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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 26, 1906. 



Our SPECIALTY 



is to give our customers full value for ever dollar sent to us. If you 

 are not one of our customers, send us a trial order and we will convince 

 you that we will do just what we say. We have an abundance of all 

 flowers in season, such as Beauties, Roses, Carnations, Asters, Sweet Peas, 

 Auratum Lilies, Longiflorums, Feverfew, Candytuft, Shasta Daisies, etc. 



Don't Forget our line of Florists' Supplies is the best in Chicago. 



A. L Randall Co. 



19-21 EAST 

 RANDOLPH 



ST. Chicago 



L. D. PHONXS— Cut Flower Dept., 1496 and 1494 Central; riorlsts' Supply Dept., 5614 Central. 



AlcutUm The Kevlew when you write. 



.shovviiiff fair quality. Bride and Maid 

 are still afflicted more or less with mil- 

 dew. Ivory, Kaiserin, Carnot and Perle 

 are of better quality with good demand. 

 Gladioli are abundant and the commis- 

 sion houses find it hard to dispose of 

 them ("vou at $t per hundred. Little 

 valley is seen in the market at pres- 

 ent. Greens of all kinds are equal to 

 all demands. 



VariotM Notes. 



George M. Kellogg, of Pleasant Hill, 

 spent Tuesday of last week in this 

 city. Mr. Kellogg will go to Dayton 

 with the St. Louis delegation. 



S. B. Beal, with L. L. May & Co., St. 

 Paul, was in the eity last week. 



Frank M. Ellis, after an absence of 

 six months, is expected home next 

 week. In a letter Mr. Ellis says that 

 he has a good thing in his banana plan- 

 tation. 



W. C. Smith and Will Adels are out 

 hustling in the interest of the Florists' 

 Club. The^- say they will present six 

 applications for membership at the next 

 meeting of the club, August 9. 



A correction should be made in the 

 notes of the Edwardsville trip in last 

 issue, which should have stated that 

 only for the election of officers the next 

 meeting would be held in Belleville, 

 III. Tlie articles of incorporation re- 

 quire that we elect officers in Missouri. 



By the new bond issue $670,000 can 

 be expended by the park department 

 for new parks, to enlarge the old ones 

 and make improvements. It has been 

 stated that the old fair-grounds will be 

 bought and new greenhouses will be 

 built at Forest park, the old ones being 

 too small. 



Chief Clerk J. H. Nolen, of the State 

 Labor Bureau, reports that the farmers 

 who grew ginseng sold $105,648 worth 

 of it this year, the weight of this being 

 17,60S pounds, and that the bulk of it 

 was shipped to China. 



Carew Sanders, one of the oldest 

 members of the Florists' Club, has been 

 sick of late. Let us hope to see him 

 at the picnic Thursday, as Mr. Sanders 

 seldom mi.sses one of the club's out- 

 ings. 



All of the wholesale houses and some 

 of the retail stores will close half a 

 day on Thursdaj' in order to give their 

 employees a chance to attend the Flor- 

 ists' Club's outing. 



E. F. WINTERSON CO. 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



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We Are Now Receiving^ 



Fancy, Long Stem ASTERS 



All colors, also Gladioli, Auratum Lilies, 

 Sweet Peas, Roses, American Beauties. 

 Our Carnations are the best on the market 

 and are fine for this season of the year. 

 Fancy Valley and all Greens always on 

 hand. All Cut Flowers in season. 



Leading Florists' Supply House of the West. 

 V^ «^ 



Mention The BcTlew when yon write. 



Bowling fans have become quite nu- 

 merous in the wholesale houses. At 

 Berning's we have Julius Koenig and 

 otto Bruning; at Kuehn's the boss 

 himself, Eddie Gerlach, and George 

 Schriefer; W. C. Smith, with office in 

 Ellis's. The boys at Ellis's and Anger- 

 mueller's should fall into line. All the 

 candidates have the making of crack 

 bowlers. 



Bowlin;. 



Oidy eight mendiers showed up on 

 Alonday night, the weather being very 

 Warm. Team No. 2 won this time. The 

 score : 



Team No. l>— Ist 2<1 3(1 T"l 



Kiieliii 227 16."? 141 531 



Rrunins 178 174 180 532 



Glger 



. ..15« 144 127 427 



Smith 156 155 SO .391 



Totnls' 717 636 528 1881 



Tenui NO. 1— Ist 2(1 .3(1 T'l 



Beiieko 214 176 168 558 



Gerlach 114 127 112 S.IS 



MelnhnriU 166 155 157 478 



Lohrenz 160 168 120 448 



Totnls 654 626 557 1837 



J. J. B. 



Goshen, Ind. — E. N. Burt has bought 

 a second-hand power boiler which will be 

 added to his heating plant. 



NEV YORK. 



TlieMjtrket 



Heat enough for all practical purposes 

 and humidity to burn was the record last 

 week, so far as New York weather was 

 concerned. This concerns the florists 

 most because of the big rise on ice, 

 prices going up to the value of a best 

 Beauty, 35 cents for a hundred pounds. 

 As wholesale florists use ice by the ton 

 in some of the big boxes, you can see 

 an even temperature is just now a serious 

 problem. The ice trust has the flower 

 merchants by the esophagus. 



N'ot only did Beauties soar last Satur- 

 day, but carnations were also scarce and 

 high. Scarcity rather than demand was 

 the uplifting power. The weather was 

 at the bottom of all the trouble, but it 

 was just ordinary July weather after all. 

 Looking back at July of other years, his- 

 tory repeats itself. It's the old story. 

 There will be no change until after the 

 convention. 



Koses begin to improve and really 

 good stock secures excellent prices. Car- 

 nations are scarce and when wanted com- 

 mand encouraging values. The lilies 

 rise to 10 cents at times and the supply 

 is light. Green goods of all kinds are 

 stagnant. 



