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The Rorists^Rcvicw 



JdLt 29, 1915. 



yoird reason, proved to be false 

 prophets. 



Roses, though in unusually large sup- 

 ply for the time of year, had begun to 

 shorten up by the middle of last week, 

 and were not sufficient in many in- 

 stances to meet the demand. As the 

 call is altogether for stock to be used in 

 funeral work, the short-stemmed roses 

 were the ones that were wanted. White 

 Killarney, Ophelia, Hillingdon and al- 

 most anything in the shape of a light- 

 colored rose took preference over Rus- 

 sell and the other darker colored va- 

 rieties. The quality of the roses is, 

 generally speaking, better than it was 

 a week ago. Russell has regained 

 much of its color, but now much of 

 the stock shows a bad attack of black 

 spot. 



Asters, particularly white, are clear- 

 ing rapidly. The short stems of the 

 early arrivals seem rather an advantage 

 than a disadvantage. The supply has 

 not «qual«d the demand this week. 

 The unexpected call for light colored 

 flowers was a ^reat help to those who 

 still held peonies in storage, enabling 

 them to clean up at double the prices 

 they would gladly have accepted had 

 they been offered last week. Carna- 

 tions, though small and poor, cleared 

 rapidly, and late afternoons found 

 them off the market. Valley did not 

 move as well as it should, though it 

 cleared. Easter lilies again came to the 

 front, as did sweet peas. Gladioli 

 proved the principal reliance; there 

 were enough of them to go around. 



Greens were in heavy demand, and 

 ferns and galax were scarce on the 

 afternoon of July 26. 



The Eastland Disaster. 



Among those who displayed cool- 

 headed courage in the saving of lives 

 during the overturning of the steamship 

 Eastland in the Chicago river, July 24, 

 was Joseph Erringer, a packer for Zech 

 & Mann's. Mr. Erringer, who was on 

 the third deck in company with his 

 sister and four other young ladies, suc- 

 ceeded in saving all but one of the 

 party, hauling them over the rail onto 

 the side of the boat after it had tipped. 



In the list of identified dead appears 

 the name of Martha Qurvass, 4118 

 West Twenty-fifth street. The deceased 

 was at one time employed in the sup- 

 ply department of the A. L. Randall 

 Co. Another body has been identified 

 as that of P. Reilly, who was employed 

 about the greenhouses of Calvary ceme- 

 tery. 



Elinore Hahn, an employee in the 

 store of A. Lange, 25 East Madison 

 street, is among the rescued. Her sister 

 and brother-in-law, with their children, 

 were lost. 



George Baum, who operates an El- 

 liott-Fisher billing machine in the office 

 of the A. L. Randall Co., was on the 

 upper deck of the boat when it rolled 

 lazily over. He and his friends had 

 plenty of time to scramble over the 

 rail to the side of the boat and were 

 taken off without a wetting. In the 

 Randall basket factory is Wm. Bub- 

 bers and in the office is his daughter, 

 Ella Bubbers. They mourn the loss 

 of a son and brother. 



A. C. Schafer, of Winterson's Seed 

 Store, spent Saturday searching the 

 morgues for the l^dy of a niece who 

 was in the excursion party. Late at 

 night she was found. 



John Prickett, of the Des Plaines 

 Floral 06.,' 'thought his brother wns lost, I 



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I Make Summer Days I 

 i Real Hummer Days 



The fragrance and beauty of flowers in the house, 

 the apartment and the office are as welcome in 

 Summer as in any other season. 



Attractive windows, cool pleasant store, advertising 

 in your local paper, and solicitation by mail or in 

 ];>erson will develop good business for Summer days 

 and better for the future. 



Lilium Gi- Beauties Other Early 



ganteum Russells Roses Asters 



Plentiful offer- The two leading All popular var- Good cuttings 



ings. Fresh and roses— plenty of ie ties in abund- in White, Pink 



strong. Keep them at very ance. Good and Lavender, 



well even in hot low prices. sellers at all People will wel- 



weather. seasons. come them. 



Cornflowers, Shasta Daisies. Feverfew, Calendula 

 and others of the popular Summer blooms. 



A. L. RANDALL COMPANY 



WABASH AT LAKE 



Phone 

 Central 7720 



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but finally found him in a hospital, 

 badly bruised. 



Various Notes. 



George Asmus and Mrs. Asmus start 

 August 8 for a month's trip to the 

 Pacific coast, during which, of course, 

 they will attend the S. A. P. conven- 

 tion. 



The resttrvations for the special train 



to San Francisco for the convention, 

 leaving here August 12, now number 

 thirteen. Those from Chicago are Emil 

 Beichling and Fred Meyer, who will 

 travel together; Miss McNulty and 

 Miss Parker. Four are coming from 

 Cincinnati, four from Washington and 

 one from St. Louis. 



The J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., 

 at Joliet, is preparing to disseminate. 



