October 18, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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Cut Flowers— Supplies 



DHE TRADE is pretty well informed on the facilities and service 

 afforded by our Cut Flower Department. 



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'- ., t, 7or 94 years we have been ■hipping' Cut Flowers to the Florists throvgrhoiit 



the territory that looks to Ohioaffo for stook. In that time we have established » . ' i 

 ' pretty fiilr reputation tor FAXB DBAAXVO and ABI&ZTT TO TZ&lb OBDBBS. / 



A good many customers asked why we did not also handle 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



so they could get at one place everything needed, so saving time, trouble 

 and express charges. WE TOOK THEM AT THEIR WORD. 



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Onr Supply Department is a gratifying snooess thus far— and it's only Just now 

 issuing its flrst COMPLETE CATALOGUE, iully illustrated. If you are not a 

 regular buyer here, send a postal for a catalogue and thereafter g'et your Out 

 Flowers and Supplies all in one shipment AHO SAVE KOEET. 





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3. L. RANDALL CO. 



19-21 Randolph St. 



3 Loa£ Distance Phones. 



CHICAGO 





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Mention The Uevlew when you write. 



business of Mrs. George W. Gaskill. 

 Many a grower has graduated from the 

 Poehlmann school of up-to-date methods 

 into a successful business of his own. 



A. L. Randall says he wishes he had 

 gone into the florists' supply business 

 years ago. He says it is a case of one 

 hand washing the other: The supplies 

 draw customers to the cut flower de- 

 partment, and the cut flowers bring buy- 

 ers for the supplies. 



All the wholesale houses display big 

 blue posters announcing the employees' 

 first annual reception at Columbia hall 

 October 31. The boys feel assured of 

 a large attendance. 



Cattleya labiata is in full crop, and 

 McKellar is receiving large daily con- 

 signments. 



F. Calvert & Son had their annual 

 big farm scene decoration at the On- 

 wentsia, Lake Forest, October 12. 



W. E. Lynch, at E. H. Hunt's, says 

 that in all the years he has been in the 

 flower business he does not remember 

 one in which carnations have been in 

 better demand, or scarcer, in the first 

 half of October. 



O. J. Friedman paid Bassett & Wash- 

 burn $5 a dozen for Clementine Touset 

 chrysanthemums Monday. 



August Jurgens says he looks for the 

 demand for valley to fall off after No- 

 vember 1. Commission men say they 

 see no reason why it should. 



E. C. Amling says he looks for an 

 early and pronounced fall in prices for 

 chrysanthemums. He finds by his rec- 

 ords that prices have been steadily above 

 last year's since September 10, when he 

 received his first dozen Monrovia. 



Vaughan & Sperry are handling con- 



siderable quantities of Bhinebeck vio- 

 lets and report demand improving every 

 day. 



Harry Rowe has a decoration at Lyon 

 & Healy 's, occupying two floors, which 

 is to be maintained for a month, the cut 

 flower portion of it renewed daily. 



John Zech is never so happy as when 

 he is skirmishing to find stock for some 

 late order. It is a game he likes and 

 he has had company playing it pretty 

 steadily for a whole week. 



Mrs. Marshall Field rose is gaining 

 every day at Cub headquarters and call- 

 ers there will please talk about it in- 

 stead of what happened on the south 

 side last Sunday. 



F. F. Benthey says the sale for Rich- 

 mond rose has improved materially in 

 the last week. The Benthey-Coatsworth 

 Co. grows but four varieties, Bride, 

 Maid, Killarney and Richmond, depend- 

 ing on consignors for all other items. 



H. R. Hughes is making improve- 

 ments at his place at 690 West Van Bu- 

 ren street and has the old greenhouses 

 torn down. 



Schneider, at 105 Dearborn street, 

 does a nice business with no other form 

 of advertising than keeping a lot of 

 good stock in the show window, backed 

 up by Miss Schneider's winning way of 

 handling the trade. 



Xennicott Bros. Co. reports wild smi- 

 lax not only in adequate supply but 

 fine in quality. ' 



Deamud's was "the busiest house in 

 town" last Sunday, all right. 



The Chicago Rose Co. is getting a 

 nice cut of tea roses, but the ice-box 

 is always empty at night. 



Phil Schupp, at J. A. Budlong 's, wears 



a satisfied smile. They have had com- 

 paratively good supplies of carnations 

 the last week. 



Kruditen & Johnson still had out- 

 door stock this week; the grower had 

 protected it from frost. 



All the salesmen in the Growers' Mar- 

 ket sold out quickly each day the last 

 week. 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



At the recent opening of the new store 

 of the Idlewild Greenhouses, the proprie- 

 tor. Otto Schwill, Jr., added more lau- 

 rels to his already widely known fame as 

 a decorator. A local paper classes the 

 display with that of Thorley or Fleiscb- 

 mar, of New York city, a deserved com- 

 pliment, no doubt. Mr. Schwill has placed 

 his establishment in the front rank of 

 popularity by his close attention to de- 

 tails, and his ability to secure the serv- 

 ices of able assistants. At the opening 

 of this new store, which occurred Octo- 

 ber 8, he was able to show the first chry- 

 santhemums for the Memphis market 

 this season. A feature of the display was 

 the bride's table. The center of this 

 contained a large shower bouquet of 

 Bride roses and lilies of the valley, 

 streamers of which extended to eaet« 

 plate. The edge was draped with smilaz. 

 Over the entire table roses were scat- 

 tered. Another novel feature were the 

 bouquets of roses and carnations frozen 

 in ice. Twenty-five thousand flowers were 

 given away as souvenirs. W. H. Engle- 

 hart has been with Mr. Schwill for seven 

 years as designer and decorator. 



The Review has pleased me verj 

 much. — C. R. KiDD, Utica, Mich. 



