AFBIL 24, 1919. 



The Florists*' Review 



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ICATTLEYA NOSSIAEI 





$7.50 to $9.00 per Doz. 



I These are without equal on this market. The finest Orchids | 



I money will buy. Home-grown, shipped to you in their first fresh- | 



I ness. Your customers will know the difference. | 



GOOD ROSES 



i Our large supply includes all varieties and all lengths, fine stock, just the kind that can be = 



= sold in quantity because your customers will come back for more. = 



SPENCER SWEET PEAS 



I You can get first-class Butterfly Peas here in all colors in quantity. Splendid sellers = 



S because of their fine quality and fresh fragrance. | 



I No Matter What You Want, Order of Randall | 



B When you send to Randall you are drawing on the largest supply of Cut Flowers in the E 



s Central States — you can rely on Randall. Anything that's in the market, Randall has it. 2 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



Wabash Ave. 

 at Lake St. 



CHICAGO 



Phones: 

 Cent. 7720 



E Do you receive our Cut Flower Bulletin? Will put you on the list on request. = 



thirty years of Michigan boulevard. 

 Ninety acres of the Snake river farms 

 under his management were in apples, 

 but late frosts 'hit them season after 

 season and he is pulling the orchards 

 out, planting wheat and oats. Only 

 about thirty-five acres of apples remain. 

 He looks as though the open air life 

 agrees with him. He is able to enjoy 

 it, with the store in the capable hands 

 of Mrs. Samuelson and Ed. Enders. 



To assist in the Easter rush, Edward 

 Mallinson, of the Meischman Floral 

 Co., had the assistance of two expert 

 salesmen, I. Rosnosky, loaned bv the 

 W. W. Barnard Co., and H. A. Woolf, 

 loaned by the Chicago Flower Grow- 

 ers' Association. There were some ex- 

 cellent pot lilies here, Frank Oechs- 

 lin's stock, but Dorothy Perkins and 

 Tausendschoen roses and French hy- 

 drangeas constituted the bulk of the 

 stock. These were unusually good. The 

 cut flower business exceeded all since- 

 the-war records. 



J. Wall, who has been in the business 

 on North Springfield avenue since 1889, 

 several years ago ran across a red gera- 

 nium different from any of the stand- 

 ard varieties and, he thinks, better. 

 He has worked up a stock of about 

 2,000 plants, which he expects to dis- 

 tribute this summer. 



CUT QLADIOLI 



America and Francis King $6.00 per 100 



Asparagus Edulis (for Greens) 50 per 100 



Asparagus Plumosus 2 00 per 100 



Cut Roses ( White, Pink and Red) 3.00 per 100 



WRITE, WIRE OR PHONE. 



IMPERIAL GARDENS, Sugar Land, Tex. 



Hotel La Salle has a not large but 

 most attractive flower store. The La 

 Salle was the first Chicago hotel to 

 go into the florists' business, without a 

 show room, and now is the first to open 

 a sure-enough flower store. Edward 

 Boyar, the director, is not a florist, but 

 employs professional help. With the 

 hotel's own work as a starter and the 

 certainty of a fine corsage trade, the 

 store should prove a good investment 

 for the company. 



The carnation growers are starting 

 one of their heavy tasks, that of plant- 

 ing the young stock in the field. Peter 

 J. Schumer, who is one of the oldest 



growers in the Evanston district, says 

 he always undertakes to start his field 

 planting April 20, but this year it was 

 April 22 before he got at it, Easter 

 coming so unusually late. 



Eric Johnson, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., says that to him the best feature of 

 the Easter business was the way the 

 buyers came back April 21. In the 

 fact that there was an unusually heavy 

 shipping trade, and that all the local 

 buyers were heard from, he sees evi- 

 dence that all the retailers sold out 

 on their Easter purchases. 



A. Miller, president of the American 

 Bulb Co., feels that the conditions are 



