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The Florists' Review 



Jdne 11, 1914. 



BEAUTIES 



Order of us and you can get all you need, of the length your trade calls for and at a price that will mske 

 your work pay you a good profit. These are good Beauties — as good as the market afiforde— and they will ship 

 well — at least as well as any other flowers in hot weather. 



VALLEY 



You can count on Randall at all times to furnish fancy 

 Valley. Have arranged for a specially large supply for June. 

 Wire your orders if time is short. 



ORCHIDS 



Our Cattleyas are the fresh, home-grown ^tock, large, 

 dark colored, the kind that every retailer shows with pride. 

 A large cut this month. 



LILIES 



We can oflfer specially attractive prices 

 on large lots of Giganteum Lilies for June 

 wedding decorations. 



GLADIOLI 



America, Augusta and red in quantity. 

 We have these of excellent quality and at 

 attractive prices. 



ROSES 



Plenty of short and medium roses— all 

 varieties— just the length you want in 

 quantity. Write forquotations on large lots. 



GAILLARDIAS 



When your work calls for something 

 bright— Bulgarian— use these: $1.00 to 

 $1.50 per 100. 



PEONIES 



You can get of us all the first-class 

 peonies you need. Our stock is put up by 

 an old and reliable shipper. 



CARNATIONS 



If any carnations will ship in hot 

 weather, ours will. We have as good 

 stock as the season affords. 



All the Smilax Strings you want, 12c each 



A. L. Randall Co. 



ETerythins for Horistt, rriL'cXfS??^^ 66 E. Randolph St., Chicaj 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



fore known in this market. The con- 

 diti^n of heavy supply appears to be 

 general over all that part of the coun- 

 try to which Chicag(^ ordinarily ships, 

 for orders are light and many who have 

 canceled standing orders have stated 

 that for the time being they have a 

 local supply, perhaps not the flowers 

 usually obtained from Chicago, but of 

 something they want to work off. The 

 weather reports indicate that the trop- 

 ical heat IS general from the Rocky 

 Mountains east. It will finish off the 

 crops quickly, and then there will be 

 good summer business in Chicago for 

 those who are taking care of their 

 plants so as to be able to cut good 

 quality a little later. 



Beauties are more plentiful than they 

 have been in months and are selling 

 well because they ship well. An out- 

 of-town buyer can place reliance in 

 Beauties reaching him in salable shape 

 even when the mercury is flirting with 

 the century mark. -Of course a large 

 part of the Beauties are open and can- 

 not be shipped. The prices these bring 

 when sold to the Greek fruit venders 

 are so low that nothing more can be 

 said for them than that to the growers 

 they are better than nothing. Roses 

 are much in the same situation. There 

 is an abundance of everything, quality 

 averages so low that only a fraction of 

 the day's receipts can be trusted for 

 shipping, the local trade takes only a 

 part of the remainder, and the popped 

 open roses are jobbed at anything the 

 buyer will pay. 



Carnations scarcely can be shipped 

 in such weather. First-class stock is 

 bard to find, and it is a risk to ship 



even the best while the heat is so 

 high. Still, many buyers insist that 

 their orders be filled. Since Memorial 

 day the complaints have not been nu- 

 merous, for the buyers know how the 

 stock will come. Of course the flowers 

 are getting smaller in size and many 

 are so soft that they are dead when 

 they reach the market. 



There has been no chance to sell the 

 peonies left over in storage at Memorial 

 day; the local crop has been so heavy 

 and so fine that the storage stock still 

 is in the freezer, along with many 

 thousands of dozens cut in the last ten 

 days. This week will see the end of 

 the local peonies. There are fears that 

 the keeping quality of the stock now 

 going into storage may have been im- 

 paired by the great heat, for it .has 

 averaged 20 degrees above normal this 

 week. 



Gladioli are coming heavily. There 

 will be millions of them this year. But 

 sweet peas are going; the heat has 

 finished them off. Of course there will 

 be moderate quantities all summer, but 

 the fine Spencers from under glass are 

 not the factor they have been. Easter 

 lilies are a glut; everybody has them 

 and the buyer who will take a quantity 

 can name his own figure; accumulations 

 sold in job lots have gone at as 

 little as $2 per hundred this week, 

 something heretofore unknown in this 

 market. Water lilies have arrived, but 

 are an inconsiderable factor. Gaillar- 

 dias have taken the place calendulas 

 have occupied all winter. There are 

 not many cattleyas, but enough. Val- 

 ley is abundant and not selling so well 

 as was expected; probably the weddings 

 are consuming as much as ever, but 



more growers are forcing valley and in 

 greater quantities. 



Smilax once more is in good supply 

 and selling at old-time prices. New 

 eastern ferns are in and the market has 

 dropped. 



Various Notes. 



Financial trouble is supposed to have 

 caused the «uicide of Stanley Knaflew- 

 ski, who shot himself while in a bed- 

 room in the rear of his store at 2321 

 North Hamilton avenue, June 7. He 

 was 42 years of age, born in Russia. 

 He came to this country oight years 

 ago and has had the store at the above 

 address six years, under the name Ham- 

 ilton Floral Co. A wife, Stella, and 

 six children survive him. Burial took 

 place June 10 at the Bohemian Na- 

 tional cemetery. 



As an evidence that sweet peas pay, 

 Henry Wehrman, the Maywood grower, 

 last week invested in a new 6-cylinder 

 Moline-Knight touring car. It will be 

 of interest that the salesman was 

 Charles Hartung, son of the pioneer 

 florist. Mr. Hartung had Mr. Wehr- 

 man and John Michelsen out for a dem- 

 onstration trip on which the only faster 

 vehicle encountered was a motorcycle 

 ridden by a policeman. 



Returning from his third year at 

 Culver Military Academy, John Poehl- 

 mann, Jr., is spending his summer vaca- 

 tion in the store. He is proud of his 

 school, but next best he likes to lend 

 a hand to T. E. Waters in the supply 

 department of the business of which 

 his father is president. 



The bowling league of the Cook 

 County Florists' Association completed 

 its season June 3, the championship 



