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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbuaby 2, 1905. 



FANCY WHITE LILAC, $1.50 per doz. 



On account of the extra demand we had to refuse quite a large number of orders for White Lilac last week. The 

 crop which is now ready we think is large enough to supply all orders and the quality is the tiest of the seasoxu 



FANCY LILY OF THE VALLEY"Lon^j^8tem8,: Urjc bcUs, strictly fancy stock, $4.00 per JOO^ 



LA REINE TULIPS»Long: stems, plenty of color, the best the market affords, $4.00 per 100; short 

 tulips, $3.00 per )00. 



HUDSON RIVER VIOLETS—We never had anyone deny the fact that OUR violets are the 

 largfest, sweetest and best in Chicagfo. 



CARNATIONS--A fine assortment of extra well g^rown stock and many fancy varieties. 



ROSES»Extra fine, especially in Brides and Maids. A full line of Cut Flowers. If you do not receive 

 our price list we should like to send it to you. 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



21 Randolph St 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Uentlon Tbe BeTlew when 70a write. 



of stock to fill all orders. There were 

 not nearly bo many blooms seen in but- 

 tonholes as last year, but many a house 

 had a little decoration of carnations. 



The supply of stock at present is very 

 light but all the houses seem to be able 

 to fill orders without trouble. White 

 and pink roses are the shortest and 

 Beauties are in the best supply. The 

 price all along the line has been raised. 

 Good Brides and Maids now bring $10 

 to $12 per hundred, best Beauties $5 

 per dozen. Carnations are coming heav- 

 ier than roses but are cleaned up nicely. 

 Violets are about equal to the demand. 

 Bulbous stock and greens sell well. 



Various Notes. 



All the boys are back from the car- 

 nation meeting and many are the praises 

 heard about the treatment received at the 

 hands of the Chicago Florists' Club. E. 

 G Gillett said that the show of blooms 

 was very fine and he felt weU repaid for 

 his trip. Of course B. "Witterstaetter 

 was disappointed in not being able to 

 compete, but judging from the reports, 

 his exhibit was the center of attraction. 

 Ed. Foster, Will Sunderbruch and J. 

 A. Peterson were equally well pleased. 



Our annual rose show, to be held Feb- 

 ruary 11, is moving along nicely and a 

 good display is looked forward to. All 

 growers who have anything new or of 

 extra quality are cordially invited to ex- 

 hibit. Besides the regular classes the 

 S. A. F. silver and bronze medals are 

 up for competition. They are well worth 

 the winning. 



Park Superintendent B. P. Critchell's 

 salary has been raised to $2,500. The 

 board of public service of this city surely 

 is to be congratulated on this move, as 

 Mr. Critchell is the best all-round man 

 that we have ever had at the head of our 

 park system. When you take into con- 

 sideration the small amount of money 

 with which he had to do his work, the 

 results are little short of marvelous. 



I regret to report the death of Mrs. 

 Frank, wife of Adam Frank, of West- 

 wood. Mr. Frank is one of the oldest 

 florists in this part of the country and 

 is well known by all the craft. 



Chas. D. McCrae has gone to Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., to take charge of Hardesty & 

 Ootes' retail store. Since his arrival 

 there he reports trade as first-class, 

 and good prospects for the future. 



Visitors have been many during the 

 past week. Florists on their way to 

 and from the convention stopped off 

 here. Mr. Chas. W. Crouch, of Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., spent several days visiting 

 the various growers. Others were J. T. 

 Herdegen, Aurora, Ind. ; O. C. Oberlin, 

 Georgetown, Ky.; B. G. Boehringer, Bay 

 City, Mich.; Chas. Frueh & Son, Sag- 

 inaw, Mich.; Fred Breitmeyer, Detroit, 

 Mich.; E. W. Guy and J. F. Ammann, 

 Edwardsville, 111., and E. Dailledouze and 

 wife, of Flatbush, L. I. 



C. J. Ohmer. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



McKinley day did not bring the an- 

 ticipated increase in the demand for 

 carnations. Growers held back to work 

 up a supply for Saturday, with the re- 

 sult that prices were better all through 

 last week than they were on Saturday, 

 when large lots could be bought on very 

 reasonable terms. In spite of this, how- 

 ever, a good business was done and it is 

 quite within the bounds of possibility 

 that McKinley day may yet cut some 

 figure in years when the temperature is 

 somewhere near the freezing point. This 

 year it was nearer zero. This week 

 supplies are again normal and the mar- 

 ket steady. 



The situation in other departments re- 

 mains practically unchanged. There is 

 still a shortage of tea roses, vdth enough 

 Beauty to meet all requirements, al- 

 though the receipts are gradually dimin- 

 ishing. Liberty is not plentiful, but 

 appears to be in little demand. There 

 are plenty of violets and all other items 

 of seasonable cut flowers. The receipts 

 of sweet peas are not large and are 

 cleaned up promptly each morning. 

 Other stock is more or less slow sale 

 except that tulips are doing a little bet- 

 ter, as there are now several colors and 



the stems are gaining length. Green 

 gcods are in fairly steady demand and 

 moving at profitable prices. 



The January Business. 



From a wholesaler's point of view 

 January, 1905, was not up to January, 

 1904, in spite of the fact that the Iro- 

 quois disaster a year ago made the 

 month a dull one socially. Beauties sold 

 at half last year 's price ; never were they 

 so low in January. Tea roses have been 

 ill very short supply all the month. 

 Carnations were a glut until more than 

 half the month was gone. The first fort- 

 night was, moreover, exceptionally quiet. 

 All these causes operated to work a 

 decrease in the aggregate of sales. 



In view of this it would seem that the 

 gardeners' union, which has been heard 

 from again, had chosen an inauspicious 

 moment to negotiate for another in- 

 crease in wages. 



Various Notes. 



The board of directors of the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society asked Phil Haus- 

 wirth to make the carnation piece which 

 the members had ordered sent to Canton 

 to be placed on the tomb of President 

 McKinley January 29. Mr. Hauswirth 

 used Lawsons in a four-foot wreath, 

 which was shipped Saturday night and 

 reached Canton safely. It was a credit 

 to the society. The Commercial Club 

 held its annual banquet at the Audi- 

 torium last Saturday night and Lawson 

 carnations were used for the decorations, 

 which were in charge of Mr. Hauswirth. 

 The carnation convention arrangements 

 were largely left in Mr. Hauswirth *s 

 charge and he applied to them his in- 

 defatigable energy, with the result that 

 everything was conducted to the com- 

 plete satisfaction of those who contrib- 

 uted to the entertainment fund. 



A skillful pickpocket relieved W. N. 

 Rudd of his watch at the Auditorium 

 last Thursday evening, but the house de- 

 tective recovered it promptly. A large 

 number shared in the reward. 



The growers were in hopes that this 

 winter would let them off with a lighter 

 coal bill than the average to make up 



