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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



May 14, 1908. 



Decoration 



Day 



NOW BOOKING ORDERS 



Write us today about what you will want for your trade May 30 and 31. There really 

 will be two Decoration Days this year, because the real one comes on Saturday, and 

 you want to be prepared, not only for a big trade Saturday but also on Sunday. We 

 can take care of you right. Large supplies. > 



ROSES, CARNATIONS, PEONIES, 



SWEET PEAS, LILIES, VALLEY 



ALL CUT FLOWERS IN SEASON ALL KINDS OF GREENS 



IN THE SUPPLY DEPARTMENT: 

 Cycas Wreaths, Mag^nolia Wreaths, Moss Wreaths, Cemetery Vases and everything else you need. 



Ribbons, Chiffons, Basiiets 



Send us an order for WIRE WORK 



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A. L. Randall Co* 



Wholesale Florists "^HH^"'" 1^-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



especially plentiful for this season of the 

 year. 



Peony Prospects. 



Last week it was reported that the 

 Sarcoxie peonies would be only a frac- 

 tion of a normal crop, and now word 

 comes from Carbondale that the crop 

 will be not more than half what it would 

 be with a favorable season. The result is 

 that the shippers are putting peonies 

 into cold storage in anticipation of the 

 Decoration day demand, for it is not 

 likely that local peonies can be cut, and 

 the report from Villa Ridge is also of 

 a small crop. "The principal holders of 

 peonies say they will be worth $10 per 

 hundred for Decoration day, and this 

 seems quite likely when one recalls that 

 last year, while advance orders for white 

 were taken at $1 a dozen, it was no 

 trouble at all to get $1.50 during the 

 two days before Decoration day, when 

 actual deliveries and shipments were be- 

 ing made. 



Decoration Day Prospects. 



There is every indication of an enor- 

 mous demand for stock at moderate prices 

 for Decoration day. Orders already are 

 being received. Everywhere throughout 

 the Chicago territory the retailers re- 

 member that each year there has been 

 a considerable increase in the Memorial 

 day business, and they are all looking for 

 a big demand, both May 30 and 31, the 

 latter being Sunday. The demand is 

 for stock at moderate prices and there is 

 every indication that the Chicago market 

 will be able to take good care of the 

 buyers in such a fashion that they can 



make a good profit on Memorial day 

 business. 



Qub Meeting. 



The Florists' Club held its monthly 

 meeting at the Union restaurant May 7, 

 with a good attendance, considering the 

 inclement weather. The evening was de- 

 voted to a discussion of the financial 

 affairs of the club. All bills from the 

 rose show were ordered paid. An ac- 

 counting for the San Francisco relief 

 fund was ordered and it was directed that 

 all subscribers be given the opportunity 

 to turn the percentage, of refund to the 

 club treasury, as a number present an- 

 nounced their intention of doing. The 

 trustees reported that arrangements prac- 

 tically had been concluded for investing 

 the Hartshorn fund in a home at Joliet 

 for Mrs. Hartshorn. The sum available 

 was slightly more than $1,800. 



The president announced the appoint- 

 ment of George Asmus aa chairman of 

 the committee on sports in place of 

 Philip Schupp, resigned. The commit- 

 tee was authorized to proceed to hold 

 a picnic some Sunday in July. 



The amendment to the by-laws, making 

 the first Thursday of each month the 

 regular meeting night, was adopted. 



W. O. Johnson, of the Foley Mfg. Co., 

 was proposed for membership. 



Refreshments were served as usual. 



H. E. Philpott, club member from 

 Winnipeg, was present. 



White Stock Out of Fashion. 



Percy Jones says that, while it may 

 be a little late to talk about Easter, 

 still it has not been sufficiently im- 

 pressed upon the growers that there is 



no special call for white for that floral 

 festival. Mr. Jones asserts that people's 

 taste has changed and that the grow- 

 ers do not realize it. Once upon a 

 time nothing but white would anstrer 

 for funeral work, and Easter called for 

 white flowers; but now all sorts of col- 

 ors go to funerals and the ' lily is the 

 only white flower that is wanted at 

 Easter. There is no doubt that the 

 growers greatly overdid the white stock 

 this Easter, for practically every col- 

 ored flower was sold, and there was 

 not a house in town that did not have 

 white roses, white carnations and lilies 

 left. 



Various Notes. 



Dominick Freres and Miss Mamie 

 Muno were married at St Henry 'a church. 

 High Ridge, at 10 a. m.. May 12. Mr. 

 Freres was for some time buyer for the 

 George Wittbold Co. and now is asso- 

 ciated with J. J. Kruchten. The bride 

 is the daughter of John Muno. The 

 families of the north end growers have 

 intermarried so that they are practically 

 all one big family. The church was 

 filled by florists and the reception which 

 followed at the Muno home might easily 

 have been taken for a trade convention. 

 The Wietor, Reinberg, Zender and other 

 families were present, and there was 

 much hilarity throughout the day. 



C. M. Dickinson says that E. H. Hunt 

 is doing the largest business in fertil- 

 izers erer done in the month of May. 

 He accounts for it partly on the ground 

 that growers are replanting earlier this 

 year than usual and sparing no pains 

 to get a good start for next season. 



C. W. Nelson is reported to have 



