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DECBMBElt 24, 1908; 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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Now Is the Time to Replenish 



YOUR STOCK OF SUPPLIES 



After the great rush of Christmas trade you should at once look over your stock of Supplies and order the things 

 you are sold out of. Don't delay. The business during Holiday week is always good and at New Year's you will need 

 Baskets, Violet Boxes, Ribbons, etc., in quantity. Don't miss sales because you have not got the supplies. 



We have here at your disposal one of the most complete stocks of Florists' Supplies ever gathered together in one place in this country. If 

 there is any Florists' requisite we cannot supply, it has yet to come to our attention. If you are short, write, wire or phone to us. 



Even In the slad holiday season don't forset vre are prompt shippers of WIRS WORK. See a4v. ef Plaat Department on piae 54 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists ''^•SS"'' 



Mention Ttie Review wti^n vou write 



FOR NEW YEAR'S 



i—^^"^^—"""-"""""^™^^"^— We offer a partictilarly fine lot of^^^^^^^^^i—^^^^^^^^™" 



LONG BEAUTIES, RICHMOND, KILLARNEY, PERLE, RHEA REID, 



EXTRA PINE CARNATIONS, BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS, 



WISCONSIN GROWN VIOLETS 



FANCY VALLEY, GREENS and in fact everything in the Cut riiWKer lin^ 





-MAT WK HAVK AN ORDXR FROM TOU ?- 



HOLTQN & HUNKEL CO. 



''^T^J The best equipped Wholesale House in the country. 



462 Milwaukee Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Mention Tne Review when you wnie 



the store, as at least a part of it usually 

 is, was all arranged in the showhouse, 

 where more room was available. 



Sam Pearce says the Christmas busi- 

 ness has been a record-breaker. Poinset- 

 tias and azaleas have sold splendidly, in 

 spite of the fact that the supply of 

 poinsettias in pans is larger than ever 

 before; every retail store was full of 

 them. 



W. E. Lynch, of E. H. Hunt's, slipped 

 on the ice December 20 and sprained his 

 right hand severely. 



Mike Rocklin was here from Sioux City 

 to buy Christmas supplies. 



Miss Gunterberg, in the Flower Grow- 

 ers' Market, has recently discovered an 

 Evanstonian who grows valley, or been 

 discovered by him. Whichever it is, she 

 has the valley. 



John H. Miller, the Rosehill carnation 

 grower, is suflFering with rheumatism in 

 his right hand. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has a larger 

 Christmas crop of carnations than in any 

 previous year, but the roses are off-crop. 



Hattie Carlson's flower store at 92 

 Jackson boulevard was closed December 

 19 by order of the Municipal court. 



When the bailiff put up the notice Miss 

 Carlson tore it down, with the result that 

 the affair attracted the attention of the 

 whole neighborhood and the daily papers. 

 She was able to adjust her affairs so that 

 she reopened the store December 22. 



Peter Reinberg paid John Schillo an 

 election bet, December 21, entertaining a 

 party of eight at dinner and the theater. 



Fleischman's Jackson boulevard store 

 made a special feature of Rice's basket, 

 the one in which the weave comes up 

 the handles so that the azaleas, poinset- 

 tias and ferns only protrude on two sides. 

 Fleischman had some large arrangements 

 in these. 



Bassett & Washburn's afternoon ship- 

 ment December 22 was two hours late 

 because of delays of the express com- 

 pany, and they had their hands full when 

 the stock finally arrived. 



A. L. Randall says December 23 his 

 firm shipped more orders than in any 

 previous day in its history. 



Peter Reinberg says Mrs. Field has 

 long been recognized as a good summer 

 rose, but that this week it has proved 

 itself to be a Christmas rose as well. 



N. J, Wietor says he looks for good 



business right along now, for rose crops 

 are off with a good many growers be- 

 sides those for this market and that will 

 turn all the buyers this way. 



O. J. Friedman took a somewhat un- 

 usual way of attracting public attention 

 to a novelty by publishing a large ad- 

 vertisement in the Tribune December 19, 

 as follows: "Legal notice to the florists 

 of the United States. Having applied 

 for letters patent covering the use of 

 feathers as a background for flowers in 

 corsages to prevent soiling of gowns, no- 

 tice is given that infringement of same 

 will be vigorously prosecuted." Of 

 course had the notice been intended for 

 the trade instead of the public it would 

 have been published in the Review, 



Fred Lautenschlager, of Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co., spent a couple of days at 

 Grand Rapids last week and sold three 

 boilers and several generators. 



L. Baumann & Co. say that December 

 is the biggest month, in point of sales, 

 since they have been in business. They 

 have been unusually busy for three 

 months. 



Van M. Zimmerman, formerly with the 



