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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Junk 17, 190&. 



PEONIES 



Oar big cut of Fine Local Peonies is on. These are all the Best 

 varieties and are of Better Quality than ever before. We are 



HEADQUARTERS FOR PEONIES 



If yon try them, you'll use them as long as they are to be had. 



Killarney 



Acknowledged the best to be 

 bad on tbis market. Can 

 Bupply any length in quant- 

 ity. Long, fancy a specialty. 



Beauties 



We confidently believe these 

 to be as good as any in this 

 country. Order and see for 

 yourself. Large supply. 



Roses 



If you want Richmond, Maid 

 or Bride, order of us. Large 

 supply; quality as good as the 

 season affords. 



WEDDING STOCK 



The finest Butterfly Sweet Peas 

 in quantity. Fancy Valley always 

 awaiting your order. Plenty of 

 PlumoauB String^*, etc. 



Carnations 



OUR stock is holding up extremely 

 well as to quality. It will ship. 

 Quantity — enough to meet any de- 

 mand. Order and you get the goods. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. FhoB* Central 1496 



Private Exchange all 



Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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poor week. It is not the carnation's sea- 

 son. The regular flower store trade has 

 consumed only a small part of the re- 

 ceipts, and the accumulation was so great 

 that there was considerable waste. The 

 buyers who could use carnations made 

 their own prices, and where a flower 

 store bought 100 carnations for $1 to 

 $1.50, the Greek merchant or the depart- 

 ment store bought 5,000 at from 5 cents 

 to 12^2 cents a bunch, according to state 

 of preservation. Such a condition means 

 an extremely low average. It is not at 

 all unlikely that there are growers who 

 received nothing but the Greek's prices 

 all last week, and any who average over 

 50 cents per hundred probably have 

 cause for congratulation. 



The peony market was almost as bad 

 as the carnation market. The big grow- 

 ers were only beginning to cut, but a 

 host of smaller growers were industrious, 

 and the receipts from this class of pro- 

 ducer are of the kind that demand an im- 

 mediate sale. The result was that there 

 was no bottom to the price for this class 

 of goods. At the same time, the stock of 

 those growers who really know the peony 

 business was held for fair figures. The 

 best shipping stock brought 50 cents to 

 75 cents or went into cold storage. Three 

 bunches for $1 was the popular price for 

 the best open blooms. Even with the 

 glut of open flowers there were consign- 

 ments so tight in bud the wholesalers did 

 not consider them worth storage charges. 

 The weather has been cold and retarded 

 the big crops of the Peterson Nursery, 

 Kennicott & Son and Klehm's Nurseries. 

 These will be on in full force this week 

 if the weather is at all favorable, but 

 much of this stock is stored. 



Good cattleyas have been in demand, 

 but of the miscellaneous stock nothing 

 encouraging can be said. With other 

 flowers so abundant and cheap, the mis- 

 cellaneous stock can only be sold in 

 small lots and at low prices, with a 

 heavy waste of the lower grades. Sev- 

 eral growers are offering big lots of 

 short-stemmed Easter lilies, but find few 

 takers. 



Hoerbers' Progress. 



Hoerber Bros., at Des Plaines, are 

 making rapid progress with the erection 



Winteisoii's Seed more 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., '""CiViToor-- CHICAGO 



Plantsmen, Nurserymen, Seedsmen 

 and Florists' Supplies 



We can supply everything the Florist uses. 



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of their range of ten houses 27x300. The 

 seven rose houses will be completed by 

 the end of this week. Five of them had 

 been planted last week and stock in the 

 sixth is now being benched. Some of the 

 plants are up two feet or more, and it 

 will be only a few weeks before cutting 

 begins. The three carnation houses will 

 easily be completed in time for benching 

 the stock now in the field about August 1. 

 It is understood the stock will be con- 

 signed for a time, but shortly the firm 

 will open a wholesale house and sell its 

 own output. 



Peterson's Activities. 



William A. Peterson returned June 15 

 from a trip to the nurserymen's conven- 

 tion at Eochester, and the meeting of the 

 American Peony Society at Queens, N. 

 Y. He says the peonies at Eochester 

 were not in bloom last week, nor were 

 they in New England, but at Philadel- 

 phia they were past. He says the talk 

 was all of good business on peony roots, 

 and he anticipates a big season. Mr. 

 Peterson says that this has been the most 

 favorable season he ever has known for 

 the development of perfect peony blooms. 

 One thing which has been brought forc- 

 ibly to his attention is the amount of 

 stock all over the country that is blind. 

 This is peony week at the Peterson Nur- 

 sery, and they are going over every plant 

 on the place and destroying every one 

 two years old or over which does not 

 show a flower. 



Various Notek 



Frank Klimmer, formerly with H. N. 

 Bruns, is now assisting his father, J. F. 

 Klimmer, in Oak Park. 



Weiland & Eisch say they are taking 

 advantage of the dull market to dry off 

 roses that are to be carried a second year, 

 thus getting a good start for fall. 



The Chicago Carnation Co. has been 

 shipping a large quantity of peonies to 

 this market. 



Emil Fransen, who has charge of the 

 interests of Scheiden & Schoos in the 

 Flower Growers' Market, started June 14 

 for Colorado, where in company with his 

 brother he expects to spend much of the 

 summer. During his absence Miss Jose- 

 phine Then will sell the Scheiden & 

 Schoos stock, as well as that of her 

 father. 



Mike Fink, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 spent .Sunday visiting the trade in Mil- 

 waukee, and says he found conditions 

 there apparently satisfactory to all con- 

 cerned. 



John Mangel has used a vage of My 

 Maryland, grown by the Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., as the center of his window display 

 this week. The flowers are larger than 

 those of any other rose now on the mar- 

 ket, and of a beautiful silvery pink. They 

 attract much attention. These blooms 

 are from old plants. Other growers are 

 cutting from young stock, and the roses 

 are not recognizable as the same variety. 



Chas. McCauley, who has charge of the 



