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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Januabt 17, 1007. 



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WHITE LILAC '-"' 



January 20 



WHITE LILAC is one of the specialties on which we have led the Western 

 markets for years. This year our supply will be larger than ever and 



the quality promises to be superb. 



CARNATIONS in plenty for McKlnley day, January 29. 



ROSES, VIOLETS, VALLEY, TULIPS and all other cut stock 

 in season in large supply. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



WE HAVB A BRIGHT, NEW COMPLETE STOCK. 



Send us an order today. You will find all your needs 



illustrated and priced in our New Catalogue. If you haven't it hung 

 on a nail beside your desk, a postal card will bring it to hang there. 



A. L. RANDALL CO 



19-21 Randolph St., 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



builders say this is likely to be the larg- 

 est range erected for the Chicago market 

 this season, though one of the privileges 

 as inalienable as the right to change 

 prices without notice is any big grower's 

 right to reconsider his decision expressed 

 in, "I guess I'll take a rest, and not 

 build this year." Consequently other 

 announcements are likely at any time. 



Grafted Roses. 



Growers for the Chicago market more 

 and more are resorting to the grafting 

 of their Brides and Maids, a practice 

 which heretofore has been much more 

 common among the leading growers in 

 the big eastern centers. Bassett & Wash- 

 burn were leaders in the use of grafted 

 stock, but others have been making tests 

 of results which have satisfied them that 

 the extra trouble of preparing young 

 stock is worth while. J. A. Budlong 

 grafted a large part of the stock benched 

 this season, and so did George Reinberg. 

 Both are satisfied. Peter Reinberg has 

 been grafting a few thousand of Brides, 

 Maids, Liberty, etc., each season for 

 several years and is so well pleased that 

 now he has 60,000 Manetti stocks potted 

 for use in the next few weeks. 



Various Notes. 



The Chicago delegation to Toronto 

 will travel via the Wabash and Canadian 

 Pacific, leaving here at 3 p. m. Tuesday. 

 The train reaches Detroit, where it will 

 pick up the delegation from that city 

 at 10:40 Tuesday evening, arriving at 

 Toronto at 7:15 a. m. The florists will 

 have a special car. The route is a fare 

 and a third on the certificate plan. 

 Berths will be reserved on application to 



P. J. Hauswirth or George Asmus. Eight 

 or ten, at least, will go. 



P. J. Hauswirth has returned from 

 his trip to New York and Boston. He 

 will have some interesting reports to 

 make at the next club meeting. 



Bassett & Washburn will exhibit their 

 seedling carnation, No. 20, at the To- 

 ronto conventioB. 



E. H. Hunt reports sending consider- 

 able quantities of the Carlson aster seed 

 to states as distant as Massachusetts. 



John Sterrett is now with Zech & 

 Mann, succeeding Mons Olson. 



C. W. McKellar reports an excellent 

 demand for gardenias. The stock is 

 much improved in quality since Christ- 

 mas, the stems being twice as long. 



The trade will be pleased to learn 

 that Andrew McAdams is much improved 

 in health. 



The box manufacturers have advanced 

 the prices of such shipping cases aa flo- 

 rists use about fifteen per cent. 



Fred Sperry, of Vaughan & Sperry, re- 

 ports that last Sunday a sneak-thief stole 

 the chicken prepared for the family's 

 Sunday dinner. 



A. J. Greaves, of Bloomington, waa 

 one of the week's visitors. The Bloom- 

 ington people are anticipating a good at- 

 tendance at the annual meeting of the 

 State Florists' Association next month. 



J. H. Grohosky, who was with E. H. 

 Hunt during the holiday rush, is now 

 with Henry Koropp. 



Robert Schenck, who has been located 

 at Pittsburg and Youngstown for the 

 last two or three years, is again in Chi- 

 cago. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is cutting fine 

 rubrum lilies from cold storage bulbs. 



They are quite a novelty in this market 

 at this season. 



Henry Payne, the Hinsdale grower, is 

 also an expert amateur photographer. 



The adjourned meeting of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Chicago was held at 

 the Auditorium Annex yesterday after- 

 noon. 



Wietor Bros, have a number of excel- 

 lent seedling carnations. A red is par- 

 ticularly good and will be planted in con- 

 siderable quantity next season. If it lives 

 up to its present promise it may be dis- 

 tributed. There also is a pink, a trifle 

 darker than Lawson, which may find its 

 way on the market. 



The employees of the Wienhoeber Co. 

 announce their first informal reception 

 at the Svithiod club house, 1768 Wright- 

 wood avenue, Wednesday evening, Janu- 

 ary 30. The committee consists of V. 

 Bergman, W. W. Adams, D. A. Robert- 

 son and F. Pisternick. Goldsmith's or- 

 chestra has been engaged. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. has named 

 its deeper pink sport of Chatenay, call- 

 ing it Morton Grove, and will dissemi- 

 nate it in 1908. It won the silver cup 

 for best rose never before exhibited, at 

 the last Chicago show. The Poehlmann 

 Co. has a number of other new sorts that 

 are well thought of. 



A big crop of roses which has been 

 held back by sunless skies promises to 

 make the latter half of January show 

 up well for Sinner Bros. 



W. L. Kroesch^ll and Charles Kroe- 

 schell were among the employers at the 

 labor conference at the residence of Mrs. 

 Potter Palmer last Saturday evening. 



The A. L. Randall Co. is expecting 

 yellow tulips and white lilac every day 



