May 19, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



41 



Extra Strong 



Improved Beauty 



TISSUE PAPER 



A Saperior Wrapping Tissue Developed by A. L. Randall Co. 



Improved Beauty Tissue Paper has long 

 been recognized as a superior article. 

 Now, by a most favorable contract, we 

 can offer it to the trade at a price so low it 

 seems a miracle. Along with this record- 

 breaking cut in cost is the very highest 

 quality. Improved Beauty Tissue is extra 

 strong — unusually white — highly glazed 

 — moisture-proof and economical to use. 



A perfect product at a bargain price. 



Unusually White 



Highly Glazed 



Economical 



This is an actual photoeraph of a bundle of Randall's 

 Beauty Tissue It contains 4000 sheets of clean, white, 

 strone tissue, put up in ten reams of 400 sheets each. 

 These sheets measure 24x36-inch. Note some wrappine 

 tissue is only 20x30-inch. Thus Improved Beauty con- 

 tains 43% more paper per sheet than the smaller size. 



Randall Improved Beauty Tissue 

 per bundle of 10 reams or 4000 

 sheets. Size 24x36 



50 



$10:50 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Moisture Proof 180 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. Lowest Price 



a minor iirohlom, as tliey arc not easy 

 to move in unusual (luantity. 



Memorial Day Prospects. 



The market li.as been thrown into a 

 stat(! of inu'(.'rtainty by the suildcn 

 rcali/atioii tliat tlic late frosts in south 

 •Til Iniliaiia anil Illinois did '{jreat dam 

 .'ige to the peonies on which the trade 

 has depended to a larj^e extent to meet 

 the Memorial day demand. At the time 

 of the frosts it was thought the buds 

 were not far enough ;idvaiiced to be 

 affected, or that the frosts were not 

 heavy enou;;h to do damage in the 

 more southerly fields. Within the last 

 week, however, it has become api)arent 

 th.at the principal fields from which 

 would come the supply for this back- 

 ward season have been ])ractically 

 ruined. The more northerly fields will 

 not be ready; the earlier ones are dam- 

 aged ]ierhaps seventy-five per cent. As 

 ,•1 result the market must depend princi- 

 pally on indoor flowers to meet a de- 



mand greatly increased by the lack of 

 the tisual (piantities of outdoor flowers. 

 'There'will be only moilerate sii])|ilies 

 of roses, carnations, sweet i>eas ainl 

 other greenhouse flowers. The prob 

 ability that there is a warm spell due 

 soon to make u]i for the recent weeks 

 of cold leails to the belief that the sup 

 ply will lie somewhat larger than :il 

 jtresent, but how it can make up for the 

 toss of thousands of dozens of peonies 

 no one c;tn s(M'. As a result .'in unprece- 

 dented demand for short roses is ex 

 jiected, as for carnations. As to prices, 

 the belief is that what peonies there are 

 will command 12 cents to 1.') cents, that 

 good carnations should f(>tcli S cents to 

 111 cents and that short roses will be less 

 than the demand at 10 cents up. There 

 is no disposition to raise the ]>rice of 

 long roses, as it is recognized ^lemorial 

 day is a quantity day rather than, like 

 Christmas, a quality day. 



Ferns will be scarce and those who 

 use quantities in their Memorial day 



leiiietery bou(pu'ts will do well to m.ake 

 sure of their supply. The general quo- 

 tation is $(5 ]ier thousaii<l. but some 

 large dealers have withdrawn quota- 

 tions, fearing the market is going still 

 higher. Other gri'eiis are seasonably 

 .ilnmdant. 



Toot! Toot! 



The trade's particip.ation in tlie 

 I'ageant of Progress during the first 

 half of August gives promise of turn- 

 ing into something in the nature of a 

 llorists' convention ;ind trade exhibi- 

 tion. There are tluiusands of florists 

 who woubl rather visit fhicago during 

 the summer than to go anywhere else. 

 This is the center of tiie trade to them 

 ;ind they like to come to town and look 

 things over. With alioiit In.OdO stpiare 

 feet of exliibition sji.ace ;iv,iilable on 

 the Municipal I'ier, the committee in 

 ch.'trge thinks the time ]iropitious for 

 a big trade gathering. Tiie idea may 

 develop along tlu' lines of inviting all 



