

The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 20, 1908. 



$1.50 per bunch. THE fancy white flower of the season. 



VlolfitS ^^ handle only the finest quality and in CAmStlfinS 



larger quantities than any house in Chicago 

 Send your orders where you can get the full order 

 filled with the finest stock. 



Fancy stock at $3 00 per 100. 

 Thousand lots at $15.00 to $25.00, 

 according to quality. 



Roses 



Extra selected stock. Best in Chicago. 

 Long and fancy, $8.00 to $12.00 per 100. 



Bulb Stock 



Fancy Tulips, Daffodils and 

 Jonquils, $3.00 per 100. 



Extra Fancy Valley, $4.00 per 100 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



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Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



floors are occupied. The lease does not 

 include the street floor or basement, but 

 renders all the rest of the building avail- 

 able as the needs of the business de- 

 velop. 



Chicago at Springfield. 



The main Chicago party had a special 

 car on the Illinois Central February 17 

 for the trip to the state convention. The 

 city was well represented, the following 

 being present : George Asmus, J. S. Wil- 

 son, Adolph Poehlmann, N. J. Rupp, 

 George Garland, Wni. L. Kroeschell, 

 Leonard Kill, R. S. Woodhouse, W. N. 

 Rudd, P. J. Foley, H. B. Howard, J. E. 

 Jensen, J. C. Vaughan, W. E. Lynch, 

 .T. H. Pepper, Frank .Tohnson, A. Dietsch, 

 J. H. Burdett ; Will Breitmeyer, Detroit ; 

 A, T. Pyfcr and P. Qlsem, Joliet. 



Qub Meeting. 



If the Chicago Florists' Club keeps up 

 for the year the pace it struck on the 

 evening President Leonard Kill first oc- 

 cupied the chair, the members will owe 

 special recognition to H. N. Bruns, to 

 whose insistence the nomination of Mr. 

 Kill was due. The attendance February 

 13 was nearly forty and the interest 

 keen. 



President Kill announced his commit- 

 tees as follows: 



Finance — H. N. Bruns, Wm. Kidwell, 

 George .Asmus. 



Sports — Phil Schupp, F. Lautenschla- 

 ger, George Asmus. 



Transportation — F. F. Benthey, E. C. 

 Amling, A. C. Spencer. 



Good of the Club— T. E. Waters, Ed 

 Enders, H. B. Howard. 



The finance committee reported having 

 audited the books, finding a balance of 

 $349.35 in the treasury. 



Applications for membership were re- 

 ceived from W. E. Hennig, J. J. Kruch- 

 ten, John Schillo, H. Schiller, H. C. 

 Lenington and J. H. Pepper. 



A. H. Poehlmann reported on the plans 

 for the national rose show at the Art In- 

 stitute March 25 to 27 and read a long 

 list of donors of special premiums. The 



club voted to give a banquet to the vis- 

 itors to the show. 



J. S. Wilson, Andrew Benson and W. 

 L. Palinsky were appointed to score a 

 vase of Fritz Bahr's new carnation, Lu- 

 cille, a beautiful flower on the order of 

 Prosperity, of which it is said to be a 

 seedling, but of *a totally different color, 

 all the pink being in the shape of a flush 

 at the base of the petal. This was ex- 

 hibited by the E. F. Winterson Co. and 

 scored eighty-five points, entitling it to 

 a certificate. 



A. C. Beal, of Urbana, secretary of 

 the State Florists' Association, was 

 present and spoke for a good attendance 

 at Springfield this week. 



Easter Lilies. 



Peter Sroczyniski, who perhaps will 

 be more easily recognizable as "Big 

 Pete," says that he has been about 

 among the lily forcers north and west of 

 town and finds a general complaint as to 

 the quality of bulbs. Practically every 

 grower who is forcing multiflorum for 

 Easter has a large loss, which Big Pete 

 estimates at fifty per cent; in his own 

 case it was more than sixty per cent. 

 Part of this is due to disease in the bulbs 

 and part to the bulbs being double-nosed 

 and triple-nosed. Where a bulb throws 

 three grass-like shoots, it is not worth 

 the space it takes up. The loss in the 

 giganteums is not over ten per cent and 

 Big Pete says that next season he will 

 not be in the lily business unless he can 

 get giganteum bulbs. 



Long Distance Phone. 



The long distance telephone is coming 

 more and more into use for ordering cut 

 flowers from this market. Since the tel- 

 egraph companies increased their rates it 

 is cheaper in many cases to phone than 

 it is to telegraph, if an answer is re- 

 quired; besides, it is decidedly more sat- 

 isfactory. One day last week a visitor 

 to one wholesale house went on because 

 his chat with the proprietor was inter- 

 rupted by a call from Buffalo and, step- 

 ping in next door, he found the whole- 



saler talking with St. Louis. Nearby 

 towns use the telephone almost exclu- 

 sively for ordering. 



Various Notes. 



Weiland & Risch have secured a piece 

 of land adjoining their plant at Evans- 

 ton and the prospect is that a good sized 

 range of rose bouses will go up as soon 

 as they can work the ground. It is in- 

 tended to increase the planting of Kil- 

 larney and cut down on Bridesmaid at 

 this place, 



Peter Reinberg has concluded to make 

 the campaign for reelection to the city 

 council again this spring. 



N. J. Rupp, of the John C. Moninger 

 Co., spent last week visiting prospective 

 greenhouse builders in northern Illinois 

 and Iowa. 



Zech & Mann say roses are selling first- 

 rate and that they are lucky in having 

 three growers, each cutting good crops: 

 Albert Lies, of Niles Center; Damm 

 Bros., and Emil Kroll. 



J. A. Budlong will next season plant 

 two houses with White Perfection and 

 White Enchantress. 



Robert Johnstone, with Vaughan & 

 Sperry, was called to Nunda, 111., on the 

 evening of February 15 by the sad news 

 that his mother, well advanced in years, 

 was dying. 



At E. C. Amling 's. they were especially 

 fortunate last week in having a fair 

 quantity of good Beauties, one sale being 

 made as high as $7.50 per dozen. 



At E. H. Hunt's they say the locally 

 grown Marie Louise violets sold for $1 

 per hundred at Valentine's day without 

 satisfying the demand. 



E. E. Pieser, of the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., says that in his estimation the whole- 

 sale florists should be well pleased with 

 the volume of business now being done. 

 In Mr. Pieser 's opinion the flower busi- 

 ness is better than general business. 



An attraction at Winterson 's last week 

 was the vase of twenty-five blooms of 

 Fritz Bahr's carnation, Lucille, which 

 was shown at the Florists' Club's last 

 meeting. It is a magnificent flower and 



