28 



■■^■T'\ 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Mat 20, 1909. 



Cut Flowers for Memorial Day 



We shall have a larger supply than ever before— quality A No. 1, and solicit your orders. 



Roses, our selection, thousand lots, short to medium and long $25.00 to $50.00 per 1000. 



Carnations, our selection, thousand lots, common and split to fancy and extra fancy, 20.00 to 50.00 per 1000. 

 Sweet Peas, our selection, thousand lots, ordinary to fancy and extra fancy 3.00 to 10.00 per 1000. 



PEONIES 



We can supply the best stock in 

 large quantity. White and pink. 

 None better. Let us have your 

 order. 



SWEET PEAS 



White, pink, lavender and fancy 

 colors in heavy crop. 40c to $1.50 

 per 100. 



MUMS 



Daisy Mum ready for Memorial 

 Day; $1.50 to $2.00 per doz. stalks. 



Killarney 



No otker house in this market can touch 

 us on this most popular of all roses. Quality 

 unequaled and the supply is enouerh to go 

 around. We want every buyer to order 

 some of these for Memorial Day. Large cut 

 of short to medium, besides the special long 

 fancy. pe, iqO 



Sbort to xueclluiu..$ 4.00 to $ 8.00 

 Special fancy 10.00 to 12.00 



BEAUTIES 



We have a splendid crop of 

 Beauties; fine heads on all lengths of 

 stem. You can use In quantity. 



TEA ROSES 



Maid, Bride and Richmond, all 

 lengths and all good. You will like 

 this stock. 



Valley, Lilies, Stocks, Fever- 

 fe^v. Candytuft, Miniature Glad- 

 ioli are abundant. 



CARNATIONS -ALL COLORS— ALL LEADING VARIETIES. WE HANDLE IN LARGER 

 QUANTITY THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE WEST. ORDER HERE AND BE SAFE. 



Send for our complete Price List of Cut Flowers for Memorial Day if not already received. 



A. L* Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Pkone Camtral 14»l 



PrlTatc BzekaBK* all 



Datartmanti 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



The indications all point to a tremen- 

 dous demand. Inquiries are coming in 

 asking for quotations on thousands upon 

 thousands of carnations, and other stock 

 in proportion. Every buyer who has sent 

 in his order is getting more stock than 

 last year. 



Growers naturally will work forward 

 to increase the supply for the special 

 demand, but warning is given against 

 holding white carnations. The lower the 

 supply of white can be kept, the better 

 it will be. It is a mistaken idea that 

 white is wanted May 30. Last year the 

 buyers would not clean up white even at 

 their own price. 



The days stock will be wanted in this 

 market are May 27 and 28. Shipments 

 received the afternoon of May 29 will 

 be at the mercy of the Greeks. 



Hellenic Enterprise. 



None except a Greek would venture 

 the store just opened at the southwest 

 corner of State and Monroe streets, 

 where the rent is $1,000 a month for a 

 space about 12x20. A big clothing 

 house failed there a few months ago, and 

 the building has been remodeled into a 

 half dozen little stores, with offices 

 above. The Greek says his expenses are 

 $57 a day, not counting the cost of 

 stock. He handles candy, with a stand 

 on the Monroe street sidewalk for fruits, 

 but flowers occupy both show windows 

 and are the principal line. The business 

 all is transient, and it takes a lot of sales 

 at 10 cents to 25 cents to make $57 for 

 expenses every day. A two years' lease 

 has been taken. 



Incidentally, it is worth noting that a 

 constantly increasing share of the flower 



business is being done in such stores, 

 where flowers simply are merchandise, 

 bought in quantity at the lowest possible 

 price and retailed in their least attractive 

 form. The business of these places does 

 nothing directly to give the growers en- 

 couragement to improve the quality of 

 their output — their principal value to the 

 trade is as an alternative for the garbage 

 wagon and they clear, at certain seasons, 

 an enormous bulk of stock that otherwise 

 would go to waste. 



Motunget Branchios; Out. 



It recently was reported in this col- 

 umn that the John C. Moninger Co., 

 which has for some time been the Chicago 

 sales agent for the Furman boiler, had 

 gone into the business of jouoing pipe. 

 The company now will erect a warehouse 

 for these departments. The following par- 

 ticulars are supplied by the Moninger 

 Co.: 



"We have recently purchased a piece 

 of property of 49,700 square feet adjoin- 

 ing our present place of business for ad- 

 ditional lumber yard, and our plant now 

 occupies frontage on Hawthorne avenue, 

 Blackhawk street, Smith avenue and 

 Weed street. This makes our place cover 

 almost the entire square. The new 

 building we are to put up will be to 

 carry a large stock of greenhouse glass 

 and heating pipe and fittings. It will be 

 equipped with machinery for threading 

 pipe up to 8-inch, and also special ma- 

 chinery for cutting, drilling, etc. The 

 building will be about 24x90, and when 

 completed will have three floors. We 

 will also have a large sample room with 

 model greenhouse and sample boilers. 

 Business with us this year has been good. 



Our stock of lumber is now over 2,000,- 

 000 feet, and we think this is the largest 

 stock of tank cypress anywhere in the 

 United States outside of the mills in 

 Louisiana. ' ' 



Varioui Note*. 



Sol Garland was in town May 14 for 

 the first time since his serious illness with 

 pneumonia. He is preparing to put up 

 two new houses at hiis place in Des 

 Plaines. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. has added a tele- 

 phone to the office equipment, so that one 

 may now talk to either the selling force 

 or the office by calling their number. 



R. Mayer, the Riverside grower, went 

 to New York May 15, and on Tuesday 

 sailed to spend two or three months at 

 his old home in Switzerland. 



The Bohannon Floral Co. started May 

 17 its removal from 29 Monroe street to 

 11 Monroe street. The new store is in 

 the new University Club building, one of 

 the handsomest big buildings in Chicago. 

 The store adjoins the club entrance. 

 Business will be transacted there begin- 

 ning next week. 



E. H. Hunt says the business in fer- 

 tilizers this spring has greatly exceeded 

 that of previous years. So much busi- 

 ness now is done in the state of Indiana 

 that it has been necessary to secure a 

 license there, and State Chemist W. J. 

 Jones, Jr., has just granted Hunt license 

 No. 4520. The Indiana law requires that 

 a tag showing the formula and license 

 number be attached to every bag of fer- 

 tilizer sold in the state. 



Vaughan & Sperry expect to be in 

 their new quarters at 52 and 54 Wabash 

 avenue before the end of the present 

 week, A large new ice box is being in- 



