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The Florists^ Review 



June S, 1918. 



EXTRA FINE KILLARNEYS 



As a general run Killarneys on this market are failing to hold up. As we have told you before this 

 season, we have the best roses in the west and they won first at the Chicago spring flower show. Again 

 we say our Killarneys are worthy of your attention, and being free from mildew and other defects, they still 

 lead this field. We have a big crop and can handle your order promptly. You cannot afford to be with- 

 out the best. 



CHOICE PEONIES—BEST VARIETIES 



There are peonies and good peonies — we only handle stock that will be to our credit. Enough 

 said. Likewise our Sweet Peas, Orchids, Valley and all other seasonable stock, including greens. 



Erne & Klingel 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS '^^ 



30 East Randolph Street, l. d. Phone, Randolph esTs CHICAGO, ILL. 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



the important flower. Extremely large 

 quantities were offered, it being stated 

 by some that the supply in storage was 

 greater than ever before. However, the 

 cold storage warehouse was empty on 

 the morning of May 29, and practically 

 everything sold. The cuts being at the 

 heaviest with a number of the nearby 

 growers, the receipts after shipping 

 trade was over were so heavy that the 

 storing of peonies was begun again May 

 30. There was a sharp stiffening of 

 prices at midday May 29, when it was 

 seen how well the storage stock had 

 cleaned up, and a break that night, 

 when it was seen how much the daily 

 receipts were in advance of local re- 

 quirements. There was much differ- 

 ence in the quality of the stock. A 

 few special peonies sold as high as 

 $1.50 per dozen, but many were well 

 sold at 50 cents per dozen. Some of the 

 storage stock shook badly, and, if sold 

 at all, had to be made good. 



There was an abundant supply of 

 roses, the principal difficulty in this 

 department being that so much of the 

 stock was long-stemmed, while the de- 

 mand was for roses at moderate prices. 

 Beauties are not a Memorial day flower, 

 but sold well because offered at rather 

 moderate prices. Most of the cape 

 jasmine was just on time this year and 

 averaged better prices than for a num- 

 ber of seasons. There was little special 

 call for lilies, valley, daisies and the 

 numerous other flowers in considerable 

 supply, but in the end most of the mis- 

 cellaneous stock cleaned up in a thor- 

 oughly satisfactory manner. Nearly 

 every wholesaler says that it was the 

 best Memorial day in years, except for 

 sweet peas, for which most of the 

 wholesalers report practically no spe- 

 cial call. 



This week the market is abundantly 

 supplied with everything. Crops were 

 just getting under way for Memorial 

 day and are this week about at the 

 top. Koses are in full crop and Beauties 

 are in much better supply than at any 

 time in many months. Carnations are 

 plentiful, and local peonies are just 

 coming in, though there are reports that 

 the crop will prove to have been hard 

 hit by frost. Butterfly sweet peas are 

 in full crop, splendid cattleyas are 



BUY YOUP FLORISTS' SUPPLIES OF 



L. BAUMANN & CO. 



IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS 

 357-359 West Chicago Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Writ* for Our CataloKU*. 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



available in quantity, and provision for 

 meeting the June wedding demand has 

 been made by the valley growers, so 

 that this specialty also is plentiful. The 

 only thing that is on the scarce side is 

 common ferns, which have shortened up 

 unexpectedly. 



Various Notes. 



A new structure is being erected at 

 the Morton Grove establishment of 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co. in the way of a 

 cold house for the storage of stock for 

 Easter blooming. The new house is 

 just at the north of the first houses in 

 Plant A and is 28x200 feet. 



A display of the pitcher plant has 

 been attracting attention this week at 

 the store of the A. L. Bandall Co. The 

 specimens shown were forms of Sar- 

 racenia flava, oddly colored, and Frank 

 Johnson says so many retailers were in- 

 terested that he hopes to be able to 

 arrange for a regular supply. He thinks 

 there is a possibility of selling in con- 

 siderable quantity as a novelty. 



There is no doubt that the local crop 

 of peonies has been considerably re- 

 duced as a result of the frost following 

 the few hot days in early May. It is 

 not thought, however, that this will ad- 

 versely affect the peony show of the 

 Horticultural Society of Chicago, to be 

 held at the Art Institute June 12 and 

 13. All the local growers will cut 

 enough stock of excellent quality for 

 exhibition purposes. 



O. W. Frese says that a customer left 

 a twenty-dollar gold piece on the 

 cashier's ledge in the store of Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. during the Memorial 

 day rush. It was found by an employee 

 and returned to the customer. 



The Batavia Greenhouse Co. cut the. 

 first peonies of the season May 30. In 

 common with other growers, this con- 

 cern reports that the crop will be light 

 this year. 



Tim Matchen says that Peter Eein- 

 berg's big motor truck proved its value 

 for Memorial day. The quantity of 

 stock hauled to the store May 28 broke 

 all previous records, consisting of 120 

 boxes and calling for three trips of the 

 big motor truck. 



C. W. McKellar comments on the 

 quantity of wreaths of prepared oak 

 sold this year. He says the demand for 

 this class of goods doubles up each 

 Memorial day. 



Miss Nettie Parker, who has charge 

 of the books of the Chicago Carnation 

 Co., has been ill since May 27 with a 

 severe attack of tonsilitis, and A. T. 

 Pyfer has had his hands full in con- 

 sequence. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 asserts that this was the most generally 

 satisfactory Memorial day in the his- 

 tory of the Chicago market, and gives 

 credit to the peony for it. He says that 

 but for the peony there would have 

 been a pronounced shortage of flowers, 

 and he adds that peonies cleaned up 

 much better than he had supposed 

 would be possible, in view of the un- 

 precedentedly large supply. 



John Michelsen, of the E. C. Amling 

 Co., disagrees with the general report 

 that sweet peas did not sell well for 

 Memorial day. He says his company 

 was so well supplied that it could meet 

 the ideas of every buyer and that a 

 much larger business than ever before 

 was done with sweet peas. 



L. H. Winterson says that plant busi- 

 ness at Winterson 's Seed Store is 

 much heavier than ever before in the 

 first week of June. 



N. J. Wietor says that if the month 

 of June is as good as May he, for one, 

 will have no complaint to make of 

 either supply or demand. 



E. C. Toepel, secretary of the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club, in sending out 

 notice of the meeting to be held at the 



