. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 604 The American Florist. Oct. 12, WE CAN SUPPLY YOUR Cut Flower Wants to advantage. ti Greens" Our Specialty. E. F. Winterson Co., 45-47-49 Wabash Avenue. CHICAGO. Chlcagfo Market. TRADE QUIET, PRICES EASIER. Trade the past week has been rather quiet. Supplies of all sorts are materially greater than they were a week ago. sev- eral warm days having helped swell the receipts. Dahlias are still a prominent factor in the market in spite of the fact that the commission dealers would rather not handle them. Howev
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 604 The American Florist. Oct. 12, WE CAN SUPPLY YOUR Cut Flower Wants to advantage. ti Greens" Our Specialty. E. F. Winterson Co., 45-47-49 Wabash Avenue. CHICAGO. Chlcagfo Market. TRADE QUIET, PRICES EASIER. Trade the past week has been rather quiet. Supplies of all sorts are materially greater than they were a week ago. sev- eral warm days having helped swell the receipts. Dahlias are still a prominent factor in the market in spite of the fact that the commission dealers would rather not handle them. However, some excep- tionally fine stock is seen and it brings a good price. Some asters are seen, but are inferior and really not sufBciently a factor to be reckoned with seriously. Carnations have once more become a leading item, and are showing fine form and color as well as steadily Improving in length of stem and size of bud. En- chnntress and the reds are especially fine. Pink Encliantress is also a fine variety just now and is taking well on this mar- ket. Lawson, too, although showing off to better advantage later in the season, has been gradually getting into shape again and some of tlie blooms show really fine color. The last few days have been ideal rose wpalljer. but they were preceded by a few that were the other way. As a con- sequence some of the roses, especially Bridesmaid, have been rather off in qual- ity and color. There has, however, been a big supply of long-stemmed American Beauty roses of very good quality. Medium and short stems have been rather scarce. The supply of chrysanthemums is daily increasing now as more varieties are steadily coming into bloom. The effect of this is already seen in the weakening of prices. While some fancy stock has brought as much as ?4 per dozen the prevailing price comes nearer $3 and some go at $2. Very good violets are being received by most of the commission houses. NOTES. The E. F. Winterson Co. is receiving some exceptional
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