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The Florists^ Review 



April 27. 1922 







RANDALL for ROSES 



Fancy Premier 



$8.00, $10.00, $12.00, $15.00, $18.00, $20.00 and 



$25.00 per 100 



These are the finest Roses now coming to this market 



Fine Columbia and Butterfly 



A large supply at $4.00 to $15.00 per 100 



Also good supplies of other varieties 



Don't miss sales — wire or phone to us 

 for anything you need 



A. L. Randall Company 



180 N. Wabash Avenue CHICAGO 



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^ ▲ ^ FLOWERS ''at their best'' h^ From Grower Direct ^m 



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«!^,. FI0WER CROWERS 



CHICAGC 



of the larger houses, asked to consult 

 their records, report that last year their 

 sales for the week preceding Mothers' 

 day exceeded Easter week of that year 

 by about ten per cent. Eead that sen- 

 tence again and the need for special 

 preparations will be realized. 



There seems no chance that the supply 

 of flowers will exceed the demand. It is 

 impossible that greenhouses which were 

 in crop for Easter this year can be in 

 crop again for Mothers' day, as might 

 be the case with an early Easter. Flow- 



ers always arc in large supply in May, 

 liut the demand for Mothers' day has 

 grown so amazingly that it is sure to take 

 everything in sight. How it looks from 

 the Chicago market point of view is 

 shown by tlie comment of a wholesaler 

 who said: "If it were policy to do so, 

 I am sure we could sell to other whole- 

 salers every carnation we shall receive; 

 j)robably the same is true of short and 

 medium roses, and it is quite possible we 

 miglit, by selling to other wholesalers, 

 obtain better prices than we shall feel 



disposed to charge the retailers whose 

 busine.ss we have had regularly and want 

 to keep." 



As to prices, it is considered that last 

 year's Mothers' day prices were about 

 right, even if the demand exceeds supply. 



Daylight Saving Again. 



Sunday, April 30, all Chicago will set 

 its clocks ahead one hour. It is a month 

 later than Chicago went on the earlier 

 time schedule last year, but it promises 

 to be no less inconvenient, because so 



