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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 27, 1911. 



Do 

 You 



GAMBLE 1 



PEONIES, $5,00 per 10 

 or before May 2( 



KENNICOT 



Wholesale Commission Florists 



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violet has resulted in peas being used 

 •extensively for corsage work. A good 

 run of wedding work also makes a spe- 

 cial demand for peas, as these are 

 largely used for wedding bunches. Cat- 

 - tleyas also are one of the items on 

 J which there is no oversupply. 



Beauties have arrived in large quan- 

 ; titles and with most of the growers the 

 quality is extremely fine. Prices are 

 unusually low, considering that the 

 stock is of such high grade. The supply 

 is not only equal to the demand, but a 

 little bit ahe.id of it. There are so many 

 long, fancy Killarney, White Killarney 

 and Richmond that the values of the 

 special grades are- low. At the same 

 time, a large part of the rose receipts 

 are short-stemmed and slow sale. It is 

 impossible to clean up. Those who have 

 large runs of funeral work are not los- 

 ing any money. 



Except for red carnations, the market 

 is glutted. Last week there was a fair 

 clean-up Friday night for the special 

 Saturday sales, but the next day's re- 

 ceipts again overstocked the market and 

 the condition has prevailed ever since. 

 It is the general complaint that the 

 quality has gone down grade rapidly in 

 the last week. 



Some of the wholesalers say they al- 

 ready count the days to the end of the 

 glut of Easter lilies, but others have 

 not vet been able to see daylight. It 

 is doubtful if lilies ever have sold so 

 low in Chicago as in the last week, 

 though it should be said that the worst 

 of the prices one hears told of have 

 been made on stock that had been held 

 so long that it really was scarcely 

 usable. Callas are simply immovable. 

 Bulbous stock is rapidly passing and 

 violets are nearly gone. Large quanti- 

 ties of Spanish iris are received and 

 are selling better than when yellow 

 flowers were so abundant. The market 

 is well supplied with fancy antirrhinum. 



The green goods market is quiet, ex- 

 cept for the flurry in smilax. 



Flower Growers' Market. 



With the end of the present week the 

 Flower Growers' Co. will cease to be 



Notice of Removal 



Saturday, April 29, we shall open our enlarged Chicago 

 wholesale store at 



30 East Randolph Street, 



where we shall have at all times a full line of seasonable 

 Cut Flowers and Greens. Facilities as good as those of 

 any house in the Chicago market. Give us a call. 

 American Beauties a Specialty. 



DATA VIA GREENHOUSE CO. 



Store, 30 E. Randolph St., Chicago 



Greenhouses, 

 Batavia, III. 



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an active factor in the distribution of 

 cut flowers, but the charter will not 

 be surrendered. While not doing busi- 

 ness, the corporation will have an ofSce 

 with Sinner Bros., who are removing to 

 82 and 86 East Randolph street. John 

 Sinner is secretary. The Flower Grow- 

 ers ' Co. was organized in 1902 and 

 opened its market at the corner of 

 Randolph street and Wabash avenue 

 January 6, 1903. The corporation was 

 operated with the prime object of 

 affording a place for its stockholders to 

 sell their own stock, but during the 

 time that Percy Jones was manager a 

 dividend was paid equal to the amount 

 originally paid in on the stock, so that 

 there really is no investment and the 

 money now in the treasury is profit. 



Of those now occupying space in the 

 market, the Batavia Greenhouse Co. is 

 removing to the store at 30 East Ean-. 

 dolph street recently vacated by J. A. 

 Budlong; D. E. Freres and Hertha V. 

 Tonner are removing to Boom 222 on 

 the second floor of the Atlas block and 

 connecting with the new store of the 

 Chicago Carnation Co., while Sinner 

 Bros., M. C. Gunterberg, A. E. Hunt & 

 Co Hunt Bros., S. Wiffin and H. C. 

 Ble'witt are removing to 82, 84 and 86 



Spanish Iris 



Yellow- White- Purple 



Those interested will please call, write 

 or phone for prices. 



H.V.T0NNER,56 E. Randolph St., Chica^ 



After May 1, 30 East Randolpb St. 



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East Randolph street, where they will 

 occupy the south half of the floor re- 

 cently leased by J. A. Budlong. Percy 

 Jones has taken the lease on the entire 

 floor occupied these last eight years by 

 the Flower Growers' Market, and also 

 has bought the ice-box and most of the 

 tabling, which gives rise to the belief 

 that the part of the big room not re- 

 quired for the Jones business still will 

 be used for flower market purposes, 

 though Henry Van Gelder, manager for 

 Percy Jones/states that he is not ready 

 to make any announcement. N. C. 

 Moore Co. and possibly some others will 

 remain on the floor, at least for a time. 

 Later. — E. E. Pieser authorizes the 

 statement that May 1 Kennicott Bros. 

 Co. will open a branch on the floor now 

 being vacated by the Flower Growers! 



