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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



June 24, 1909. 



PEONIES 



Our 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. 



Beauties 



We confidently believe these 

 to be as good as any in this 

 country. Order and see for 

 yourself. Large supply. 



Killarney 



Acknowledged the best to be 

 had on this market. Can 

 supply any length in quant- 

 ity. Long, fancy a specialty. 



Roses 



WEDDING STOCK Carnations 



If you want Eichmond, Maid or 

 Bride, order of us. Large supply; 

 quality as good as the season affords. 



The finest Butterfly Sweet Peas 

 in quantity. Fancy Valley always 

 awaiting your order. Plenty of 

 Fine Smilax and Plumosus Strings, etc 



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. Phone Central 1496 



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Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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more peonies in the freezer than ever 

 before at one time. Some of the stock 

 put away is in such condition that its 

 salability at any later date is open to 

 question. There probably now are 200 

 growers of peonies for this market, where 

 six or eight years ago there were only 

 half a dozen. By far the larger part 

 of the receipts have been of the open 

 character. Some of the flowers were ex- 

 ceedingly fine, but the necessity for im- 

 mediate sale held the market low. Prices 

 have ranged from 25 cents to 35 cents 

 for good stock, with plenty to be had at 

 10 cents and 15 cents per bunch, and 

 some for which no offer could be ob- 

 tained. The best grades of shipping 

 peonies have, of course, commanded more 

 money, from 50 cents to 60 cents, and 

 occasionally a little higher on special 

 stock. When the mercury climbed June 

 20, the crop was quickly finished off. Any 

 further receipts will come from the north. 



The indoor sweet peas are approach- 

 ing the end of their season. The quality 

 is not what it was and the quantity is 

 not so great as a few weeks ago. The 

 sweet pea has sold rather better than 

 any other flower in the market all through 

 June, and is still doing well. With sweet 

 peas, valley has been in demand for 

 wedding work, but the supply has been 

 too large. 



Gladioli and Easter lilies have been 

 Belling cheaply. A few asters are in the 

 market, but are not yet wanted. Water 

 lilies are abundant and cheap. All the 

 miscellaneous flowers move slowly. 



The passing of the bulk of the June 

 weddings has caused a slackening in the 

 demand for strings of asparagus and 

 smilax. Ferns are now abundant every- 

 where. 



Smyth Meet! with Accident. 



W. J. Smyth sustained a fracture of 

 the left leg just above the knee in a 

 peculiar automobile accident at his sum- 

 mer residence at Lake Marie, near An- 

 tioch, 111., June 20. He was cranking 

 his machine when it dashed forward, 

 pinning him against the wall of the bam. 

 He was standing with his right leg in- 

 side the fender and the left leg outside. 

 Mr. Smyth was brought to Chicago as 

 soon as possible and is now in St. Luke's 



WiQleison's Seed Sloie 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave, 



Long Dlstaiiee Phone, 

 Central 6004, 



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Plantsmen, Nurserymen, Seedsmen 

 and Florists' Supplies 



We can supply everything^ the Florist uses. 



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hospital. His injury was an extremely 

 painful one, but the physicians, after an 

 X-ray examination, said the only danger 

 of permanent injury lay in a possible 

 stiffness of the joint. 



The daily papers printed grossly exag- 

 gerated and wholly inaccurate accounts 

 of the accident. 



Space for Wholesalers. 



For several years it has been a matter 

 of much diflBculty to find desirable space 

 in the district at the corner of Wabash 

 avenue and Bandolph street, where the 

 wholesale cut flower houses are centered; 

 there have been some large floors on Ban- 

 dolph street, east of Randall's, but lit- 

 tle or nothing to be had elsewhere. The 

 remodeling of the building at 52 and 54 

 Wabash avenue created one more fine 

 room for wholesale cut flower purposes, 

 which was quickly taken by Vaughan & 

 Sperry, while others were ' ' considering. ' ' 

 This leaves vacant the Vaughan & Sperry 

 quarters in the Flower Growers' Market 

 and there also now is vacant a large 

 room on the second floor of the Atlas 

 building, above the Winterson Seed Store 

 and next door to Zech & Mann. This 

 space has formerly been occupied by a 

 chocolate concern, which moved out in 

 May. If divided, the room would be 

 enough for two large wholesale concerns, 

 or three of moderate size. When it was 

 apparent this space would be vacant the 

 McCormick estate offered it to several of 



the wholesalers not now in the Atlas 

 block. The rental asked was $3,000 per 

 year. Kennicott Bros. Co. is reported to 

 have offered $2,700, which was refused. 

 It is possible than an even lower offer 

 if made now might be considered, because 

 the renting season is over. John Zech 

 says he hopes a wholesale florist will 

 take the room, as it will help draw trade 

 down to that end of the hall. The Mc- 

 Cormick estate would like to gather all 

 the wholesalers into its building and has 

 indicated a willingness to consider any 

 proposition wholesalers may have to offer 

 that contemplates using the upper floors 

 of a building for wholesale flower pur- 

 poses. 



Various Notes. 



The marriage of Miss Ethelyn M. Aus- 

 tin and Benjamin E. Gage was celebrated 

 at high noon Saturday, June 19. The 

 wedding was a quiet one, only members 

 of the two families being present. The 

 Eev. Julian M. Sturtevant performed the 

 ceremony. The bridal couple will take 

 an automobile trip through the east and 

 will be at home to their friends after 

 September 1 at 1209 Michigan avenue, 

 Evanston. Miss Austin is soprano soloist 

 in the Second Presbyterian church of 

 Evanston. Mr. Gage has charge of the 

 landscape department of Peterson Nurs- 

 ery. 



A married sister of Walter Tonner and 

 the Misses Tonner is dead at her home 



