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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Dbcbmbeb 29, 1910. 



ORCHIDS-Miouneed 



Special fancy CMtleyas, for New Year's, $9.00 to $12.00 per doz. dncMiums, $3.00 to $4.00 per 100. 



SPECIAL KILLARNETT 



These Killameys are just what you want for the New Year's trade — nothing to equal them has 

 yet been produced; wonderful color, big heads on all lengths of stem, perfect foliage — a triumph of the 

 grower's art. 



Beauties and all other Roses In large supply. 



New Year's Special— Preesia Purity, pure white, fine stock, $6.00 to $8.00 lOO 



Stevia, the finest, $1.50 to $2.00. Carnations, the kind that carry. 



Order your New Year's Violets of us and get the best. 



Everything in supplies — replenish your stock at once. 



A* L. Randall Co. 



Whoresale Florists "^J^i^^^" 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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New Rose 



Now booklnsr orders for HILDA, deep pink 

 *portof My Maryland. 213-inch. $20.00 per 100; 

 1150.00 per 1000. 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



19-21 Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



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Jess for their carnations in Christmas 

 •yreek than in either of the two weeks 

 preceding. 



i , Tjie big business for the holiday had 

 •beeri booked on roses. Of these the sup- 

 ply was enormous, and the quality of 

 ^nost of the stock superlatively fine. 

 There really are not so many buyers who 

 used Beauties, when compared to the 

 total number of customers at a holiday, 

 but the extremely large supply was 

 ileaned up. One not insistent on quality 

 could name his price at any time, and 

 early in the week much fine stock was 

 i^old cheaply, with some waste of stock 

 ^hat had been held too long to be usable, 

 but strictly first-class Beauties were 

 worth full listed prices Christmas eve. 

 The week's market was not one favorable 

 to the considerable quantities of Beauties 

 shipped in from a distance. Of other 

 roses, only Richmond was short of the 

 demand. It was possible to give the buy- 

 ers rather better values tharf in other 

 years, particularly in long-stemmed stock. 

 White Killarney and Bride were in slight 

 request and accumulated badly in conse- 

 quence of the possibility of giving buyers 

 all they wanted of pink if not of red. 

 There was, in fact, a larger waste of culls 

 than is usual at Christmas, because there 

 Vere so many good roses that no one had 

 to take weak-stemmed, open flowers unless 

 they were what he wanted. 



The violet situation proved peculiar. It 

 appeared the orders of most of the big 

 buyers were concentrated in the hands 

 of a very few wholesalers, who also had 

 all the violets that were needed to fill the 

 orders. Consequently, other handlers had 

 to hunt for places to put the violets. 



VIOLETS 



Headqaarters for FINEST DOUBLES 



You can arrange through me to have 1000 lots 

 shipped, as needed, to you direct from best grow- 

 ers in the Rhinebeck district. 



BEAUTIES 



and all other Cut Flowers in Season 



M. C. GUNTERBERG 



27 & 29 Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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for sales of 200 or 300 do not eat up 

 large receipts when buyers come no faster 

 than last week. Irresponsible buyers re- 

 fused to take some of the stock ordered 

 earlier because they were able to fill their 

 requirements at cheaper prices. Singles 

 fared fully as well as doubles. Many of 

 the retailers in the end overbought on 

 violets. 



While the retailers like to see a market 

 well supplied, the wholesalers and grow- 

 ers prefer one that makes people skir- 

 mish for stock — it insures the cleaning up 

 of the odds and ends, which goes a long 

 way toward making good average prices. 

 In the present instance the odds and ends 

 suffered; they were numerous and they 

 didn't sell. Paper Whites and Romans 

 were not wanted. Callas and Harrisii 

 were not in request. Sweet peas and val- 

 ley could not be cleaned up. Poinsettias 

 sold only moderately well. In the aggre- 

 gate these items, and the culls from the 

 staple lines, represented many thousands 

 of dollars that would have been added to 

 the week's sales had there been any op- 

 portunity of including them in the big- 

 gest seven days' turnover this market 

 ever has known. 



Before the Christmas rush was over 

 came the call for stock for work for the 

 twenty-four city firemen killed in the 



Washington, D. C, Pec. 20, 1910. 

 I bejr to state that Aphine with me is 

 doing all you claim for it. I find it in- 

 valuable in getting dd of scale and thripe 

 on orchids. (Signed) George Field. 



$2.50 per gallon; $1.00 per quart. 



FUNGINE 



An infallible fungicide for mildew and 

 other fungous diseases. Particularly 

 adapted for greenhouse purposes. 



A clean, safe and easily applied spraying 

 material, which does not stain the foliage. 



$2 GO per gallon; 75c per quart. 



Manufactured by 



APHINE MANUFACTURING CO. 



MADISON, N. J. 



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Morris fire. This made a use for quanti- 

 ties of white flowers and did much toward 

 cleaning up the accumulation of these, for 

 hundreds of designs were required. The 

 funeral of Chief Horan was on a scale 

 unknown here. There were two fire truck 

 loads of flowers. 



The present week opened with a fair 

 half day's holiday business Monday and 

 a big run of shipping on Tuesday. There 

 is an abundance of stock of all kinds, 

 though the close cutting for Christmas 

 and the two days' vacation taken by 

 many of the growers failed to reveal the 



