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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 7, 1908. 



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FANCY MAIDS 



Our present crop of Maids is the best lot of pink roses reaching^ this market. v 



YELLOW MUMS 



76c per bunch ; $8.00 per 100 



SWEET PEAS 



Larse supplies— finest quality 



ADIANTUM CROWEANUM 



The big: Adiantum, $1.60 per 100 



LILIES 



Tor sprlnc \7eddln8; decorations 



VALLEY 



Best in the market 



ROSES, CARNATIONS AND ALL OTHER STOCK IN LARGE SUPPLY 



rOR DECORATION DAY 



Cycas Wreaths, Magnolia Wreaths, Moss Wreaths, Cemetery- Vases and everything; else you need. 



Supplies for Weddings and Commencements 



RIBBONS AND CHIFFON — Buying for cash in "loom orders," we can sell ribbons at what smaller jobbers 

 pay for the high quality we handle. BASKETS— All sizes, shapes and prices. We have a complete stock 

 of all kinds. Send us an order for WIRE WORK. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



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



Mention The Rcrlew when yon write. 



pare favorably with that of last year. 

 In certain houses there is report of an 

 increase in sales, but as Easter was in 

 March last year, April should, by rights, 

 show an increase for everyone, and this 

 it does not do ; those who have made 

 an increase have done it by virtue of 

 additions to the supply in one way or 

 another. 



Comparing tKe combined business of 

 March and April this year with the same 

 two months last year gives no more 

 favorable report. For the two months 

 the market handled a great deal more 

 stock than it did a year ago, but did 

 not make as much money out of it. 



Bankruptcy for Thompson G>. 



In the United States District Court 

 May 5 a petition in bankruptcy was filed 

 against the J. D. Thompson Carnation 

 Co. by Gridley, Culver & King, attorneys 

 in the New York Life building, repre- 

 senting these creditors: 



Thoinsuii & BiirtDii, coal $51.'>.40 



Kriiest Oram, teaming ".'{.04 



rittshiirg & Iniliaiin Oml Co 2.i.G0 



The petition alleges that the J. D. 

 Thompson Carnation Co. is, and has been 

 for six months, insolvent, and that 

 February 8 an act of bankruptcy was 

 committed in that, while insolvent, pay- 

 ment of $31.5.40 for coal was made to 

 the Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota Rail- 

 way C]o., with intent to prefer such 

 creditor as against the other creditors. 

 A similar act of bankruptcy is charged 

 in a small payment made February 6 to 

 the Standard Oil Co. 



Peony Prospects. 



A large grower of peonies at Sar- 



coxje. Mo., writes that the peony crop 

 there this season will be the lightest 

 in many years. He says an unfavorable 

 season has been crowned by a heavy 

 frost April 30. E. E. Pieser, of Xenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., who has a peony farm 



I was well pleased with the number 

 of orders brought me by 



in April. One order was from the 



state of Washington and called for 



6000 pepper plants. I expect a big 



call during June. 



S. J. McMICHAEL, 



Findlay, Ohio» 

 May 4, 1908. 



at Sarcoxie, also reports that he has 

 received similar advices. 



The Weather in ApriL 



The moan temperature for April, 1908, 

 was 49 degrees, whicli was 9 degrees 



higher than in 1907; the average for the 

 month for thirty-eight years is 46 de- 

 grees. May 1 the accumulated excess 

 from .lanuary 1 was 423 degrees. The 

 rainfall was 2.81 inches, the average 

 being 2.72 inches. The wind movement, 

 not now so important to growers as it 

 is in the winter, was 12,454 miles. There 

 were eight clear days, eight partly cloudy 

 and fourteen cloudy. 



Various Notes. 



The J. S. Wilson Floral Co., Des 

 Moines, la., has been incorporated, with 

 $2.'5,()()0 authorized capital stock. J. S. 

 Wilson, of Western Springs, will be- 

 come the active manager of the business. 



Bassett & Washburn have begim to 

 cut from their stock of Kaiserin, some 

 of the plants being ten years old. These, 

 of course, are carried only for summer 

 bloom. 



A number of the growers already have 

 l)egun planting carnations in the field. 

 We have had cold nights since the plants 

 were out, but not enough frost to do 

 damage. 



Vaughan & Sperry report the arrival 

 of their first southern Illinois peonies 

 May 3. Shipments from Tennessee have 

 been coming for several days. They 

 have growers all the way from Tennes- 

 see to Minnesota and anticipate a long^ 

 peony season. 



Leonard Kill celebrated his thirty-fifth 

 birthday anniversary May 5. 



A. L. Kandall, who spent last week 

 in Michigan, reports a better prospect 

 for fruit than for several years. He 

 j)Ianted twelve acres of grapes last sea- 

 son. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 



