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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 18, 1908. 



PEONIES, VALLEY, SWEET PEAS 



We can ship in quantity and of the beet quality. Also plenty of Roses, Carnations, Lilies and Qreens. 



SPECIAL FANCY VALLEY ADIANTUM CROWEANUM 



$4.00 per 100. $1.25 per 100. 



RIBBONS AND CHIFFONS 



Largest stock of Florists' Ribbons and Chiffons in the West. Buying in " loo'hi orders " and for 

 cash, we are able to sell our ribbons and chiffons.for what smaller dealers pay. :: :: :: 



For the Ciommencements and June Brideamaids. A complete stock of all staple and plain baskets always on 

 band and our assortment of fancy baskets always contains the most up-to-date and newest to be had. See pages 

 4 to 7 in our catalogue for prices of staple baskets. 



PDflllf CDC" ^^^ ^"^' ^'°^ ^^ Fertilizers, with prices, page 21 of our cat- 

 UliUlf bIlOa alogue. InaeotloldeB— all kinds— order your favorite of us. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



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



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ley and sweet peas are in good demand. 

 The season of the peas under glass is 

 nearly over and, while considerable quan- 

 tities still are received in the market, 

 only a small proportion have long stems. 

 **rhese sell on sight, for the greater part 

 of the good stock is set aside for ship- 

 ping orders. The sweet pea growers cer- 

 tainly have had as good a season as any- 

 one and the increasing popularity of the 

 sweet pea gives indications of a still 

 further increase in supply next season. 



The worst glut in the market at pres- 

 ent is of Easter lilies. Practically every 

 wholesale house has arrangements for a 

 continuous supply of lilies throughout 

 the year, and when all happen to begin 

 cutting from batches at the same time 

 the result is a congestion which deprives 

 the growers of their profit. That is the 

 present condition. 



The local crop of peonies has been cut. 

 All the fresh stock now received is from 

 the north and little is coming in. While 

 a number who have stored peonies in 

 previous seasons have not done so this 

 year, several new lots have come in and 

 been stored. There is likely to be a sup- 



{)ly of peonies as long as the demand 

 asts, but as to how the bulk of the 

 stock wiU come out of storage, no one 

 can say. There seem to be only a few 

 who know how to handle peonies for 

 storage with any certainty as to what 

 the result will be. Year after year these 

 few handlers have stock that gives uni- 

 form satisfaction, while that of most of 

 the others does little more than depress 

 the market. This year the conditions for 

 storing peonies were thought to be a 

 little less favorable than usual. At pres- 

 ent the best stock is bringing 75 cents 

 per dozen, with plenty at three bunches 

 for $1 and quantities that buyers will 

 not take at that figure. 



There is an excellent call for smilax 

 and strings of asparagus, out the de- 

 mand for other green goods is light. 



Floods at Kansas City are doing a 

 whole lot more to hurt this market than 

 the republican national convention is do- 

 ing to help it. The high water has in- 

 terrupted transportation to such an ex- 

 tent that the express companies refuse 

 to accept shipments of perishable stock 



for Kansas City or any point in or be- 

 yond the flooded district. The extra 

 demand from the convention does not 

 counterbalance this loss; about all that 

 Chicago florists will get out of the con- 

 vention crowds will have first passed 

 through the hands of other local people. 



The Case of Perle* 



A number of buyers have been disap- 

 pointed recently at their inability to se- 

 cure Perle roses without notice. Last 

 week good iSeries commanded 10 cents 

 each over the counter, so short was the 

 supply and so insistent the demand. 

 There is only a limited demand for yel- 

 low roses in this market, except during 

 the season of school closings; then they 

 are wanted for use where yellow is the 

 class color. It does not pay the large 

 growers to plant many Perle for the in- 

 termittent demand through the season, 

 and consequently they are not to be had 

 in quantity in June. Anyone who wants 

 Perles should order in advance; then 

 they usually are to be had. 



Boxwood. 



Several wholesalers find themselves 

 with quantities of boxwood, for which 

 there is no sale and on which cold stor- 

 age charges are piling up. There can be 

 no doubt that the wholesalers overbought 

 on this specialty this year and will be 

 cautious in loading up with it another 

 season. The first of the year there was 

 a good demand, but lately there has 

 been no sale whatever. Some of the 

 stock in storage is still of usable quality, 

 but E. C. Amling says the fact is that 

 boxwood became so generally used that 

 its sudden popularity flattened out com- 

 pletely and nobody wants it any more. 



Saturday Mail Delivery. 



June 13 the Chicago postoffice, with- 

 out notice to the wholesalers, began its 

 summer schedule of Saturday mail de- 

 liveries. The result was that a number 

 of orders intended for shipment Satur- 

 day afternoon were not received until 

 the regular Sunday trip was made to the 

 postoffice. 



Buyers should remember that in fu- 

 ture there will be no mail delivery after 

 1 o'clock on Saturday. If a mail order 



Caution ! 



There are many so-called "Special" 

 quotationB on Wire Work being sent to 

 the trade. Remember that no one can 

 make better WireWorlc than Randall does, 

 and no one can sell Wire Work cheaper. 



Beware of the Man 



who is in a hurry to book your order be- 

 fore you have time to get our quotations 

 on your needs. Take your own time. Write 



A. L.Randall Co. 



Chlcaso's Mali Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAQO 



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.is not dispatched in time to reach Chi- 

 cago Saturday morning, a special de- 

 livery stamp must be attached; or one 

 can now put on six ordinary 2-cent 

 stamps and mark the envelope "For spe- 

 cial delivery." 



In Iowa. 



r. J. Olsan, of Ames, la., is in town 

 this week to settle a dispute with the 

 John C. Moninger Co. Mr. Olsan claims 

 the local firm did not make his last 

 houses as large as they should have been, 

 while the Moninger people assert the 

 error was made by Mr. Olsan himself, for 

 they wanted to make the houses larger 

 and would have done so but for his ob- 

 jection. A compromise was reached by 

 Mr. Olsan leaving an order for two more 

 houses 25x100. He says that he cannot 

 get along without additional space. 



* * We hear that business is not good, ' ' 

 said Mr. Olsan, "but out in Iowa the- 

 florists sell everything they can produce, 

 right down to the bottom. We don't 

 know how much better business might be- 

 if we had more stock," 



Vaffota Notes. 



Carl Niemann, who broke his arm and' 

 wrist in an accident two months a^o, ir 

 now able to do light work about the 



