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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



September 24, 1908. 



STANDING ORDERS 



We want more regular standing orders for shipment every day, every otiier 



day, twice a weeic, or as you prefer. ' 



A standing order enables us to select stock for you early in the day— therefore you get just the grade you 

 want; best selection. 



With a standing order YOU know just what YOU can count on; every shipment on the same train. You 

 can sell with confidence. We will advise at what hour "additions" can reach us by wire to go out with the regular 

 order. Think it over, it's to your advantage as well as ours. 



A NEW VIOLET BOX 



Our new Violet Box De Luxe is a folding box, cheaper and at the same time superior to others. We shall 

 mail a special circular on this the latter part of the week. Watch for it. If you don't receive it, drop us a line 

 and you will also get our New General Supply Catalogue, to be mailed about October 1. If you are not on our 

 mailing list you ought to get on. We are both missing something until you receive our special olfers. 



Special Bargain in Fancy Basicets 



* Until September 30, we will allow 10 per cent discount on all orders for assortments of Fancy Baskets as 

 follows: $5.00 assortment for $4.60; $10.00 assortment, 99.00; $15.00 assortment, 918.60. Buyers who have tried 

 these assortments will not overlook this money saving opportunity. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



PriTate Bxchanre all 



Departments 



Mention The Revi e w when you write. 



tied in their new building at 118 East 

 Chicago avenue, where they have a sub- 

 stantial brick structure of three stories 

 and basement, for their exclusive use. 

 The removal from downtown has great- 

 ly improved their facilities and they have 

 enlarged both the stock and the fac- 

 tory. In addition to a general line of 

 florists' supplies and novelties, they do 

 a big business in the manufacture of 

 special decorative material for all sorts 

 of purposes. Large orders for Marshall 

 Field & Co. and Mandel Bros., for fall 

 opening decorations, are now being turn- 

 ed out. The decorators figure out a 

 scheme in autumn foliage or artificial 

 flowers and Baumann turns out the mate- 

 rial by the thousands of yards. It must 

 be fireproof. Some of it is remarkably 

 cheap and others, like some rose garlands 

 now being made for Mandel, cost as much 

 as $3 to $4 a yard. 



Mr. Baumann thinks that, if florists 

 would familiarize themselves with such 

 decorative work as is done by the lead- 

 ing stores, they could get many profit- 

 able orders from smaller stores that do 

 not 'have their own decorators and where 

 the nature of the decoration required pro- 

 hibits the use of natural flowers and 

 foliage except as the finishing touch. 



Various Notes. 



Alex. Newett has resigned»Jiis posi- 

 tion with the J. B. Deamud^3ev, to 

 take eflfect October 1. Mr. Newett ^es 

 to St. Joe, Mo., to take charge of the 

 wholesale end of the business of the 

 Stuppy Floral Co. Mr. Newett has had 

 many years of experience in the Chicago 

 piarket and numbers as his friend every 

 man with whom he has come in contact. 

 Mr. Stuppy is to be congratulated upon 

 his selection. 



A. L. Vaughan, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 is at Ehinebeck, N. Y., interviewing vio- 

 let growers. So far as known, no other 



Chicago wholesaler has visited the violet 

 district this year. Shipments are expect- 

 ed to begin about October 1 and to be 

 heavier this season than last. 



C. M. Dickinson, of E. H. Hunt's, has 

 been named as one of the judges for the 

 Little Rock flower show in November, 

 which is expected to be not^only much 

 the largest show in the southwest this 

 year, but one of the largest exhibitions 

 of the season. F. H. Regal is a new 

 traveling salesman for E. H. Hunt. He 

 comes from Toronto and has been en- 

 gaged in the business for many years. 

 His specialty will be greenhouse sup.- 

 plies. 



E. E. Piiiser is again on duty, after 

 a month 's vacation. 



Carl N. Thomas arrived September 20, 

 and is again on duty with the A. L. 

 Randall Co. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. states that 

 in six days last week its actual sales 

 of asters were 103,000. This does not 

 include the waste, which was accounted 

 for separately. For one grower, 30,150 

 were handled. 



George Reinberg, who has been cut- 

 ting lightly through the summer, is in 

 line with the rest of the growers on 

 Beauties. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. is receiving con- 

 siderable quantities of Shasta daisies of 

 good quality and finds them brisk sale. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has begun to cut 

 October Frost chrysanthemums. A num- 

 ber of growers will begin to make daily 

 cuts of early mums, beginning about Sep- 

 tember 26. 



C. L. WashbuNi says that from the 

 way orders are coming in he thinks there 

 will be no trouble in selling 300,000 cut- 

 tings of the O. P. Bassett carnation. 

 The orders thus far received are mostly 

 for large quantities for jobbers; the 

 orders from the buyers of 500 to 1,000 



It still is 



Summer 



weather, if not by the calendar. 

 We offer special prices on Wire 

 Work on all orders for quantities 

 booked in summer — delivery now 

 or later. 



A.L.RandallCo. 



Chlcaco's Mall Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAQO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



for their own planting seldom come in 

 until January. 



"Randall's bunch," as per an an- 

 nouncement printed on butcher's wrap- 

 ping paper, will give a barn dance at 

 Reissig's big red barn, at Riverside, Sat- 

 urday evening, September 26. Overalls 

 and sun-bonnets are prescribed as regu- 

 lation attire. Tickets are $1 each. 



Charles Handel, who has worked for 

 most of the local growers, has returned 

 from a five months' trip to Germany. 



There was a largely attended and ani- 

 mated special meeting of the Florists' 

 Club at the Union restaurant, September 

 18. National flower show plans were up- 

 for discussion. The meeting of the ex- 

 ecutive committee of the national flower 

 show was postponed from September 18 

 to September 25. 



M. Roeklin, of Rocklin & Lehman, who 

 recently opened a flower store at Sioux 

 City, la., says they have been given a 



