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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 11, 1907. 



OF COURSE! f 



You can depend on us for all CUT FLOWERS In season. Quality as good 



as the season affords. Supply always large. 



HOSE 



Five F^ie^rands— each as 

 good as money will buy. 

 Three quarter-Inch. 



A grower at Rhindbecfr, N. Y., writes July 6: ** Enclosed find check for 

 $7.00 for the 50 feet of Florist King Hose. It is the best one we ever had.** 



This hose is made especially, for us and is used with the best of satisfaction 

 by a large number of leading growers. We ship it all over the United States. 



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...PRICE. 



Per 100 feet P«r 100 feet 



Leader, 6-ply $ 8.00 Wiaard, 6-plj 910.00 



Ti^er, 6 ply IS.OO Whirlpool, 6-ply 18.00 



Florist Kin^, Iply .... 14.00 



Samples gladly sent ftee on request. 



Rubber Aprons 



Full size, heavy weight .... each, $2.00 

 Full size, medium weight . .each, 1.50 

 Full size, light weight each, LIS 



If you haven't our catalogue, send a postal today) you need it; it will save you money. 



A. L. RANDALL CO., 19-21 ^Randolph St,^CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



iOf peonies are enough for a cut flower 



crop. We have enough Festiva maxima 



^to make a row a mile long, but the old 



Whittleyi is a better cut flower peony for 



jtorage and the wholesale market. We 



have an acre of a late pink which we 



«all No. 4, a variety which has dropped 



(Out of sight in most peony plantations, 



:t)ut which we think is the best pink of 



the whole lot for cutting for market. It 



■costs no more to grow the best cut flower 



sorts than the nurserymen's general list 



iuid we are concentrating on a few sorts, 



to have them in quantity. The proper 



attention to details in handling is more 



important than the varieties in growing 



for cut flowers. Character of soil is im- 



j)ortant, and peony blooms which are ex- 



j)ected to keep should not be fed; there 



^as been no fertilizer on our fields in 



ten years, for we grow only for cutting 



.and do not sell roots to the trade. Any 



sorts wc conclude to discard we work up 



in the landscape department of our nurs-- 



ery business. ' ' 



Carnation Plants. 



As a general thing the seasons average 

 up fairly well, and it promises to be so 

 this year. Although the carnation plants 

 in the field made an alarmingly slow 

 growth in May and June, they are now 

 getting ahead at a rate which gives the 

 growers much delight and promises to 

 provide good stock for early benching. 

 The frequent rains and warm weather 

 have been just what the carnations 

 needed to make them jump. 



Nearly every grower has planted more 

 or less of his stock indoors from pots 

 this season, counting on an early cut. 

 The indoor stock in general looks good. 



July Pro'pectf. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 says he does not. look for a good July or 

 August business. He says it has in- 



variably happened in his experience that 

 a dry summer meant fair business for 

 the wholesale cut flower people, and that 

 a wet summer meant slow business. 

 Charles Klehm endorses this opinion. In 

 fact, he says that last year there was a 

 good demand for outdoor flowers and 

 this year growers have greatly increased 

 their preparations for meeting the de- 

 mand. With plenty of rain and a good 

 growing season, outdoor flowers already 

 are overabundant and selling at unprofit- 

 able prices. 



Murphy a Suicide. 



Thomas Murphy, 50 years old, living 

 over his flower store at Ogden avenue and 

 Oakley boulevard, was found dead in bed 

 July 5, liis room filled with illuminating 

 gas and two bullet holes through his 

 head. A revolver lay beside the bed. The 

 gas was escaping from a half open jet. 

 The body was taken to McCain's under- 

 taking establishment, 604 Ogden avenue. 

 Murphy was well known and liked in the 

 market and no reason can be found for 

 his act. He was married. Hi^ wife had 

 been visiting for several days in Peoria. 

 The funeral was held July 8, several in 

 the trade attending. 



On Robey Street 



Out at the end of Robey street, Peter 

 Reinberg has just acquired three acres 

 of land adjoining his range on the east 

 side of the street and running north 

 nearly to Rose Hill cemetery. There is 

 no immediate prospect of its being cov- 

 ered with gla^s, but part of it will be 

 used for a' big coal-shed this season. 



Mr. Reinberg has already planted seven 

 short houses, at the north end of his 

 range, with carnations from pots, plan- 

 ning an early crop. He is now cutting 

 quite heavily from three houses of young 

 stock of Mrs. Field rose. 



Various Notes. 



Aristocrat is doing finely this summer 

 with the Chicago Carnation Co. The 

 quality is maintained better than that of 

 any other pink in the market, color re- 

 maining good and the flower of fair size. 

 It is an excellent keeper. The blooms 

 not needed in their own trade are con- 

 signed to C. W. McKellar and J. B. 

 Deamud. 



L. Gresenz, of Bassett & Washburn, 

 has been away for a fortmght, taking his 

 annual vacation. 



Peter Endre is investing $7,000 in a 

 range of six greenhouses at 59 Rogers 

 avenue. 



The E. F. Winterson Co., having fin- 

 ished the changes in the store, is this 

 week repainting and calcimining, pre- 

 paratory to installing a new system of 

 seed cases and other special fixtures. Mr, 

 Winterson proposes to"have the place in 

 first-class shape for next season, but by 

 the terms of the lease is required to 

 make all his changes and do the decorat- 

 ing at his own expense. 



John May is building a greenhouse at 

 515 Florence avenue, Evanston. 



Miss Martha Gunterberg has found 

 business so heavy at her stand in the 

 Flower Growers' Market that she has 

 employed an assistant in the handling of 

 the stock. She had a three days' rest in 

 Michigan last week and plans a three 

 weeks' vacation in August, when most of 

 her growers will be replanting. 



N. J. Wietor sent the boys in the store 

 three boxes of fish in the last fortnight. 

 To his brother, Henry, he sent a tnuskal- 

 longe weighing twenty-two and one-half 

 pounds. He and John Sinner reached 

 home Tuesday from their trip. 



As J. B. Deamud and a friend were 

 riding home on a Cottage Grove trailer 

 on the afternoon of July 4, the car was 

 struck by another street car. Mr. Dea- 



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