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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 24, 1908. 



Now and for New Xear's 



VIOLETS 



Violets are in special demand for New Year's. We handle largest 

 quantities and from the best growers in the United States. 



KILLARNEY 



Best color, best flower, best stem. If you need strictly fancy stock, we 

 have iL Also shorter lengths of equally good quality. 



CARNATIONS 



Day after day and year after year we handle more carnations than any 

 other house in the WesL Call on us Now, for New Year's, and all the time. 



RICHMOND 



Splendid quality in this leading Hdiday rose, fine large flowers, per- 

 fect foliage, on all lengths of stem,4iliduding the special long, fancy. 



MAIDS aItD BRIDES 



You won't find better roses anywhere than those we are shipping to our 

 customers. Large heads, good color, fine strong stems, clean foliage. 



GREENS 



Can supply Boxwood, Galax, Leucqthoe, best fancy Ferns and all other 

 greens in any quantity without notice. 



STCVIA, MIGNONETTE, SWEET PEAS» EREESIA, VALLEY, PAPER WHITES 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



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devoted entirely to shipping. There al- 

 ways is a certain proportion of the stock 

 which is not good enough for shipping 

 and which is set aside, with the result it 

 cuts down the average materially if the 

 city buyers are not in urgent need of 

 stock. This was apparent Tuesday. An 

 immense amount of shipping was done, 

 but out of each consignment something 

 was set aside as not up to shipping 

 grade, with no one to buy this culled out 

 stock. 



Tuesday there was enough stock in 

 practically all lines except medium Beau- 

 ties and first-class Maids. The call for 

 Christmas shipping is always for noth- 

 ing but the best. Open Beauties will not 

 ship, nor will soft, off-colored Maids. 

 There were quantities of Maids which no 

 wholesaler dared put on his shipping or- 

 ders, even though he had to send the 

 orders out short. Even the best roses 

 were hardly up to grade and the weak 

 and short stuff proved a problem for 

 which the wholesalers had found no so- 

 lution Tuesday night; this grade of stock 

 was still on hand. 



There never are enough Richmond for 

 the Christmas demand, and red carna- 

 tions always are scarce, but the supply 

 of red carnations this year was greater 

 than usual and more nearly sufficed to 

 meet the demand. Of other carnations 

 there were enough for Tuesday. Poinset- 

 tias sold slowly and there was little spe- 

 cial demand for other flowers. 



Taking it altogether, the orders for 

 Tuesday's shipments went out in good 

 shape, with no oversupply in the market, 

 save low grade stock and white carna- 

 tions. These latter hang fire even ii of 

 good quality. 



Wednesday's Market. 



Wednesday was an even heavier ship- 

 ping day than Tuesday and receipts of 

 flowers were larger. It never is possi- 

 ble to make the stock just match up with 

 the orders when there is such an enor- 

 mous volume of business — but it came as 

 near doing it December 23 as it ever 

 does on that date. Generally speaking, 

 there was plenty of stock. Orders for 

 good roses could not be filled, though 

 the supply more nearly went around than 

 it had been figured it would a few days 

 before. Long Beauties were to be had 



• Headquarters In tbe Great Central Market for all Idnda of 



Florists' Supplies 



Specially large and fine stock of 



Natural Preserved Wreaths, Moss Wreaths and Metal Designs 



Qualities always the best and prices the lowest. 



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for all the buyers who cared to pay the 

 price. Carnations were equal to require- 

 ments, with the usual surplus of white 

 and some low grade of stock for which 

 there was no use. The absence of city 

 buyers caused the low grade stock in all 

 lines to accumulate badly. Few ship- 

 ping orders called for poinsettias. 

 There were plenty of violets for the out- 

 side demand. Supplies in general proved 

 so abundant that there was little special 

 call for lilies, Romans, Paper Whites, 

 valley, stevia and such items. Consid- 

 erable extra call developed for boxwood, 

 but not much for other greens. 



The day before a holiday is the one 

 that really tells the story. The Christ- 

 mas shipping business has certainly been 

 as great as it ever was, with all strictly 

 first-class stock bringing good prices. 

 There was iittle indication Wednesday 

 night of any material break in prices 

 Thursday, when the city buyers are 

 looked for to come into the market for 

 large quantities of stock. Several large 

 local orders for long Beauties are re- 

 ported to have been placed at $125 per 

 hundred, for delivery Thursday. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. C. W. McKellar, the champion 

 lady bowler of the S. A. F., has been im- 

 proving her scores in recent matches. One 

 evening last week she rolled 213, 215 and 

 197. That is a record for three games 

 that entitles her to challenge the wearer 

 of the men 's championship medal. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that the ad- 

 vance orders for Christmas violets in- 



sured them the largest Christmas busi- 

 ness in the history of the firm. 



John Evert is still cutting chrysan- 

 themums in considerable quantity. They 

 have sold well this week. 



A crate of green went through one of 

 the show windows of the Chicago Rose 

 Co. one day this week. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. has received some, 

 excellent blooms of Chadwick chrysanthe- 

 mum this week, but reports the buyers 

 would not take them except at a conces- 

 sion from the prices the same grade has 

 brought at this date in previous years. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. decorated the 

 store front with green wreathing and 

 holly, making it one of the most attrac- 

 tive in the downtown district. They have 

 done an enormous retail business in 

 Christmas greens, in addition to the large 

 wholesale business. 



Mrs. E. L. Eaton has recovered from 

 her recent severe illness and was on deck 

 for the Christmas rush at Eaton's Flower 

 Shop. 



E. C. Amling said on Monday morning 

 that the orders then on file indicated to 

 him that the Christmas trade would break 

 all records for this market. 



O. P. Bassett has been confined to his 

 home since December 16 by a severe cold 

 in his chest. 



August Jurgens has returned from a 

 trip to Boston, Providence, Fall Eiver, 

 Newport and New York. 



The poinsettia was the Christmas spe- 

 cialty with the E. Wienhoeber Co. this 

 year. The display, instead of being in 



