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Febbuaey 21, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



1015 



LONGinORlMS 



FOR 



EASTER 



Our reputation for having the BEST LILIES is because all our lilies are shipped in the 

 original packages, packed at the greenhouses, thus avoiding bruising by second handling, 

 and because they are from the most expensive bulbs, grown by the most careful growers. 



CARNATIONS* large supply of all colors and 

 grades, including fanciest stock in the mar- 

 ket. Wire for quotations on large lots, as 

 no one can beat the price or quality. 



VIOLETS« large supply of both Double and 



Single, 75c per 100. 

 VALLEY, extra select, $3.00 to $4.00 per 100. 



Special prices on large lots. 



WHITE LILAC, $1.50 per bunch; 7 bunches 

 for $10.00 The demand this season has 

 been so great that we have been unable to 

 fill all orders. It is the spring flower and the 

 crop now on is the finest of the season. 



COURONNE D'OR, finest double yellow 

 tulip, $5.00 per 100. 



DAEEODILS, double and single, $3.00 per 100. 



Fancy Baskets and Easter Novelties 



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 at $5.00 and $10.00. 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



19-21 Randolph St., CHICAGO. ILL 



Our special circular on Ribbons, Cycas Leaves, Wheat 

 sheaves, etc., has been mailed If you do not rececive it, 

 drop us a card. Have you our Catalogue ? 



Mention The RctIcw when you write. 



eldest 11 years of age. Others who 

 would like to contribute may send their 

 checks to P. J. Hauswirth, 13 Congress 

 street. It is hoped to secure enough to 

 invest so that Mrs. Hartshorne will have 

 a regular income from it. 



Various Notes. 



Anton Then is at Magnolia Springs, 

 Ala,, in the hope of benefiting his 

 health through the medicinal waters 

 there. He was in a bad way just be- 

 fore the holidays, and will oe absent 

 until toward Easter. 



W. L. Kroeschell, of the Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co., attended the convention of 

 the Society of Southern Florists at New 

 Orleans last week. 



P. J. Hauswirth will be one of the 

 judges at the exhibition of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society in Washington, March 

 13 to 15. 



J. S. Dekema is now located at Los 

 Angeles and reports the climate benefit- 

 ing his health materially. 



J. C. Bruchner has removed from 35 

 Monroe street to 639 West Sixty-ninth 

 street, where he has a large store in a 

 good neighborhood. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. is experiencing 

 some of the troubles of the car short- 

 age. They were held up six or eight 

 weeks in getting the heavy timbers for 

 the new factory. They do not now ex- 

 pect to be moved to the new location 

 before some time in April. 



Friday, February 22, is a legal holi- 

 day, with but one mail delivery. Wire 

 your orders. 



P. Broadbeck, at Evanston, has had a' 

 light cut of roses this season partly be- 

 cause he put in cement benches last 



summer and did not get replanted until 

 September. He has consigned to the 

 Kennicott Bros. Co. steadily for four- 

 teen years. 



Miss Nina M. Howard, the violet 

 grower at dencoe, in common with 

 others has had crops below normal this 

 season. She is retailing her flowers this 

 season. 



Theodore Fehrmann, of Niles Center, 

 is busy erecting greenhouses on the lots 

 recently purchased in Irving Park and 

 shortly will remove there. 



The marriage of Matilda Graff and 

 Herman Landfield will take place at the 

 Unity club. Thirty-first street and Indi- 

 ana avenue, Sunday afternoon. The 

 bride is the sister of Will and Sam 

 Graff, who do a prosperous business at 

 Columbus. Both are here to attend the 

 wedding. Will having brought his fam- 

 ily. Sam Graff will be best man and his 

 sister, Emma, maid of honor. The floral 

 decorations will be worthy of special 

 notice. 



Sweet peas are one of the items which 

 are not in large receipt, for not many 

 growers are yet ready to cut, but E. C. 

 Amling has had pink and white for sev- 

 eral weeks. He expects other colors soon. 



Percy Jones notes that whereas Des- 

 plaines is no longer able to produce 

 violets of a quality to be profitable, Park 

 Bidge growers do well with them. 



At J. A. Budlong's they are grafting 

 quite a lot of roses for next season. 

 Grafted stock has done well this year 

 and now is looking fine. 



Weiland & Risch say that although 

 roses are now plentiful Killarney is hold- 

 ing its own. 



E. F. Winterson says the volume of 



sales is all right but he hates to see 

 prices go all to pieces the first time this 

 year the growers really have anything to 

 sell. 



Zech & Mann say shipping trade is 

 holding up well in spite of reports of 

 large supplies in other cities to which 

 they ship. 



John Poehlmann, of Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., says that it will not be long be- 

 fore Beauties will join the procession in 

 quantity. Antirrhinum is a specialty 

 with them this week. 



Joseph Foerster, sales manager for 

 George Reinberg, says Lent has not af- 

 fected demand to any appreciable extent 

 but that evidently the out-of-town grow- 

 ers, as well as those here, are cutting 

 heavier than they were, calls running 

 largely to special items. 



John Muno says he has had splendid 

 results this season in rooting carnation 

 cuttings. When he started in the busi- 

 ness, twenty years or so ago, he did not 

 know how to make a rose cutting, but 

 when P. Blameuser showed him he rooted 

 ninety-five per cent of Mermet his first 

 season. 



Michael Fink has sold his business, at 

 2211 Cottage Grove avenue, to Albert 

 Klitz, who takes possession at once. Joe 

 Phillips will continue in the place as 

 Mr. Klitz 's assistant. Mr. Fink will 

 move to the north side and assist his 

 father in the Herndon street store. 



The dealers in rooted cuttings report 

 an average demand, with little call for 

 the common sorts of carnations, but a 

 demand for Enchantress which is some- 

 thing phenomenal. With more Enchant- 

 ress in the market than any other vari- 

 ety, it looks as though all the growers 



