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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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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. 



A. L. Randall Co* 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



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E. F. WINTERSON CO., 



Props. WINTERSON'S SKD STORE 

 45-47-49 Wabash Ave., 



Chicago 



ESTABLISHED 

 1894 



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Cut Flowers and Florists' Supplies 



Long Distance Phone, 

 Central 6004 



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credit to those ■who do not meet the 

 drafts. Wholesale florists all over the 

 country are breaking away from the old 

 practices, apparently realizing that nar- 

 rowing margin of profit calls for the 

 adoption of more conservative business 

 methods. 



At least one Chicago wholesaler had 

 Christmas orders for cut flowers from 

 cities in Georgia and Florida. 



W. L. Palinsky, who sells most of his 

 stock at wholesale, says the Christmas 

 buying was late in beginning, but not 

 a plant in bloom was left when he sat 

 down to his Christmas turkey. 



The strenuous Christmas business put 

 Carl Thomas, of Bandall's, and A. C. 

 Kohlbrand, of Amling's, on the shelf 

 for repairs. 



Peter Reinberg gave every man in his 

 greenhouses a two-dollar bill for Christ- 

 mas. The boys in the store, and the 

 young lady also, received watches. 



Herbert Heller, of New Castle, was 

 one of the Christmas visitors. 



Wietor Bros, say the Christmas busi- 

 ness was the most satisfactory the firm 

 ever has done. Sales were not greatly 

 larger than last year, but the stock 

 matched up with the orders to the great 

 satisfaction of the store force. 



J. A. Budlong hit Christmas with a 

 fine crop of Killarney and Kichmond; 

 practically the whole crop came in for 

 Christmas and the holiday week, for it 

 will be off in a few days. 



At Peter Reinberg 's city store it is 

 stated that the sales of December 23 

 made a new record for the establish- 

 ment. 



C. W. "McKellar says he sold three 

 times as many orchids as at any other 



Christmas. He is handling the Mrs. Gill- 

 man violet and says it is better than any 

 Marie Louise in the market. 



E. E. Pieser says the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co. is more than pleased with Christmas. 

 He says he does not recall a Christmas 

 of recent years where everything cleaned 

 up so well, but he says prices averaged 

 lower than last year. 



The dealers in Christmas trees, holly 

 and greens had stock for New Year's, in 

 some cases enough to cut quite a hole 

 in the profits. These specialties never 

 were in larger supply than this year. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that the holi- 

 day business has been specially good 

 with them because of the quantity of 

 violets sold. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. has done a 

 big business in greens this year and also 

 had a good cut flower trade at Christ- 

 mas. 



E. H. Hunt reports the holiday supply 

 business the best ever. C. M. Dickinson 

 thinks their Christmas list hit the buyers 

 at the psychological moment, for the re- 

 sponse was much ahead of expectations. 



Bassett & "Washburn remembered each 

 man in their employ with a box of cigars 

 at Christmas, and in addition the mar- 

 ried men each received a turkey. 



The A. L. Randall Co. credits Emil 

 Buettner with having had the best Rich- 

 mond in the market for Christmas. They 

 were sold to O. J. Friedman at 50 cents 

 each. 



Zech & Mann have been doing a better 

 business all fall than they did last year 

 and say Christmas was about one-third 

 greater than in 1907. 



It is no small compliment to Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. that so many sons of well 



known eastern growers seek employment 

 at Morton Grove. Time was when the 

 young men all went east for floricultural 

 education. 



Bassett & Washburn have shipped 

 70,000 cuttings of the O. P. Bassett car- 

 nation. For Christmas they had a big 

 sale on the cut blooms. 



E. C. Amling says his Christmas was 

 the best ever, but that he missed the 

 buyers whose stores are in the factory 

 districts — they were not buying. It shows 

 that general conditions not only are not 

 back to normal, but it leaves the lower 

 grades of stock on the wholesaler 's hands 

 and pulls down the average. The busi- 

 ness was with the best stores and heavier 

 than ever, but they wanted only the best 

 goods. 



Scheiden & Schoos say that December 

 22 to 24 they cut 10,000 carnations, al- 

 most half of which were their new red, 

 Wm. H. Taft. This was from only three 

 140-foot benches of the variety; they 

 took about 20 cents off of each plant for 

 Christmas. Mr. Schoos says the Taft last 

 year gave twenty-two blooms per plant. 



NEV ORLEANS. 



The exchange of plants and flowers for 

 Christmas presents has never been much 

 the custom in New Orleans so far, and 

 this year did not bring much improve- 

 ment in the business of the florists. 

 Every establishment was well provided 

 with flowering stock, but the general 

 sales were poor. But in another way, the 

 use of greens, in the line of Christmas 

 trees and holly, is much on the increase, 

 and the city was overcrowded with vend- 

 ers of all kinds. Competition was close 



