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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januabt 21, 1909. 



White Lilac Ready Feb. 1 



BRIDSL WREATH SPIRAEA READY JAN. 25 



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



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

 ROSES— Good Maids and Brides, medium length, fine heads, $8.00 per 100. Special fancy stock at right prices. 

 CARNATIONS— All varieties, select and other grades, $1.50 to $4.00 per 100. Large supply ; tell us what you can use. 

 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 you can buy Stevia for half the price. 



MEXICAN IVY— New hardy green for designs and table FREESIA— Finest in Chicago, $5.00 per 100. 



decorations, $1.00 to $1.50 per 100. TULIPS— white, pink and yellow, $3.00 to $4.00 per 100. 



MIGNONETTE— Good stock, $4.00 to $6.00 per 100. 



PAPER WHITBS-Fine, $3.00 per 100. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



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ception; they are bringing first-class re- 

 turns, fully up to those of other seasons. 

 Beauties are probably in better supply 

 than any other rose. In spite of dark 

 weather, several houses are cutting 

 heavily of long-stemmed stock. If we 

 should get a few days of bright skies, 

 there would be exceedingly heavy receipts 

 of Beauties. Killarney and Richmond 

 are fairly plentiful. It is Maid and 

 Bride that are shortest. The dark weath- 

 er has had some efifect on the color 

 and substance of roses, but still, quality 

 is excellent, Killarney particularly good. 

 Orders received early in the day are be- 

 ing filled, but Monday, January 18, 

 there was a flood of telegrams along 

 about 5 o'clock that found the market 

 practically bare of stock and no time to 

 pull anything more in from the green- 

 bouses. 



Carnations have not advanced in price 

 in quite the same proportion as roses, 

 but the supply is down and values aver- 

 age higher than they have been at any 

 time since Christmas. Violets have re- 

 covered somewhat from the set-back they 

 received during the severely cold weather. 

 Last week sales were ma'de at the buyer 's 

 price, providing he could use a quantity, 

 but this week the wholesaler has a voice 

 in the matter. 



There has been special call for jon- 

 quils, and yellow tulips have sold well. 

 The other colors of tulips are not in spe- 

 cial demand, but the white goes for 

 funeral work. Sweet peas are selling 

 better, especially the long-stemmed stock. 

 Stevia has shortened up. Considerable 

 mignonette is seen, but it is slow sale. 

 The green goods market remains un- 

 changed. 



Various Notes. 



If you are going to the carnation 

 convention at Indianapolis, call up F. F. 

 Benthey, Central 1398, and reserve your 

 berth. He will have the chart of .the 

 special car up to Saturday, January 23. 

 After that it will be at the Pennsyl- 

 vania city ticket office. It is expected 

 that the car will be full when it goes 

 out at midnight, Tuesday, January 26, 

 but, as usual, few have yet spoken for 

 berths. Nic Zweifel, of Milwaukee, has. 

 written that he will be with the party. 



John Zech has been paying visits to the 

 growers and predicts that, unless the 



HeaMlQuartera In the Great Central Market tor all kinds of 



Florists' Supplies 



Specially large and fine Btock of 



Natural Preserved Wreaths, Moss Wreaths and Metal Designs 



Qualities always the best and prices the lowest. 



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weather is unusually favorable, it will 

 be a month before there is a good crop 

 of roses again. 



C. W. McKellar is receiving gardenias 

 from the east. He says there is a fair 

 demand for cattleyas. 



Henry C. Dunn, with Albert Roper, 

 Tewksbury, Mass., is in town talking up 

 the Bay State carnation to the growers. 



The A. L. Eandall Co. has increased 

 its office space in both the cut flower and 

 supply departments. 



Bassett & Washburn state that they 

 have now made deliveries of 125,000 

 cuttings of the O. P. Bassett carnation. 



A. L. Randall was ill and absent from 

 the store for a couple of days last week. 



Visitors to George Reinberg's green- 

 houses say that while his cut at present 

 is light, the stock looks well, especially 

 the Brides. 



The E. F. "Winterson Co. has sixty 

 cases of galax in the Monon freight 

 house, awaiting a settlement of a dis- 

 puted freight bill, having refused to 

 accept the goods until the rate is made 

 right. 



Stollery Bros, report that retail trade 

 is just now a little light, but that there 

 has been quite an increase in the call for 

 funeral work. 



The morning after the Guardian Angel 

 greenhouses were burned twenty men 

 were put at work making repairs. Let- 

 tuce and radishes will be grown until 

 time for planting next year's cut flower 

 crops. 



The funeral of Robert Johnstone was 



held at Nunda, 111., January 16. A. L. 

 Vaughan, of Vaughan & Sperry, was 

 one of those who attended. 



Lubliner & Trinz have enlarged their 

 store on Randolph street. 



E. E. Pieser and G. H. Pieser, of the 

 Kennicott Bros. Co., were called upon last 

 week to bury the third member of their 

 family within six months, Isaac Mitchell, 

 a brother-in-law. . 



Percy Jones says the Sarah Hill car- 

 nation is an excellent keeper, although 

 many think the blooms have a sleepy 

 appearance. 



E. F. Winterson sent a fine spray of 

 Defiance carnations to the funeral of C. 

 Mulder, January 19. Mr. Winterson in 

 his youthful days peddled plants for Mr. 

 Mulder. 



N. J. Wietor says the coal man has 

 been having his share of prosperity this 

 month, but freight on the Pocahontas 

 that most of the big growers use is al- 

 most twice as much as the cost of the coal 

 at the mines. 



W. O. Johnston, of the Foley Mfg. 

 Co., has just returned to the city, after 

 a two weeks' trip to his former home 

 in Ontario, Canada. 



Leonard Kill says last week was one 

 of the best Peter Reinberg has had this 

 season, because they have a pretty fair 

 crop of roses on, especially Beauties. 



E. Fransen notes that Scheiden & 

 Schoos have had a special call for un- 

 rooted cuttings of Enchantress. 



John P. Risch, of Weiland & Risch, 



