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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEB 31, 1907. 



TO ALL FLORISTS and GROWERS 



VISITING CHICAGO we extend a most cordial invitation at all times, and especially 

 during the Flower Show, to make our place your headquarters while here. Come in 

 and see us. We will be glad to see you. , •, 



CHRYSANTHENUNS 



Can supply all orders for small, medium, or large at lowest market prices in quantity. 



ROSES VIOLETS VALLEY 



Maids and> Brides in largest 

 supply and fipest quality. 



Headquarters for the 

 best Hudson River Stock. 



Always on hand. Also 

 all Green Goods.... 



The Cut of CARNATIONS steadily increases 



SDIANTUM WILD SMILAX 



Headquarters for Adiantum Croweanum, 

 Cuneatum and all other green goods. 



A large supply of fine Wild Smilax always 

 on hand. 



We have the best 

 THE "DTTPLEX" 



^/■f^V F^T l%C^l^F*C^ and also less expensive^ones. Write for 



samples and prices. They make trade. 



8KHD FOB OUR BUPPLT CATALOOUK. IT WILL BAVK TOO MOHKT 



A. L RANDALL CO.* Randolph street, ClllCAUO 



Mention The Bevlew when yon write. 



paid. Mr. Brix is making great prep- 

 arations for liis flower show, whicli takes 

 place November 7 to 9 in the Y. M. C. 

 A. building, Nineteenth street and St. 

 Louis avenue, to which the public will 

 be invited free. The members of the 

 Florists' Club have accepted an invita- 

 tion to visit the show in a body on Fri- 

 day, November 8, which will be known 

 .IS florists' day. On this day Mr. Brix 

 lias some surprises in store for the 

 trade. 



Jules Bourdet, at South A'andeventer 

 avenue, has the finest lot of cyclamen 

 plants seen for many days. Mr. Bourdet 

 is also cutting extra fine yellow and 

 white chrysanthemum blooms, which are 

 consigned to W. C. Smith & Co. 



The Riessen Floral Co. decorated sev- 

 eral swell dinners at the downtown ho- 

 tels, given in honor of visiting balloon- 

 ists last week. 



H. Baer, of Peoria, and Swan Peter- 

 son, of Gibson City, 111., are sending in 

 to this market a fine quality of carnation 

 blooms in several varieties. Among them 

 Enchantress is supreme. This stock is 

 handled by C. A. Kuehn. 



J. F. Windt, on Bayard avenue, has 

 his large show house filled with extra fine 

 chrysanthemum plants in full bloom. 

 Mr. Windt had two large wedding deco- 

 rations last week and reports the busi- 

 ness fairly on for the season. 



C, Schlueter, at Fourteenth street and 

 St. Louis avenue, reports an extra good 

 demand for plants of all kinds. His 

 show house, adjoining his store, shows a 

 fine selection. Mr. Healy, the manager, 

 says funeral work was abundant last 

 week. 



George Angermueller, who is handling 

 Heller Bros.' consignment to this mar- 

 ket, is receiving a lot of extra long 

 Beauties and other good roses, as well 

 ;is good chrysanthemimis. 



.Tnmps Young, president of the C. 



Young & Sons Co., reports that the firm 

 is doing a large trade in bulbs this fall, 

 lK)th local and shipping. The cut 

 flower department has been busy so far 

 this season with decorations and funeral 

 work. 



William Winter, of Kirkwood, and A. 

 Jablonsky, of Central, are consigning to 

 Henry Berning extra good quality of 

 stock in carnations and roses. The de- 

 mand for these is suffering a little, ow- 

 ing to the demand for chrysanthemums. 



Robert J. Windier and Conrad Berg- 

 fitcrman, on South Grand avenue, report 

 a nice season's business in cut flower 

 work and decorations. Pretty window 

 decorations of mums are seen here daily. 



The Bentaen Floral Co., Mr. Huette- 

 mann, the Mullanphy Floral Co. and 

 John Quinn, florists along North Grand 

 avenue, are having a good run of busi- 

 ness in funeral work, decorations and 

 blooming ])lants. These places also have 

 attractive window displays. 



The St. Louis Horticultural Society is 

 making great preparations for its fall 

 flower show, which takes place Novem- 

 ber 12 to 15, in the United Railway 

 Co. 's new hall, at Grand and Park ave- 

 nues. The executive committee holds 

 meetings weekly now and a fine exhibi- 

 tion is looked for. The executive com- 

 mittee is composed of men who are 

 known as workers and will leave noth- 

 ing undone to make the show a success. 

 The feature of the show will again be 

 the Henry Shaw prizes. These, with the 

 local and outside entries, should make a 

 show which should be a credit to the 

 young society. J. J. B. 



NEWYORK. 



The Market. 



Chatham, N. Y.— R. E. Shuphelt, 

 accompanied by his mother and sister, 

 sailed from New York October 23 on 

 the Clyde line steamship Huron, to spend 

 the winter at Fruitland Park, Fla. 



T^ast week was the most strenuous ever 

 known in the metropolis. The upheaval 

 in financial circles has been the one sub- 

 ject of conversation and has affected all 

 business interests. It goes without say- 

 ing that the influence on metropolitan 

 floriculture was disastrous. Strange to 

 say, ten miles outside of the city there 

 lias been no excitement, no loss, no les- 

 sening of enterprise and faith in the fu- 

 ture, and, apart from New York, all is 

 good cheer, and hope, and optimism. So 

 will it be here when the clouds have 

 flown and common-sense rules and public 

 confidence is reestablished. 



Naturally, with this nervous and un- 

 stable condition comes the enforced re- 

 duction in the retail florists' trade, a 

 result invariable when economy is forced 

 upon the public. But underlying all the 

 disturbed equanimity of business men, 

 remain the foundations of the nation's 

 prosperity, and before Thanksgiving day 

 arrives we shall all be realizing the fact 

 that there is much remaining to be 

 thalikful for and that all is well. 



Beauties are abundant and, like every 

 other cut flower, lower in price and like- 

 ly to bo as long as the chrysanthemum 

 flood i>our8 in. The receipts of the lat- 

 ter are enormous and the variety and 

 (juality have never been excelled. 



All prices have fallen, as usual when 

 the mum is king. It is the inevitable 

 rule for these weeks before the turkey 

 holiday. Why should this year prove an 

 exception? Memory and experience make 

 one patient when the past is considered 

 and we realize that what has been will 

 be again. 



Carnations grow daily in size and stem 

 and variety, but prices are lower than a 



