Decbmbbb 30, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



WHITE LILAC Ready Jannary is 



Here's the place to g^et your Fancy Stock. 



CATTLEYAS 



Noie finer ever received in this market 



VALLEY 



Extra fancy stock in regular daily supply. 



Beauties, Killarney, Richmond* 



VIOLETS 



Finest Double and Single in largest quantity. 



Fine stock in larare supply, 

 all lenKtbs of stem. 



SWEET PEAS 



Good Btock in white and pink in quantity— A few 

 lavender. 



We Invite 

 Your Orders. 



WILD SMILAX 



Always on hand, special rates on large quantities. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



Prlrate Exehan^ all 



Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



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Mention The Review when you wme 



CINCINNATI HEADQUARTERS 



FOR CARNATION CUT BLOOMS, $2.00. $3.00. $4.oo per 100 



violets. Daisies, Snapdrasons, Lilies and all other Cut Flowers In season. 



Greens Greens Greens 



Wild Smiiax, 50 lb. case, $5.00; 2 cases, $9.00; 4 cases, $16.00 



50 lbs., $7.50; 100 



Cut Boxwood, 15c per lb. 



lbs.. $14.00. 

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

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

 Smllax, per doz. strings, $1.50. 



Fancy Eastern Cut Ferns, per 1000, $1.60; 



5000, $6.25. 

 Green Sheet Moss, per bale, $1.00. 

 Sphag^iuni Moss, per bale, $1.00. 

 Write me for special quotations on large orders. 



WILLIAM MURPHY, 



311 MAIN STREET, Phone M980 

 Mention The Keview when you write. 



Wholesale Commission 

 Florist 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



better than last year, while a substantial 

 portion of the retail interest reports a 

 more or less falling off in business. In 

 the better grade of stores it is said the 

 sale of plants and pottery was better 

 than ever, mostly small arrangements: 

 fancy dishes with small plants in them. 

 The basket seems to have had its day. 

 Though many were sold, a larger propor- 

 tion of the plants than ever were in pot- 

 tery or china. The cut flower business 

 was not pushed, possibly because the re- 

 tailers had bought their plants and would 

 have them to pay for, so it was up to 

 them to sell them before they sold cut 

 flowers not yet bought. It was specially 

 noticeable that the stores in the working- 

 men 's sections of the city reported a fall- 

 ing off in their sales. The explanation 

 •was that the cost of living is now so high 

 the business of these stores is largely lim- 

 ited to funeral work. Previously these 

 stores have cleaned up, at good prices, 

 large quantities of stock that fell just 

 short of meeting the needs of the critical 

 trade. The street stand branch of re- 

 tail dom was absolutely out of business 

 because of the storm, and all who depend 

 on transient trade suffered severely. 



The retailers bought sparingly of cut 

 flowers, but most of them had some left, 

 and in several stores the plants still on 

 hand indicate that the overbuying will 

 cut quite a hole into the Christmas 

 profits. Violets proved to be overbought 

 in many of the best stores. The explana- 

 tion for this is that the storm of De- 

 cember 24 and 25 cut down the sales 



on this flower rather more than on any 

 other. The storm cut a big hole in all 

 retail sales. 



W. J. Smyth says that his explanation 

 for the failure of the Christmas business 

 to reach anticipations is about like this: 

 "Flush times are not so good as hard 

 times for the florists' Christmas. In 

 the hard-times year the people who had 

 been buying expensive presents sent flow- 

 ers instead; this year they had the price 

 to go back to the diamond stores, and 

 the florist lost their patronage. Also, the 

 public knows cut flowers cost twice as 

 much at Christmas as a week before and 

 a week after, so they naturally don't buy 

 them any too freely when prices are at 

 the peak." 



In some of the retail stores gold bas- 

 ket arrangements of artificial poinsettias 

 and perpetuated fern fronds were shown 

 and proved good sellers. One store re- 

 ports selling about a dozen of these bas- 

 kets at from $10 to $15 each. 



George Valthcr Veds. 



There are men who go about all their 

 affairs preceded by a brass band, but 

 George Walther is not one of these. He 

 wears rubber heels. It has just de- 

 veloped that December 16 Miss Mar- 

 guerite Hills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

 F. R. Hills, formerly of Maywood, ar- 

 rived from California, and that Miss 

 Hills and Mr. Walther were married that 

 evening at the "Walther home on the south 

 side. The bride is almost as well known 

 among florists as is Mr. Walther himself, 



and it really is not fair to their friends 

 to keep so quiet about the wedding. 



Varioua Notes. 



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

 was born New Year's day, 1863. There 

 will be the usual celebration at the Pieser 

 home this week. ■"'■'■ ' • 



The A. L. Eandall Co. handl6d-ft Con- 

 siderable quantity of orchids for Christ- 

 mas. 



E. C. Amling 's store was open con- ' 

 tinuously from Friday morning until 

 noon on Saturday, and it is said that 

 tickets amounting to over $1,000 were 

 written between 3 a. m. and 4 a. m. Mr. 

 Amling has been confined to his home for 

 several days as a result of the Christmas 

 experience. 



August Poehlmann says that the sales 

 of the Poehlmann Bros. Co. for December 

 23 set a new record for the concern, well 

 in advance of the previous high record. 

 But the same day he bought 114 cars of 

 coal and just a little while before 1,500 

 boxes of glass, so the money isn't all 

 profit. 



' ' Billy ' ' Kidwell was looking for more 

 of the Mrs. Jardine rose December 27. 

 He told Wietor Bros, that it was a bet- 

 ter seller than Killarney with his best 

 Christmas customers. 



W. F. Hoerber is well pleased with his 

 first Christmas and says that he regrets 

 the truth of the old saying that Christ- 

 mas comes but once a year. They had 

 a larger cut than at any time heretofore 

 and not enough stock to go around. 



Andrew McAdams was downtown De- 

 cember 27 for the first time in some 

 months. He said it was a good Christ- 

 mas, but that Christmas never brings the 

 retailer enough profit to pay for the extra 

 work and anxiety, and that he is glad 

 when regular business is on again. 



John Zech says Texas buyers do not 

 want Killarney or White Killarney; that 

 Maid and Bride are the roses called for 

 on shipments to the extreme southwest; 

 New Orleans prefers the Killameys. 



Mrs. W. E. Lynch was called to her 

 former home at Hatfield, Mass., December 

 26, by the critical illness of her mother. 

 Mr. Lynch said that the house of E. H. 

 Hunt never had a better Christmas in the 

 cut flower department. 



C. W. McKellar said he could have 



