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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBBB 22, 1908. 



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For All Saints' Day 



MUMS 



6 cents to 20 cents 

 All Colors, Fancy to Small, in any Quantity 



NUNS 



Killarney 



We have a large cut of splendid Killarney, with a 

 Becond 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 'w ith the Killarney and sure to please your cus- 

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



Maids, Brides, Carnations. Write for prices in 1000 lots 



Violets 



Fancy New York Violetl. WE 

 have them in quantity ALWAYS. 



Valley 



Fancy valley is one of our special- 

 ties every day in the year. 



Ferns 



Fancy Ferns that will bring you 

 back for more just like them. 



PIPU^ CATAI_OG ^^^ new, enlarged catalog of Florists' Supplies has now been mailed to all on our 

 ■•"■■ WM I MkW ii9t. If you have not received a copy, write for it. Send today— look it over- 

 order now: Cut Flower and Design Boxes, now is the time to stock up if your supply is low; Violet Boxes 



and Cords, a large assortment; Wheat Sheaves, of best Italian wheat, made up in our own factory. These and 

 a thousand other articles illustrated and priced in the new catalog. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists '"f^i^ir |9-2I Randolph St, Chicago 



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noting that eastern stock is seeking this 

 market. Cattleyas especially are being 

 shipped here in quantity from the east- 

 ern seaboard. Valley, too, is being re- 

 consigned to this market by New York 

 wholesalers. Inquiries are received from 

 growers of all sorts of stock, including 

 Beauties, who want to divert a part of 

 their shipments from the eastern whole- 

 sale houses. A fortnight ago they would 

 have been welcome; now they are not 

 needed. 



All Saints' Day. 



Word has come from New Orleans 

 that weather conditions there have been 

 unfavorable for the outdoor mums and 

 that this market is likely to be called 

 upon to supply large quantities of stock 

 for October 31 and November 1. The 

 wholesalers are glad to hear it. They 

 are in a position to supply everything 

 that is wanted, without advancing prices, 

 and New Orleans business is being so- 

 licited with much more enthusiasm than 

 usual. It is a long haul. Frequently 

 an extra express car must be put on the 

 Illinois Central G o'clock train the night 

 that the All Saints' day shipments go 

 out. 



Light Boxes. 



Ever since the express companies put 

 on an arbitrary charge of 40 cents per 

 hundred for the collection and cartage 

 of empties to the depots, the wholesalers 

 as well as the growers have been figur- 

 ing on how to reduce the payments to 

 the express companies. Previously weight 

 never was considered and the boxes were 

 made heavier jAd heavier, with the re- 

 sult that charges were niad6 higher and 

 higher, even while rates remained the 



same. Now the tendency is to do away 

 with wood boxes altogether. E. C. Am- 

 ling says nearly all of his growers have 

 adopted the corrugated pasteboard box, 

 because the average shipper saves in ex- 

 press charges the cost of the papei^ box 

 each time it comes in. The real saving 

 results from the fact that the boxes can 

 be bundled and shipped back by freight, 

 at slight cost, being good for several 

 trips. The stock travels in them as 

 well as in wood boxes and the grower 

 does not pay express on thirty to fifty 

 pounds of wood every time he sends in a 

 few hundred carnations. 



Reinbergs Make a Trade. 



Peter Beinberg and George Reinberg 

 have made an arrangement as the result 

 of which they will exchange stores. With- 

 in the next ten days Peter Reinberg will 

 move into the store now occupied by 

 George Reinberg and the latter will move 

 irom the Randolph street side of the 

 building to the Wabash avenue side. The 

 change gives each room more in accord- 

 ance with the size of the cut. 



The Social Season. 



John C. Enders, secretary of the 

 Wholesale Florists' Employees' Club, 

 says the success of their third annual re- 

 ception and ball is assured, because the 

 sale of the tickets has been larger than 

 ever. The date is Wednesday evening, 

 October 28, at Columbia hall, 63& North 

 Clark street. Last year the boys 

 achieved a first-class success. 



The employees of the E. Wienhoeber 

 Co. will give their annual reception and 

 dance at the Svithoid Club, 1768 Wright- 

 wood avenue, on the evening of Novem- 



rRANE 



up an order for 



WIRE FRAMES 



for funeral designs and we will 

 send you the right article at the 

 right price. 



We believe in quick sales and 

 small profits as the way to build 

 up a business in Wire Work. 



A. L.Randall Co. 



Chicago's Mall Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAQO 



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ber 10. This is the date of the banquet 

 to trade visitors at the Auditorium An- 

 nex and the intention is to invite the 

 visitors to the dance after the banquet. 

 The committee consists of D. E. Rob- 

 ertson, Victor Bergmann and Walter 

 Adams. 



The Fleur de Lis Club is an organiza- 

 tion of five young ladies, 'three of whom 

 are employees of the A. L. Randall Co. 

 They are Misses Tillie Noll, Marie Pleis- 

 ter, Marie Furlong, Pauline Smital and 

 Eleanor Schwab. The club will give a 

 dance at the Svithoid Club, 1768 Wright- 

 wood avenue, November 12, at which the 

 attendance will be largely those in the 

 trade. 



The invitations to each of these func- 

 tions state that admission is $1. 



