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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 15, 1909. 



KILLARNEY 



Best roses in the market today. Supply 

 large, but demand so g^ood for this stock 

 that we advise early orders. 



AURATUM LILIES 



Pine, tl fiO per doz. 



Emperor Cornflower 



Fanny double. 11.00 per 100 



FERNS 



Daily sblpmenta are now being received. 

 We can supply you with tbe finest and 

 freshest stock; Michigan or eastern. 



PEONIES 



Excellent ■tock. Sure to please 



SHASTA DAISIES 



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Our Carnations are holding up splendidly and will ship well 

 Large supply of America Gladioli. Headquarters for Fancy Valley 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1406 



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are replanting, but in other places the 

 fact that the averages frequently fall be- 

 low 5 cents per bunch does not seem to 

 influence the growers to jettison the old 

 plants and give the new ones an early 

 start. Carnations must inevitably be 

 small and soft at this date, but some 

 good, clean stock is yet to be had, the 

 whites selling best because the principal 

 demand is for funeral work. 



Sweet peas are again in enormous sup- 

 ply, with some excellent Spencer varie- 

 ties among them. There is a fair sale, 

 but prices are low, and the waste is con- 

 siderable. 



There are large supplies of Shasta 

 daisies, which are selling well. Auratums 

 are plentiful, but longiflorum lilies are 

 less abundant, and the price has ad- 

 vanced a notch. Both outdoor and indoor 

 gladioli are to be had, but the supply is 

 not heavy. Candidum lilies can only be 

 Bold at cheapest prices, and it hardly 

 pays to ship anything but the cleanest 

 stock. 



Fancy ferns now are abundant, but the 

 wholesalers find it hard to come down 

 from the fancy prices that have pre- 

 vailed to the price' ferns usually com- 

 mand at this date. Thefg is little call 

 for other greens, except asparagus in 

 bunches. 



The wholesalers have experienced this 

 week their annual troubles because of the 

 floods in Kansas. Each year the high 

 water there delays the receipt of orders 

 and makes certain towns inaccessible to 

 shipments. This week orders have come 

 to hand two days after shipment was re- 

 quired, and shipments have laid in ex- 

 press cars until stock is ruined. 



The wholesale houses now all are clos- 

 ing at 5 p. m., and the retail stores close 

 at 6:30. 



All the wholesale houses and most of 

 the retail stores will close at 1 p. m. 

 Thursday, July 22, the day of the Flo- 

 rists' Club's big picnic at Kiverview, 

 which everyone will attend. 



Greenhouse Investmeots Pay. 



E. C. Amling says he does not know 

 of any investment so profitable as that 

 in greenhouses, either for a practical 

 florist or for a man with capital. This 

 evidently also is the view of Albert F. 

 Amling, vice-president of the Maywood 

 State Bank and head of the Albert F. 



Wiiilei80i('s Seen store 



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 and Florists' Supplies 



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Amling Co., which built a big range of 

 new houses last year. Last year's addi- 

 tion was not completed until late in the 

 season, and has been producing immense 

 quantities of sweet peas before being 

 planted to Beauties this spring. It now 

 develops that four more 300-foot houses 

 will be built by the Amling Co. this fall, 

 to keep up the sweet pea supply for 

 February and later months next season. 

 William Colletz, the active man on the 

 place, is on a visit at Gorham, Kans., and 

 building will be begun upon his return 

 the latter part of this month. 



Various Notes. 



The A. L. Eandall Co. says sales are 

 running well ahead of last summer, both 

 in cut flowers and supplies. They do not 

 think it is anything more than the normal 

 growth of the business, however, and see 

 no indication that business generally is 

 any better than last season at this date. 



The west park commissioners are hav- 

 ing their own troubles in the matter of 

 getting bids for the restoration of the 

 Garfield park conservatory. The first at- 

 tempt produced only two bids, from Lord 

 & Burnham Co. and Hatchings & Co., no 

 local bidders making offers. The park 

 commissioners revised their specifications 

 and invited new bids, to be opened July 

 13. The result Vvas that they received 

 only one tender, from the A. Dietsch Co., 

 whose aggregate bid amounted to $55,- 

 750. No action was taken July 13 and 

 it is yet undecided whether the contract 

 will be awarded to the Dietsch Co., or 



whether another effort will be made to 

 get competitive bids. 



The Florists' Club's picnic committee 

 is hard at work on the arrangements for 

 the outing on the afternoon and evening 

 of July 22 at Eiverview park. It is ex- 

 pected to break all records for attend- 

 ance. Since the wholesalers all agreed to 

 close at 1 p. m. many retailers also have 

 decided to take half a day off and join in 

 the celebration. 



J. E. Jensen, of Jensen & Dekema, is 

 rusticating in "Wisconsin for a few days. 

 The greenhouses are closed and Theodore 

 Kron, who sold them to Jensen & Dekema, 

 subject to a mortgage, is again offering 

 them for sale. 



Frank Beu has returned from a trip 

 east. 



William Foith, brother-in-law of Acting 

 Chief of Police Schuettler and manager 

 of that gentleman's greenhouse estab- 

 lishment, known as the Star Carnation 

 Co., at Wilmette, HI., has gone to Eose- 

 dale, Kans., where he has leased the A. 

 G. Belinder greenhouses, formerly oper- 

 ated by O. Triebwasser. 



O. W. Frese, of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 says that My Maryland is now the best 

 pink rose in the market, and that when 

 White Killamey becomes available in 

 sufficient quantity there will be no one 

 who wants Bride. 



Willie Abrahamson, in addition to his 

 purchasing business, now represents Lion 

 & Co., the New York ribbon house. 



C, W. McKellar and Mrs. McKellar 



