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The Fbrists' Review 



Mabch 20, 1913. 



FOR 

 EASTER 



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LAST CALL 



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If you find your stock running low at the last minute, wire us your order and it will be 

 shipped by the first train. You can depend upon us to have the stock — and we will see 

 that you get it. EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING YOU WANT. 



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WHOLESALE FLORISTS ^^^ 



30 East Randolph Street, >. d. Phon., Randolph esTs CHICAGO, ILL. 



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BEAUTIES 



Carnations, Bulb Stock, Roses, Peas 



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off, there are few coming in at present 

 and those that are being shipped are 

 not a credit to the market. Indeed, 

 the quality of most of the Beauties is 

 so poor that the out-of-town retailers 

 have largely cut them off their stand- 

 ing orders and have not ordered many 

 for Easter. 



Other roses are in big supply, the 

 crops with many growers being at 

 about the highest point. Killameys are 

 especially strong and of fine quality in 

 both color, size of bud and foliage. 

 There is every indication that there 

 will be enough of these to go around. 

 Although prices had not been stiff up 

 to the opening of the week, there was 

 a tendency to advance as the week 

 grew older. Carnations likewise are in 

 good supply. For 8t, Patrick's day 

 there were large quantities cut, but 

 there were not enough whites to satisfy 

 the demand for flowers to color. Of 

 the pink and other colors there were 

 more than enough, for there was hardly 

 any demand outside of the white. Bulb- 

 ous stock was still moving slowly with 

 the start of the week, but began to 

 sell better as .Easter approached. 



Violets have been and are in tremen- 

 dous supply. The grower who has not 

 a full crop is the exception to the rule 

 and the Chicago market seems to be do- 

 ing rather better than others, for there 

 never was a time when so many grow- 



ers were shipping here. Sweet peas are 

 not so plentiful as they were and poorer 

 flowers are making better money. Or- 

 chids are not plentiful and prices are 

 advancing. Stocks are in, but do not 

 sell specially well. Callas are more 

 plentiful than at any time this season; 

 they are expected to sell well if lilies 

 prove short. 



Smilax has become scarce and south- 

 ern floods are interfering with the ship- 

 ments of wild smilax. 



A Difference of Opinion. 



At the meeting of the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club March 6, it was voted to 

 lay on the table the matter of desig- 

 nating an oflicial route to the next 

 S. A. F. convention at Minneapolis. 

 But under date of March 10 postal 

 cards were mailed to members, stating 

 over the name of the chairman of the 

 transportation committee that the Great 

 Western had been selected by the club. 

 At the meeting March 6 the sentiment 

 appeared to be strongly opposed to 

 the Great Western and in favor of one 

 or the other of the standard lines, the 

 Northwestern or the St. Paul. The 

 Cook County Florists' Association has 

 already chosen the latter. "It was a 

 surprise to me," said President Guy 

 French, March 14, "that such a noti- 

 fication should be sent out before the 



members of the club had voted on the 

 proposition. The club ordered the mat- 

 ter held open and until the next meet- 

 ing no choice will be made. It was not 

 my understanding that the committee 

 was vested with power to make a 

 choice, but was merely to make a rec- 

 ommendation. If it has been the cus- 

 tom in the past for the committee to 

 make the choice I believe that it would 

 be to the interest of the club to make 

 a change in this regard; in fact, the 

 action taken at the last meeting shows 

 how the members look upon the mat- 

 ter. Whatever road is selected at the 

 next meeting of the club will be the 

 ofScial route and invitations to eastern 

 and southern clubs and individuals will 

 be sent out asking them to join us." 



Over the signature of Ed. C. Toepel 

 as secretary pro tem the following no- 

 tice was sent out March 17: 



"Special Order of Business of The 

 Chicago Florists' Club. President 

 French announces that the special order 

 of business for the next meeting of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club will be: T)ie 

 election of a secretary to fill the va- 

 cancy caused by the resignation of 

 Wilder S. Deamud, who is leaving the 

 city permanently; to receive the re- 

 port of the transportation committee, 

 and to decide on the oflBcial route to the 

 S. A. F. convention at Minneapolis. A 

 full attendance is desired." 



