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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 28, 1907. 



Cut Flowers for Easter 



LONGIFLORUMS, $12.50 to $15.00 per 100. 



Fancy Nurillo Tulips, Double Pink, $4.00 

 to $5.00 per 100; $40.00 per 1000. 



Fancy Jonquils and Daffodils, $4.00 

 per 100; $35.00 per 1000. 



La Reine Tulips and White, $3.00 per 100. 

 White Lilac, $1.50 per bunch. 

 Roses, $5.00 to $15.00 per 100. 

 Carnations, $3.00 to $6.00 per 100. 



Should you find yourself running short on anything, 

 wire us or phone : 



RUSH ORDERS 



For Cut Flowers, Central 1496 and 1497; for Supplies, Central 5614. 



L,B^lll's%%^e^NT%P EASTER NOVELTIES 



in Boxes, Hampers, Baskets, Pot Covers of all kinds, and a complete assortment 

 of all Staple Supplies. We are prepared to take care of all RUSH ORDERS* 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



Have you our CaUlogue? Sent free on request. 19-21 RandolpK St., CHICAGO, ILL 



Mentkir The ReTlew when yon write. 



Hauswirth's New Store. 



The adaition to the Auditorium Annex 

 is rapidly nearing completion and with 

 it P. J. Hauswirth 's new flower store 

 at the south end of the Michigan ave- 

 nue front. The store will be of good 

 size and of such character that no more 

 than an ice-box and some marble-topped 

 tables will be needed in the way of fix- 

 tures. A basement for storage and work 

 will be one of the added facilities. At 

 the rear of the store will be a large 

 conservatory, Ijelonging to the hotel, but 

 which will be an immense advantage to 

 the flower store, as it will attract many 

 guests of the hotel to the entrance to 

 the store. The building will be com- 

 pleted around May 1 and will be by all 

 odds the finest hotel building in the 

 west. It was probably inevitable that 

 other retailers should a.sk for the lease, 

 although they never had any chance of 

 accomplishing anything except to make 

 Mr. Hauswirth 's rent cost him more 

 than it otherwise would. 



Variotu Notes. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. is in its 

 additional space on the street floor at 

 45 to 49 Wabash this week. Their stock 

 of Easter plants came in so heavily that 

 it overflowed upon the sidewalk and 

 made a display which has attracted a 

 large amount of retail business, al- 

 though the bulk of the sales the first 

 of the week were wholesale. They con- 

 template putting in a large stock, doing 

 retail business on the street floor and 

 wholesale in the basement. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. reports 

 that summer has struck New Castle with 

 full force. The crop of Brides and 



Maids is something tremendous and the 

 quality is remarkably good considering 

 the heat. 



John Lang, at Melrose and Robey 

 streets, has filed a claim with the gas 

 company asking that he be reimbursed 

 to the extent of something like $2,000 

 for damage done to three houses of car- 

 nations by gas which, he claims, es- 

 caped from the company's mains and 

 found its way out of the frozen ground 

 through the greenhouses. 



Percy Jones has received the advance 

 guard of the procession of red gladioli 

 which will shortly begin to march 

 through his place in the market. 



A. Lange has a vacant room in the 

 Heyworth building for his Easter plant 

 sales. 



Bassett & Washburn have not yet set- 

 tled upon a name for their red seed- 

 ling carnation, No. 20, which they will 

 disseminate next season. They would 

 like to call it Hinsdale, but there is an 

 old variety called Judge Hinsdale. Mr. 

 Washburn thinks of calling it Orland, 

 after Orland P. Bassett, who is now in 



Egypt. 



J. F. Klimmer, at Oak Park, has had 

 excellent results with Flamingo carna- 

 tion this season and says that beside 

 Craig and Victory it shows up well in 

 every particular. At the last club meet- 

 ing he was interested in the statement 

 that with most growers carnation crops 

 all season have been below the average. 

 He says his own cut has been twenty per 

 cent heavier than last year. E. C. Am- 

 ling, who was present, said that, while 

 ho thought it true tha^ carnation crops 

 generally had been lighter than ordi- 

 nary, one of his growers a little way 



south has had heavier crops than ever 

 before and better quality. 



At E. H. Hunt's they have daily re- 

 ceipts of the Gen. MacArthur rose. Many 

 buyers like it better than either Liberty 

 or Richmond and some of the stems are 

 as long as in either of the other va- 

 rieties. Fragrance is one of its special 

 characteristics. 



August Poehlmann was elected a mem- 

 ber of the executive committee of the 

 American Rose Society at the Washing- 

 ton meeting in the interest of next 

 year's exhibition at Chicago. 



March 21 a runaway horse dashed 

 into the Wabash Fruit and Flower Store, 

 325 Wabash avenue, by way of the 

 show window. 



Seitz & Nordell, who have the place 

 of the late John C. Ure, at 2923 Evans- 

 ton avenue, have secured the property 

 just across from their present location 

 and will build new greenhouses there. 

 The new plant will be double the pres- 

 ent capacity and will be completed by 

 August. 



A holdup man entered the back door 

 of Darley & Dunbar's store on West 

 Madison street one evening last week, 

 but on being shown the muzzle of a re- 

 volver laid down his own weapon to the 

 man who had the drop and was handed 

 over to a nearby policeman. F. W. Dar- 

 ley says business has been good; they 

 have been having a run of funeral work. 



Among the visitors of the week were 

 .T. R. Bather, Clinton, la., buying Easter 

 supplies; Mr. Schenek, of Schenck & 

 Bliese Co., Waukesha, Wis., consulting 

 the John C. Moninger Co. about a new 

 greenhouse; H. W. Buckbee, Rockford, 

 111., looking up Easter prospects; Julius 



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