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The Weekly Horists' Review. 



Jancaby 23, 1908. 



FANCY WHITE LILAC 



^^^NOW READY-— -^ 



$l.50 per bunch. Orders booked one day in advance of shipment. 



%/I^^V F'Td We handle only the finest %/ 1^ V V P^^ Extra long^, extra larg^e bells 

 V ll.rL.L^ 1 «9 quality T /%LL.L^ 1 Nothing equal to it in Chicago 



Panf^lf RaCOC ^-00 to $12.00; some Poi^noflAlltt ^^'^^ ^ $4.00 per 100; 

 railCy nU9«9 extra select at $16.00 VCirilailUllS fancy stock, aU varieties 



For Valentine's Day 



We have a large stock of Heart-shaped Cardboard Boxes and Heart-shaped Birch Bark Boxes and 

 a fine line of Violet Chififons and Violet Cords. Prices and further particulars gladly sent upon request. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



Prirate Exrhan«re all 



Departments 



r9-2l Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



ket, but the supply is not greater than 

 the demand and it frequently requires 

 some skirmishing to find just the stock 

 needed for late orders. The market 

 now supplies quite a variety of roses 

 when orders are sent early in the day. 

 Killarney sells out first. Richmond is in 

 better supply. Mrs. Field also gives a 

 good cut. Kate Moulton is in good 

 shape. Not many Chatenay are seen. 

 Joe Hill, Cardinal, Perle and Sunrise are 

 daily items of stock. 



The carnation market cleaned up well 

 last week under the leadership of the 

 white varieties, but there was an ac- 

 cumulation January 21, carried over from 

 Monday, which is a day that usually sees 

 the market well cleaned out. There were, 

 however, no whites left, but several grow- 

 ers say it will be only a few days 

 until they are again in crop with some 

 white varieties. The carnation crops 

 are now enough above the usual January 

 production to counterbalance the short- 

 age in the fall. There will be plenty of 

 carnations for McKinley day, January 

 29, and prices for good stock will be 

 moderate. Quality is so universally ex- 

 cellent that short Lawson, where offered, 

 is sold only at unmentionable prices. 



The violet market has been in a bad 

 way, receipts being much above the 

 demand. Bulbous stock also has been 

 selling cheaper than ever before. There 

 are increasing supplies of tulips in three 

 colors, and jonquils and daffodils are 

 coming heavier every day. Golden Spur 

 is not making the better prices usually 

 noted for that variety. Roman hyacinths 

 are a decided glut. Paper Whites do 

 rather better and large quantities of 

 all the white bulbous flowers are sold 

 because of the demand for funeral work. 



Some days there is an abundance of 

 Easter lilies and callas, but on other 

 days it is hard to pick them up and 

 the price on the few dozens available 

 takes a jump. Sweet peas are abundant, 

 but not many are of attractive quality. 



iraVERY now and then a well 

 lis pleased reader speaks the wotd 

 which is the means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florists' use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Cazton Bldg. Chicago 



Freesia has come in heavily this week. 

 Orchids are abundant. 



All sorts of greens are plentiful. 



New Conunission Man. 



Joseph Foerster, who has been for a 



number of years with George Reinberg, 

 and for the last three years manager of 

 his city store, has made arrangements to 

 enter the commission business on his own 

 account, beginning January 27. He will 

 make his start on the floor of the Flow- 

 er Growers' market, having secured the 

 space formerly occupied by F. R, Hills. 



Variotn Notes. 



A. I. Simmons is in St. Bernard's 

 hospital, where he underwent an opera- 

 tion some three weeks ago. He has 

 been having a serious time with his leg 

 for a number of months and will be in 

 the hospital for many weeks. 



E. C. Amling has given close attention 

 to business without having taken a va- 

 cation for a number of years, and on 

 the evening of Monday, January 20, 

 he started for southern California for a 

 month's rest and recuperation. Mr. Am- 

 ling has a sister whose home is at Orange, 

 Cal., near Los Angeles. He was ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Amling and their 

 three children. Of the party also was 

 Albert Amling, vice-president of the May- 

 wood State Bank and president of the 

 Albert Amling Co., growers of greens 

 and roses, together with Mrs. Amling 

 and their two youngest children. All 

 told, it was a party of nine. 



E. Wienhoeber says that business has 

 continued good ever since Christmas, al- 

 though it let up a little last week. He 

 says that beginning a few days before 

 Christmas and to the middle of Janu- 

 ary, the business of the E. Wienhoeber 

 Co. was ahead of that for the same period 

 last year, and he asks nothing more. 



Notice of the death of Hannah Deg- 

 nan, mother of John P, Degnan, of the 



