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The Florists' Review 



NOTBMBBK 26. 1914. 



Christmas Greens ' 



Don't lose sight of the fact that Randall's is headquarters for everything in Greens. 

 If you are in the market for a quantity, you take a chance to lose good money if you 

 buy elsewhere before getting Randall's quotations. • 



GOOD HOLLY 



We have received our first car of Holly and it is good. 

 Can make shipment any day now. We quote: 



Per case, - - - $4.50 

 lO-caselots, - - 4.00 



BOXWOOD 



Thick, mossy, free from wood; fresh picked; line color. 

 Standard crate, - $7.00 



5-crate lots, - - 6.50 



BOUQUET GREEN 



Late picked; flrst-class stock. Beware the early picked 

 stock offered cheaper. 



Per crate, 100 lbs., - $6.00 

 Special quotations on quantities. 



RED BERRIES 



We want you to send for a sample; sure to please. 

 Per case, - - - $1.50 



LAUREL WREATHING, fine, fresh, fuU per 100 yards, $6.00 



GALAX, Green or Bronze per case of 10,000, 6.00 



PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Everything for Florists, 



L. D. Phone Central 7720 



Private Exchang-e all 



Departments 



66 E. Randolph Street, Chicago 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



with the rest and are again selling 

 clean at good prices. 



Chrysanthemums seldom are so near 

 the end of their season at Thanksgiv- 

 ing. Some growers are completely cut 

 out and most of them are cleaning up 

 this week. There will be a few mums 

 until Christmas, as usual, but they will 

 not cut much figure after this week. 

 The prices being realized this week are 

 as good as usually prevail at this date; 

 in fact, there is such a demand for 

 good, clean, small stock that this grade 

 IS bringing excellent money. Of the 

 fine, big late varieties there are enough 

 80 that prices have not advanced as 

 sharply as they have on smaller grades. 

 Pompons still are plentiful. 



The market ascribes the sudden re- 

 turn of the brisk shipping demand to 

 the fact that the mums through the 

 country are pretty well finished off. 

 If this is the case, there should be 

 good shipping business right along. 



Easter lilies arc about the only item 

 that is more abundant than heretofore. 

 Violets are scarce and cattleyas, for 

 the first time in weeks, are short of 

 the demand. Some excellent bouvardia 

 has arrived. Stevia is plentiful, and 

 so is valley. There are more sweet peas 

 than UBuadly is the case at this time 

 of year. All greens are abundant. 



This week's issue goes to press on 

 the day that the majority of the 

 Thanksgiving orders are being shipped. 

 It is too early to tell how the volume 

 of business will compare with previous 

 years, but it seems quite certain that 

 the demand will equal the supply of 

 first-class stock and there is a general 

 feeling that normal business conditions 

 may be expected to prevail, at least 

 until after Christmas. 



Club Meeting. 



An adjourned meeting of the Chicago 



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Florists ' Club was held at the Bismarck 

 hotel November 19, nomination of offi- 

 cers being the special order of business 

 and resulting as follows: 



For president — W. J. Keimel, of 

 Elmhurst. 



For vice-president — James Morton. 



For secretary — Guy W. French, of 

 Morton Grove; T. E. Waters and Mike 

 Fink. 



For treasurer — Paul R. Klingsporn. 



For trustee — C. L. Washburn, to suc- 

 ceed himself. 



Various Notes. 



The American Rose Society has not 

 yet accepted the invitation to meet in 

 Chicago next spring. At a meeting 

 of the executive committee in New 

 York last week it was decided to defer 

 action on the time and place of 

 meeting. 



The sixth annual dancing party of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Union, 

 which is affiliated with the American, 

 the Illinois and the Chicago federations 

 of labor, was an excellent success. It 



was held November 21, at Wicker Park 

 hall, 2046 West North avenue. Louis 

 Heidtmann, 3610 North Richmond 

 street, is secretary. The union label 

 is the representation of a well filled 

 fern dish. 



That roses will not be so scarce in 

 January as has been the case in recent 

 years is the firm belief of John Zech, 

 based on the fact that a majority or 

 growers are not in the usual crop for 

 Thanksgiving. 



It is reported that the A. F. Amliug 

 Co., of Maywood, has placed an order 

 with Poehlmann Bros. Co. for $2,500 

 worth of grafted rose plants for early 

 delivery. 



The employees of Kennicott Bros. 

 Co. state that sales to November 20 

 were $500 ahead of the same days of 

 the month last .year, which everyone 

 will agree is an excellent record. 



C. A. Boyle, of Gallon, Mich., who is 

 shipping large quantities of excellent 

 red winter berries to this market, 

 seems to have the right idea. He uses 

 nothing but corrugated fiberboard boxes 



