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April 7, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



29 



Get Your Stock For Spring Weddings in 



tHE "FAMOUS" CITY 



Wiio Made Niiwauiiee Pamous? Wiiy, our Growers, of Course. 



At the biggest flower shows last fall Milwaukee Beauties and Carnations were the most talked of 

 feature— and it was our Beauties and our Growera' Carnations that won. Also, at Pittsburg in January; 

 Milwaukee Carnations were notable in comparison with the best of the entire country. , • 



' P . The Warmer tlie Weatlier tlie Betler Miiwaulice Flowers 



compare with those produced in less favored sections. j^ ^ ^ - 



We can take good care of all orderi at lowest market rates. Write* phone or wire us— we do the rest. 



HOLTON & HUNKEL CO. 



Without Doubt the Best Equipped Wholesale House in the Country. 



4.62 Milwaukee Street, 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Mention The Kevif w wht-n you write. 



WIETOR BROS. 



Wbolesale Growera of 



Cot Flowers 



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51 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



CURRKNT PRICK LIST 

 AMKRICAN BKAUTT Per doz. 



Extra long stems... .$3.00 



3Qfincl»stems 2.50 



' 24-inch stems 2.00 



20-inchStems 1.50 



15-ihch stems : 1.25 



12-lnch stems 1.00 



S-inchstems 75 



Per 100 



Bride W.OOto I 6.00 



Bridesmaid 4.00 to 6.00 



Killamey , extra fancy 8.00 



fancy 6.00 



good i 4.00to 5.00 



Mrs. Jardine. extra fancy 8.00 



fancy 6.00 



good 4.00to 5.00 



Richmond, fancy 8.00 



good 4.00to 6.00 



UncleJohn 4.00to 6.00 



Roses, our selection 4J04 



CARNATIONS, fancy 3.00 



good... 2.00 



Valley S.OOto 4.00 



Adlantum l.OOto 1.25 



EasterUUes 12.50 



CaUas 12.50 



Tulips 2.00to 4.00 



DaffodUs 2.00to 3.00 



Sweet Peas .50to 1.00 



Sprenserl. bunch, 10.50 to |0.75 

 Perns.... per 1000. 2.50 ' 



Galax.... 1.00 to 1.50 



All other stock at lowest market raites. 

 No charge for packing. 



Prices subject to change without notice. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Always Mention tbe.... 



r Florists' Review 



When Writlas Aavertlser* 



Demoralization is a feeble character- 

 ization of last week's market. Lilies 

 were sold as low as $1 per hundred! 

 They are not much better at the begin- 

 ning of another week. Thousands were 

 not sold at all. The am6unt of discard 

 sent to the river in the six days succeed- 

 ing Easter would run any retail flower 

 store for a year. Boses of all kinds and 

 qualities went away when good at $1 per 

 hundred. The pickled stock brought 

 nothing. Even the weather took a hand 

 in killing the picklers. One must have 

 freezing temperature to ever dare nsk 

 embalming stock again in New York. 

 The late shipments of violets for Easter 

 brought good money, and the orchid 

 handlers wore smile-wreathed faces, but 

 of the other departments gloom settled 

 down upon them like the fog of London 

 or the darkness of Pittsburg. 



The temperature fell 30 degrees April 

 3, and Monday came the first of the 

 needed April showers. As to prices of 

 cut flowers as the week opens, there is 

 not much to encourage, but the tendency, 

 if any, must be towards improvement. 

 The best Beauties can be had for from 

 10 cents to 15 cents, the best Richmond 

 for 8 cents or less, and Killamey, Maid, 

 etc., for 4 cents. The price of $1 per 

 hundred cash is not refused for select 

 carnations, and as to violets, "Cut 'em 

 out," is the dictum of one who knows 

 how to grow them, "for they don't pay 

 for the picking." Orchids and gar- 

 denias hold their ■ place, because ol the 

 many weddings and dinners among the 

 four hundred, and, in fact, through all 

 this depression the millionaires have paid 

 good fat prices and the society retailer 

 has filled his coffers with the profits of 

 the after-Easter season. The street man 

 also flourishes. He sells his violets at 

 15 cents a bunch, and his roses and car- 

 nations at 10 cents a dozen. What an 

 educator he has become! "What would 

 the wholesale man do without him, and 

 the growers! To whom would his sur- 

 plus gof Tn an overstocked market he 

 is the greatest refuge. The department 

 store man has also demonstrated his 



value. There would have been an earth- 

 quake without him. 



There is a great problem — the problem 

 of supply and demand — which this big 

 city muSt solve. Perhaps the plant ques- 

 tion will be the first to show clear skies, 

 in the acceptance of the city's offer of 

 space under the new bridge at Fifty- 

 ninth street and First avenue. 



Various Notes. 



The tendency of the cut flower indus- 

 try is towards concentration. It is pos- 

 sible before long that Twenty-eighth 

 street, west from Sixth to Seventh ave- 

 nue, may house the majority of the 

 wholesale merchants in this line. Already 

 two stores near the center of this street 

 have been secured, by Walter SHieridan 

 and Traendly & Schenck. These, with 

 their cellars, give these firms double their 

 former accommodations. It is rumored 

 other Twenty-eighth street merchants 

 contemplate stores of equal sizes on the 

 floor above, and, in fact, the whole build- 

 ing could safely be utilized for the whole- 

 sale cut flower business, just as the Coo- 

 gan building is now used by several lead- 

 ing firms and the Cut Flower Exchange. 

 Akeady the old established firms of J. K. 

 Allen, Gunther Bros., the K^Wfen Co., 

 Kussin & Hanfling and the Forster Mans- 

 field Co. are located here. One of the 

 biggest wholesale houses on Twenty- 

 eighth street near Broadway has sold its 

 lease for $8,000. 



Next Monday is the April meeting of 

 the Florists' Club. A. C. Zvolanek has 

 promised his delayed address. The house 

 committee will dispense spring medicine 

 and the dinner committee will modestly 

 accept the club's commendation. 



The Wilson-Hoyt Co. reports having 

 enough bench work ordered to keep the 

 factory at high pressure for a long time. 



The plant growers ^re already plan- 

 ning for Deccyatioii day. , (Ehe supply 

 will be abundant. 



L. B. ■ Coddington, whose output is 

 handled by Horace Froment, is building 

 another immense house this spring, by 

 Hitchings & Co., with a glass area of 

 25,000 square feet. 



April 13 on the Mauretania, H. Suzuki, 

 of the Yokohama Nursery Co., sails for 

 Europe, He will return to Japan yia the 

 Transsiberian railroad, reaching that 



