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The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



Skptembru 28, 1903, 



€^ h K V QA nth 1^ m 1 1 m Q * commencing October 7 will have fancy 



Mums at $3.00 and $4.00 per doz. 



ni^C^pc^ 9 Maids, Brides, Liberties, 

 ■CVF^L^3 • Riclimond, Uncle Jolm. 



i^^mm%SM4m^w%^ • THE BEST IN CHICAGO. 



V^CirnCllIUIl» • $j.00 to $2.00 per JOO. 



\/S^\l^^#^ • ^^^ coming now in very good condition. 



T lUIClS • 50c to $1.00 per 100. 



A. L. RANDALL CO., 



19-21 RANDOLPH STREET 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



It would be a calamity for the whole 

 market to find violets selling at $1 a 

 thousand. 



Various Notes. 



Patrick O'Mara is back from his 

 summer outing in the west, a picture of 

 health and filled to the brim with memo- 

 ries of his experiences in Portland, 

 California and the Yellowstone. The 

 Florists' Club may anticipate a rare 

 treat at its next meeting, October 9, 

 when Mr, O'Mara tells the story of his 

 ' * wild and woolly ' ' travels. 



The new wholesale store of Thos. 

 Young, Jr., is complete and very hand- 

 some, with an abundance of room and 

 elegant private ofiKces in the rear. 



A grand floral piece, the work of Sam- 

 uel Gomperts, went over to Brooklyn on 

 Monday evening, a gift from the artist 

 to Senator Reynolds on the occasion of 

 the opening of the new Montauk theater. 

 It was an enormous floral punch-bowl on 

 a standard three feet in circumference, 

 in pink and white roses with handsome 

 French dolls surrounding the bowl, some 

 fifteen feet around it. An enormous vase 

 of American Beauties ten feet high ac- 

 companied the emblem. 



Bowe hobnobbed with one of the Wall 

 street kings, John W. Gates, on Sunday 

 evening at the Waldorf on the occasion 

 of Mrs, Gates' birthday. Fifty sprays 

 of oncidium and 200 cattleyas were used 

 in the table decoration. You can imag- 

 ine the cost, but Mr. Gates thinks noth- 

 ing of twisting the Wall street tiger's 

 tail for a $10,000 turn any day, so 

 "what's the diflf?" No wonder the 

 leading retail florists of New York de- 

 liver the goods in their own automobiles. 

 This city is growing fast and million- 

 aires are everywhere. We pass them 

 every hour and we cannot tell them 

 from the wholesale florists. 



Dr. Britton and wife, who have been 

 away from the city and in Bermuda for 

 several weeks, return to the Botanical 

 Gardens this week and the head gard- 

 ener, Mr, Nash, is back from Hayti with 

 trophies of his floricultural investiga- 

 tions. 



The auction season opened auspi- 

 ciously last week and looks very prom- 

 ising, judging by the crowds in at- 

 tendance and the excellent prices real- 

 ized. 



Mr. Bonnot, of the Cut Flower Ex- 

 change, says everything indicates a great 

 year on his floor and the carnation 

 growers grow in numbers every day. 



G, C, Schrader, of Elmhurst, L, I,, 

 met with a severe accident Saturday, 

 While on his way to the great auto race 



in his own automobile, a gasoline explo- 

 sion wrecked his machine and badly 

 burned and blistered his face, but fortu- 

 nately his eyes were saved. 



The Johnston Heating Co., of Jersey 

 City, report an encouraging and rapidly 

 increasing business. They are supplying 

 the heating for the Exotic Nursery at 

 Secaucus, N. J., the Kellogg green- 

 houses at Astoria and the Hinode Flo- 

 rist Co., at Whitestone, L, I. 



