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The Weekly Florists^ Review* mabch 31. mo. 



K ILLARNE Y 



We are right in the middle of the largest and finest crop of Killarney of the season 

 — splendid heads on any length of stem you say. Can supply the largest orders. $3.00 

 to $8.00 per 100 — grand values. 



CARNATIONS— CARNATIONS 



A reallj enormous supply. They come, but they go, for we are known as Carnation headquarters; 

 we can furnish any quantity any day. Write for prices on lots of 1000 to 10,000 and up. 



( ALL OTHER STOCK IN SEASON IN LARGE SUPPLY. 



Anything you need in supplieB— Bee our catalogue or write ub. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone CcatrAl 1496 



PrlTftte EzeluuiKe aU 



Deputmeots 



Mention The Review when you write. 



that nothing remained but to fee the 

 garbage man. The same was more or 

 less true of violets. Pearly in the week 

 the Hudson river stock was in fair shape, 

 but after the hot wave struck, extremely 

 few violets were of satisfactory quality. 

 The locally grown daffodils and jonquils 

 also showed the effect of the hot weather 

 in their keeping quality, while the south- 

 ern stock in many cases withered in 

 transit. In one instance 110,000 south- 

 ern jonquils were dumped on arrival. 

 These are merely instances of what 80 

 degrees in the shade will do to the flower 

 business in March. Another phase of the 

 situation is the large number of claims 

 for rebate which have since been made 

 on the wholesalers. It simply was an im- 

 possibility that stock should travel as 

 well as it would have done with normal 

 temperatures, which would have meant 

 frost every night last week instead of a 

 minimum around 60 degrees. Many a 

 letter has reached the market this week 

 reporting: "You always have sent me 

 good stock, but this time you failed me. ' ' 

 Some of them put it a lot stronger than 

 that. But the fact is the wholesaler was 

 in no way responsible. The weather did 

 it; nothing else. 



"With such an enormous supply and 

 such a tremendous volume of sales, there 

 is hardly anything which can be said of 

 the market conditions which did not have 

 its exception in one or more houses. 

 Summing up the situation briefly, it is 

 something like this: 



There was an abundance of stock in 

 every line. Lilies sufficed to meet every 

 demand and there were a few which 

 were carried over to this week. Prices 

 held up quite well until Saturday after- 

 noon, when it became apparent that 

 there would be difficulty in clearing out. 

 Saturday evening and Sunday morning 

 the street salesmen were offering lilies 

 on the curb at 10 cents per flower. 



Boses of all varieties, including Beau- 

 ties, proved excessively overabundant; 

 the hot weather increased the supply to 

 such an extent that some houses say they 

 had twice as many roses as they ex- 



Hunt's Spiked Cemetery Vise 



Heautiful, clear, 

 crystal Rlass, heavy, to 

 withstand hardusai^e; 

 I Si inches diameter 

 and 'J inches deep, in- 

 side measure. The 

 finest article ever put 

 on the market. A fine 

 seller in spring and 

 summer. 



Each tO.iO 



Doz 1.40 



5 doz. (1 barrel). 6.25 



White Enamel Lawn 



-OR- 



Cemetery Vase. 



Made of heavy t i ii 

 sheetinsr, enameled 

 white, very attractive. 



No. 1. height. 6%-in.; 

 diameter, 4 '4-ln.; each, 

 20c; doz. $2.00. 



No. 2. height. Gk-in.; 

 diameter, 3>«-in. ; each, 

 15c: doz., $1.00. 



E. H. HUNT 



76-78 Wabash AfC 



CHICAGO 



pected. It is seldom at a holiday that 

 the supply in any line becomes so heavy 

 that it depresses prices until after the 

 big rush of shipping trade is out, but 

 this time the rose supply was so heavy 

 that the wholesalers in practically every 

 instance gave the out-of-town buyers the 

 benefit right from the start. The man 

 who ordered G-cent roses was charged 6 

 cents, but he got the roses that the whole- 

 saler had expected to send to the man 

 who ordered 8-cent roses. Probably it is 

 somewhere near the fact that roses this 

 A ear brought two-thirds the price they 

 did last season, when Easter was fifteen 

 days later; some houses say the price 

 was not much more than half last year's 

 price, and certainly some big bargains 

 were to be had Saturday evening and 

 Sunday morning. 



APHINE 



Will destroy 

 Red Spider and Thrips 



Also 

 Green, Black and White 

 Fly, Mealy Bug and Scale 



" The proof of the pudding is In 

 the eating thereof." 



TryAphine. 



Send for new descriptive circular 

 and names of our nearest sell- 

 ing agents. 



APHINE MANUFACTURING GO. 



HadisoD, New Jersey 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Carnations held their own better than 

 any other line. The supply could not 

 ke called short, but the quality of a 

 large proportion of the stock was so poor 

 that good carnations maintained them- 

 selves pretty close to listed prices, white 

 being especially firm. While the bulk 

 of the good stock was sold at from 3 

 cents to 5 cents, there were many thou- 

 sands which were well sold at $7.50 per 

 thousand. Seldom if ever have there 

 been so many splits at Easter; also, the 

 proportion of sleepy stock was large and 

 I many consignments were received in such. 



