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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



5'KBKUABY 27, 1908. 



Fancy White Lilac 



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



VloififtS ^^ handle only the finest quality and in 



w I VlwlO larger quantities than any house in Chicago 



Prices never before so low at this time of year. 



f^4||«|f«|4||%||^ Fancy stock in large quantities. 



Wai llCillWIIV Write for nnnffttinns in 1000 Intfl. 



Write for quotations in 1000 lots. 



W%^%.^g^^ Extra selected stock 



Best in Chicago. 

 Long and fancy, $2.00 to $10.00 per 100. 



■>..ll^ Ck^Atf^lc F^^cy Tulips, Daffodils, Jqn- 



quils,$2.00 and $3.00 per 100. 



Extra Fancy Valley, $3.00 and $4.00 per 100 



A. L. Randall Co 



Wholesale Florists "»x~ ^"'19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



•where it vanishes in the waste barrel. 

 Not all the receipts can be sold at any 

 price. Singles are less abundant than 

 they were and sell better than the 

 doubles. 



Bulbous stock never sold so low in 

 February as it now is selling in the Chi- 

 cago market. Sam Pearce, who probably 

 is in as good a position as anyone to 

 know, says that bulbous flowers on the 

 average are bringing only half as much 

 as they did a year ago. Callas are 

 abundant, and Easter lilies also. Sweet 

 peas are coming in heavily and are fine. 

 The best sell well, but the low grades 

 do not move. 



The one item on which the market 

 is stiff is the American Beauty rose. 

 Crops are generally at a low ebb and 

 quality nothing to brag about. There 

 are plenty of shorts and some medium 

 lengths, but really good long-stemmed 

 Beauties are hard to find and do not 

 go around. 



The weather-man predicts more cloudy 

 and cold weather. It would put new 

 life in the market, by checking produc- 

 tion, both here and throughout the coun- 

 try. Mardi Gras, March 2 and 3, is 

 expected to make a good call from New 

 Orleans. 



Good Times Coming. 



In looking about for a new meeting 

 place for the Florists' Club, President 

 Leonard Kill received so good a propo- 

 sition from the Union restaurant. 111 

 Randolph street, that the members of 

 the club whom he consulted told him 

 to close with it for the next meeting. 

 It will be necessary to change the meet- 

 ing night from the second Thursday 

 to the first Thursday of each month, 

 and so the notices which will be mailed 

 to members next Monday will call the 

 March meeting for the private club- 

 room at the Union at 8 p. m., Thursday, 

 March 5. Don't fail to be there. 



President Kill has appointed as a com- 

 mittee on Rose Society banquet, William 

 Kidwell, C. W. McKellar and Harry 

 Lubliner. 



Various Notes. 



C. H. Fisk has closed the H. F. Halle 

 store, so long established on West Madi- 

 son street, and concentrated bis business 

 at his place around the corner. The 

 Halle fixtures have been sold and the 

 building rented for a cigar factory. 



Speaking of carnations, the A. L. 

 Randall Co, was interested to note in 

 last week's Review that some of the 

 New York wholesalers "receive over 10,- 

 000 a day on the average." The light- 

 est receipts of the Randall Co. any day 

 last week were just a few less than 

 11,000, and on Friday, which is the big 

 shipping day, they had 16,875, but had 

 to buy to fill some of the orders. 



W. E. Lynch, of Hunt's, says he did a 

 good business in To-bak-ine, hose and 

 fertilizers at the state convention at 

 Springfield last week. 



H. A. Fisher, of Kalamazoo and Bat- 

 tle Creek, was in town this week, prin- 

 cipally to buy palms, ferns and flower- 

 ing plants. He says business has picked 

 up materially in the last two or three 

 weeks, but for the time being he will 

 postpone the matter of opening addi- 

 tional stores. 



At J. -A. Budlong's they are busy 

 grafting Killamey and Richmond roses. 

 Not many Brides and Maids are being 

 grafted this year, not because they have 

 not faith in grafted stock, but because 

 most of the Brides and Maids are young 

 plants and will be carried over for next 

 year. 



William Fluegge, at Morton Grove, is 

 cutting some fine White Enchantress, He 

 is one of the few growers for this 

 market who make The Queen their lead- 

 ing white carnation, Joseph Brooks, 

 also of Morton Grove, is another who 

 finds The Queen a most profitable sort, 

 Mr, Fluegge is now cutting heavily of 

 this variety and the quality is all that 

 could be desired in so productive a va- 

 riety. 



Peter Reinberg and John Schillo, with 

 their wives, leave Friday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 28, for New Orleans, Mr, Rein- 



berg will spend Tuesday, March 2, cele- 

 brating the Mardi Gras, instead of 

 hustling for votes at the Democratic 

 primaries, leaving that to Leonard Kill. 



John Sinner calls attention to the 

 fact that there has been no real glut in 

 this market since early last summer, a 

 longer period than any within his recol- 

 lection when we have had no oversnp- 

 ply. He says he thinks the market 

 ought to be willing to stand for one 

 now. 



Poehlmann Bros, Co, will largely in- 

 crease the planting of grafted roses next 

 season. John Poehlmann says the crops 

 of Killarney and Richmond in the next 

 few weeks will make some people open 

 their eyes, 



H, W, Rodgers, of Weiland & Risch, 

 was called to Spring Lake, Mich,, by 

 the illness of a sister. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. reports that 

 the counter trade in seeds has shown 

 a large increase in the last few days. 



H, Bayersdorfer and wife, of Phila- 

 delphia, passed through Chicago Febru- 

 ary 24 on their way home from the Pa- 

 cific coast. They did not stop in Chi- 

 cago longer than was necessary to change 

 roads, because of word of the serious ill- 

 ness of Mrs. Bayersdorfer 's father. 



J, J, Krucbten says a telephone is 

 being put in the greenhouses of his 

 father, N. J. Kruchten, by means of 

 which he will hereafter be in cooununi- 

 cation with practically all his growers 

 in the Bowmanville district. 



George Reinberg cut 150 cattleyas Feb- 

 ruary 24 and found them the most 

 readily salable article that day. 



Bassett & Washburn are preparing to 

 bench about 85,000 carnations next sea- 

 son. Nearly one-third will be the red, 

 Orland P. Bassett. 



N, J. Wietor says that with the pres- 

 ent state of supply and demand he is 

 just as well pleased that Wietor Bros, 

 put their money into flat buildings last 

 year instead of into greenhouses, 



Schramm Bros,, at Arlington Heights, 

 say they are cutting no more carnations 



