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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 27, 1008. 



Killarney Roses 



We have a grower who is cutting a eplendid crop of Killarney. You can order these with the certainty that you 

 are calling for the best in the market. Try them, please; we know you will like them. 



ALL COLORS 



ALL GRADKS 



ALL PRICKS 



ASTERS 



LARGE QUANTITIES 

 LAROE FLOWERS 

 LONG STEMS 



BEAUTIES 



CARNATIONS 



VSLLEY 



New season's crop now ready — both 

 field-grown and indoor. Let 

 us have your order. 



AURATUMS 



A big crop of fine flowers. 

 Try them. 



We handle Fancy Lily of the 



Valley in large quantities 



every day. Try us. 



FANCY FERNS 



From the north. 



$1.25 per 1000. 



Plenty for all orders — new crops, 

 good stock and stems rapidly 

 getting longer. 



MAIDS and BRIDES 



We have a fine crop specially 

 grown for summer. 



Let us know how many cases of IMMORTELXiES you can use this seasoB . We have an attractive 



offer to make those who write now. 



Cut Flower and Design Boxes, Baskets, Ribbons and Chiffon , 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale riorists '^.%£^^i.r 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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the annual meeting in September, any 

 stock which he may hold at that time 

 and to exercise the rights of any office 

 to which he may be elected by the votes 

 of the stockholders. 



Various Notes. 



The A. L. Randall Co. was represented 

 at Niagara Falls last week by Frank 

 Johnson, Miss Tonner and Frank Famey, 

 the latter having his samples at the Inter- 

 national hotel, where some good orders 

 were taken. 



N. J. Rupp, of the John C. Moninger 

 Co., says they were specially well pleased 

 with the amount of business booked at 

 Niagara Falls last week. The first two 

 days they took orders aggregating $2,800, 

 with a large number of prospects for 

 future business. They gave customers a 

 handsome pocket-book sonvenir. 



R. H. Woodyard, of Sharp, Part- 

 ridge & Co., represented that firm at 

 Niagara Falls last week. 



E. C. AmUng says he looks for a quite 

 unusual season this fall, some growers 

 being ready with good stock and others 

 late in beginning to cut, with the re- 

 sult of higher average prices than a 

 year ago and some growers doing splen- 

 didly while others suffer, particularly 

 carnation growers whose stock is small. 



A. C. Spencer has returned from his 

 fortnight's outing in Wisconsin. 



E. E. Pieser and wife started east 

 August 22 by way of Mackinac Island, 

 the lakes and the St. Lawrence. They 

 will be absent about a month. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. received the 

 first chrysanthemums of the season Au- 

 gust 20. They were Golden Glow from 

 Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich. 



E. Asmus, formerly in business in Chi- 

 cago, is here from Helena, Mont., for a 

 visit. Mr. Asmus is a nephew of Emil 

 Buettner. He is now with the State 

 Nursery C<5. 



The Benthey-Coatsworth Co. shows an- 

 other sign of the approach of autumn, 

 cosmos iu two colors, the first arriving 

 August 21. 



Bassett & Washburn began to cut 

 chrysanthemums August 22. 



Wietor Bros, say they still are selling 

 chrysanthemum plants and in the last 

 week have made shipments to points as 

 far away as New Jersey. 



Brother-in-law Frank Ayres is in 

 charge of C. W. McKellar's business while 

 Mr. and Mrs. McKellar are visiting 

 friends in Michigan on the way home 

 from the S. A. F. convention. 



Zech & Mann say this has been their 

 best summer and that they look forward 

 to a good increase in business during 

 the approaching busy season. They re- 

 cently have added to their list of con- 

 signors. 



Miss Furlong, who presides in the office 

 of Weiland & Risch, has returned from 

 her vacation, five weeks of which were 

 spent at Laury, Colo. J. P. Risch is now 

 at Antioch for his outing. A large new 

 safe has been installed in the office in 

 anticipation of the approaching of the 

 busy season. 



C. M. Dickinson, at E. H. Hunt's, re- 

 turned Tuesday from a trip to Toronto 

 and Detroit, following the Niagara Falls 

 convention. He says that at the conven- 

 tion in two days they sold over 600 of 

 the Wittbold clamps for building con- 

 crete benches. 



Miss Nelda Wolf, of J. A. Budlong's 

 city store, has returned from an outing 

 with her sister at Lake Geneva, The 

 Dalles, Kilbourn and other points in Wis- 

 consin. 



Scheiden & Schoos say they have sold 

 out on field grown carnation plants, 47,- 

 000 having been disposed of within a 

 couple of weeks. 



August Poehlmann, Adolph Poehlmann 

 and their wives are on a trip down the 



Onr Wire Work 



is not only as Cheap as any, 

 but as good as the best. 



It will pay you to order now as 

 much wire work as you used in 

 the last year. We offer special 



E rices on all orders for quantities 

 ooked in summer — delivery now 

 or later. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Chlcaso's Mall Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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St. Lawrence, but will be home next week 

 with fresh energy for the job of rushing 

 up the twenty-three new greenhouses to 

 be built this fall. 



Miss Corbett is again on duty at Bas- 

 sett & Washburn's, after a fortnight's 

 vacation in the country. 



Webster Randall spent a few days on 

 his brother's farm in Michigan last week. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that Friday 

 and Saturday of last week were the best 

 days they have enjoyed since June. 



Percy Jones says things are beginning 

 to pick up at the Flower Growers' mar- 

 ket. In his own place Beauties and Kil- 

 larney both are in good supply, but sell- 

 ing well. 



J. A. Valentine, president-elect of the 

 S. A. F., spent Tuesday in Chicago on 

 his way home to Denver. H. E. Phil- 

 pott, also a conventionite, was here en 

 route to Winnipeg. -t.' 



