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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Mabch 19, 1908. 



Fancy White Lilac 



$1.25 per bunch, 5 bunches for $6.00. Our present lot of lilacs is very fine stock. 



VlnintC We handle only the finest quality and in D#^Atfk& l^^*""* selected stock. Best in Chicago. 

 WlUIOiO larger quantities than any house in Chicago IvvJSCa Long and fancy, $2.00 to $8.00 per 100. 

 Prices never before so low at this time of year. 



■7^MM^ $2.00per 1000. We can furnish good ferns 



right up to the time new ferns come in. 



•Ciill% CL^A^k' All kinds at lowest market 

 m3%MEMW ^^IVl^A rates. Fancy Valley, $3.00 



per 100. 



Remember our GIganteum LONGiFLORUMS FOR EASTER 



Shipped in original packages as packed at the greenhouses, not bruised by rehandling 

 and w^ithout question the best in the market. Let us quote you prices now. 



A. L. Randall Co 



Wholesale Florists "i^^»Hr^t"i9.2l Randolph St., Chicago 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



Various Notes, 



W. J. Keimel writes the Review: "I 

 would like to state that starting in 

 business in Elmhurst we are building 

 four houses 27x200 to grow roses, Kil- 

 larney and Bichmond especially." Mr. 

 Keimel was for over eight years with 

 the Poehlmann Bros. Co. and will be the 

 active man of the firm. His partner is 

 W. H. Wendland. 



Percy Jones says that W. S. Garland's 

 young stock of carnations is the finest 

 he ever saw and that all the Garland 

 growers are in splendid shape for an 

 early start for next year. 



Bassett & Washburn say that the 

 March business thus far has compared 

 with last year more favorably than Feb- 

 ruary compared. Sales are as great as 

 a year ago, although no plant sales are 

 included, and last year they were ship- 

 ping much young stock by this date. 



John Potts, who has worked as propa- 

 gator for a number of growers in this 

 vicinity, was stricken with paralysis 

 March 12 at the greenhouses of the J. 

 D. Thompson Carnation Co., Joliet. He 

 has since been at Silver Cross hospital, 

 Joliet, unable to move or speak. The 

 Thompson Co. has no knowledge of his 

 relatives, but would like to hear from 

 them. 



E, C. Moore, with two stores, one at 

 826 West Sixty-third street, the other 

 at 272 East Fifty-fifth street, says busi- 

 ness, while it might be heavier, is quite 

 fair and the price of stock leaves a 

 good margin. 



There is a big bazaar on at Brooke's 

 Casino this week, for Marks Nathan Jew- 

 ish Orphan Home, and B. Abrahamson 

 has a fine flower booth there. 



Andrew McAdams is expected home 

 from Florida about April 1. He writes 

 that his health has been much benefited, 

 but that he recently had toothache and 

 had to go forty miles to a dentist. 



Wietor Bros, say that White Lawson 

 has earned a place as the leading white 

 carnation with them. White Cloud has 

 been their standby for many years, pay- 



ing them better than any other white 

 after most growers for this market had 

 displaced it with some newer sort. 



Mrs. F. Beu says that as St. Patrick's 

 day approached, the sale for her green 

 carnation dye increased and the total was 

 beyond her expectations. 



Louis H. Winterson has returned, after 

 nine months spent at Tacoma and other 

 cities on the Pacific coast, and again has 

 his coat off at the Winterson Seed Store. 



The Fleischman Floral Co. had the 

 Dean wedding March 17, one of the 

 largest of the Lenten season. The bride 's 

 bouquet was Winterson 's orange blos- 

 soms. 



John Ghormly, of Ganger & Ghormly, 

 says that the transient business on State 

 street has dropped off a little, but regu- 

 lar customers are buying about as well 

 as ever. He says the difference in the 

 wholesale price of stock more than makes 

 up to his firm the loss from any falling 

 off in business, and thinks it is about 

 the same with other retailers. 



The A. L. Bandall Co. reports that one 

 Rhinebeck grower is shipping to tliem 

 75,000 violets a week. 



G. H. Pieser, president of the Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co., returned March 15 

 from West Baden, benefited by the trip, 

 but far from well. 



Weiland & Risch have bought the glass 

 for about 45,000 square feet of new 

 houses, but have not decided whether 

 or not to use it all this season. 



Matt Mann has planted 6,000 bulbs of 

 his red gladiolus and expects to have 

 the first flowers ready April 10 to 15. 



The Florists' Club's committee on 

 Rose Society convention had a meeting 

 at the Union for luncheon March 16, 

 when all arrangements for next week's 

 rose show were closed up. P. J. Foley 

 was appointed chairman of the reception 

 committee, with authority to select the 

 other members. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. has this week 

 acquired an additional piece of ground 

 of about an acre and a quarter between 

 its property and the railroad at Morton 



Grove, which was needed to round out 

 the corporation's holdings. About 30,- 

 000 feet of carnation houses will be 

 put on the tract this summer. 



For at least ten years E. E. Pieser 

 has advocated the selection of a com- 

 mittee, or the arrangement of some other 

 means for setting a bottom price for 

 stock in this market. He calls attention 

 to the prolonged period of oversupply 

 as furnishing another evidence of the 

 value to the growers of such an ar- 

 rangement, if perfected and adhered to. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. is this week 

 distributing the second annual catalogue 

 of Winterson 's Seed Store, forty pages 

 and colored cover. A few warm days 

 have caused counter trade to again start 

 up in good volume with them. 



Bassett & Washburn received a half 

 column notice in the Tribune March 14, 

 because of their efforts to get action on 

 a Greek who carries a big roll of bills 

 but refuses to settle an account for stock 

 for his store in the basement under Mc- 

 Vicker's theater. They had him in the 

 debtor's court, where he was required 

 to turn over all his personal effects, and 

 the judge ordered the Greek's wife to 

 appear next Friday and account for the 

 money she had received out of the store. 

 Bassett & Washburn are intent on show- 

 ing the Greeks that they cannot with 

 impunity violate their obligations to the 

 wholesalers. 



George M. Garland is preparing to add 

 Frank Garland's cement bench construc- 

 tion to his line. The sections will not 

 be sold, only the molds for making 

 them. 



Jens Jensen had a fine article on 

 "Gardening on Home Grounds" in last 

 week's issue of the Saturday Evening 

 Post, said to be the most widely circu- 

 lated weekly publication printed in 

 America. 



The banquet to Rose Society visitors 

 will take place at the Union restaurant, 

 111 Randolph street, next week, Thurs- 

 day evening, March 26. The Union is 

 now florists' headquarters and everyone 



