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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBBB 29, 1908. 



Single / Pompon Mums 



White, Pink and Yellow, 50c to 75c per bunch 



These are all the rage with the high class flower buyers. Leading retailers use them for table- 

 centerpieces, baskets, and other fine work. Put up in bunches of 25. Order a few for some good job 

 and try them. They'll make a hit. 



Plenty of fancy Bonnaifon, Appleton, Robinson and other best aorta; also medium and small Mums. 



Killarney 



We have a large cut of splendid Killarney, the kind of 

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



Richmond 



Also order some of our Richmond— they are in the same 

 class vith the Killarney and sure to please your customers. 



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



Violets 



Ferns 



Valley 



Fancy New York Violets. WE Fancy valley is one of our special- Fancy Ferns that will bring you 

 have them in quantity ALWAYS. ties every day in the year. back for more just like them. 



Immortelles 



Full size bunches. This year's crop. All colors. 

 Write for special price if you can use a quantity. 



Cycas Leaves 



Imported by us from a leading house in Germany. Best 

 stock money would buy. Can compete with any prices. 



If you haven't our new catalo^^e, send a postal and keep it handy. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesare Florists ^^^s^i.." 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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local trade, for the rain cut off the tran- 

 sients. It is the general report that All 

 Saints' day business will be heavy; the 

 advance orders for New Orleans are both 

 numerous and large. There is some ship- 

 ping booked for October 28 and October 

 30, but the bulk of the stock goes out 

 on the afternoon of October 29. No one 

 can claim that the average quality of 

 stock is good, for it is soft, and much 

 sorting is required. 



Boxwood and Smilax. 



New boxwood has been in some little 

 time and there still are a few cases of 

 last year's stock in cold storage. The 

 wholesalers generally are disgusted with 

 the boxwood proposition; it was a 

 glorious good thing until it became so 

 overdone that loss succeeded profit. Or- 

 ders have been cut down for this year 

 and a better result is hoped for. 



Wild smilax has not kept as well as 

 usual in cold storage thus far this season 

 and the loss has cut into the wholesalers' 

 profit. Fair demand is reported. 



It is said that ferns taken out of 

 storage are some of them in poor shape. 



Various Notes. 



It is reported that W. F. Hoerber has 

 bought thirty acres of land at Des 

 Plaines, HI., has engaged a grower and 

 is in the market for material for the 

 erection of ten greenhouses, each 300 feet 

 long. It is his plan to proceed at once 

 with the erection of his range. It is an- 

 other case of the capitalist going into 

 the flower business. 



Henry Koropp is continuing the busi- 

 ness at 2045 Clarendon avenue, but has 

 for nearly a year been engaged in a 

 legal contest with his landlord, Albert 



Fuchs, who removed from the rear of 

 the property a bam which Mr. Koropp 

 had been using as a wagon room and 

 potting shed. Mr. Koropp, accordingly, 

 began suit last March. The case was 

 tried in the Municipal court and was de- 

 cided against Mr. Koropp, the judge af- 

 firming that wagon rooms and potting 

 sheds are not necessary adjuncts of the 

 greenhouse business! Mr. Koropp car- 

 ried the case to the Appellate court, 

 where it is now awaiting action. 



The Wholesale Florists' Employees' 

 Club gave its annual dance at Columbia 

 hall, Wednesday evening, October 28. The 

 attendance was the largest in the three 

 years the boys have been giving these 

 successful events. The decorations were 

 lavish, the music good and everyone was 

 pleased with the affair. 



The Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 has issued a pamphlet containing the 

 constitution and by-laws, lists of officers 

 since organization and a list of members, 

 the latter containing 183 names. The 

 lecture and exhibition schedule for 1908 

 is included. 



Peter Eeinberg is preparing to graft 

 60,000 of the Mrs. Marshall Field rose 

 for the trade next spring. This •njU be 

 in addition to the grafts necessary to 

 supply his own requirements. This rose 

 is not grown on its own roots. This year 

 Mr. Eeinberg has eight houses of Field, 



E. C. Amling says that the New Or- 

 leans business this year will be consid- 

 erably heavier than usual. He calls at- 

 tention to the fact that four times as 

 many white chrysanthemums are called 

 for as of any other color for this occa- 

 sion. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. will entertain 



Visitors 



We cordially invite every florist who 

 cornea to the National Flower Show, 

 November 6 to 14, to also 



Visit Our Store 



You may be Interested in inspecting our 

 facilities for haDdlfiiR cut flowers in a 

 large way, and in examining one of the 

 most complete stocks of Florists' Supplies 

 in this country. 



Should you favor us with an order you 

 will find our service prompt. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Chlcaso'B Mail Order Supply House 

 19-21 Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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visiting florists at Morton Grove one 

 day during the flower show. The exact 

 date has not yet been determined. The 

 Chicago Carnation Co. will invite the vis- 

 itors to Joliet November 11. 



C. W. McKellar is receiving bouvardia, 

 the ordinary pink variety and the fine 

 white, Humboldtii. 



Henry Seitz's establishment, at the cor- 

 ner of Evanston and Glenlake avenues, is 

 now new from end to end, for he has 

 just put his heating plant on a par with 

 the rest of his place by installing a new 

 boiler. It is a 10-section Imico boiler, 

 made by the Illinois Malleable Iron Co., 

 of this city, and Mr. Seitz says it works 

 like a charm. Mr. Seitz's residence, a 

 pretty cottage which stands at the rear 

 of the greenhouses and fronts on Glen- 



