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The Weekly Florists' Review* octobeb 15. ms. 



Killarney 



We have a large cut of splendid Killarney, with a 

 second big crop right in sight. This is the kind of 

 stock it is a pleasure to sell. Let's show you. 



Richmond 



Also order some of our Richmond^they are in the 

 same class with the Killarney and sure to please your cus- 

 tomers, same as they will please you. Heavy crop on. 



Violets 



Quality now getting up to where they 

 give good satisfaction. WE have 

 them in quantity ALWAYS. 



Mums 



Nobody better able to take care of 

 your orders. All colors; fanpy or 

 smaller stock. 



Valley 



Fancy valley is one of our special- 

 ties every day in the year. 



Ferns 



Every buyer who uses Fancy Ferns in quantity ought to try our stock, 

 can't beat us, either on quality or price. 



You 



Ferns 



NEW CATALOG 



Our new, enlarged catalog of Florists' Supplies has now been mailed to all on our list. 

 If you have not received a copy, write for it; there's money in It for both of li9« 

 It lists by far the largest line of supplies carried by any house in the west and quotes 

 prices that make it an object to buy of us, in the great central market. Send today — 

 look It over— order now and avoid the holiday rush. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale riorists "^.^'^^^r 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



it is anticipated this market will be 

 heavily supplied this year and everyone 

 handling them is anxious to encourage 

 the use of violets. 



Orchids are quite abundant and prices 

 weaker; the fall crop of labiata is at the 

 full. Valley is scarcer and the lower 

 grade has gone up a notch. Easter lilies 

 alse are good property and fetching bet- 

 ter prices. Not much other stock is in 

 the market. There is no special call for 

 greens. 



Various Notes* 

 . Of all the oddities seen in the mar- 

 ket, probably the strangest is the one 

 Mrs. Beu has shown at her stand in the 

 Flower Growers' market — Teddy bears 

 made of burs. As an evidence of how 

 excited the town is over the Cubs, Mrs. 

 Beu actually sold for real money over 

 thirty of the bur bears in a couple of 

 days of last week. 



It is reported that the responsible 

 Greek merchants of Chicago are forming 

 an association for the purpose of estab- 

 lishing Greek credit. The details are not 

 definitely known, but it is supposed to 

 be on the order of guaranteeing the 

 accounts of all members of the associa- 

 tion, with the darkest sort of Greek ven- 

 geance for one so devoid of honor as to 

 "stick" the association. 



E. C. Amling says that if the season 

 continues as well as it has begun he will 

 be more than satisfied. October thus far 

 hasHbeen better than ever with him, and 

 September was ahead of hi&t year. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is building a new 

 soil-mixing machine, to operate by elec- 

 tricity. Plant B is being wired through- 

 out for electric light and power. Ground 

 is being leveled and all the material on 



the site for thirteen of the new houses, 

 which it is expected to have.^ ready to , 

 plant by February and March. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. has a quantity of 

 wild smilax now in cold storage, but says 

 there never is anything to be made on 

 the first car; it is after the stock has 

 become hard and the weather cold enough 

 so it can be handled without special care 

 that the profit is made. 



Fred Stollery has returned*- from his 

 vacation of nine weeks spent at the old 

 home in Suffolk, seventy miles from Lon- 

 don, in England. He spent a month in 

 London. 



The E. F. "Winterson Co. reports good 

 business in Dutch bulbs. The wholesale 

 demand cleaned up the importations in 

 good shape, leaving just enough to take 

 care of the retail trade. The store is 

 thronged with buyers every cold day, 

 but as soon as the sun shines and it 

 becomes warm the buyers seem to forget 

 all about fall planting. 



Scheiden & Schoos have decided to 

 name their red seedling carnation Wil- 

 liam Howard Taft. It looks like an 

 attempt to pick the winner. 



Wietor Bros, report perfectly satisfac- 

 tory results with October Frost chrysan- 

 themums again this year. Not every 

 grower seems able to handle this variety. 



Vaughan & Sperry say there has been 

 a pronounced improvement in. the de- 

 mand for violets this week. 



The A. L. Bandall Co. has jusi sent 

 out its second general supply catalogue, 

 considerably enlarged as compared with 

 the first one. 



George Eeinberg is on his annual trip 

 to South Dakota. 



C. W. McKellar reports having re- 



WIRE 



(or phone) 



when you have a hurry-up order 

 for some special design. 



We pride ourselves 



on our ability to turn out special 

 Wire Designs in quick time. 



All standard shapes and sizes 

 constantly on hand. 



A. L.Randall Co. 



Chlcaso's Mall Order Supplr Hoom 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAQO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



ceived over 500 Cattleya labiata October 

 9 and says they cleaned up nicely. 



D. E. Freres comments on the fact 

 that Killarney sells so much better than 

 Richmond. 



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

 taking an active interest in the Little 

 Rock, Ark., flower show, of which he is 

 to be a judge November 11 to 13, and 

 is finding many exhibits for it among his 

 friends. 



In the height of the aster glut the 

 E. F. Winterson Co. sent a lot of the 

 stock to a public cold storage warehouse, 

 where some of the flowers remained 

 thirty days, coming out in such shape 

 that a part were salable. 



At the call of Chairman August Poehl- 



