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The Weekly Rorists' Review* 



Fbbbuaby^14, 1907. 



CARNATIONS 



in large supply, $15.00 to $30.00 per 1000,. We have the largest 

 stock of fancy carnations in the idarket. 



WHITE LILAC^ $1.50 per bunch; seven 

 bunches for $10.00. The best and cheapest 

 white stock on the market today. 



VIOLETS, plenty of them, 75c per 100. 



VALLEY, extra select stock, $3.00 and $4.00 



per 100. 

 TULIPS, fancy, $4.00 per 100. 

 Df^FEODILS, double and single, $4.00 per 100. 



The largest, finest and, most up-to-date selection to be found anywhere. Florists who ordered our 

 $5.00, $10.00, $15.00 and $25.00 assortments of baskets for Christmas are doubling their orders for 

 Easter. Send in YOUR order today for one of these assortments and we will deliver them any time you 

 specify. Also assortments of Bohemian Glassware. 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



19-21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO, ILL. 



Watch for our special circular on Ribbons, Cycas Leaves, 

 Wheat sheaves, etc.. which we will mail you this week. If you 

 do not rececive It, drop us a card. Have you our Catalogrue ? 



Mention The Review wben you write. 



The rooting out of these "wild" plants 

 is said to account for the vacant spaces 

 on many a bench. Some growers took 

 fine cuttings from these robust plants 

 before they appreciated their true char- 

 acter, thereby multiplying their troubles. 



Added Side Lines. 



Leonard Kill states that, pursuant to 

 Peter Eeinberg's new policy, he has 

 just placed an order with Wm. Hage- 

 mann. New York, for 75,000 valley pips. 

 They expect to grow asparagus and a 

 number of other items next season. Mr. 

 Kill says rose crops will be on heavily 

 in a few days. 



Various Notes. 



J. A. Valentine, of Denver, was a 

 visitor this week. Since the carnation 

 convention at Toronto he fitis visited the 

 principal eastern cities, particularly to 

 investigate the Easter plant business. 

 He says tr^de everywhere is on the in- 

 crease and everyone prospering as never 

 before. 



In showing some long sweet peas to 

 Miss McAdams, who is one of the most 

 demure young ladies who visits the 

 market, E. C. Amling offered them with 

 the remark, "All you have to do is to 

 tie on some gibbon and you are ready 

 for the ceremony." "Indeed," said 

 she, "it's the last thing I'd think of; 

 in a wholesale house! Never!" 



Percy Jones says that Sol Garland's 

 cut of carnations has been running 

 steadily a little above last year from 

 the same amount of glass. Mr. Garland 

 is to be congratulated, for last yeat's 

 crop was good, and hardly another 

 grower can say he has cut as many 



flowers this year as last. Mr. Garland 

 visited the automobile show last week 

 and bought a machine, promised for 

 May delivery. 



N. J. Wietor says that if Wietor 

 Bros, make more money on the space 

 given to any carnation than on En- 

 chantress it is on White Cloud. Mr. 

 Wietor says that while crops have been 

 below normal for more than three 

 months, the better prices realized have 

 caused their gross sales to slightly ex- 

 ceed those of the same period last year. 



The Florists' Club's carnation show 

 takes place tonight, Thursday, February 

 14. There promises to be a good dis- 

 play of flowers, "^he discussion will in- 

 terest the growers. P. J. Hauswirth 

 will report on his eastern trip and sev- 

 eral brief comments on the Toronto 

 show will be forthcoming. 



The meeting of the Illinois State Flo- 

 rists' Association at Bloomington, Feb- 

 ruary 19 and 20, will attract quite a 

 number from Chicago. 



Former Betail Florist John C. Schu- 

 bert, now city smoke inspector, is not 

 finding his present pathway strewn with 

 roses. The City Club has haled him be- 

 fore the Civil Service Commission on 

 charges of incompetency and neglect of 

 duty and he stands in imminent danger 

 of permanent separation from a 2,000- 

 dollar job. 



Phil Schupp, manager of J. A. Bud- 

 long 's city store, says they are more than 

 pleased with the season to date. Their 

 rose cut has been steady and prices ex- 

 cellent. 



The annex to the Coliseum, where the 

 cut blooms "were staged at the last flower 

 show, was destroyed by fire on the night 



of February 11. There was a hardware 

 trade's exhibition at the time. 



Joseph Ziska, of the Chicago Rose Co., 

 who has been making wire work for up- 

 wards of thirty years, reports business, 

 as good as he has ever known. He is 

 working his force twelve hours a day 

 and Sundays. Recently competition in the 

 wire making business has caused all man- 

 ufacturers to pay time and a half for 

 overtime. 



Peter Reinberg was one of the recep- 

 tion committee to greet Carter Harrison 

 on his return from California. He is de- 

 voting all his energies to securing Mr. 

 Harrison's nomination for the mayor- 

 alty. 



Robert Hand is again able to be about 

 the greenhouses of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 although he still uses crutches as a re- 

 sult of his being struck by a train some 

 months ago. 



W. L. Rock, Kansas City, sent to Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co. Monday for 1,000 of 

 Klehm's Novelty tulip. 



Washington 's birthday, February 22, 

 is a legal holiday and there will be but 

 one delivery of mail. Orders should be 

 telegraphed. 



It is reported that because of irregu- 

 larities in invoices some of the Dutch 

 bulbs received at the Chicago custom 

 house in August were only released from 

 the appraiser's stores last week. 



Ernst Weber, who has been growing 

 carnations for a couple of years, will ga 

 back to roses next season. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. reports receiving 

 $10 per dozen for its best Beauties in 

 the lagt week. John Poehlmann says the 

 buyere do not especially object to the 

 price, although much above what it usu- 



