AUGUST 5, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



19 



Now is the time for 

 every retail florist to 

 write 119 about his 



Cut Flower Boxes 



aiinoly ol boxes for the new season. Make up a list of what sizes and quantities you used last season and 



gend it in lOr esiinaaie. ^^ handle only one grade of boxes, realizing tbat the up-to-date and practical floriit will not have a cheap and 

 fprior t)ox at any price. These boxes are made from heavy moisture-proof board, being fifty per cent heavier than any other florists' boxes 

 ow 0" "'^ market. But the prices are no higher than itt asked for some inferior goods. 



We have a fine line of half-tone cuts which were made up especially for florists who desire a flower cut printed on boxes with name and 

 gddress. If you have never used any of our boxes don't fail to give them a trial, we guarantee satisfaction. Write today. 



Full line of Violet Boxes. Corrugated Boxes, all sizes. Book order now- delivery any time you say. 



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Write for sample and prices. I I Order now, your season's needs and save money. 



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A* L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale riorists '■■^aS^^H" 19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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That depends on what kind it is — the de- 

 sis:n, finish, lettering, amount of repairs, etc. 



ARMLEDER WAGONS FOR FLORISTS 



have proven in 28 years' usage to be the 

 most economical, for many reasons, too 

 numerous to mention here. 



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ARMLEDER, 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Industrial City 



Mention Tlie Review wlien you write. 



quite a number have excellent increases 

 in sales to report. This market never 

 was so well supplied with summer roses. 

 Tlie wholesalers all feel pleased with 

 the July results; the business is getting 

 to be an all-the-year-around affair. 



Reardon Resigos. 



After sixteen years as gardener for 

 Martin A. Eyerson, on Drexel boulevard, 

 John Reardon resigned, taking effect 

 August 1. 



ilr. Reardon was one of the best 

 kno\Mi gardeners in this section. There 

 ^•■e ; more skilled growers, and at the 

 ^nnu;,] flower shows he has been a lead- 

 'og exhibitor and premium winner 

 ameii,; the private men. He lives at 4739 

 avenue. Unless tempted by too 

 an offer to go on some private 

 he has it in mind to go into the 

 conitiercial end of the business, where 

 "6 ^ is before going to Mr. Ryerson. 



Evai 

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July Weather. 



J'iiy was an unusually pleasant summer 

 wiontl). The mean temperature was only 

 'y ""grees, which is normal. The pre- 

 ^ipi^iurion was only 1.77 inches, against 

 ^■57 as an average rainfall for the 

 "jo'ith. The percentage of possible sun- 

 "■^"i'' was high, 68. 



Various Notes. 



C. L. Washburn returned Monday by 

 rail from Lake Minnetonka, leaving O. 

 P. Bassett and E. B. Washburn to come 

 by auto. They arrived August 4. The 

 report is that the farming country passed 

 through will have simply, wonderful 

 crops, and that prosperity is apparent 

 everywhere. 



C. S. Claussen, the pickle man, last 

 season bought 22,000 gladiolus bulbs and 

 planted them on his farm at Wichert, 

 111. They are in three varieties, America, 

 Augusta and Mrs. Francis King. The 

 cut spikes are now coming in at E. C. 

 Amling's. 



The Florists' Club will hold an August 

 meeting this year — tonight. The conven- 

 tion will be the subject for discussion. 

 Six new members are up for election, 

 Thomas C. Yarnall, Jas. Curran, August 

 Dressel, F. A. Benthey, Fred Hoerber 

 and W. F. Hoerber, and if any others 

 want to get in before the convention, the 

 way for them will be found. 



The committee finds that the Florists' 

 Club cleaned up about $60 on the picnic, 

 which was an excellent showing. 



Mrs. Horton having returned from her 

 vacation. Miss Bloom is rusticating. 



The colored pond lilies in Mangel's 

 window are grown by Geo. Schwing, at 

 Fifty-seventh and Rockwell streets, who 



is a water lily expert, and who has the 

 finest collection of varieties of anyone 

 in this vicinity. 



The Butler Floral Co. recently opened 

 a new store at 1319 Sheridan road. At 

 the first store, 297 Dearborn street, a 

 new, large ice-box and new counters have 

 been put in. 



The E. Wienhoeber Co. is freshening 

 up its store and repairing the show 

 house while customers are few. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. states that it 

 wUl require all its field grown carnations 

 for its own planting this season. The 

 space given to carnations is being 

 largely increased, by reason of the sea- 

 son's big addition to the glass area, and 

 it is the intention to have an adequate 

 supply of carnations next season. It has 

 been two or three years since the Poehl- 

 mann Co. has cut as many carnations as 

 it had a market for. 



George M. Garland Co. is sending its 

 friends in the trade a neat index to tele- 

 phone numbers. 



Robert Waters, of Boston, brother of 

 T. E. Waters, of the A. L. Randall Co., 

 died August 1. He was not a florist, but 

 was well known in the trade jn Boston. 



A news-letter from Wheaton, 111., pub- 

 lished on another page, gives an account 

 of the burning of the boiler shed and 

 other service buildings at the E. T. Wan- 

 zer establishment, July 29. 



George Hartung, of the Kensington 

 Greenhouses, is planning a trip to the 

 convention at Cincinnati, with a party 

 of friends from the south end, going by 

 boat down the Illinois and Mississippi 

 and up the Ohio rivers. 



A. C. Spencer is enjoying his annual 

 fortnight's vacation. Miss Corbett, who 

 has charge of Peter Reinberg's books, 

 recently returned from her outing in the 

 country. 



Vaughan & Sperry recently received a 

 letter from a gentleman in Wisconsin, 

 who wrote so glowingly of the wonderful 

 pond lilies he could ship that haste was 

 made to tell him to send them in, for 

 there is a good market here for the up- 

 to-date colored varieties, but when the 

 shipment arrived it proved to be the 

 lotuses, which are not worth express 

 charges in this market. 



E. H. Hunt reports this the best sum- 

 mer in the history of the business, both 



