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The Weekly Florists' Review.' 



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OCTOBBB I, loos. 



Mums 



We Want Your Orders 



for Mums — nobody better able to take 

 care of you. Yellow and white — no 

 pink yet. 



Violets 



Remember us as Headquarters 



We have had violets every day for 

 weeks. Now getting up to shipping 

 grade. 



Beauties, Roses, Carnations, Valley 



We want your standing order for all cut flowers you are getting from this market. No 

 house does a larger shipping trade or is better able to supply you. You will find a 

 standing order to YOUR profit. Try it for a month and see. 



NEW SUPPLY CATALOG READY . 

 WATCH FOR IT 



Goes to all on oar 

 MaiUng List. 



If not on our list- 

 better get on. 



CHIFFON ^ * TiMK TO SHMK v^ ^ ^ RIBBONS 



A freeh importation of French Chiffon bought right. 

 Send for samples and special prices on this lot. 



Will allow 10% on all Ribbon orders before Oct. 15. 

 to reduce stock before arrival of second shipments. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists ' "cS "' '9-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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greens are not yet moving to any great 

 extent. 



Sunday, September 27, the thermom- 

 eter registered 86 degrees, and the next 

 . morning 40 degrees. September 28 and 

 29 were 10 degrees colder than normal 

 for the season. The weather man says 

 the cold snap has passed and that season- 

 able weather may now be expected. 



The Thompson Affairs. 



The Thompson affairs at Joliet appear 

 to be becoming more tangled, rather than 

 being straightened out. At a recent 

 meeting of the stockholders of the 

 Thompson Carnation Co., J. D. Thomp- 

 son was re-elected president and man- 

 ager, but legal action was instituted to 

 set aside the election. The Joliet Her- 

 ald says that "Charles Fish, who was re- 

 stored as president and general manager 

 of the J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., 

 September 23, following the ousting of 

 J. D. Thompson as head of the corpora- 

 tion by an order issued by Judge A. O. 

 Marshall in the circuit court, through his 

 attorney, John W. Downey, has filed a 

 suit of replevin against Thompson to 

 regain possession of a horse, buggy, bank 

 account book, and several vases and cups 

 won at flower shows, which he claims are 

 unlawfully being held by the defendant." 



The Joliet News says: "Albert C. 

 Eott states that he has acquired the 

 ownership of the Thompson floral busi- 

 ness at 110 North Chicago street. Mr. 

 Rett states that neither J. D. Thomp- 

 son, as an individual, nor the J. D. 

 Thompson Carnation Co., has any finan- 

 cial interest whatever in the Chicago 

 street enterprise. The business will c<;^Uv 

 tioue to be conduoted in the QaThfl, 



Thompson, Florist, until further notice." 

 National Flower Show. 

 The executive committee for the na- 

 tional flower show held a meeting in 

 Chicago September 25, afternoon and 

 evening. Chairman W. F. Kasting, of 

 Buffalo, presided. He was the only out- 

 of-town member present. A large amount 

 of routine business was up for considera- 

 tion. It was decided to increase the ad- 

 mission price from 50 cents to 75 cents, 

 and make trade tickets 35 cents. 



Various Notes. 



The death of Samuel Pieser, known to 

 practically all the florists in Chicago, 

 is recorded in the obituary column this 

 week. 



Miss Nell M. Sisler, who retired last 

 spring, after many years with E. H. 

 Hunt and later the corporation of that 

 name, of which she was secretary, has 

 returned from a summer's vacation spent 

 in the west. She has been greatly bene- 

 fited by the rest and is ready to make a 

 fresh connection in the flower business. 



The Florists' Club will hold its regular 

 monthly meeting at the Union restaurant 

 this evening, October 1. 



George Asmus reports that the Schiller 

 business is this week being installed in 

 its new store on West Madison street. 



Phil Schupp, of Budlong's, in company 

 with Harry Manheim and Joe Dunn, made 

 a visit to a number of growers in the 

 north end September 27. He says it will 

 be some little time before the full cut of 

 mums is on. 



Scheiden & Schoos in two weeks sold 

 43,000 asters for White Bros., of Gas- 

 port, N. y., and secured steadi^ advanc- 

 ing pr?eea. :,,;:, :,i„ii;^,,:|::,,^. ■ ■ 



Wire Work 



We think it beyond question that 

 we have made and sold more wire 

 work this summer than any other 

 house in the west. 



By virtue of Good Goods and 

 Right Prices, we propose to 

 hold the trade we have 

 grained. Try us and we'll try to 

 hold you. 



A. L.Randall Co. 



Chicaco's Mali Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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Several years ago Fred Lautenschlager 

 invented a fumigator, which he now has 

 arranged to have put on the market by 

 the Wilson Plant Oil and Fertilizer Co., 

 Chatham, N. J. W. J. Badgley, secre- 

 tary and treasurer of the concern, was 

 one of the exhibitors at the rose show at 

 Chicago last March. The device vapor- 

 izes tobacco stems. 



Gordon Wolf, proprietor of the Denver 

 Floral Co., who died at Denver September 

 11, was well known in this market. 



Some of the large growers north of 

 town are suffering seriously from the 

 depredations of the "bug" that has made 

 so much trouble in previous seasons. This 

 is a little understood pest that affects all 

 roses, but Beauties especially. Hydro- 



