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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 31, 1917. 



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1 YOU ARE right! 



When you say that it is wasting time to hunt around to find a place to buy what 

 you want, for if flowers are to be had we have them. We handle such tremendously 

 large quantities of stock that you are certain to find just what you want. Our cuts 

 include all grades. 



We wish you could be here to select for yourself just what you want, but if you 

 will tell us your needs, the kind and quality of stock desired, we will fill your 

 order with the same care and thought with which you yourself would do so. You 

 will not be disappointed. This spells real service, it is Randall service. 



A. L. RANDALL COMPANY 



Rush Orders 

 are Welcome 



Wholesale Cut Flowers 



Phone 

 Central 7720 



I Wabash Ave. at Lake St., 



CHICAGO i 



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SB! 



Mention The Rpview when yon write. 



WIETOR BROS., 



162 N. 

 WABASH AVENUE, 



CHICAeO 



Mrs. Chas. Russell Per 100 



Fancy $12.00 (O; $15.00 



Good 8.00@ 10.00 



Miniature Roses 



Baby Doll 3.C0 



Elger 3.00 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



Pink and White Killarney, Ophelia, 



Sunburst and Richmond Per 100 



Extra special $s.00 



Select 7.00 



Fancy 6.00 



Medium 5.00 



Short 4.00 



Carnations 



Fancy 3.00 



Good 2.00 



Subject to change without notice. 



Miscellaneous 



Peonies 



Valley 



Lilies 



Ferns 



Smilax... 



Adiantum 



Galax (bronzeand green), lOOO. 



Asparagus Sprengeri..bch., 



Asparagus Pluniosus..bch., 



Boxwood per lb.. 



P€r 1000, 



.per doz. strings. 



Per 100 



$ 6.00 <§ S 8.00 



6 00 



12.50 @ 16.0U 



3.60 



3.00 



1.00 



1.50 



.60 



.50 



.25 



2.50 @ 



ROSES, our selection, $4 OO per ICO 



Other Green Goods Market Rates 



Mention The Review wlien you write. 



indicaticiis are that the Memorial day 

 business will come up to the splendid 

 record of increase made by Mothers' 



day- 

 There is not a superabundance of 

 stock on tlie market and yet it can 

 not be said that a scarcity exists. 

 There are, of course, exceptions, cer- 

 tain items dcvelopiufj a marked short- 

 age. Taken by and large, it is safe to 

 say that stock generally is of good 

 quality and in supply just about enough 

 to meet the demand. 



American Beauties are scarce and 

 clear readily. All otlier varieties of 

 roses clear easily at good prices. There 

 are many Kussells of cxoeptionally fine 

 quality to be seen, but the demand for 

 them has not been entirely satisfac- 

 tory. Carnations are in good supply 

 and of fair quality. They are finding a 

 ready sale and prices have held up to 

 an unusually high mark considering 

 last week 's poor market. 



Sweet i^eas are in oversupply and 

 are not soiling well. Peonies, on the 

 other hand, are a little sliort, which is 

 an important factor in strengthening 

 all the other lines, as the peony is the 

 big item in this market for Memorial 

 day. They are finding a ready sale at 

 good prices. Gladioli are in good sup- 

 ply, but not in heavy demand. Lilac 



clears easily. Lilies and callas also 

 sell well. Good snapdragons are in 

 fair demand, but poorer quality stock 

 moves slowly. Good quantities of 

 feverfew reach the market and find a 

 ready sale. Cape jasmines are not a 

 factor this year, the crops in the south 

 having been hit by frost. 



Greens remain scarce and hold firmly 

 to quotation prices. 



The Business in May. 



Except for one or two intervals of 

 light demand and large oversupply, 

 caused principally by one or two un- 

 seasonably warm days in the midst of 

 a cool season, May has been an ex- 

 ceptionally good month. The record 

 is somewhat variable, because some 

 houses did not have their usual sup- 

 plies of stock in May, but on the whole 

 the market did more business, in dol- 

 lars, than in May of any previous year. 

 Mothers' day was big and Memorial 

 day, in recent years among the best of 

 special flower days, again showed an 

 increase. The times between holidays, 

 while they were both good and bad, 

 were fully up to the best previous May. 

 Consequently, if business will continue 

 as good as it has been in May this 

 market will be cheerful. 



But there is a feeling that a slump 



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WHOLESALE coMMiasiow FLORISTS 



S« Ba«« Rudolpk Sljtt . 

 CHICAGO 



\Tt»ntli.M 'riiM lifviHw whfn vihi write. 



is imminent. Tiie season has been un- 

 usually cool and it has held back all 

 kinds of flowers, but especially peonies. 

 A change to warm, bright weather can 

 not be far away and with it will come 

 a deluge of flowers, peonies in par 

 ticular, carnations to a scarcely less 

 extent, affecting the salability of roses 

 even if the supply is not so large. The 

 ]>eony season, however, is likely to be 

 short this year except for the stock put 

 in storage. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Elsie Schnapp, who joined the 

 staff of W. J. Smyth last autumn as 

 saleslady and designer, was his first 

 woman employee, but Mr. Smyth thinks 

 women will occupy a place of steadily 

 increasing importance in the trade. 

 There now arc only two or three stores 

 in Chicago where the employees all are 

 men. 



