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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 4, 1900. 



FANCY FLOWERS 



Large supplies of special choice stock In all lines. 



VIOLBTS— Headquarters for best New York doubles 

 and fancy singlcB. 



ROSES— Large crops on of all varieties— especially fine 

 lot of Maid and Killarney, long fancy stock. 



CARNATIONS— Best in the market. No order too large 

 for us to fill, and fill right. 



BULB STOCK— Fancy Jonquils and Daffodils, go fine 

 with our Japana Holders for table decorations. Tulips, 

 all colors. J ■ 



FANCY WHITE LILAC, new batch, fine qualify 



Order of Randall and you will always get the right goods at the right prices. Our ability to fill orders is not 



surpassed by any house in this country. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



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ket heavily supplied in all departments 

 and with demand apparently light. The 

 salesmen will tell you the buyers take 

 little interest, but in the offices it is 

 figured sales are totaling up a quite 

 satisfactory sum ; if prices are where 

 the buyer can pick and choose, the quan- 

 tity of stock handled is so great that it 

 runs into good money by night. It fre- 

 quently occurs at this season of the 

 year that Monday will be a good day, 

 Tuesday and the two days following 

 light, with an active shipping demand on 

 Friday and a good city trade Saturday. 

 Quality is excellent throughout the 

 market. All flowers are fine. There are 

 quite a few split carnations and, of 

 course, more or less weak roses, but 

 practically every grower is cutting as 

 good stock as he ever did in his life. 

 The single exception is with the Beau- 

 ties; these are not good except in the 

 long grade. Even of Beauties the sup- 

 ply has increased largely, so that prices 

 have fallen about twenty per cent. Maids 

 and Brides are splendid and the most 

 critical buyer can be supplied with Kil- 

 larney and Richmond. The cut has so 

 increased that all grades are cheaper, but 

 the short stock has suffered most. Dur- 

 ing the time that roses were so scarce, 

 short roses commanded a premium; now 

 long stock is so plentiful that the shorts 

 have had to be put down to what looks 

 like decidedly cheap prices, compared to 

 recent rates. 



Carnations are coming in so heavily 

 that they are accumulating, in spite of 

 the best efforts of the wholesalers. In 

 general, the stock is fine, but it stacked 

 up so badly last week that it was only 

 the department store orders and the 

 Greek buyers that saved a congestion. 

 The large buyers for special sales paid 

 anywhere from $9 to $12.50 per thousand 

 last week. 



Violets, unless of good quality, were 

 practically unsalable last week, and this 

 week sees the condition little improved. 

 The receipts of both New York and local 

 stock are extremely heavy and prices in 

 proportion. Sweet peas are another item 

 on which there has been a slump in prices 

 and on which the lower g^rades are prac- 

 tically unsalable. Long fancy peas go 

 well, but there are so many thousands 

 of the short-stemmed that little can be 



HMtdQiuutara in the Great Central Market tor all kind* of 



Florists' Supplies 



Specially large and fine stoek of 



Natural Preserved Wreaths, Moss Wreaths and Metal Designs 



Qualities always the best and prices the lowest. 



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done with them. Bulbous stock is in 

 good supply and going at prices that 

 hardly can be profitable to the growers. 

 Lilies, however, show a tendency to ad- 

 vance, the crop being lighter and the 

 quality higher. 



There is a good business in green 

 goods and smilax is selling specially well 

 for spring decorations. 



Vaughan & Sperry to Move. 



Vaughan & Sperry have made a lease 

 upon the large double basement at 52 and 

 54 Wabash avenue, which they will oc- 

 cupy after May 1. The increasing quan- 

 tities of stock the firm has handl^ have 

 overcrowded its space in the Flower Grow- 

 ers ' Market and made necessary this 

 move to larger quarters. It is likely that 

 for a time the stand in the market will 

 be continued, but there is room for a 

 still further expansion of the business at 

 the new location, which is next door to 

 the establishment of Kenrficott Bros. Co. 

 The quarters are to be thoroughly over- 

 hauled and will be in first-class shape 

 when occupied. The basement proper is 

 40x90, but there is a large and valuable 

 space beneath the sidewalk, excellently 

 adapted to the business. 



February Butineu. 



February was an excellent month in 

 the Chicago market. Roses were in light 

 supply at the beginning of the month 

 and commanded excellent prices, help- 

 ing the value of other stock clear down 

 the list. Valentine 's day made a special- ' 



ly good record and the Lincoln and 

 Washington anniversaries each did their 

 share. Business continued good up to 

 Ash Wednesday, when two or three quiet 

 days ensued, but on the whole the month 

 was the most satisfactory of the season 

 to date. A majority of the wholesale 

 houses increased their sales over those 

 of February last year. 



February 'leather. 



February was a warm month and the 

 draughts on the coal bins were not aa 

 heavy as usual. The mean temperature 

 was 32 degrees, against a normal of 27 

 degrees. The wind movement also was 

 a mile an hour less than last year and 

 the direction was southwest, instead of 

 from the northwest as last February. 

 There were, however, only four clear 

 days, three partly cloudy and twenty- 

 one cloudy. In the month there was only 

 thirty-one per cent of the possible num- 

 ber of hours of sunshine.^ 



Various Notes. 



Venerable Dominic Degnan died March 

 1. He was the father of John Degnan, 

 of the E. F. Winterson Co., who has the 

 sympathy of a large circle of friends. 

 The funeral was held Wednesday morn- 

 ing from the residence, 5727 Shields ave- 

 nue, interment at Mount Olivet. Mr. 

 Degnan 's mother died only a little more 

 than a year ago. Miss Josephine E. East- 

 man, one of Mr. Degnan 's closest friends 

 for years, died February 27. 



Schultz Bros., at Park Ridge, are pre- 



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