Eeed & Keller say that it is still 

 Christmas with them and they cannot 

 catch up to the demand for their novel- 

 ties, 



Owen McDonald, on Madison avenue, 

 is bankrupt, liabilities over $6,000 and as- 

 sets about $500, The principal creditors 

 are the Federal bank and Schultheis, 



A new retail store has been opened at 

 the corner of Fifty-seventh street and 

 Lexington avenue, to be known as 

 Jacque's, Inc. It is capitalized at $10,- 

 000 and it is said Henry Siegel, formerly 

 of Chicago, is interested in the venture, 



A, L, Young & Co, are receiving some 

 fine carnations. Enchantress and White 

 Lawson from Messrs. Hengstenberg and 

 Alfred Funke, of Hempstead, L, I,, and 

 roses from Mr, Dickhut, of Chatham, 

 N, J, 



The new ice-box, lately installed by 

 James McManus, evidently is none too 

 early and none too large for the orchid 

 supply he keeps on hand for his growing 

 clientele. The supply of white orchid 

 is equal to any demand and the call for 

 them comes from every direction. A 

 great shipping trade this winter is antici- 

 pated, Mr. McManus has made his 

 place evidently the "headquarters for 

 orchids in America," 



The engagement is announced of Al- 

 fred Futterman, of Gunther's staff, to 

 Miss Gussie Miller, of New York. 



C, W. Ward and family are visiting in 

 California and will not return before 

 November, 



The Institute Show. 



Last Wednesday and Thursday the 

 American Institute's seventy-fourth fall 

 exhibition took place at the Berkeley 

 Lyceum. It was a great success. The 

 attendance was large and the exhibits 

 superb. Dahlias were most in evidence, 

 though there was also an abundance of 

 fruit and flowers and decorative plants. 

 A vase of "Victory was staged by Gutt- 

 man & Weber and greatly admired. 

 Quantities of this superb novelty now 

 reach the New York market daily. J. T. 

 Lovett's exhibit carried off several first 

 prizes, Mr. Lovett's son and general 

 manager was in charge of the exhibit. 



Peter Reinberg 



SI Wabash An., CHICAGO. 



WHOLESALE 



Cut Flowers. 



LARGEST GROWER 

 IN THE WORLD 



A muion r««t of Mod«n OlMS. 



Current Price List. 



AKBBXOAV BBAUTZBS- Per doi. 



Extn select fS,00 



80-inch sterna 2M 



ai-inch stems XW 



18-inch stems IJH) 



U-incta stems 1.96 



12-inch stems 1.00 



Short stems 94.00 to S6,00 per 100. 



Per 100 



UBBRTT tS.OOto tO.OO 



OHATENAT S.OOtO 6,00 



MAIDS AND BRIDES S.OOtO 6.00 



DNOLE JOHN S.OOtO 6,00 



OAMMATXOMU l,00to 1,80 



All flwnra sra itffMtty fmh asd irsfsrhr MckH. 

 Ml chartai fir P. A 0. •« trdtrt onr M.OO. 



Bobbink & Atkins had a large collection 

 of herbaceous stock, John Lewis Childs 

 exhibited tuberous rooted begonias, tri- 

 tomas and gladioli, C. H. Totty, of 

 Madison, exhibited the Bichmond rose, 

 concerning which he is very enthusiastic. 

 Julius Roehrs Co. had the usual display 

 of orchids and decorative plants and A. 

 J. Manda, of Brooklyn, with Mrs. Pratt, 

 made his bow to New York in one of the 

 best collections of stove plants ever ex- 

 hibited at an Institute show. H. F. 

 Burt, Taunton, Mass,; W, P. Lothrop, 

 East Bridgewater, Mass.; Geo. Hale and 

 James Dowlan, of Seabright, N. J., and 

 A. L. Miller, of Brooklyn, where the 

 New^ York Florists' Club will visit this 

 week, were the principal dahlia exhibi- 

 tors. Other exhibitors were the F. R. 

 Pierson Co,, Tarrytown; J. P. Soren- 

 son, Stamford, Conn.; Wm. Hastings, 

 Tuxedo; Wm, Kobertson, Oakland, N. 

 J.; J. C. Williams, Montclair, N. J., 

 and J. W. Van Ostrand, Bardonia, N. Y. 

 Bonora was on exhibition. Many of 

 the gardeners in the vicinity of New 

 York are using it and speak highly of 

 what it has accomplished. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



