NOVBMBBB 6, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



37 



Special Offer of Pompons 



$25.00 and $35.00 per 100 bunches 



lOO-bunch rate will apply on any order for over 50 bunches. 



These include the best grades, stock which is selling steadily at 35c and 50c 

 per bunch. Assorted colors. 



MUMS 



$1.50 to $3.00 per doz. 

 $8.00, $12.00, $15.00, $20.00 per 100 



MUMS 



Try Our Ophelia Roses 



We offer this week a large cut of exceptionally 

 fine Ophelia— special values in the medium and long 

 grades, which are the greater part of the crop. 



Good cuts of Columbia^ Premier and Russell 



.._. and All Other Popular Varieties 



CARNATIONS, *' 



00 to $4.00 



per 100 



CALENDULAS 



BALL'S SPECIAL 



DOUBLE STRAIN 



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

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



Asparagus 



Plumosus $2.00 to $3.00 per 100 



Sprengeri 2.00 to 3.00 per 100 



Order Today 



Br«nze Galax $12.50 case tf 10,000 



Boxw*od $12.50 per case 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



Wabash Ave. 

 at Lake St. 



CHICAGO 



Phones: 

 Cent. 7720 



Mention Tbe Review when you write. 



The growers are not so well satisfied 

 as the wholesalers. They cut much 

 more stock than in the month of last 

 year and did not receive, on the whole, 

 as much money for it. It is probable 

 that from three to four times as many 

 flowers were sold as in October, 1918. 

 Roses did not average, on the whole, 

 above one-third of last October's aver- 

 age prices and pompons make fully as 

 bad a comparison of returns. Last year 

 the market was bare every minute and 

 growers cut everything a little before 

 it was really ready. This year the mar- 

 ket was well supplied at all times and 



oversupplied a considerable part of the 

 time. 



With the Allied Trades. 



A visit to some of the concerns which, 

 in former years, were strongly heard 

 from as the result of the business done 

 with florists developed some interest- 

 ing facts, nearly all in line with earlier 

 predictions that merchandise will be 

 scarce this winter. 



The Eaedlein Basket Co., once one of 

 the strongest bidders for florists' pat- 

 ronage, reports that the shortage of 

 willow, rattan and weavers necessitates 

 putting the effort on the manufacturing 



instead of the sales end of the business. 



C. M. Tillman, whose specialty was 

 tall Beauty vases and zinc-lined woven 

 window boxes, says material and labor 

 are so hard to get he cannot push his 

 business. 



Joseph Ziska & Sons report greater 

 difficulty to obtain prompt delivery of 

 florists' staple supplies than to sell 

 them when they are in the store. 



Mrs. Cooper, of the Auburndale Gold- 

 fish Co., says retail florists, and others 

 handling goldfish, are doing so brisk a 

 business that it is difficult to keep them 

 supplied with fish. 



The Superior Machine and Boiler 



