December 10. 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



133 



For Christmas... 



ww^^w w ^^^ And Other 

 MM^^L^L*^ M Choice Greens 



XMAS RIBBONS 



See Last Week's REVIEW, Page 59, or Write Is for Special Quotations 



SAMLEL S. PENNOCK '•'- ■^•^■"^o* «™"^' 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



a. L. RANDALL CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



19-21 E. Randolph Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



CHRISTMAS PRICE LIST. Taking effect December 20. 



Per 100 



Beauties, SO-inch $100 00 



20 to 24-mch 60.00 



18-ineh 40.O0 



12-mch 25.00 



Liberties, select 15.00 



8tol0-inch ... 10.00 



Brides and Maids, long, select. $12 00 to 15.00 

 good stock. s.OO to lO.OO 

 short t 5.00 



Per 100 



Poinsettias $26.00 to $.50,00 



Carnations— Hills and Clouds. 4.00 to 8.00 



sood pinks . 5.00 



fancy pink & red. 6. CO to 8.00 

 " moo lots, common 



our selection. $35.00. 



Harrisii and Calla Lilies '20.00 



Vallev 4.00 to 5.00 



Violets S.OO 



Per 100 



Narcissi and Romans — $3 00 to 4.00 



Adiantum 1.00 



Galax per 1000. $1.50 



Smilax 12.00 to 15.00 



Asparaf?us SprenKeri. per doz., 35c 



Asparagus Plumosus Sprays 2.00 



Strings 40.C0 



Ferns, fancy per 1000. $2.00 



Red Berries — per box. 2.50 



Mpnrlon thp Rpvlpw when von write. 



THE CHIC.\GO CLUB'S PR03RAM. 



C. M. Dickinson, chairman of the pro- 

 gram committee of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club, is mailing to members and all in- 

 terested parties handsomely printed 

 copies of the club's program for the 

 winter. It is as follows: 



December 16. — Third exhibition flow- 

 ering, berried, decorative and foliage 

 plants, suitable for the holiday trade. 

 Gratuities offered by Peter Eeinberg and 

 Wietor Bros. Exhibition open from 3 to 

 S p. m. Regular club meeting at 8:30 

 p. m. A ten minute paper on the sub- 

 ject, "Desirable Holiday Plants Not 

 Found in This Market, "' followed by a 

 ten minute talk by a grower, answering 

 and supplementing the same. 



January 6. — Regular meeting. Review 

 of the holiday market. Notes and com- 

 ments from members of the trade in 

 other cities regarding special features of 

 the holiday trade. 



January 13. — Musical and dramatic 

 entertainment. Full program issued later. 



January 20. — First allied trades meet- 

 ing at the club room, 8 p. m. Topics 

 for discussion, ' ' Pipes, Fittings and 

 Valves," "Glass" and "Paints, Oils 

 and Putty. ' ' Papers will be read by 

 specialists in these articles. 



February 3. — Regular meeting. Spe- 

 cial features to be announced later. 



February 17. — Grand exhibit of roses. 



carnations, violets, plants and bulbous 

 stock. Open at noon, admitting the pub- 

 lic by card issued by club members un- 

 til 4 p. m. The evening is to be known 

 as guests' night and the annual banquet 

 of the club ■nill be held and tendered to 

 \-isitors. Addresses by prominent men 

 in the trade. 



JIarch 5. — Second allied trades meet- 

 ing. The evening will be devoted par- 

 ticularly to greenhouse construction. 

 Firms in this line will be invited to ex- 

 hibit and explain "new wrinkles" in 

 greenhouse construction and improved 

 methods, to be followed by a general 

 discussion. 



March 19. — Retailers' night and ex- 

 Idbition of floral work. Talks oy leadiug 

 retail florists and a discussion upon the 

 good and the bad in floi'al designs. An 

 exhibition of floral requisites may be held 

 on this date — decision to be announced 

 later. 



April 9. — Wholesalers' night. Discus- 

 sion by wholesalers, especially of the 

 Easter market conditions, quality of 

 flowers, criticism of growers' methods, 

 trials and tribulations of the wholesaler. 



April 16. — Bedding jilant exhibition at 

 4 p. m., followed by regular meeting. 

 Papers and discussion on bedding plants, 

 prices, etc. 



May 7. — Third allied trades meeting. 

 Subjects, "Fertilizers" and "Coal.'' 



Papers by specialists in these subjects. 

 Discussions by the club. 



May 21. — Exhibition of cut blooms and 

 plants at 4 p. m., followed by last regu- 

 lar meeting of the club for the season. 

 Various meetings for the summer will 

 be announced later. 



The club will be pleased to receive 

 and exhilMt at any meeting or exhibition 

 any new flower or plant, especially well 

 grown specimens of older varieties, or in 

 fact anything of special interest to mem- 

 bers of any branch of the trade. Certifi- 

 cates of merit will be awarded to worthy 

 new varieties whenever shown. 



The beautiful picture on the title 

 page of this issue is from a copyrighted 

 photograph posed by C. H. Anderson, 

 artist of the Elite Photographic Studio, 

 San Francisco, Cal., and is used by the 

 courtesy of Paul Lotz, proprietor. 



We are in receipt of Vol. ^T^I, Part II, 

 of the American Park and Outdoor Art 

 Association, containing the reports of 

 standing committees presented at the 

 Buffalo meeting last July. The pamphlet 

 is principally notable for John C. Olm- 

 sted 's report on checking the abuses of 

 billboard advertising and the reasonable 

 views he expresses. 



Enclosed you will find the best in- 

 vested dollar in my business; continue 

 (he Reviev,'. — H. P. Loding, Mobile, Ala; 



