December 23, 1909. 



•^ The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



21 



Fancy Flowers in Good Supply 



For the busy Holiday week — ChristmaB to New Year's. 



Beauties, Killarney, Richmond, Carnations, 

 ^.-^ violets, Stevia, Sweet Peas. 



We Never Ha^dl^d Better FANCY VALLEY, YOU'LL SAY THE SAME. 



It takes good stock to meet the needs of the Holiday week trade — we have the 

 quality that you are looking for — send along your orders. Prices always right. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



PrlTBte KxehAnre all 



DepartuMnts 



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CINCINNATI HEADQUARTERS 



rOR CARNATION CUT BLOOMS 



Camatlona, common $6.00 per 100 



Carnations, fancy ^ .^ 8.00 



Violets, Daisies, Snapdrasons, LiUes and all other Cut Flowers in season. 



Greens Greens Greens 



HoUy, per crate, $4.00. 



Cut Boz'wood, 15c per lb.; 50 lbs., $7.50; 100 



Ibfl.. $14.00. 

 Leuoothoe Sprays, per 100. 50c; 1000, $4.00. 

 Galax, Green and Bronze, 1000, 75c; 10,000, $6.00. 

 Smllaz, per doz. Btrlngs, $1.50. 



Wild Smllax, 50 lb. caie, $5.00; 2 cases, $9 00; 



4nai>es. 116 00. 

 Fancy Eastern Cut Ferns, per 1000, $1.60; 



6000. $6.25. 

 Green Sbeet Moss, per bale. $1.00. 

 Bphae^ium Moss, per bale, $1.00. 



Write me for special quotations on larKe orders. 



WILLIAM MURPHY, w.'-—-;^^"" 



811 MAIN BTRBET, Phone M 980 CINCINNATI, OHIO 



Phone M'980 

 Mention The Kevlew when you write. 



WiDtersoD'8 Seed Store 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave, ^"'c?i"£?°e-oJ?°" CHICAGO 



Plantsmen, Nurserymen, Seedsmen 

 and Florists' Supplies 



We can supply eTerything; the Floriat Uaes 



Catalogue Free 



in an elevated train December 18, of 

 heart disease. Mr. Marks owned the 

 building on Washington street occupied 

 for some years by the A. L. Bandall Co., 

 Hnd at one time he was a familiar figure 

 in the wholesale section. It always was 

 next to impossible for Mr. Marks to pass 

 a flower store without going in to buy 

 wjme of the things he saw in the window. 

 These he sent to his friends, who were 

 " legion. A few years ago it is probable 

 lie bought more flowers than any other 

 person not a florist in Chicago. 



Harry Kowe received a shipment from 

 U. D. Darlington, Flushing, N. Y., De- 

 ' ember 18, some beautiful plants of 

 ' eather that were frozen stiff. Zero 

 '>eather has played havoc with many a 

 ; lant shipment this Christmas. 



Leonard Kill is planning to leave 



early in January, with his family, to 

 spend the winter in southern California. 

 The Kill family and the family of Frank 

 Chance, of baseball fame, are neighbors 

 and close friends. Mr. Chance has an 

 orange grove near Los Angeles and he 

 has secured for Mr. Kill a cottage ad- 

 joining his own. 



W. E. Lynch reports that E. H. Hunt 

 made a shipment Monday, December 20, 

 of cut flowers to be used Christmas day 

 at Medicine Hat, Canada, which is popu- 

 larly supposed to be where the cold 

 weather comes from. The town is in the 

 province of Assiniboia, about 600 miles 

 west of Winnipeg, on the Canadian 

 Pacific. It takes four days to get there 

 and cut flowers going into Canada have 

 to pay twenty-five per cent duty on 

 Chicago Christmas prices. 



F. C. Hoerber, who resides at the 

 Des Plaines establishment of Hoerber 

 Bros., says that their well is now down 

 300 feet, and still in shale, with no sign 

 of water. An 8-inch hole with a 7-inch 

 pipe has been put down. If water is not 

 reached within the next few days work 

 will be abandoned until spring. The 

 Des Plaines city water has been used thus 

 far. It now has been definitely decided 

 to double the glass area next spring. 



C. W. McKellar has been handling his 

 usual lot of cyclamens for Christmas and 

 says the grower has stock to keep him 

 selling all through January. 



T. C. Yarnall joined the J. B. Deamud 

 Co. December 20. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 early this week said he was looking for 

 this to be the shortest Christmas this 

 market has known in twenty-five years. 



Ned Washburn has been on the sick 

 list for several days. 



Somewhere among an accumulation of 

 500 cars of coal on the tracks of the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, 

 N. C. Moore & Co. have had a number 

 of cars of fuel, butjthat has not relieved 

 their anxiety as the coal pile at the 

 greenhouses has shrunk. The railroad 

 would not bestir itself to find their cars 

 for them, 



Kyle & Foerster have gone into the 

 plant business for Christmas, handling 

 poinsettias in pans. 



December 17 A. L. Eandall had a 

 narrow escape from a serious accident. 

 The pike pole used for handling empty 

 boxes stored in the shipping department 

 fell as Mr. Bandall was passing and the 

 sharp point cut a gash of several inches 

 in his cheek. 



N. J. Wietor says that Wietor Bros, 

 have a large quantity of cuttings in the 

 sand. They are propagating heavily on 

 Killarney, White Killarney, Jardine and 

 Beauty. They look for a specially heavy 

 call for White Killarney and Jardine. 

 Bride and Maid are now in fine shape 

 with them and decline to take a back 

 seat for any of the new sorts. 



E. C. Amling predicts a good market 

 for roses in January; he says crops are 

 on the down grade with most of the 

 largest growers. < 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has a switch to 



