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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januart 14, 1909. 



White Lilac Ready Feb. 1 



KILLARNEY— $12.00 to $15.00 per 100, for extra fine stock. Some extra fancy stock at $18.00 that 



are specials, and people say are the best in Chicago. They have the size, and always the color. 



VIOLETS— Heavy receipts of both doubles and singles. STEVIA— $2.00 per 100 sprays and worth the money, 

 Write for special prices on large lots. even if yoa can bay Stevia for half the price. 



MEXICAN IVY— New hardy green for designs and table FREBSIA— Finest in Chicago, $5.00 per ^00. 



decorations, $1.00 to $1.50 per 100. TULIPS— white and pink, good stem, $2 to $3 per 100. 



Our Cut Flower business being the largest in the West and second to none in the United States, enables us to so 

 departmentize it that each class of flowers has special attention by the most experienced and competent salesmen, 

 and we can fill all onr orders in a more certain and prompt manner, and with greater care, than can possibly 

 be done under old time methods. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



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latter often being unobtainable at any 

 figure. Maid and Killarney have lost 

 much of their color, but some fine stock 

 still is seen. Short roses were in good 

 demand January 11. 



In last week 's slump the violet suffered 

 more than any other flower; it is not 

 especially in request for street wear 

 when the temperature is 12 degrees below 

 zero and the wind blows sixty miles an 

 hour. Quite a few shipments from Khine- 

 beck were frozen, but no one missed 

 them; the receipts were so large and 

 prices so low the comparatively small 

 losses did not aflfect averages. The loss 

 of unsold stock was considerable, but at 

 the same time small lots of the best grade 

 were making fair prices. 



The daily receipts of both roses and 

 carnations would be far below require- 

 ments with any ordinary demand. The 

 market looks for a revival in business 

 almost any moment, and when it comes, 

 if cold, dark weather still prevails, there 

 will be a sharp advance in prices. 



Guardian AngeTs Fire. 



With the thermometer registering well 

 below zero .January 7, fire destroyed four 

 greenhouses at the Guardian Angel 

 Orphan Asylum, on Eidge avenue, Eogers 

 Park. The seven remaining houses in 

 the range were frozen up solid, includ- 

 ing 50,000 cuttings. The houses were 

 planted to roses' and carnations. The 

 loss is estimated as between $5,000 and 

 $6,000. 



The Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum 

 operates about 100,000 feet of glass, Miss 

 Gunterberg selling the cut at the Flower 

 Growers' Market. The plant consists of 

 two separate ranges, the fire having 

 originated in the ^iler-room of the one 

 destroyed. 



Qub Meeting. 



George Asmus was elected president of 

 the Florists' Club at the meeting Jan- 

 uary 7, after one of the most interesting 

 contests in the club's history. It usually 

 has been necessary to urge the office u^on 

 someone, but the club has been coming 

 to the front so rapidly in the last two 

 years, under President Bruns and Presi- 

 dent Kill, that this year there was a 

 keen contest for each of the offices. The 

 election resulted as follows: President, 



HMutqumitmra In the GrMit Central Market tor all Idnda of 



Florists' Supplies 



Specially large and^flne stock of 



Natural Preserved Wreaths, Moss Wreaths and Metal Designs 



Qualities always the beet and prices the lowest. 



L. BAUMANN & CO.. 



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George Asmus; vice-president, T. E. 

 Waters; recording secretary, J. H. 

 Pepper; financial secretary, Frank John- 

 son; treasurer, E. F. Winterson; trus- 

 tees, Leonard Kill, J. F. KUmmer, August 

 Poehlmann, C. H. Fisk, H. N. Bruns. 



In the absence of President Kill, who 

 was out of the city, F. F. Benthey occu- 

 pied the chair in the early part of the 

 evening, but gave place to 11. E. Phil- 

 pott, of Winnipeg, during the election 

 and that gentleman conducted affairs in 

 accordance with the best international 

 usage. 



Victor Bergman and Frank Pesterniek 

 were elected to membership. Proposals 

 were received from H. A. Olson and 

 Robert Lang, Besignations were received 

 from J. N. Mozine and J. D. Thompson. 

 A. F. Poehlmann made a detailed state- 

 ment of the club's part of the national 

 flower show affairs, which was extremely 

 satisfactory. 



Scheiden & Schoos exhibited a vase of 

 their new red carnation, W. H. Taft, 

 which was favorably commented upon. 



Refreshments were served, as usual. 



Chicago to Indianapolis. 



At the club meeting, January 7, F. F. 

 Benthey, chairman of the transportation 

 committee, stated that he has arranged 

 with the Pan-Handl^ (Pennsylvania) 

 railroad for a special car to the Indian- 

 apolis carnation convention and urged 

 everyone going to write or telephone F. 

 F. Benthey, 35 Randolph street, at once, 

 stating how many berths are required. It 



is necessary to know how many will go 

 to get the proper accommodations. It is 

 expected there will be at least twenty in 

 the party from Chicago and vicinity. 

 The special car will go out at midnight 

 Tuesday night, January 26, being reauy 

 for occupancy in the Union depot, Canal 

 and Adams streets, at 10 p. m. The car 

 will reach Indianapolis in time for break- 

 fast the opening day of the convention. 

 The fare is only $3.70, sleeper $2, each 

 way. 



The Weather in 1908. 



Chief among the notable features of 

 the year 1908 were its abnormal warmth, 

 its deficiency of rainfall during the 

 growing season, and its abundance of 

 sunshine throughout the last seven 

 months. During no other year in the 

 history of the weather bureau were the 

 monthly mean temperatures uniformly 

 above the normals. The severe drought 

 which set in early in June lasted until 

 well into November, with only temporary 

 breaks. In January, and from June to 

 December, inclusive, the sunshine was 

 greatly above the normal, only July and 

 December of these months having less 

 than ten per cent excess over the normal. 

 February and May werei th» jeloudy 

 months of the year, having sixteen and 

 thirteen per cent, respectively, less than 

 the normal amount of sunshine. 



Variout Notes. 



The Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 and the Florists' Club will hold a joint 



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