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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Mabch 26, 1908. 



Longiflorum Giganteum 



FOR EASTER, $16.00 per 100; $186.00 per 1000 



We have always had the reputation of having the best quality of Easter lilies, but we never before 

 had such a large, fine, perfect lot of flowers as we have this season. Packed at the greenhouses 

 and shipped in the original packages. We can assure you the best stock, delivered to your store 

 in the best condition. We want to figure on your Easter order now. 



FANCY WHITE LILAC 



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



Violets 



We handle only the finest quality and in 

 larger quantities than any house in Chicago 



■n^PI_^ ^ $2.00 per 1000. We can furnish good ferns 

 ■ CmI1«9 right up to the time new ferns come in. 



W%^^ ^^^ ^'^ Extra selected stock. Best in Chicago. 

 lvU8lt>8l Long and fancy, $2.00 to $8.00 per 100. 



Bulb Stock 



AH kinds at lowest rates. 

 Fancy Valley, $3.00 per 100. 



A. L* Randall Co 



Wholesale Florists "^^<^B?"' 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Reylcw when yoo write. 



price. Some of the Greeks who have 

 been buying at $6 per thousand and get- 

 ting good stock, think it pretty Imrd 

 lines to find values doubling overnight, 

 as they did March 20, but $15 per thou- 

 sand still buys stock that is cheap at the 

 price, and where the seller makes selec- 

 tion, he will still make a price within the 

 means of the department store buyers. 



Bulbous stock has not felt the im- 

 provement in the market; it is still too 

 plentiful. Calla lilies are especially 

 abundant and there are plenty of Easter 

 lilies, with an occasional flurry when a 

 few dozens are called for late in the day. 

 Southern jonquils are in large supply and 

 only salable for special bargain offerings. 



The improvement in the market has 

 not affected the violets, which are aver- 

 aging steadily lower returns to growers. 

 Sweet peas, if of good quality, sell well. 



There is improved call for green goods, 

 spring openings in the dry goods stores 

 having made considerable call for as- 

 paragus and smilax. There is difference 

 of opinion on the fern question. Some 

 of the wholesalers are anxious to sell, 

 while others are buying in anticipation of 

 a rise in the market. 



Various Notes. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. has recently in- 

 creased its capital from $100,000 to 

 $125,000. 



Matt Mann says he is having con- 

 siderable trouble in rooting his young 

 rose stock. The cuttings root all right, 

 but damp off after being potted. 



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

 Co., leaves March 28 to spend the sum- 

 mer on his farm near West Springfield, 

 Pa. It is his intention to return early 

 in the autumn. 



According to the W. W. Barnard Co. 

 there should be no shortage of asters in 

 this market this season. They say the 

 sale for aster seeds has been heavier than 

 ever. 



B. Eschner, of Rice & Co., spent three 

 days in town last week. He says there is 

 general complaint among the retailers 



that business is dull, but nevertheless 

 everyone he called on gave him an order 

 and in the aggregate the business booked 

 was the best he ever has had in Chi- 

 cago at this season. 



The George Wittbold Co. had a close 

 call on the night of March 18, when fire 

 caused by spontaneous combustion broke 

 out in the storage-room over the wagon 

 barn. The building and contents were 

 inflammable and the fire department did 



I wish to say that I am more than 



pleased with the advertising 



I have done in 



this season. I sold a larger quantity 

 of green carnation dye this year 

 through the Review than I have sold 

 in previous years, in spite of increas- 

 ing competition. 



FRED GEAR, 

 March 21, 1908. Cincinnati, O. 





splendid work to stop the blaze with $500 

 to $600 loss. The company was lucky 

 not to lose the building and the adjoin- 

 ing greenhouses. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. has received 

 a car of boxwood and other imported 

 plants, the first of several provided for 

 the spring business. 



The funeral of Alfred Hildred, March 

 19, was attended by many in the trade. 

 Mr. Hildred, who died March 16, was 



47 years of age and had been in the 

 retail business in the vicinity of Indiana 

 avenue and Thirty-first street for about 

 twenty-five years. 



The monthly meeting of the Florists' 

 Club will be held at the Union restau- 

 rant Thursday evening, April 2, at 8 

 o'clock. Those who were there at the 

 March meeting will be on hand again, 

 and many others are expected. 



W. T. Buckley, of Springfield, was in 

 the city last week. He says business is 

 good at Springfield, both with those 

 who do retail business and those who 

 wholesale. 



H. F. Port, the Maywood grower, has 

 gone to Las Vegas, N. M., intending to 

 remain at a sanitarium there until June 

 1, for treatment for tuberculosis. His 

 greenhouse plant is left in charge of Mr. 

 Radde, who has been with him for two 

 years and who formerly was with Albert 

 F. Amling. 



In sending out his Easter list of spe- 

 cialties, E. H. Hunt sends a handy block 

 of order blanks, so arranged that the 

 customer retains a carbon copy of the 

 order. 



One of the incidents of the week was 

 a call for 8,000 to 10,000 white carna- 

 tions on a single order. They were for 

 an opening. The buyer's name was 

 White and he was not interested in any 

 other color. 



Bassett & Washburn report an espe- 

 cially heavy crop in their houses of 

 grafted Bride and Maid. 



Fred Sperry, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 has been on the sick list for nearly a 

 week. 



Manusos Bros., who deal in flowers, 

 fruits and candy at State and Van Bu- 

 ren streets and who are large buyers 

 when cut flowers are cheap, were fined 

 $25 and costs March 23 for selling candy 

 short weight. 



John Sterrett is now with the Benthey- 

 Coatsworth Co. 



Frank Johnson, the correspondent of 

 the A. L. Randall Co., has returned from 

 a trip of two weeks to the north. He 



