Mabch 19, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 





Ribbon and Chiffon 



BUY NOW FOR EASTER 



We carry the largest line of any house in tiie West, if not the entire country. By buying for cash in loom lots, 

 we can quote prices lower than jobbers pay who buy less. Write us— Don't buy till you hear from us. 



r^unM DACVCTC High time you were ordering D|DP||.DADV Uf ARP In a great variety of shapes 

 rAliuT DAolVkld for Easter. Remember you need OinUn DMni\ ffnllC and sizes. There is nothmg 

 more and more every holiday. -flells better with plants at Easter. 



CREPE PAPER, DOVES, CYCAS LEAVES, WHEAT SHEAVES, FOLDING DOXES, WIRE WORK 



GLASS FOR GREENHOUSES 



We are prepared to quote on any size and in any quantity, and now is the time if you 

 want to get in on the right prices. All sizes— A and B quality— single and double strength. 



FERTILIZERS filJt' ""'"°* """'" " '"'"" IK8E0TICIDES 



RUBBER HOSE, APRONS, GLAZING MATERIALS and all other growers' requisites. 



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We carry your favorite insecticide 

 at manufacturer's prices. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



PriTAte Exchange all 



Departments 



19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



WE ARE SPECIALLY PREPARED 



TO TAKE CARE OF 

 TOUR ORDERS FOR 



CARNATIONS 



EXTRA FANCY and ORDINARY GRADES 



Let us have your order now. Daily shipments from 60 to 60 Growers keep us well supplied with ORCHIDS, GAR- 

 DENIAS, VIOLETS, VALLEY, ROSES and all seasonable flowers. Green Goods a plenty. Chicago market 

 quotations. 



E. r. WINTERSON CO. 



45-47-49 Wabash Avenue 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



feels at home there. There should be 

 a good local turnout, for 100 guests out- 

 side of the fifty-mile radius are expected. 

 George Asmus and W. N. Eudd go to 

 Niagara Falls next week to attend the 

 meeting of the executive committee of the 

 S. A. F. 



Frank Oechslin has worked up a fine 

 stock in his new place on West Adams 

 street. Recent visitors say that the stock 

 is the largest and finest ever available 

 in the west. It includes a large line of 

 decorative plants, with flowering stock 

 coming along for Easter. 



In addition to the special premiums 

 for next week's rose show as published 

 last week, Peter Reinberg offers $50 in 

 three prizes meant for the actual grow- 

 er of any commercial exhibit, and not 

 for the exhibitor excepting in the case 

 where he does his own growing. These are 

 to be awarded to such three commercial 

 exhibits of cut roses as, in the opinion of 

 the judges, reveal the best specimens of 

 the growers' work in rose growing. The 

 object is to recognize the man who actu- 

 ally does the good work. 



E. C. Amling had a single order one 

 day this week for 25,000 violets. 



At E. H. Hunt's it is said the supply 

 business for Easter promises to be heavier 

 than ever before. ^ 



Vaughan & Sperry say the growers 

 are buying fertilizers at a rate that is 

 no indication of low prices for cut stock. 

 The call for shredded or pulverized cat- 

 tle manure shows that the home article is 

 becoming scarcer every year. 



A. H. Budlong says they have prac- 

 tically eliminated smoke by using Poca- 

 hontas coal, but are still experimenting 

 with Illinois coals and smoke consumers. 



Joseph Foerster has double-decked his 

 corner of the Flower Growers' market 

 to provide for the storage of boxes. 



Among the week's visitors were C. 

 W. Skinner, Troy, O.; Geo. C. Roeder, 

 of C. Young & Sons Co., St. Louis; 

 W. M. Lindsay, Birmingham, Ala.; C. 

 Lund, Wausau, Wis. 



The Review will send the Book of 

 Grafted Roses for 25 cents. It gives 

 full details. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



We can truthfully say that last week 

 was one of the worst that the flower busi- 

 ness has ever experienced in this city. 

 The demand was practically nothing and 

 the supply of stock was about as heavy 

 as we ever see it. Had it not been for 

 the street fakers thousands of flowers 

 would have been thrown on the dump, 

 and it is a question whether it would 

 not have been better for the business 

 had they been thrown away instead of 

 being sold at the prices which they 

 brought. It was simply a matter of sell- 

 ing to the fakers or throwing the stock 

 away, as the store men would not even 

 make an offer for it and, in fact, you 

 could not even give it to them. They 

 said that there was no business and in 

 consequence they did not want the stock 

 at any price. The above conditions were 

 not confined to any one variety of flow- 

 ers, as is usually the case during a 

 glut, but everything was included, with 

 perhaps the one exception of red roses. 



Thousands of Enchantress and white 



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