JANUABT 14, 1009. 



rhe Weekly Flwists' Review. 



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JAPANESE AIR PLANT 



■ SometioMB called Sea Mobs. ThLs is all the rage juat now — a big seller wherever shown. We 

 have a large importation jast in— fine stock — and can fill all orders. 



'. Ify^u floa't know what lj( is. Bend 16c for s sample. Bent postpaid. 



Also birch Bark Canoes and Baskets for Japanese Air Plants. 



heart-shaped red boxes for valentines 



We could not supply the demand last year, these made such a hit. Small, to hold 50 violets, 15c 

 each; medium, to hold 100 violets, 20c each; large, to hold 200 violets, 25c each. A full line of Violet 

 9oxeSt Cut flower and Design Boxes. 



OUkD TO QUOn PRICKS ON ANTTHIHQ TOU MKSD. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesafe Florists '>%.^%^^i>.*' 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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Laos Dlatano* Pl&on«, Central 6004. 



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E. F. WINTERSON CO. 



45, 47, 49 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



Wholesale Cut Flowers and Florists^ Supplies 



We handle all the Leading Novelties in cat flowers in season. We are now receiving good supplies of Fancy 

 Beauties, Roses, Valley, Violets (single and doable), Carnations (best in Chicago), long stemmed Adiantum 

 Farleyense, all greens, etc. We also receive daily a fresh sapply of Fancy Orchids, including Cattleyas, Cypri- 

 pediums, Dendrobinms, etc., can also sapply Gardenias in quantity ou short notice. Home of the Famous 

 New Green, MEXICAN IVY, used by the leading florists from coast to coaet, with great success. 



All Cut Flowers billed at Chicago Market Quotations at time of shipment. When you want really fancy stock 

 you can depend on us. From now until February Ist, we will make special low Pre-Inventory prices on all General 

 Supplies. Send us your list for prices. We are better equipped than ever to make prompt shipment of orders 

 for our well known Perfect Shape Wirework — none better made in this country at any price. 



Special work and society pieces our specialty. Send us your orders. 1909 Supply Catalog for the asking. 



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exhibition of carnations at the Art In- 

 stitute this afternoon, Thursday, Jan- 

 uary 14. 



E. F. Winterson says it is not well to 

 believe all the tales one hears of sudden 



Fred Miller, at Thirty-fifth street and 

 Calumet avenue, says he is having an 

 exceptionally good trade, and the quan- 

 tities of stock he is buying back up his 

 statement. 



Bassett & Washburn's people wore 

 their overcoats at work .January 11. The 

 flow pipe which heats the city store had 

 frozen over night and burst. Business 

 was good enough to keep them warm. 



Percy Jones says that if any grower is 

 not doing as well this season as last he 

 feels sure it is because of differences in 

 the quantity or quality of his cut; he 

 finds that quality for quality the stock is 

 averaging fully as good prices this sea- 

 son as it did last season. 



Leonard Kill spent a few days last 

 week at Memphis, visiting Otto Schwill. 



A. A. Sawyer, the Oak Park pansy 



grower, was at E. H. Hunt's one day 

 this week exhibiting a new device for 

 facilitating the wrapping of plants, on 

 which he has applied for a patent. It 

 consists of a wire frame on which bot- 

 tomless paper sacks are nested. When 

 a plant is to be wrapped, the pot is 

 placed within the wires provi<led to hold 

 it, the sack is drawn up until the plant 

 is covered, the top is enclosed, and the 

 deed is done, for the sacks are made at 

 the bottom to fit tightly around any 

 size of pot. 



Weiland & Risch say that a little good 

 weather will bring in another heavy crop 

 of fine Killarney; the buds are there, all 

 ready for a little genial sun to bring 

 them out. 



Kruehten & Co. note a large increase 

 in the demand for funeral work, with a 

 consequent increase in the call for short 

 roses. 



C. A. Samuelson was obliged to have 

 one of his valuable horses killed January 

 12, because of incurable disease. 



J. \. Budlong estate has been cutting 



an especially good crop of Bride and 

 Maid. Even on last week 's weak market 

 they sold them as high as 15 cents, and 

 many buyers who have been using Kil- 

 larney turned to Maid. 



"Mark" Hannah, a well known figure 

 around the market, is dead. 



E. C. Amling has had a few yellow 

 tulips this week and reports a special 

 demand for them, and for jonquils. 



Wietor Bros, say March is as early as 

 the trade wants mum cuttings, although 

 the best general sale for carnation cut- 

 tings is in January and February. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 says he has never seen a cold wave that 

 shut off business so completely as did 

 that of last week, and another peculiarity 

 he notes is that since things started up 

 again the call has been for the cheapest 

 grade, where usually the demand is for 

 the best and the ehorts are the hartl 

 stock to sell. 



Peter Reinberg has about made up his 

 miod to let 1909 go by without building 

 any new greenhouses, but the temptation 



