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The Florists' Review 



May 8, 1913. 



Decoration Day Peonies 



We will have one of the largest cuts of Peonies in this market for Decoration Day. 

 No matter how large your order we can fill it. Advance orders booked now. 



EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING IN SEASONABLE FLOWERS. 



KILLARNEYS SWEET PEAS LILACS SNAPDRAGON 



GREENS OF ALL KINDS 



Erne & Klingel 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



30 East Randolph Street, l. d. Phon«, Randolph ssts CHtCAGO, ILL. 



■MentloD TiK- Keview wliep yuu write. 



cut a fortnight ago, when the crops 

 were on in full. Nevertheless there are 

 plenty of good ones to be had, and for 

 these the wholesalers can realize only 

 fair returns. Local lilacs have ar- 

 rived on the heels of the first from the 

 downstate shippers, but there is no 

 great demand for this usually popular 

 spring flower. Much 'of the stock is too 

 poor to sell at any price. Snapdragon is 

 plentiful and is moving fairly well. The 

 first peonies have arrived, Old Red, 

 and by the end of the week this flower 

 ■will begin to be a market factor. Span- 

 ish iris is in big supjdy, so much above 

 demand that the wholesalers cannot 

 clean up and have much trouble making 

 a satisfactory average; returns are much 

 below last year. Easter lilies are al- 

 most in oversupply and there are 

 more than enough callas to meet the 

 demand. Valley is in the usual request 

 and the prices hold firm. Sweet peas 

 are arriving in tens of thousands and 

 they naturally command no advanced 

 figures. The heat hurt the color last 

 week, but otherwise they are fine. The 

 Butterfly peas are now in good supply 

 and are selling well, but in the week 

 preceding May 6 there was scarcely 

 anything that "cleaned up at full prices. 

 Even cattleyas are more plentiful, the 

 first locally grown gigas having made 

 their appearance this week. When 

 these are abundant it makes it difficult 

 to sell other varieties. Bulbous stock 

 <'ontinues to come in abundantly. There 

 are many tulips, but they are not es- 

 ]>ecially good and sell cheaply. Jon- 

 quils, on the other hand, are fine, but 

 the season of best demand has passed. 

 Poets sell better, if at low prices, as 

 not so many are seen. 



Various Notes. 



April was an unusually favorable 

 month for cut flower production. The 

 mean temperature was 3 degrees above 

 normal, while the hours of sun were 

 sixty-nine per cent of the possible, a 

 full nine per cent more than the aver- 

 age for April. The rainfall was only 

 about two-thirds the normal for the 

 month. 



The Chicago Florists' Club will hold 

 its monthly meeting at the Union, 

 Thursday evening, May 8. Secretary 

 E. C. Toepel announces that, in addi- 



CAN SUPPLY IN ALL COLORS 

 LARGE QUANTITIES OF FANCY 



SPANISH IRIS 



White, Lavender or Yellow, S3.00 to S4.00 per 100 

 Blue, SS.OO to SS.OO per 100 



This is stock that could not possibly be beaten for quality, and 

 I can take good care of all orders. 



O. A. TONNER 



162 North Wabath Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



tion to reports of committees. Prof. 

 McMillan, entomologist, of Urbana, 

 will be present to talk on insects. Pres- 

 ident French asks for a large atten- 

 dance. 



The American Express Co., at Ba- 

 tavia, forty miles from town, receipted 

 for nine big boxes of roses, Beauties, 

 carnations, lilies, etc, at a little be- 

 fore three o'clock ^lay .3. Although O. 

 .Tohnson, of the Batavia Greenhouse Co., 

 kept the city store open until 9 o'clock 

 and did a lot of telephoning, delivery 

 was not tendered until the following 

 morning, when the shipment was re- 

 fused with the statement that a claim 

 for .t400 would be filed. May 5 the 

 shipment was accepted for sale for the 

 company 's account. 



N. .7. Wietor says that the reports 

 that are coming from country custom- 

 ers indicate that Mothers' day will 

 show another big advance this year. 



Oscar Mangelson, who for eight years 

 has been rose grower for Emil Buett- 

 ner, at Park Ridge, has formed a part- 

 nershij) with Krnest Hedstrom, fore- 

 man for Brant & Noe, and the two 

 have purchased a farm near Cadillac, 

 Mich. They will close the deal in a 

 few days and expect to at once begin 

 working the ])roperty. 



The Review has received the fol- 

 lowing: "The Mothers' Emergency 



^ Budlong's 

 E Blue Ribbon Valley 



Mention The Review wben you write 



League, formed recently for the pur- 

 pose of holding a carnation sale for the 

 benefit of a mothers' free room at the 

 Chicago Union hospital on Mothers' 

 day, ^lay 10, begs the privilege of in- 

 serting, free of charge, an appeal for the 

 donation of white carnations to be sold 

 on the streets and in the large oflSce 

 buildings, banks, theaters and hotels, 

 proceeds to "go to the hospital fund. 

 The flowers will be received at the 

 Hotel Sherman Friday afternoon, May 

 9, and all day Saturday, May 10, 

 They may be delivered to Mrs. George 

 W. Davis, general chairman of the 

 Emergency League." 



At Winterson's Seed Store the ship- 

 ping department is working nearly 

 every night. 



The E. C. Amling Co. says Mothers' 

 day orders are much larger than last 

 year. 



C. W. McKellar thinks the poor sale 



