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FSBBUABT 9, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



657 



FANCY WHITE LILAC, $r.50 per doz. 



The crop which is now ready we tliink is large enoagh to supply all orders and the quality is the best of the season. 



FANCY LILY OF THE VALLEY"Lon8: items, large bells, strictly fancy stock, $4.00 per JOO. 

 Plenty good Valley at $3.00 per JOa 



LA REINE TULIPS—Long stems, plenty of color, the best the market affords, $4.00 per 100; also 

 plenty of fancy stock in all varieties. Short tulips, $2.00 and $3.00 per 100. 



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

 largest, sweetest and best in Chicago.| 



FANCY MIGNONETTE--$6.00 to $10.00 per )00. 



CARNATIONS— A fine assortment of extra well grown stock and many fancy varieties. 



ROSES"Eztra 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. 



S. L. RANDALL CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



21 Randolph Si 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Itentlon Hie B«Tlew when yon write. 



"With a zero temperature without, a 

 visit to the warm tropical orchid estab- 

 lishment of Lager & HurreU, of Summit, 

 N. J., was especially enjoyable on Fri- 

 day last and a study of lie unique stock 

 of orchids in numberless varieties of 

 great interest. The firm has now three 

 houses 25x150 feet, one house 25x200 

 feet and one house 20x100 feet and 

 plans are out for another large house 

 27x150 feet to accommodate large quan- 

 tities of imported orchids expected this 

 spring. No waste room here, and as 

 much is grown suspended from the roof 

 as on benches. The imported orchids 

 now on hand include a lot of Cattleya 

 Mendelii, Iselias and oncidiums. The 

 flowering season of Cattleya Trianse and 

 C. Percivaliana is nearly over and there 

 will be a shortage of cattleyas in the 

 immediate future and for about six 

 weeks. The next variety to come in 

 bloom will be the chaste Cattleya 

 Schroederae, others following, such as C. 

 Qaskelliana, C. MossisB and C. gigas. A 

 few of the gorgeous C. Dowiana are still 

 in bloom. Of white orchids there are 

 quite a few, notably Phalsenopsis ama- 

 bilis, Dendrobium formosum and some 

 Lsalia anceps alba. Large quantities of 

 mixed orchids are grown for cut flowers, 

 some of which are dendrobiums in many 

 varieties, Cattleya SkinneW, oncidiums 

 in variety, fancy cypripediums and many 

 more. Of the list mentioned there aye 

 now in floi^r the following: Cypripe- 

 dium Mastersii, C. Sallieri pictum, C. 

 Barbato-Mastersii, C. Curtisii purpura- 

 tum, C. Bragaianum, C. calypso Oak- 

 wood variety, C. Veraixium, etc. 



Variotu Notes. 



The carnation night of the Florists' 

 Club next Monday will bring out a great 

 attendance of visitors and ladies and the 

 exhibits already assured are of rare inter- 

 est. Some of the greatest novelties of the 

 carnation family will be on hand. Mr. 

 Nugent has a fine surprise up his sleeve 

 in the appetizer line and the entertain- 

 ment in speech and dance and Scottish 

 melodies will make the evening long to 

 be remembered. The Bowling Club will 

 hold a special meeting and bowl at the 

 club's alleys at 3 o'clock. Dates will 



be set for the matches with Hoboken and 

 Madison. 



Arthur Herrington, of Madison, was 

 prevented from bowling with his club 

 and from attending Sie Orange and 

 New York club dinners by a severe con- 

 gestion of the lungs. He is out of dan- 

 ger and will soon be himself again. 



J. Seligman and G. Trippel have 

 formed a partnership in the wholesale 

 line, with headquarters at 56 West 

 Twenty-sixth street. 



John A. Foley, with N. LeCakes & 

 Co., and manager of the cut flower de- 

 partment, was married January 22 to 

 Miss Butternail, of Newark, N. J. Mr. 

 Foley is a favorite on Twenty-eighth 

 street and the boys have been busy for 

 a week congratulating him. 



The New Jersey Floricultural Society 

 held its tenth annual dinner last Friday 

 evening at Orange. Many visitors from 

 New York and other towns were pres- 

 ent. 



A delegation from the club's outing 

 committee visited Glenwood on the sound 

 last Sunday and its members were unani- 

 mous in their admiration of the resort 

 as an ideal place for the annual holiday 

 in June. 



Cedar Court, illustrated in the Review 

 a few weeks ago, was damaged by fire 

 to a serious extent last week, half a 

 million dollars being lost and the mag- 

 nificent mansion, with its priceless con- 

 tents, badly damaged. James Fraser is 

 the superintendent on the estate. 



"W. Elliott & Sons will move May 1 

 to a new location, 201 Fulton street, 

 where they will occupy the whole building. 

 This is their first move in a generation. 

 The second and third floors will be de- 

 * voted to the auction business. The stand 

 is a good one and the lease long. 



In our last week's notes the name 

 Mrs. Fenrich was erroneously used for 

 Mrs. Leikens. There is no Mrs. Fenrich 

 yet and when it happens "the reliable 

 house" will take good care of her. 



Albert W. Wadley, son of Albert Wad- 

 ley, of Wadley & Smythe, has bought 

 seventy-five acres of fine land at Broad 

 Brook, N. J., on the Raritan river, which 

 he will use for nursery purposes, mov- 

 ing his family there in March and mak- 



ing it his permanent home. The section 

 is one of the best for his projected en- 

 terprise in Jersey. Mr. Wa^ey has been 

 in the florists' business with Wadley & 

 Smythe for many years. 



Bowling. 



The following is the score made by 

 the bowlers February 6: 



Player. 1st 2i 3d 4tb 6th 



Lang 168 142 



Hart 99 122 



Fenrich 186 162 133 187 ... 



Slebrecht 114 146 196 144 140 



Bams 129 148 151 114 140 



Holt 149 110 136 124 117 



Shaw 133 131 158 125 127 



Gnttman 112 144 170 166 106 



Hernandez 124 147 163 187 146 



J. Austin Shaw. 



CAPAQTY OF BOILER. 



I have a tubular boiler ten feet long 

 and forty-two inches in diameter, con- 

 taining thirty-four 3-inch flues. How 

 many horse-power is itf What size of 

 fire box ought it to havef 



M. E. G. 



Your boiler would be rated as twenty- 

 five horse-power. To successfully fire it 

 with hard coal it should have a grate 

 area of nine square feet; for soft coal 

 the area of the grate can be reduced 

 about one-third. I would advise , making 

 the fire box at least three and one-half 

 feet in length and build it flaring from 

 the grate upward, so as to accommodate 

 the boiler. This will then make a fire 

 box about two feet eight inches by three 

 feet six inches, which will be a good 

 size for small anthracite, such as pea 

 or buckwheat, and if it gives too much 

 draught with soft coal a grate bar cam 

 be removed at each side and the space 

 temporarily filled with brick, or a line 

 of bricks may be placed along the side 

 walls of the fire box on top of the grate 

 bars and in this way reduce the grate 

 area. L. C. C. 



Washington, Pa. — The officers of the 

 Washington Floral Co., for 1905 are: 

 President, J. M. Dickson; treasurer, W. 

 J. Warrick; secretary, Ella Culbertson. 



