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JOMB 10, 1900. 



TTie Weekly Rorists* Review. 





35 



Seed and Poultry Aniiez of the A. L. Randall Co., Chicago. 



RANDALL'S SEED STORE. 



The A. L. EandaJl Co., Chicago, has 

 been enlarging its field of operations in 

 the last few years. Having built up a 

 large wholesale cut flower business, a de- 

 partment for florists ' supplies was added, 

 and the combined departments occupy all 

 except the street floor of the deep double 

 five-story building at 19 and 21 Randolph 

 street. A few months ago, having al- 

 ready added grass seeds in cartons, and a 

 few other specialties for sale through re- 

 tailers, it was decided to add poultry sup- 

 plies. A few months' experience demon- 

 strated that a good business could be 

 done in this line, but that it would be 

 desirable to locate it elsewhere than in 

 the wholesale cut flower and supply build- 

 ing. Consequently the store at 98 Lake 

 street was leased and an opening there 

 took place a few weeks ago. The accom- 

 panying illustration gives an idea of the 

 showing made to passers-by by "Ran- 

 dall 's Seed and Poultry Annex. ' ' Plants, 

 a general line of seeds, shrubs, goldfish, 

 fertilizers, insecticides, poultry and poul- 

 try supplies will be carried. It is stated 

 that the business in the annex has been 

 profitable from the first day the doors 

 were opened. A catalogue of poultry, 

 poultry supplies, etc., is now on the press. 



The 98 Lake street interests of the A. 

 L. Randall Co. are in charge of Harry 

 Sherman Seeley. The name appears in 

 full, together with that of Miss Evelyn 

 Helen Long, upon an announcement of a 

 wedding which took place Wednesday, 

 June 2. Mrs. Seeley is the daughter of 

 a well known family at Winnetka. Frank 

 Johnson, also of the Randall Co., was Mr. 

 Seeley 's best man. One of those at the 

 wedding was former Vice-President Ste- 

 venson. 



CLARK'S WISCONSIN BRANCH. 



The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., of Mil- 

 ford, Conn., one of the pioneer seed 

 growing concerns of New England, has 

 recently purchased a site at Green Bay, 

 Wis., upon which the company is now 

 erecting a first-class plant for the han- 

 dling of seed peas and beans, including 

 a seed warehouse, dock, etc. The ware- 

 house is to be a modern, three-story fire- 



proof building of concrete construction 

 and will contain an up-to-date and prac- 

 tical equipment for the handling of seed 

 peas and beans, including hand picking 

 equipment for eighty to 100 pickers, 

 Clipper cleaning and Otis elevating ma- 

 chinery and electric power. 



The site secured for the building 

 affords excellent shipping facilities. The 

 main tracks of the CMeago & North- 

 Western railway are at one end of the 

 site, on a siding from which -cars may 



be received or dispatched over four rail- 

 roads which come into Green Bay. Two 

 of these railroads will bring crops from 

 the growing sections. Two are trunk 

 lines over which out-bound shipments 

 may be moved. At the opposite end of 

 the site is the harbor of Green Bay. The 

 company is building on its property first- 

 class docking facilities to accommodate 

 steamers of the Green Bay Transporta- 

 tion Co., which will bring in the crop 

 from several of the growing sections; 



E. L. OlmsUd. ' 



