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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decbmbeb 2, 1009. 



Reliable Christmas Greens 



We do not claim cheapnesB for our Christmas Greens except as "the best Is always the 

 Greens. It is quality you \irant and -we offer. Don't be caught by lower prices; be sure 

 stock can be sold. 



MOUNTAIN LAUREL HOLLY WREATHS 



Medium Laurel Wreathing, per 10i> ydB..$C.OO 12-lnch, Finsle, per dozen | 2.00 



Heavy Laurel Wreathing, per 100 yds... 8.00 32-inch, single, per 100 12.60 



Branch Laurel, per bunch 75 12- inch, double, per dozen 3.00 



BEST DELAWARE HOLLT 



XXX Brand. Well berried, in full size cases. 



Per case 9 6 00 



5 cases 23 76 



10 cases 45.00 



WILD SMILAX 

 Best grade obtainable. 5u-lb. case $5.00 



WINTER BERRIES 



Per case $ 3.00 



6 cases 14.00 



CHRISTMAS EVERGREEN 

 WREATHING 



Medium, per lOOyds $3.50 



Extra Heavy, per 100 yds 6.00 



cheapest," and this is specially true of Holiday 

 of the quality. Here is as cheap as the best 



EVERGREEN WREATHS 



12-Inch, plain, double, per dozen $1.50 



12inch, with Immortelles, per dozen 2.00 



MISTLETOE-Quality the best. 



1 lb $0.26 



6 Iba 1.20 



10 lbs 2.26 



ITALIAN BOXWOOD 



Per bunch W.'^fi 50-lb case...;. $7.50 



This Is especially imported and is of the 

 finest quality. 



All prices on above eoods subject to changes. Send for complete illustrated Price List of Christmas Specialties. 



Order Now-CHRISTNAS RIBBON-Order Now 



Red and Foliaee Green. No. 5, per bolt, 25c. No. 16, per bolt, 60c. No. 22, per bolt, 75c. No. 40, per bolt, 90c. No. 80, per bolt, $1.00. 



JAPANESE AIR PLANT 



Large lot of specially fine bunches just received. 



CORRUGATED BOXES 



Just what you need for shipping Wreaths, etc. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



Private Exehange all 



Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Rpvi(>\v when you write. 



ers are not yet taking hold of carnations 

 the way they did last season, perhaps 

 because of the several weeks of unusually 

 high prices early in the autumn. The 

 stock now is fine, plentiful and cheap and 

 it ought to move better than it does. 



The supply of Beauties has increased, 

 as well as the supply of all other roses. 

 Killarney continues to be the king of the 

 market. Some of the wholesalers say 

 there is more call for Killarney than for 

 all other roses combined, but Eichmond 

 is now enjoying better sale. White is 

 plentiful, though Kaiserin has about 

 dropped out. 



Violets did better for the few days 

 after Thanksgiving than they did earlier 

 in the week. Evidently some of the 

 growers were so busy picking the turkey 

 bones that they forgot to pick violets. 

 The supply was short Saturday. The 

 quality of most of the shipments reach- 

 ing this market is superlatively good, but 

 prices are not up to last year. 



Chrysanthemums are by no means 

 over. Some of the stock has that ragged, 

 faded look that ccfmes with the end of a 

 hard season, but there still is a large 

 supply of the big, fancy flowers in both 

 white and yellow. For the moment, white 

 seems to have the call. Small mums 

 of really good quality are scarce. 



Lilies are abundant and callas are com- 

 ing in. Romans are now bracketed with 

 Paper Whites. Sweet peas are increas- 

 ing, but are not yet an important item. 

 Stevia is everywhere. There is a little 

 bouvardia. Cattleyas continue extremely 

 scarce. 



The greens market shows little change; 

 business in this department is steady. 



The November Business. 



The warmest November in the history 

 of the United States Weather Bureau 

 hardly could prove an exceptionally good 

 month for business. It is true that a 

 number of wholesale houses find their 

 sales total a higher figure than in any 

 previous November, but it is due to the 



much greater quantity of stock handled, 

 a quantity so great that a good aggre- 

 gate of sales resulted in spite of the low 

 prices that prevailed during most of the 

 month. The second and third weeks of 

 November were marked by severe gluts 

 of roses and mums, and the last week saw 

 carnations accumulate, but there was a 

 spurt just before Thanksgiving that not 

 only went a long way toward making a 

 good total for the month's sales but 

 shows what may be expected as soon as 

 settled seasonable weather permits busi- 

 ness to strike a steady gait. 



The market must of necessity turn over 

 more stock and more money than ever be- 

 fore, for there has been an extremely 

 large addition to the glass area since last 

 season, but there are two more wholesale 

 houses pushing for business, and com- 

 petition is the life of trade. 



VariouB Notes. 



For a number of years the E. Wien- 

 hoeber Co. has sent each of its regular 

 customers an engagement book at the 

 opening of the social season. This year 

 the book was of even higher class than 

 heretofore, the illustration at the open- 

 ing of each month being in colors, a work 

 of real art. Several were reproductions 

 of photographs taken by the Review. 

 Enclosed with the book when it was sent 

 out was an engraved card inviting at- 

 tention "to the unusually well selected 

 collection of imported and domestic pot- 

 tery, glassware and brass goods for use 

 with plants and cut flowers displayed at 

 their store and greenhouses." 



John Sterrett, who has been a well 

 known figure in the market for years, 

 now with the Benthey-Coatsworth Co., 

 recently acquired a farm of ten acres in 

 Keystone valley in Florida. Mr. Ster- 

 rett served through the Civil war and in 

 the battle of Stone River was shot three 

 times inside of thirty minutes. It is the 

 pension money Uncle Sam has paid him 

 that went into the Florida farm. Mrs. 

 Sterrett is now in Florida looking after 

 the property. 



Aphine 



Is the new insecticide discov- 

 ery which kills plant lice of 

 every species. 



Effective indoors and out- 

 doori. 



Now on sale from Coast to 

 Coast. 



If your supply house does not handle 



Aphine, write us for name of our nearest 



selling; agentf. 



GEORGE E. TALMADGE, Inc. 



Madison, N. J. 



Mentiou The Review when you write. 



Willie Abrahamson is said to be now 

 located permanently in Denver. 



The sympathetic growers at Rhinebeck 

 who have the really good violets, seem 

 to be assisting their less successful 

 brethren to realize the same price per 

 bunch for inferior flowers as the better 

 stock brings. Some of the best growers 

 are bunching with regard to size of 

 bunch rather than to number of flowers 

 in the bunch. The retailers complain 

 and claim a shortage when a bunch con- 

 tains only forty or eighty violets, instead 

 of fifty or 100, but many of the whole- 

 salers are now billing their violets at so 

 much per bunch, and not at so much per 

 hundred. When the bunches are all of 

 a standard size the man with the best 

 stock does not seem to get as much out 

 of it as he would if his bunches, as well 

 as his flowers, were larger than the other 

 fellow's, because of full count. It is an 

 old idea for the man with small violets 



