fancy 

 white being hard to find, and there are 

 those who say the unexpected will happen 

 for Easter and a shortage of carnations 

 will develop. The number of shipping 

 orders already on file indicates a need 

 for immense quantities of stock March 

 24 and 25, and it will be a wise grower 

 who sees to it that every flower he has 

 to ship is in his wholesaler's hands by 

 Friday morning; later shipments than 

 that will be taking chances that the pos- 

 sible shortage turns out to be a repeti- 

 tion of the old story of a glutted market 

 after the shipping orders are out. 



The Easter lily situation begins to 

 take on a little different appearance. 

 The retailers have been so impressed by 

 the prospect of a short supply of first- 

 class lilies that they have been canvass- 

 ing the growers and have bought as pot 

 plants considerable stock that certain 

 wholesalers had been counting on for 

 shipping as cut lilies. It therefore ap- 

 pears that the bulk of the cut lilies of 

 satisfactory length of stem is likely to 

 be found in the hands of not more than 

 four, or even three, wholesalers as the 

 end of the week approaches. With the 

 stock thus held in a few hands, pretty 

 fair prices are likely to be received for 

 it. Those buyers who use principally 

 pot lilies are now appearing in the mar- 

 ket to place orders for cut lilies, indicat- 

 ing that the supply of satisfactory pot 

 stock is pretty well cleaned up. 



There is some decrease in the receipts 

 of bulbous stock, growers apparently 

 planning for Easter, but there is no pos- 

 sibility of any shortage in this depart- 

 ment at any time this week. Violets 

 show the effects of the spring weather. 

 Their season will end within a few days, 

 unless cool weather comes at once. How 

 far spring is advanced is shown by the 

 arrival in quantity of narcissi from 

 southern Illinois, to reinforce last week's 

 shipments from Virginia and Mississippi. 

 These outdoor narcissi have thus far sold 

 well, at from $3 to $7.50 per thousand, 

 with the bulk of the shipments bringing 

 an intermediate figure. 



Sweet peas constitute one of the prin- 



cipal problems of the wholesalers. Sev- 

 eral houses do not hesitate to assert that 

 the value of sweet peas this season is 

 scarcely more than half what it was lasi 

 year. The supply certainly is much 

 greater than it ever before has been. 

 While the fancy, long-stemmed peas are 

 selling first rate, the lower grades are ex- 

 ceedingly hard to move at anything like 

 the money one likes to hand out to his 

 growers. 



For some weeks smilax has been about 

 the only one of the indoor greens that 

 has been in good supply and now even 

 this has turned to the short side. There 

 is an abundance of all hardy greens, but 

 everything grown under glass is in light 

 supply. Wild smilax is not good, the 

 leaves having a brown and dried appear- 

 ance. 



Easter orders, except for lilies, did not 

 come heavily until after last week's 

 Eeview had reached the trade; since 

 then there has been a steady stream of 

 them, Monday morning bringing prob- 

 ably the heaviest mail the wholesale dis- 

 trict ever has received. The bulk of 

 the shipments will go out March 24 and 

 25. Early in the week it appeared that 

 every wholesale house would have all the 

 business its people could handle, with 

 the probability of enough stock in all 

 lines and more need for time than any- 

 thing else. The local people are not or- 

 dering heavily, counting on a market in 

 their favor after the shipping is over. 



Various Notes. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. sent a few roses 

 to the national society's show in New 

 York last week and came &\my with two 

 silver cups, one first prize and one sec- 

 ond, which wasn't so bad for four en- 

 tries. The cups were won on Killarney 

 and White Killarney. 



Andrew McAdams and his bride have 

 returned from California. 



Winterson 's Seed Store is in receipt 

 of 156 cases of European nursery stock. 

 Counter trade already is beginning. 



Carl Thomas, who has spent the winter 

 with the A. L. Randall Co., plans to leave 

 March 27 for his farm at West Spring- 

 field, Pa., where he will remain during 

 the summer. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. is receiving its 

 annual shipments of jonquils from the 

 Spaulding farm at Carbondale, 111. Aft- 



Just Because 



APHINE 



Is not listed in your seeds^ 

 men's 1910 catalogue. It 

 does not necessarily indi- 

 cate that they do not yet 

 handle our new insecticide. 

 In many Instances the 1910 

 catalogues were on the press 

 before the merits of Aphlne 

 became generally known. 



Ask your dealer for 



APHINE 



Then, if you find he can- 

 not supply you | with it, 

 write us for names of our 

 nearest selling agents. . 



$2.60 per g^ailon 

 $1.00 per quart 



Send for Descriptive Circular 



APHINE MANUFACTURING GO. 



Madiaon, New Jersey 



er the bulb stock the peonies are not so 

 very far behind. 



Since the U. S. Express Co. has oper- 

 ated on the C. & E. I there has been 

 complaint of the breaking up of the wild 

 smilax cases. Wholesalers are much dis- 

 satisfied with the condition in which the 

 stock has been arriving. 



C. L. Washburn says he never has seen 

 at this season so heavy a crop of Beau- 

 ties as is on this Easter. 



Kyle & Elperster are now handling 



