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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JULT 2, 1908. 



GOOD CUT FLOWERS 



In summer it !• even more Important than at other •eaioni that yoa order from those who have the facilities ' ' 

 for supplying GOOD stock, for no other kind will pay to ship. Call on os— we have the hest the season affords. 



CARNATIONS 



You'll say you never saw better in 

 hot weather. 



BEAUTIES 



In good supply and quality all it ever is 



in Bummer. 



LILIES 



Easter and Candidum in quantity 

 at low prices. 



We handle Fancy Valley In large quantities dally - ^ 

 FANCY FERNS ADIANTUM CROWEANUM 



New crop, specially good, $1.25 per 1000. Fancy, $1.25 per 100. 



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 sell our ribbons and chiffons for what smaller dealers pay. 



PDnilfCDC* ^^^ ^"^' ''°^ "^ Tertilizers, with prices, page 21 of our cat- llflSC 

 UnUffCnOa alogue. Insecticldas— all kinds— order your favorite of us. nUOC 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists '^S^"" >9-2l Randolph St., Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



to the exclusive retreats of Evanston 

 and Wilmette within the next five years 

 or less. Only one who has picked out the 

 engineer 'a stakes of the canal on a tramp 

 from Lawrence avenue to Wilmette has 

 any true idea of the location of this 

 new canal now building. 



Several florists have property lying in 

 the path of the canal north to Peterson 

 Nursery, where a strip 600 feet wide 

 is cut almost diagonally through the 

 center of the property, taking sixty-five 

 acres of land out of the best part of 

 the nursery. The drainage commission; 

 ers offer Mr. Peterson $65,000 for his 

 land, but have not yet met his views 

 as to the damage due him for the 

 effect on the rest of his property; he 

 asks some $135,000 on this score. Ar- 

 bitration is likely to be arranged for 

 this week, to avoid legal expenses and 

 delay. 



The canal people take the east half of 

 the property of A. V. Jackson & Sons, 

 mushroom growers, for which, it is said, 

 $600 per acre compensation has been 

 offered. . 



The ^hannel follows the slough out of 

 Peterson's woods, leaving the slough half- 

 way between Bryn Mawr and Peterson 

 avenues. The center of the canal is the 

 center of the crossing of Peterson and 

 Kedzie avenues. Along Kedzie to Devon 

 the channel veers slightly to the west, 

 but from Devon to Church street in 

 Evanston the big waterway will run as 

 straight as the crow flies. For over 

 five miles, standing at Devon avenue, 

 one may within the next few years watch 

 water craft traversing the once great 

 prairies west of the north shore suburbs. 



New Year's. 



Wholesale florists and Chinamen are 

 alike in one respect: they each have 

 a little private New Year's day of their 

 own. The wholesaler begins his year 

 July 1 and many of them are busy cast- 

 ing up the year's record. Needless to 

 say, all are hoping for better things in 

 the year to come, but to many the year's 

 record does not look so bad as they 



thought it would. Some find that the 

 increase in the first six months has off- 

 set the falling off which many found 

 in the last half of the year. Increased 

 supply has been the factor which has 

 made a good record for some of the 

 commission hotses, for prices unquestion- 

 ably have been lower than in 1907, and 

 the grower has stood the brunt of it. 

 Most of them are hard at work preparing 

 for the new season. It has been im- 

 pressed upon them that the man with 

 the best quality has the call on what- 

 r^-^-evef business is going in times of large 

 supply and, if present intentions bear 

 fruit, the quality of stock produced for 

 this market next season will be better 

 than it ever has been before. 



One especially pleasant feature of the 

 season's business is the fact that the 

 decrease in the flower trade has not been 

 nearly so great as in most lines; flow- 

 ers can no longer be classed among the 

 luxuries, if this season's experience is 

 of any value. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. Peter Keinberg, with 

 Mr. and Mrs. John Schillo and their 

 daughter, start Saturday evening, July 

 4, to attend the democratic national con- 

 vention at Denver. 



L. Bauman & Co. are now located in 

 their new building on Chicago avenue, 

 where they have large warehouse facili- 

 ties and plenty of room to grow. They 

 retain their salesroom at 76 Wabash ave- 

 nue. 



A. L. Eandall and family went to their 

 summer home at St. Joseph, Mich., June 

 29. 



At 9 o'clock on the evening of June 

 26 a Fourth of July balloon fell in the 

 narrow space between the Stollery resi- 

 dence and the greenhouse establishment 

 of Stollery Bros., setting fire to the 

 establishment when everyone was away 

 from home except the children. Ten- 

 year-old Percy Stollery got out the green- 

 house hose and extinguished the fire be- 

 fore the fire department arrived. 



Mrs. W. E. Horton, of Bassett & Wash- 



HOT 



weather is Wire Work Weather. The 

 largest Wire Work orders of the year are 

 placed in July, and special prices are 

 quoted on quantities. It pays to buy 

 in July and we are 



After Your Order 



Don't let anyone have it until you get 

 our quotations, for nobody makes better 

 Wire Work; nobody sells it cheaper. 



Write 



A.L.RandallCo. 



Chicago's Mail Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAQO 



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burn's store force, is on her annual va- 

 cation, and Joe, the shipping clerk, is 

 also away this week. 



The employees of the A. L. Bandall 

 Co. were entertained at the establish- 

 ment of R. Mayer at Riverside, June 

 28, there being nearly forty present. Mr. 

 Mayer provided an abundance of refresh- 

 ments, including dinner and supper, for 

 the city people were having too good a 

 time to cut the day short. There was 

 a ball game with ten men on the side, 

 and other athletic events to keep up in- 

 terest. 



W. N. Budd is at home from a north- 

 ern trip. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. is taking in- 

 ventory in its seed department and finds 

 that a good clean-up was made. E. F. 

 Winterson is having a tussle with neu- 

 ralgia of the jaw. 



One of E. H. Hunt's growers is cut- 

 ting a fine crop of Liberty rose, a va- 

 riety that has been practically superseded 

 by Richmond in this market. 



Kennicott & Son, the peony special- 

 ists, say they are well satisfied, all things 

 considered, with the peony season. Thus 



