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The Weekly Horists' Review. 



Apbil 18, 1012. 



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Imported Magnolia Wreaths 



Made of the Best Grad* of Leaves 



No. Price, each 

 1065— Size, 18 inciies, of grreen Magnolia leaves trimmed with natural pre- 

 served Ferns and Grasses $0 . 85 



1066— Same as above, f brown Magnolia leaves 0.65 



A061— Magnolia Wreath, 18 inches, plain, no trimminsT at all, in green 0.65 



1062— Same, in brown 50 



1063- The same Wreath, 22 inches, in green 9) 



1064— The same Wreath, 22 inches, in brown or bronze 0.75 



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Imported Magnolia Leaves 



The very best leaf in the market; not the 



poor domestic leaf you have been 



getting elsewhere. 



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the week the Saturday rush took off 

 a good portion of the overflow, but still 

 there were large numbers that went to 

 waste. 



Throughout the market there hardly 

 could be found anything that was off 

 crop. Greens were in full supply, 

 with the possible exception of smilax. 

 A general shortage of this was in effect 

 and of course the prices held firm. The 

 numerous weddings that always fol- 

 low shortly after Easter helped the de- 

 mand for valley and in most cases this 

 moved along in good shape. Orchids, 

 also popular in wedding bouquets, were 

 likewise in demand, and these were 

 about the only scarcity. Spanish iris 

 came on the market in big lots and con- 

 sequently it suffered with the rest. 

 Tulips, daffodils and the like were 

 forced to rock bottom by the arrival 

 of large quantities from the south. 

 Many shipments of the southern stock 

 were a total loss. 



Violets have started to go out and 

 few, either double or single, were to 

 be had. Sweet peas are abundant and, 

 although extremely fine, the prices mod- 

 erated to a considerable degree. For 

 the first few days after Easter a com- 

 parative shortage of lilies was noted, 

 but a couple of warm days sufficed to 

 bring plenty of them to the cutting 

 point and sales were registered at un- 

 usually low prices for the latter part 

 of the week. Callas are more abun- 

 dant than at any time this year, and 

 are difficult to move. 



The retailers probably accepted the 

 glut as a matter of fact, for they 

 look for it the first few warm days of 

 spring and they usually are able to turn 

 it to some advantage. There is no doubt 

 that it was more serious than for 

 a number of years, for, coming on the 

 heels of the Easter rush, it caught the 

 retailers unprepared to accept its ad- 

 vantages as they could had it held off 

 a week or ten days, until the demand 

 had become more normal. As a whole 

 the retail demand has seemed to hold 

 about normal, but it was useless to try 

 to force the demand until the end of 

 last week, when things began to show 

 life. Sunday, being a warm, sunny 



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 Good stock 2.00 per 100 



ROSES, LILIES, SWEET PEAS, BULB 

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Menaon The Review when you write. 



afternoon, proved exceptionally good. 



Various Notes. 



A new commission house will enter 

 the field May 1, when Charles W. Erne 

 will take over the quarters now occu- 

 pied by C. W. McKellar, who is to 

 take larger quarters. Mr. Erne has 

 long been identified with the trade and 

 has a large number of friends as the 

 result of fifteen years with E. H. Hunt. 

 At the present time he is connected 

 with the Chicago Flower Growers' As- 

 sociation. 



Both Winterson's Seed Store and the 

 W. W. Barnard Co. report that counter 

 trade opened strong this week. 



April 17 there was a quiet wedding 

 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 

 J. Pearce. The bride was Miss Carrie 

 Pearce; the groom, G. Tegelaar, who 

 is the American representative of Speel- 

 man & Sons, Sassenheim, Holland. 

 Those present were only the immediate 

 relatives, but there were many hand- 

 some gifts. May 7 Mr. and Mrs. Tege- 

 laar sail from New York for a summer 

 in Europe. It is expected that they 

 will make their home at Hoboken, 

 where Mr. Tegelaar 's firm has its 

 American headquarters. 



At the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 April 11, George Asmus was elected a 

 trustee to succeed E. C. Amling, re- 

 signed. The election of a secretary was. 

 postponed until the May meeting. New 

 members elected were August Koch,. 

 John Lambert, H. Van Gelder and S. A. 

 Jamieson, the latter in charge of salea 

 to florists by the Universal Portland 

 Cement Co., the concern from which 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co. is said to have 

 purchased 10,000 barrels of cement in 

 the last year, and the Geo. Wittbold 

 Co. 8,000 barrels since it adopted con- 

 crete construction. At the May meeting 

 Mr. Jamieson will read a paper on the 

 use of cement in greenhouse building, 

 illustrating his remarks with stereop- 

 ticon views. 



The Lord & Burnham Co., Des Plaines,. 

 111., has increased its capital stock 

 from $50,000 to $250,000. 



C. W. Kellar says that the Virginia 

 narcissi did excellently for Easter, but 

 that since then it has hardly paid to 

 ship them to this market. He received 

 fifty-four cases April 13 in such bad 

 condition that they were a complete 

 loss. 



Peter Reinberg will this season drop 

 the Mrs. Marshall Field rose and give 



