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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Junk 25, 1908. 



WE CAN SHIP IN QUANTITY AND OF THE BEST QUALITY I 



Peonies, Valley, Lilies I 



SPECIAL FANCY VALLEY ADIANTUM CROWEANUM ^ 



$4.00 per 100. Good stock, $3.00 per 100. $1.26 per 100. 



Candidum Lilies Asparagus Fancy Ferns 



Fine stock, $2.00 per 100. Long heavy stringB and plenty These are the best ferns we have seen 



of sprays in bunches. this season. New crop, $1.25 per 1000 



RIBBONS AND CHIFFONS 



This is the time to restock for fall. Largest stock of Florists' Ribbons and Chiffons in the West. Buying in 

 "loom orders" and for cash, we are able to aell our ribbons and chiffons for what smaller dealers pay. 



A complete stock of all staple and plain baskets always on hand 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. 



PDAIIf CQC* ^^^ ^'^ '^"^ "^ FertUlzera, with prices, page 21 of our cat- imCC 

 UllUIffknila aloirue. InaeotloldeB— all kinds— order your favorite of us. nUOC 



A. L. Randall Co* 



Wholesale riorists '^.^°£^i.." 19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



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many visitors. Among those who called 

 at the Review oflSce the first of this week 

 were: C. W. Eichling, New Orleans, who 

 has a son, Phil, employed with H. C. 

 Rowe, in the Palmer House; J. F. Rosen- 

 field, peony specialist from West Point, 

 Neb., who once lived in Chicago and now 

 has three brothers here; H. G. Fleming, 

 of Fairmont, W. Va., who is visiting rel- 

 atives at Waukegan; A. C. Zvolanek, 

 Bound Brook, N. J., who is on his way 

 home from California and who is stop- 

 ping to visit the growers who are using 

 his sweet pea seed. 



Various Notes. 



There are a good many geraniums 

 around town, stock that was not ready at 

 the time it was wanted; in May, when 

 nearly everyone was short of geraniums 

 in bloom. 



Klehm 's Nurseries are reported to have 

 ordered a large quantity of stock of the 

 peony M. Jules Elie for growing for cut 

 flowers. 



The Sprague-Smith Co. states that 

 growers who need glass for repairs, etc., 

 will be making no mistake if they pick 

 it up right away. Factories are closing, 

 but there are good stocks of greenhouse 

 sizes still on hand. There may be no 

 immediate advance, but there is almost 

 no prospect of any further decline. 



The W. W. Barnard Co. is contributing 

 considerably to the supply of peonies, 

 but is doing its own selling from store to 

 store, as is done with florists ' supplies. 



Bassett & Washburn have 5,000 pots in 

 the present crop of giganteum lilies. 

 They are giving more than three flowers 

 each plant and are coming along rapidly. 

 There is another crop started for July. 



C. M. Dickinson, at Hunt's, says the 

 growers are now taking hold of the Witt- 

 bold bench in good shape. The sales of 

 the clamp for erecting the molds, which 

 is the patented feature, are now quite 

 heavy. 



Peter Reinberg has demolished the 

 Iwiler shed just back of his residence and 

 is extending the greenhouses to occupy 

 the space. The heating of this range 



will hereafter be done from the boilers 

 at the next stack south, giving him one 

 less boiler plant to operate. 



R. Mayer, who is operating the Reissig 

 greenhouses at Riverside, will entertain 

 the entire staff of the A. L. Randall Co., 

 with their families, at his place Sunday, 

 June 28. 



George Reinberg expresses himself as 

 well pleased with the June business. He 

 has had a good cut from Moulton, Rich- 

 mond and Killarney and is now getting 

 quite a lot of Beauties. 



Wietor Bros, have begun to cut from 

 their young Beauties. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth (Jo. says that 

 .Tune 22 the thermometer registered 

 higher in its store than it ever has be- 

 fore. It was 87 degrees under the mid- 

 day sun; 96 on the street. 



The J. B. Deamud (,'o. is handling large 

 quantities of first-class summer Beauties. 



.John Zech says he thinks the florists 

 can all afford to take a day off and that 

 the club's picnic ought to be on a week 

 day. 



Weiland & Risch have a new red seed- 

 ling rose from which they now are cut- 

 ting a few dozen flowers a day. The 

 only apparent trouble is mildew on the 

 foliage and they think they have a good 

 thing in it. 



August Poehlmann says that Cardinal, 

 Mrs. Palmer and Killarney have done ex- 

 cellently during the recent hot weather. 

 John Poehlmann says city business is 

 quiet, but that shipping trade has been 

 first-class all through June. 



The George Wittbold Co. has been turn- 

 ing out some unique funeral work. Some 

 fine wreaths have been made of Canter- 

 bury bells, odd but pleasing. 



A funeral wending its way to Oak- 

 woods June 21 attracted special atten- 

 tion because on the roof of the pall-bear- 

 ers ' van there was a fire department hose 

 wagon, reproduced in red carnations. It 

 was too- big to go in any carriage, so 

 they tied it on top of the bus. 



That prince of good fellows, John 

 Steinmetz, salesman for the W. W. Bar- 

 nard Co., is enjoying a well earned va- 



Is the month in which the retailers stock 

 up with Wire Work— the largest orders 

 of the year are placed in July, and special 

 prices are quoted on quantities. It pays 

 to buy in July, but 



Beware of the Man 



who is in a hurry to book your order be- 

 fore you have time to get our quotations. 

 Nobody makes better Wire Work; nobody 

 sells it cheaper. Write 



A.L.RandallCo. 



Chicago's Mail Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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cation. He has gone fishing. Took his 

 family along, so they can all sit under 

 a shady tree and enjoy the rural scenery. 



E. C. Amiing says he is surprised day 

 after day at the way the sales foot up. 

 The demand is not strong, stock is of hot 

 weather quality and prices are low, but 

 he says sales foot up a much better figure 

 than one would expect from the listless- 

 ness of the buyers. 



Vaughan & Sperry arc figuring on 

 shortly adding to their space in the 

 Flower Growers' market. They look for 

 a good season next fall. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. has had several 

 large orders for daisies this week, for 

 wedding decorations. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. says the Mas- 

 sachusetts fern men do not seem to real- 

 ize that nothing but their best stock can 

 be sold in this market in competition 

 with the Michigan stock. 



The supply dealers will now proceed 

 to have their pre-inventory clearing sales. 



Meadville, Pa. — Rogers & McKelvey 

 have opened a downtown store at Mar- 

 ket street and Dock alley. 



