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Dbcbmber 20, 1007. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



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A. L. Randall Co* 



Wholesale riori>ts 



L. D. Phone Coiitral 1496 



Privats l> xctaanne 



All Uepsrtuieuta 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



VIOLETS 



Used in large quantity for New Yearns. We handle More Violets than any other house. 



We h«Vtf » full line of all Cut fiowers— KUsHS, U^KNaTIuNS, 

 STEVIA, BULB bTOcK, ADIANTUM and all OREBNS— and 

 alwitya can fill your orders irhea others mig^nt fall.... 



WILDSMILAX ~~ 



• 60-lb. case $5.00 35-lb. case $4.00 25-lb. case $3.00 



FERTILIZERS 



From now on, every grower will have to feed hie plants and will need one or more of our Guaranteed Fertilizers. 



SHREDDED C41TLE MANURE 



Pure Bone Meal > Florists' Bone Float Blood and Bone 



Pulverized Sheep Manure Hardwood Ashes Nitrate of fiioda 



Write for prices stating the quantity you will need. 

 Retailers can wire for Violet Boxes or any supplies they are short of for New Year's Trade. 



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



Mfiithih I he KhvIhw wlien yon write. 



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AN INVITATION 



To all my brother florists of 

 Chicago and vicinity, and all their 

 friends, I hereby extend a cordial 

 invitation to visit me in my newly 

 rebuilt quarters, at the old loca- 

 tion, Lincoln and Van Buren Sts. 

 My Christmas decorations will be 

 in place for two more weeks. 



H. R. HDGHKS. 

 Chicago, Dec. 24, 1907. 



Mfiiii.'ii riie Kyvlew When yoo write. 



in his own immediate neighborhood, bo 

 had decorations for several downtown 

 hotels and restaurants, including the 

 Hofbrau, the Edelweiss, the Bismarck 

 and the Union hotel. 



H, F. Halle is well satisfied with the 

 patronage he is receiving at his pleas- 

 ant new comer store on the north side. 

 His show windows are so large as to 

 give him a fine opportunity for the dis- 

 play of his stock. He has just received 

 a nice lot of azaleas, chiefly Simon Mard- 

 ner and Vervreneana. 



Seitz & Nordell have dissolved partner- 

 ship and Henry Seitz is now running the 

 business in his own name. His new place 

 at the northeast comer of Evanston and 

 Glenlake avenues is a model of dura- 

 bility, completeness and convenience. The 

 greenhouses are of Moninger construc- 

 tion, with concrete walls. The store, 

 boiler-room, work-room and stable arc 

 built of concrete blocks. Mr, Seitz is 

 also building, for his own use, a pretty 



six-room frame residence, near the green- 

 houses and fronting on Glenlake ave- 

 nue. 



Mr. Kill is Interviewed. 



A recent issue of the Inter Ocean, one- 

 time Chicago's leading daily, contained 

 half a column about Peter Reinberg and 

 his business that bore unmistakable evi- 

 dence that the young lady reporter had 

 been interviewing Leonard Kill. Wit- 

 ness the following: 



"The Mrs. Marshall Field rose, which 

 is a shaded pink of exquisite tints, is 

 grown by Peter Keinberg, who combines 

 the duties of being the Democratic alder- 

 man from a Republican ward with the 

 business of being the grower of more 

 roses than any other Chicago florist. 

 There are 1,580,000 square feet of glass 

 over the Reinberg greenhouses, and the 

 Reinberg rose tract covers acres and 

 acres. 



"Because the Reinberg roses arc 

 grown cooler than any other roses, they 

 keep longer and look fresher. There is a 

 dewy freshness about one of the Rein- 

 berg roses that a professional florist will 

 recognize at a glance. 



"The colorings of the roses are an- 

 other accomplishment that the florists 

 who are employed by the Carnation Al- 

 derman have become expert in. The 

 tints of the roses are the more wonderful 

 to contemplate when the observer remem- 

 bers that they have been secured by a 

 marvelous application of scientific prin- 

 ciples of art with the assistance of na- 

 ture. It is the personal quality of ab- 

 sorbed and enthusiastic interest in the 

 growing of roses that has made the Rein- 

 berg rose what it is. From Alderman 

 Reinberg, and Manager Kill to the boys 



who work in the greenhouses as assist- 

 ants, there is a uniform interest about 

 the product of the place. The Mrs. 

 Marshall Field is the queen who reigns 

 supreme among their roses, and they give 

 her the homage courtiers would pay to a 

 reigning monarch. And not one of her 

 lovely court of minor satellites is 

 neglected. ' ' 



A Christmas shipment of Mrs. Field 

 went as far east as Troy, N. Y. 



Variotfs Notes. 



C, A. Samuelson and W. J.. Smyth had 

 the greater part of the business for the 

 Henry Dibblee^ funeral December 21, 

 where large quantities of flowers were 

 used. Mr. Smyth says business has been 

 excellent in the last fortnight, although 

 not quite up to last year. 



At E, H, Hunt's, W, E, Lynch says 

 they were excessively busy beginning De- 

 cember 21, and that the Christmas sea- 

 son has been the best on record, with 

 the opportunity of doing more business 

 had the supply in certain lines been 

 greater. 



The store of Kennicott Bros. Co, has 

 looked like Thanksgiving instead of 

 Christmas this week, because of large 

 receipts of Bonnaffon chrysanthemums. 

 Domer's new pink carnation, Winona, 

 is handled here. It sells quickly and 

 the retailers report it has great keeping 

 qualities. 



C. A. Samuelson says buyers who 

 readily paid $20 per dozen for long 

 Beauties last Christmas, hesitated at $18 

 this year, and the $2 difference was di- 

 rectly out of the retailer's pocket. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. sent a good sized 

 shipment of its special grade of roses 



