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The Florists^ Review 



NOTEMBEB 6, 1913. 



MUMS 



Good Stock in All Colors 

 ' Note the Prices Below 



We are Ready to Supply Anything You Want 



Fancy Bonnaffons, the best yellow ./ $12.50 to $20.00 per 100 



Ivory, the best medium white ^ 10.00 to 15.00 per 100 



OTHER VARIETIES 



Fancy .... I 20c to 25c 



Large Medium 12c to iSc 



Small Medium 8c to 1 Oc 



Small 4c to 6c 



Pompons, all colors 50c to $1.00 buncii 



HEADQUARTERS FOR AKfERICAN BEAUTIES 



We have a large supply, all lengths, fine quality. Specially strong on. long steins. Send us your orders and we will see 

 that you get the best Beauties in the West and just the length you want. Plenty of fancy long stems. 



Randall's Supply of Roses Always is Very Large 



You can get all the Boses you want— any length and any variety — for we have all the noyelties as well as the standard 

 sorts. Note that at present our crops of Killarney are specially fi^^y and fine quality. Excellent stock at 3c to 6c. 

 Order Boses of Bandall and you will win. * 



CARNATIONS 



We expect to have plenty to fill every order. Prices 

 for the next week, $2.00 to $4.00 per 100. Good shipping 

 stock always. 



These prices represent the best values 

 on Mums to be found anywhere that there 

 is a large and dependable supply. All 

 seasonable varieties are included. All 

 colors. Let us have your orders. 



VIOLETS 



Fine New York doubles, 75c to $1.00 per 100; home-grown 

 singles, 60c to 75c per 100. Fancy home-grown doubles in 

 moderate supply, $1.00 to $1.60 per 100. 



We Can Supply Extra Fancy Cattleya Orchids at $6.00 to $7.50 per doz. 

 VALLEY EASTER LILIES 



You should have a daily or every-other-day shipment 

 of this from us, but don't miss a sale because you haven't 

 got the stock. Take the order and wire us. 



We can supply fancy Giganteum Lilies, cool-grown, cut 

 a little tight to ship any distance, at $8.00 to $10.00 per 

 100. Never without them. 



SWEET PEAS RUBRUM LILIES 



Just starting $1.00 to $1.50 per 100 Fine stock $8.00 per 100 



Fine Boxwood and Wild Smilax awaiting your order 



IF YOU DO NOT HAVE OUR SUPPLY CATALOGUE AT HAND, SEND FOR A COPY. 



A. L. Randall Co 



66 E. Randolph St, Chicago 



Everything for Florists, 



L D. Phoae Ceatnl 7720 

 Private Exchaite ill Departaents 



Mpnflnp Thp H«>T^ew when yog write. 



these do not bring top prices. Milady 

 is selling well. Russell has about dis- 

 appeared, the wood being needed for 

 propagating. 



Violets are not causing any great 

 flurry and yet they are bringing 

 fair prices, owing to a decrease in the 

 eastern shipments. Lilies are to be 

 found in good quantities and there is 

 no trouble about prices. Valley is not 

 running so strong as might be ex- 

 pected, but the large social functions 

 are not so numerous as when the sea- 

 son opened. Local cattleyas are bring- 

 ing good prices in spite of shipments 

 from the east at low rates. A few 

 sweet peas are seen. Greens ara/quiet. 



There is quite general complaint in 

 the market that collections are not up 

 to the usual standard. Cut flower deal- 

 ers, florists' supply concerns, bulb and 

 seed dealers all say the florists in gen- 

 eral are as ready as ever to buy heav- 

 ily, but that they are not so prompt 

 as usual in meeting their bills. 



Octobef Weather. 



The mean temperature for October 

 was almost exactly normal and the 

 precipitation was less than a quarter 

 of an inch, below the normal, but the 

 percentagje s^ 0^ possible sunshine was 

 only fifty-fjtor a^against a normal of 

 sixty-four; t^m/ average was exactly 

 six hours of a^ per day. The month 

 was warm and^right in the first half 

 and cold and dark in the second half, 

 not good growing weather. 



Credit Association's Year. 



Th4»as8ociation of wholesale florists 

 organized under the management of the 

 WilbuRi Mercantile Agency is just fin- 

 ishinpT the year for, which the original 

 agreement was drawn. Theoretically 

 excellent, and actually producing many 

 desirable results, ^n practice the plan 

 has not proved fully successful, some 

 of the largest houses having declined to 

 come in o?iginally and others having 



some time ago either withdrawn or 

 announced their intention of doing so. 

 Many of the remainder feel that they 

 cannot carry on the work alone. The 

 result is that a plan has been broached 

 looking to a reorganization eliminat- 

 ing the delinquent list, and apparently 

 recognizing that this feature cannot 

 be worked successfully in this trade. 



Various Notes. 



Lubliner & Trinz opened their new 

 store at 41 South Wabash avenue Oc- 

 tober 29 and report that business has 

 been much more satisfactory than had 

 been anticipated for a new location. 

 The interior of the store is finished 

 in white and a United refrigerator in 

 the same color is one of the most im- 

 pressive ice-boxes yet seen. The only 

 drawback in the new place is two 

 large pillars that stand in the middle 

 of the store, cutting off the refrigera- 

 tor from the eye of the customer as he 

 enters the door. A basement affords 



