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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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NOVBMBKB 28, 1007. !.. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. PkOBe Caatral 1496 



PrlTSt* IxekasM 



All DepartMeati 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



FANCY STEVIH 



We have a large supply of fine Stevia, $1.50 per 100; $12.50 per 1000. 

 A full line of all kinds of CUT FLOWERS at lowest market price. 



CHRISTMAS 



Comes biit once a year— and now is the lime to get ready for it. 



We have justimailed to our customers 5,000 copies of a Speciai Cliribtmas List of 



Decorative Greens and Novelties 



If you did not receive a copy, drop us a postal and we will send you one at once. Every 

 florist can save money by reading it and placing orders at once, while stocks are complete. 



A. L. RANDALL CO., 19-21 RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



Mention The Review when yon .write. 



Scheiden & Schoos were fortunate in 

 having a crop of Timothy Eaton just 

 right this week and E. Fransen says they 

 are pleased with the week's business. 



Nellie C. Moore is again at her stand 

 in the Growers' market after a month's 

 illness. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. received 2,000 

 Bonnaff on from one grower November 26. 



George Reinberg is cutting some splen- 

 did Killarney, and the general crop is 

 larger than at any time in the last month. 



John Kruchten says his supply of 

 chrysanthemums will hold on for some 

 weeks yet. 



Ed Benthey says he is no longer with 

 the Benthey-Coatsworth Co. 



A. L. Vaughan, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 returned Sunday morning after a week's 

 visit in Louisiana, following his service 

 as judge at the Little Rock flower show. 

 He says the hospitality of the Little Rock 

 florists was unbounded during flower 

 show week. 



J. A. Sikutii made a wreath for $150 

 for the funeral of the mother of Captain 

 Schuettler, the assistant chief of police. 



As one of the small items which go 

 to make up the supplies of a big grower, 

 it may be mentioned that Bassett & 

 Washburn this week received a carload of 

 hardwood ashes from Canada. 



L. Lommel, who has worked for leading 

 florists all over the country, is now with 

 8eitz & Nordell, at 902 Evanston avenue. 

 The firm has' a neat new place and is 

 lining a nice business. 



A. L. Randall says they are more than 

 pleased with tlio improvement in the tel- 

 ephone service since they put in a switch- 

 board with an operator constantly on 



duty. They have three lines and seven 

 stations. 



The Kroeschell Bros. Co. is stijj send- 

 ing out its carnation measure to all ap- 

 plicants, and the number increases each 

 year at this season. F. Lautenschlager 

 is now calling on the trade at Cincinnati. 



Peter Reinberg is cutting a big crop 

 of Uncle John of fine quality. Mrs. 

 Field also is still giving a big cut. 



C. H. Fisk, who operates the Halle 

 stand on West Madison street, is gradu- 

 ally directing the trade around the cor- 

 ner to his old store and says he will 

 eventually rent the Halle store for an- 

 other line of business, retaining the 

 greenhouse for his own use. 



The carnation growers are becoming 

 expert at mending calyxes with the Baur 

 clip. Enchantress and Lawson are be- 

 ginning to split badly, so they have 

 plenty of practice. 



Wietor Bros, have kept a record ever 

 since they started in business, showing 

 the amount of space devoted to each va- 

 riety and the receipts from chrysanthe- 

 mums, carnations and each variety of 

 rose, so that they know exactly what it 

 has paid them to grow, and what they 

 have been justified in dropping. 



Albert Amling is not only president of 

 the Albert Amling Co., at Maywood, but 

 is vice-presid'ont of the Maywood State 

 Bank and of the Melrose Park State 

 Bank, with combined resources of $675,- 

 000. He never misses a directors' meet- 

 ing, but just now he is especially anxious 

 to liquidate ;i crop of smilax, which is 

 ready to relieve any possible money 

 stringency. E. C. Amling handles all the 

 stock from the ^favwood district. 



G. C. Crego and wife are making a 

 short trip to the Pacific coast. 



Percy Jones says he thinks the mar- 

 ket 's experience in the first half of No- 

 vember was little different than usual, 

 although chrysanthemums may have av- 

 eraged less than last year. 



W. E. Lynch, at Hunt 's, says he never 

 will have a complaint to make if the mar- 

 ket will continue as good as it has been 

 since November 22, In the supply de- 

 partment they have been busy right along. 



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

 says they are saving a great deal of 

 work this week by having George Bayer, 

 at Toledo, ship many of their chrysanthe- 

 mum orders direct. Mr. Bayer 's Bonnaf - 

 fons always are in demand. 



John Poehlmann is one of those cau- 

 tious gentlemen who never commit them- 

 selves to an unqualified statement of fact, 

 but he admits that if the week continues 

 as well as it started it will be a good one. 



J. A. Budlong is cutting White Perfec- 

 tion and Enchantress, which readily 

 brought 6 cents Monday. 



John Zech, of Zech & Mann, says the 

 market for roses is not yet as strong as 

 he would like to see, but other lines are 

 moving satisfactorily. 



Weiland & Risch are figuring on an- 

 other big crop of Killarney for Christmas. 



The J. B. Deamud Co. is receiving 

 some especially fine stevia. 



If Frank Beu can get a clear title to 

 a piece of property ho has bought adjoin- 

 ing his place, he will in the spring put 

 up a house 50x200, which will be de- 

 voted entirely to Kaiserin, which made 

 him excellent money last season. 



Louis Wittbold says that the interest 

 taken in his metliod of making cement 



