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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 16, 1909. 



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You can wire for anything^ you are short of in 



Christmas Specialties 



IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



No house in the country ie better equipped to handle your rush orders. We have a big line of Supplies— a 

 complete line— no matter 'what you need, call on us and we will get it off to you by first train. 



FANCY HOLLY and WILD SMILAX ready for immediate shipment. Wire your orders. 



JAPA^ESE AIR PLANT 



Another big importation just in. The last lot 

 was so fine it didn't last long. This lot is just 

 as good. 



CHRISTMAS RIBBON 



Red or Follaee Green 



No. 6. per bolt $0.25 No. 2S, p6r bolt $0.75 



Nol6,perbolt 60 No. 40, per bolt 90 



No. 80, per bolt 1.00 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



&. D. Phone Central 1496 



PrlTftte Exehange all 



Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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Receipts have been only moderate in 

 quantity, because of dark skies, and qual- 

 ity suffered in the soft weather, but is 

 now improving. There is a larger pro- 

 portion of red and white. Enchantress 

 being less in proportion to the total 

 planting than it was last year. This will 

 have an effect on the Christmas market; 

 while buyers can get more red, they also 

 will have to take more white, and En- 

 chantress should later be better property 

 than last season. 



Violets have been coming in a little 

 heavier, of splendid quality, and have 

 sold excellently when one considers the 

 unfavorable weather conditions; neither 

 zero nor rain tends to increase the de- 

 mand for violets. 



Chrysanthemums are passing, but there 

 still are enough in the market so that 

 anyone who needs them can be supplied. 

 Some late Bonnaffon are good, but much 

 of the stock is ragged. There will be 

 a few good mums for Christmas. Sweet 

 peas are coming in more abundantly and 

 the stems are getting longer. In an- 

 other fortnight they will be an impor- 

 tant item. Easter lilies and callas are 

 more plentiful. Valley is selling well; 

 some houses say it is scarce. There is 



a fair demand for mignonette, but not 

 much good stock available. Paper Whites 

 have been a drug, and Eomans, while 

 not in large supply, do little better. 

 Stevia is everywhere. 



Asparagus, both strings and bunches, 

 are light in supply. Smilax, too, is 

 shortening up. Boxwood is arriving in 

 quantity. Many of the houses already 

 are picking over their ferns. 



The gyrations of the bouquet green 

 market have been a theme of discussion. 

 Almost every buyer one meets tells of 

 having been asked $12 to $14 per case, 

 but none will admit having paid those 

 prices; sales are made between $9 and 

 $11, occasionally a little more if the 

 buyer previously has not been polite in 

 his dealings with the seller. This is 

 one of the seasons when a man who 

 wants one crate gets a lower price than 

 the man who wants a couple of tons. 



Nearly every wholesale house has had 

 its tale of woe to tell through the freez- 

 ing of incoming shipments during the 

 almost zero weather last week. The 



Ehinebeck violets suffered especially. 

 Shipments which left Ehinebeck in In- 

 dian summer weather arrived here with 

 the temperature at zero. If there is 

 any one thing a wholesaler hates to do it 

 is to inform a grower that the stock 

 arrived frozen and was a waste. This 

 time, shipments coming just a few miles 

 were caught, and in one case reported 

 the same grower's stock was frozen two 

 days in succession. 



Christmas Prospects. 



The unfavorable weather conditions of 

 the last few days have given rise to 

 rather more speculation than usual as to 

 the Christmas prospect. Everyone agrees 

 demand will be large, though advance 

 orders are none too heavy; the question 

 is as to the supply. The wisest of proph- 

 ets is he who says there will be flowers 

 for all buyers; if not the flowers pre- 

 ferred, then some other flowers to take 

 their place. 



With good weather there will be a 

 fair crop of Beauties, and the prospect 

 for a shortage is drawing to this mar- 

 ket consignments of Beauties from all 

 over the country, from Philadelphia and 

 from Council Bluffs, which are nearly 

 1,500 miles apart. A fair supply of 

 roses is looked for, but with a big de- 

 mand. Most of the wholesalers agree 

 that carnations will be the most abund- 

 ant of the big staple items, but some- 

 times it turns out that where the market 

 believes one item is to be plentiful and 

 others scarce, the exact opposite proves 

 to be the case. Violets are expected to 

 equal the demand, Poinsettias are con- 

 sidered plentiful; the demand is not 

 strong. Of miscellaneous flowers there 

 will be enough so everyone can get what 

 he wants. 



The advance orders in many houses 

 are reported to be light on carnations 

 and also light on the extra long grades 

 of roses; the heaviest orders are for the 

 medium to long roses, especially Kil- 

 larney and Eichmond, with some big 

 local orders for violets. 



Once more growers are urged not to 

 pickle. The weather is especially unfa- 

 vorable to it, and besides the commis- 

 sion man ought to be given a chance to 

 treat his customers as fairly as the grow- 



Aphine 



The new insecticide discov- 

 ery that kills plant lice of 

 every species. 



Effective Indoors 



and 



Outdoors 



Send for Descriptive Circular 

 GEORGE E. TALMADGE, Inc. 



Madison, N. J. 



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crs expect to be treated. No grower 

 would approve if his commission man 

 made returns with checks that were not 

 convertible into money. 



Variofii Notes. 



Wm. H. Arthur, representing the Na- 

 tional Clock & Electric Mfg. Co., of St. 

 Louis, Mo., is visiting the trade here. 



A. H. Budlong says 1909 has been a 

 much better year for the J. A. Budlong 

 estate than was 1908 or 1907. The 

 latter half of the year has been espe 

 cially good. Phil Schupp, manager o!" 

 the store, has been out of town for a 

 week. 



H. Bauske is cutting a fine rose crop. 



Anton Then has a full crop on a fine 

 house of Eichmond and is carrying them 

 cool, to save as many as possible for 

 Christmas. 



The Superior Machine and Boiler 

 Works is sending out a 1910 calendar 

 carrying pictures of its hot water boilers, 

 used in many greenhouses, especially in 

 the north end district. 



Edwin G. Scott, of Scott Bros., Gar- 

 field, Wash., visited relatives and trade 



