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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



.^ Mabch 5, 1908. 



White Lilac, fancy 



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



Vlolfitfi ^^ handle only the finest quality and in 



W IVIviv larger quantities than any house in Chicago 



Prices never before so low at this time of year. 



rfc^v^^,^^^i» Extra selected stock. Best in Chicago. 

 ■vtf 9t?t9 Long and fancy, $2.00 to $10.00 per 100. 



OjHI'IISf ions Fancy stock in large quantities. 

 VailiaUUIlO write for quotations in 1000 lots. 



Bulb Stock 



Fancy Tulips, Daffodils, Jon- 

 quil8,$2.00 and $3.00 per 100. 



P^kwmA $2-00perl000. We can furnish good ferns UoilAlf Pvtl'O pAill%lf 



M. ^ni9 right up to the time new ferns come in. WCIIIwyy bAIICi rcillwjf 



$3.00 and $4.00 

 per 100. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



PrlTSte Exchange all 



Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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Mention The Review when yon write. 



this year, as against twenty-eight last 

 year, and with a decided increase in the 

 production of cut flowers, the average 

 house in this market did not show as 

 large a volume of sales as in 1907. The 

 exceptions were the few houses that had 

 larger cuts of roses than a year ago. The 

 rose, including the Beauty, was about the 

 only flower for which there was a sale 

 that was fair to good all through the 

 month. Of carnations there never were 

 so many in February, nor were prices 

 ever so low. One of the best growers, 

 whose stock last February brought from 

 3 cents to 5 cents, this year received 

 from 1 cent to 3 cents, with an average 

 below 2 cents because a large part of his 

 stock was Enchantress, the variety that 

 was most overplentiful and which this 

 February did not bring as good average 

 prices as the best grades of dark pink, 

 which was just the reverse of other years, 

 Violets, too, have been a steady glut, 

 because of increased shipments from 

 New York. The supply of bulbous stock 

 has not been greater than in other years, 

 but prices have never been so low. 



Take it all in all, the wholesaler and 

 the grower who took in as much money 

 as in February, 1907, should count him- 

 self fortunate. A few did better than 

 that, but the majority fell behind. 



The factors that made for the increased 

 supply in the wholesale market made for 

 a better margin of profit for the retail- 

 ers. Some of the latter report a better 

 month than a year ago, but they are the 

 ones with the medium class of trade. As 

 a rule, the big jobs were missed by the 

 leading retailers, and the numbers of 

 factory hands that are idle made slow 

 business for those who look to the labor- 

 ing classes for their trade. 



February Weather. * 



The mean temperature in February 

 was only 1 degree higher than normal, 

 and 1 degree above last year, but in other 

 respects the month was unusual. The 

 rainfall was nearly four times what it 

 was a year ago, being 3.78 inches, and 



the snowfall double last year's, or 19.8 

 inches. The heating of greenhouses also 

 was rendered more difficult by the wind 

 averaging all through the month twenty 

 per cent stronger than in February, 1907. 

 There were seven clear days as against 

 six in 1907, five partly cloudy as against 

 fourteen, and seventeen on which the sun 

 did not shine as against eight in 1907. 



Various Notes. 



John T. Withers, of New York, will 

 give an address on trees before the Chi- 

 cago Academy of Science March 7, at 8 

 p. m. The florists are invited to attend. 



George Hartung has changed the name 

 of his Eoseland Greenhouses to the Ken- 

 sington Greenhouses and Nursery, Ken- 

 sington being the suburb «in which he is 

 located. He says prospects are bright 

 for spring. Mrs. Hartung has just re- 

 turned from a visit to St. Louis. 



Peter Reinberg has just recorded the 

 transfer of two and three-quarters acres 

 of land on Robey street, just north of 

 his range of houses on the east side of 

 that thoroughfare. He bought the prop- 

 erty some time ago of Henry Miller for 

 $10,000. 



This has been celebration week with 

 the Washburn family. C. L. Washburn 

 was 50 years of age February 27 and 

 just one week later, March 5, his son, 

 Ned Washburn, was 21. 



O. P. Basgett and wife are expected 

 back from California about April 1. 



Fred Lautenschlager is visiting the 

 growers in the vicinity of Pittsburg for 

 the Kroeschell Bros. Co. 



W. Abrahamson, who travels for E. H. 

 Hunt, has just returned from a trip to 

 the south. He reports business good in 

 that section, especially at Memphis. 



C. S. Stewart, formerly with Winter- 

 son's Seed Store, is now with the Na- 

 tional Seed Co. at 117 Fifth avenue. 



Carl N. Thomas, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., says it looks to him as though con- 

 ditions were shaping . themselves for a 

 comparative shortage of stock for Easter. 

 John Poehlmann says he thinks carna- 



tions will be in much lighter crop in a 

 few days and E. C. Amling says that one 

 of his growers, who is always a little 

 ahead of the others with his crop, re- 

 ports the end of the present heavy cut 

 in sight. 



Phil Schupp, at J. A. Budlong's, says 

 they had a most satisfactory run of New 

 Orleans shipping for the Mardi Gras. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. has been receiving 

 outdoor jonquils from Mississippi since 

 the last days of February. Mr. Pieser 

 says, however, that there is practically 

 no market for them this year, indoor 

 bulbous stock being so cheap. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has begun to cut 

 antirrhinum, pink and white, of splendid 

 quality. 



Mrs. C. W. McKellar, with a friend, 

 Miss Indereiden, is visiting U. J. Virgin 

 and family at New Orleans this week. 

 After a visit to Mrs. McKellar 's mother 

 in Texas, they intend going to New York 

 by steamer. 



J. F. Farrell, at Forty-seventh and 

 State streets, finds an outlet for good 

 quantities of stock and makes no com- 

 plaint as to business. 



E. F. Winterson says his orange tree 

 will keep on blooming until the season 

 of spring weddings arrives. 



Peter Reinberg was nominated as dem- 

 ocratic candidate for alderman in the 

 Twenty-sixth ward without opposition at 

 the primaries March 4. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that while the 

 outside buyers are not needing many cut 

 flowers just now, they are ordering fer- 

 tilizers, cuttings and spring bulbs in good 

 quantity. 



Dominick Freres, formerly with Witt- 

 bold 's, is now with J. J. Kruchten. 



E. C. Amling returned March 1 from 

 a visit of six weeks in southern Califor- 

 nia. He says he was particularly im- 

 pressed with the opportunities there for 

 growing cut flowers under glass. He says 

 the retail prices in Los Angeles are 

 higher than in Chicago and apparently 

 there are not enough indoor flowers. Al- 



