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The Florists^ Review 



("KBRUARY 25, 1015. 



A. L RANDALL 



177-179 No. Michigan Ave., 



CUT FLOWER DEPARTMENT 



We are nicely located in our new quarters, with 

 a complete line of Cut Flowers, and are filling complete 

 all orders, large or smalN=call on us for all the stock 

 you can use. No trouble to fill your orders. . 



Roses in larger supply and fine quality. 



Carnations— None better in Chicago. 



Lilies — Longiflorums, Formosnms and 

 • Rubrums. 



Violets— We are headquarters for both 

 single and double. 



Cattleyas— The best, home-grown. They 

 reach you in perfect condition. 



Jonquils, Daffodils, Tulips— Now com- 

 ing in in quantity. 



Valley, Mignonette, Freesia, Greens 

 of all kinds — in fact, any and every- 

 thing on the Chicago market, we can supply. 



EASTER SUNDAY is April 4. We are already booiting orders for 

 Longiflorum Giganteum Lilies, put up at the greenhouse in wooden 

 boxes, 100 in a box, no rehandling, at $iO.0O, $12.00 and $15.00 

 per too, for Easter Delivery. 



DON'T FAIL TO SEND YOUR ORDER TO RANDALL 



Mention The Review when you write. 



quils have fallen to the lowest prices 

 of the season and have carried daffo- 

 dils with them. Freesia and Paper 

 Whites are slightly less abundant, al- 

 though there still are so many that 

 prices are easy. Easter lilies are more 

 plentiful than at any time since Christ- 

 mas. 



Sweet peas are coming in much more 

 heavily; it looks as though the crop 

 were on at last. The Spencers continue 

 to sell about as well as anything on 

 the list. Violets, especially the Hudson 

 river doubles, are so plentiful prices 

 rule extremely low. The glut of cat- 

 tleyas is slowly passing and prices are 

 advancing. Valley is abundant. There 

 are few gardenias. 



The green goods situation remains 

 without change. There is enough of 

 everything. 



Betailers Buy Together. 



The Eetail Florists' Association has 

 selected H. H. Wilkerson as its salaried 

 secretary and is preparing to set in 

 operation a department of cooperative 

 buying. Already a number of joint pur- 

 chases have been made on behalf of 

 the members. The idea is to obtain 

 the advantage of the quantity price. 

 In order to finance the purchases it is 

 planned to sell stock to members, lim- 

 iting holdings to one share each, in^a^ 



separate organization to be known, 

 probably, as the Retail Florists' Co. 

 Mr. Wilkerson is a well known and 

 thoroughly experienced young man. For 

 the time that Henry Wittbold main- 

 tained a downtown store Mr. Wilker- 

 son was his manager. Later he was 

 city salesman for the A. L. Bandall Co. 

 At present he holds a similar position 

 with the Botanical Decorating Co., in 

 which he will continue until the new 

 plan has been developed a little farther, 

 the details for the present centering in 

 the office of President George Stollery. 



Chicago Carnation Co. Quits. 



After an existence of seventeen years 

 the Chicago Carnation Co. will cease 

 doing business March 1. The green- 

 houses at Joliet have been leased to 

 the J. D. Thompson Carnation Co. for 

 five years at a reported rental of $4,000 

 per year and the city store will be 

 taken over by Pyfer & Olsem, who may 

 continue it with their name or they 

 may reorganize it as a separate busi- 

 ness. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., originally 

 managed by J. D. Thompson and James 

 Hartshorne, did not own the green- 

 houses it operated- The greenhouses 

 were the property of H. D. Higinbotham 

 and the operating company was owned 

 by the various members of the Higin- 



isi^lI violets 



TaUpi, Jinqvik, Piper White Nareissi, Reset, 

 Caraatiois and All Kinds el Greens. 



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SO E. Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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botham family. Later all the stock of 

 the corporation passed into the hands 

 of H. D. Higinbotham. J. D. Thompson 

 severed his connection with the Higin- 

 botham interests to start the Thompson 

 Carnation Co., recently managed with 

 marked success by Charles M. Fish, 

 with P. W. Peterson as greenhouse su- 

 perintendent. The leasing of the older 

 range amounts to a consolidation of the 

 two concerns and will more than dou- 

 ble the scope of the operations of the 



