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The Weekly Florists Review^ 



August 6, 1908. 



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KILLARNEY 



We have a grower who is juat beginning to cut a splendid crop of Killarney. 

 you are calling for the best in the market. 



You can order these with certainty 



All Kinda 



ASTERS 



In Quantity 



MAIDS AND BRIDES 



We have a fine crop specially grown 

 ' for summer. 



AURATUMS 



A big crop of fine flowers. 

 Try them. 



FANCY TERNS 



From the north 



$1.26 per 1000. 



We handle Fancy Valley in large quantities daily 



CUT FLOWER BOXES 



It pays to stock up on cut flower boxes during the summer— place order now for delivery immediately or Septem- 

 ber 1. Write for our Special Circular on paper boxes. A penny postal brings it, but it's worth dollars to you. 



PDnilfCDCa ^^^ '"^' ^'"^ "' Fertilizers, with prices, page 21 of our cat- IIIICC 

 UnUIffLIIOi alo£:ue. XnseotioldeB— all kinds— order your favorite of us. llUOC 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists "^.3^^'" 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



be. One day 96 degrees was maximum 

 and on eighteen days the maximum was 

 above 80 degrees. The prevailing direc- 

 tion of the wind was southwest, which 

 means heat. 



July Business. 



The first part of July was considerably 

 better than the latter part and, taken as 

 a whole, July has given as much business 

 in dollars and cents as it did a year ago. 

 The steady growth in summer business 

 has fully overcome any result of busi- 

 ness depression. 



The Wittbold Bench. 



The firm of E, H. Hunt, which is the, 

 selling agent for the Louis Wittbold in- 

 ventions, says that more orders for the 

 patent clamps for making concrete 

 benches have been filled in July than in 

 any previous month, although a couple of 

 unusually large sales in June made the 

 total sales for that month the best of the 



S6&80I1* 



Nees Bros., 19 Clara place, and W. L. 

 Smith, the vegetable ^ower in Rogers 

 Park, were among the recent purchasers 

 of clamps and they are now building the 

 one-piece concrete bench. J. A. Peter- 

 son, of Cincinnati, also, was a recent pur- 

 chaser. Poehlmann Bros. Co. is much 

 interested in the >Wittbold one-piece 

 bench. August Poehlmann is convinced 

 that wood shortly will be displaced by 

 some more permanent and less expensive 

 style of construction and he plans to 

 equip the whole place with the best form 

 of permanent construction as fast as the 

 wood benches give out. 



Louis Wittbold and C. M. Dickinson 

 will attend the S. A. F. convention and 

 make an exhibit of the Wittbold special- 

 ties, To-bak-ine, etc. 



Various Notes. 



It was reported in this market last 

 week that E. Haentze, the veteran fioriSt 

 of Fond du Lac, had potted up his last 

 batch of stock, but a letter from there 

 this week says Mr. Haentze is just as 

 much alive as ever and expects to join 



Vote for 



J. F. Sullivan 



of Detroit 



For Secretary of S. A. F. 



Indorsed by 

 Detroit Rorlsts' Qub 



the Chicago party to the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion. 



F. F. Benthey, chairman of the trans- 

 portation committee of the Florists' 

 Club, says he hears of many who are 

 going to the convention, but has had few 

 requests to book reservations. From out- 

 side the city J. A. Valentine, of Denver, 

 has asked for a berth in the Chicago 

 train, as have Theodore Wirth and party 

 from Minneapolis and the gardener at 

 Gen. Palmer's estate at Colorado Springs. 



William W. Abrahamson, July 31, re- 

 signed his position as traveling salesman 

 for E. H. Hunt to start in business for 

 himself as a fiorists' purchasing agent. 

 His headquarters are at 19 and 21 Wa- 

 bash avenue and he will represent a num- 

 ber of buyers in this market. 



Axel Aggerholm passed through Chi- 

 cago July 31 on his way to New York 

 for a trip to Europe. He expects to be 

 away two months. 



Charley Ernie is at West Baden, Ind., 

 for his vacation. 



A. L. Randall was at home August 3 

 from Michigan, where he is spending the 

 summer, as usual, on his fruit farm. He 

 says the peach crop is nothing to brag 

 about, but that grapes are doing finely. 



Scheiden & Schoos are preparing to 

 send out their red seedling carnation this 

 season and have made an arrangement 



Wire Work 



DT WILL pay you to order 

 now as mucb wire work as 

 you used in the last year. We 

 offer special prices on all orders 

 for quantities booked in August — 

 delivery now or later. 



Write 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Chlcaso's Mail Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO 



with A. F. Longren to represent them on 

 the road. 



Walter Tonner thinks he knows of an 

 occupation that beats the fiorists' busi- 

 ness and is anxious to sell or lease his 

 place. <. 



C. L. Washburn says the lily crop re- 

 minds him of the old story of * ' On Agin, 

 Gone Agij}, Finnigin." This we^k it is 

 "On Agin." 



G. H. Pieser, president of the Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., plans to attend the con- 

 vention as the part of an eastern trip. 

 E. E. Pieser will be away in September. 



Miss Corbett and John Hausman are 

 absent from the Bassett & Washburn city 

 store this week, and Mike Rockwell has 

 not yet returned. 



The A. L. Randall Co. has a new 

 grower who is cutting first-class Kil- 

 larney. 



Peter Reinberg is campaign manager, 

 for M. L. McKinley, who is a candidate 

 for state's attorney at the democratic 

 primaries August 8. Mr. Reinberg is 

 spending a considerable part of his time 

 at the McKinley headquarters in the 

 Sherman House. 



Percy Jones paid a visit July 31, by 



