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APBit 29, 1915. 



The Florists' Review 



29 



YOU 

 PUSH IT! 



WE SDFPLY THE STOCK 



If You Use Randall's RoseSf 

 You Will Make Money 



You can get at Randall's any or all the 

 yarieties of Roses that are on the mar- 

 ket—and you can get any quantity — the length you want, good quality — and at the price you want to pay. 

 We have a specially good cut of medium-length Killarney. Also a large cut of Beauties of specially good quality. 



Carnations 



You can order here with the assurance you are drawing 

 on the largest supply of Carnations in the west. We expect 

 to be able to fill all orders for Mothers' day that call for 

 assorted colors. ExceUent quality and right prices. 



Lilies 



How about your Lily orders? We can supply Gigan- 

 teums, Rubrums or Calias in quantity— fine stock of all 

 three, and at prices that will let you make better than the 

 usual profits. Try some of these today. 



FANCY SPENCER SWEET PEAS 



You can get them here— all you want, and the product of the best growers for this market. 

 — You can build up a fine trade on these. 



Plenty off Vall«yf Dalsias, Snapdragon, Stocks, Spanish iris and all fflowors In soason. Also a good 



supply off Forns, Adiantum, Qalax, Smilax and all othor grsons. 



Have you taken advantage of the supply bargains in our "Invitation Special"? Turn to it— pink 

 pages 32 to 40 in The Review for April 8. Orders must be mailed by May 1 to get these low prices. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Everything for Florists, 



L. D. Phone Central 7720 



Private Exchange all 



Departments 



Wabash Ave., at Lake St., Chicago 



Mention Tbe Rerlew when 70a write. 



Gleason, The large pieces were: A 

 beautiful horseshoe with a horse's head 

 in the center, done in pink roses, white 

 carnations and Mexican ivy; an im- 

 mense star of red roses and white car- 

 nations; a wheel, fully twelve feet in 

 diameter, with a large horse's head in 

 the center, emblematic of the traffic de- 

 partment, made of white and red roses; 

 a Grecian urn, of pink roses and white 

 carnations; a 7-foot horseshoe of red 

 roses and calla lilies; a saddle of red 

 roses and white sweet peas. The floral 

 display was in charge of A. A. Craig, 

 of J. C, Craig's flower store. 



John Zech Seriously HI. 



John Zech, senior partner of Zech & 

 Mann hes seriously ill at Columbus 

 hospital. Mr. Zech, who is known as 

 making light of physical ills, was at 

 the store as usual April 23, but called 

 a physician that evening. Next day 

 ne was taken to the hospital and 

 operated on by Dr. Thompson. The 

 surgeons describe the case as one of 

 ruptured appendix, a condition which 

 always IS dangerous, as it leads to 

 peritonitis. Mr. Zech rallied well after 

 lie operation, which took about an 

 ftour, but April 26 his condition was 

 such as to cause great alarm. April 

 ^' the report from his bedside was that 



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he was resting somewhat easier but 

 that his condition still was one to 

 cause anxiety. 



Various Notes. 



A new cut flower house will be opened 

 in the Atlas block in the near future 

 by Archie C. Spencer, who will occupy 

 the quarters at present used by John 

 Kruchten. Mr. Spencer has been with 

 Kyle & Foerster for several years and 

 is well known in the trade, in which 

 he has a large number of warm friends. 



At the last hearing of the H. A. 



Fisher case in Referee Banyon's Bank- 

 ruptcy court, Kalamazoo, Mich., a first 

 and final dividend of approximately six 

 per cent was declared. The court was 

 on the point of winding up the estate 

 and discharging the trustee when 

 Franklin Wood, attorney for F. S. 

 Webb, of the Wholesale Florists'' Credit 

 Association, made a motion for a con- 

 tinuance on the grounds that he was 

 getting together new and material testi- 

 mony and has additional witnesses to 

 examine. The motion was granted and 

 the next hearing set for May 29. The 



