JAXUABT 20, 1010. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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ORCHIDS 



Special fine Cattleyas, $6 to $9 per doz. 



Also Dendrobium Formosum and all other seasonable varieties. 



GIDnmilC Fi"^ s^'' ■" 'b*^' supply. 



DAnULnlAO $2.00 to $s.oo noz. 



UfUITC I II IP ("i"^ foniY flo^^'' <>f the 

 nnilL LILAU season. $1.50 bunch. 



Vll I CV <>ixx' stock, $3.00 to $4.00 per 100. 

 I ALLl I Special fancy Valley, 5.00 



Killarneys, Beauties, Carnations, Lilies, Violets, 

 Freesia, Mignonette, Bulb Stock, Greens :: 



Can furnish all staple stock in best quality and large quantity 



Time to tliinii about St. Valentine's Day Violets and other Flowers 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale riorists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



PrlTtte Exchange all 



Departments 



l9-2i Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Tim: 



Manias 



The Florists' 

 Manual 



A Business Book for Business Men 

 Second Edition 



Tborouelily Revised and Brouslit 

 up to D»te 



No dry-as-dast botanical classifica- 

 tions, but tells you just how to produce 

 marketable plants and cut flowers in 

 the best and cheapest way. 



Treats of over 200 subjects and is 

 freely illustrated with fine half-tone 

 engravings. 



Price, $5.00, prepaid by express or mail. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO., f^^Si^f.: CHICAGO 



Vvli:A»>-"' 



street, is doing quite a little wholesale 

 business. He manufactures wire work 

 :ind sells greens and some of the staple 

 supplies to the florists in his section of 

 town. 



Allie Zech, of Zech & Mann, is doing a 

 two weeks' term of jury duty in the 

 ('riminal court. 



C. W. McKellar says the present gar- 

 •lenia crop is one of the heaviest on rec- 

 ord. 



H- P. Gerhardt, at Wilmette, plans to 

 sell the growing department of his busi- 

 ness and confine himself to the retail end. 



E. Wienhoeber has had several ship- 

 ments of Begonia Gloire de Cincinnati 

 rrom J. A. Peterson and speaks highly 



of it, commending it especially for its 

 keeping qualities. 



A note on the death of Mrs. J. C. 

 Craig appears in this week's obituary 

 column, 



R. Jahn wishes it stated that he has 

 had no connection with the Butler Floral 

 Co. since December 5, the date on which 

 he and his wife separated. Mr. Jahn 

 states that the Butler Floral Co. never 

 has had any connection with the flower 

 store started just before Christmas at 

 294 Dearborn street, and that he also is 

 the proprietor, with some outside parties, 

 of the Sheridan road store, formerly con- 

 ducted by the Butler Floral Co. 



There was a meeting of the National 



Council of Horticulture at the Congrefls 

 hotel January 17, Secretary H. C. Irish, 

 of St. Louis, and E. D. Smith, of Adrian, 

 Mich., being among the out-of-town dele- 

 gates present. Continuation of the press 

 service during the approaching season 

 was planned. 



It gives C. L. Washburn pleasure to 

 find, every now and then, in some Eu- 

 ropean trade paper, a note like this, from 

 the Horticultural Advertiser: "Of the 

 American introductions, O. P. Bassett 

 carnation appears likely to become rap- 

 idly popular." 



The A. L. Eandall Co. reports having 

 already sold three times as many of the 

 red heart-shaped violet boxes as were sold 

 for St. Valentine's day last year. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. reports that it is 

 impossible to close the store on time at 

 night, the afternoon orders being so 

 heavy that they have to call in stock on 

 late trains to fill them. 



Kyle & Foerster report last week as 

 being their best to date. 



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

 says that in all his years in the business 

 he never has seen a quicker change of 

 market conditions than occurred last 

 week. 



At E. H. Hunt's supply business for 

 Easter is beginning to pick up. 



Tim Matchen is now in charge of 

 Peter Eeinberg's store. His brother, 

 Mike Matchen, is responsible for repairs, 

 maintenance and buUding at the OTeen- 

 houses. Leonard Kill writes from Ocean 

 Park, Cal., that he and his family are 

 domiciled within a block of the Pacific, 

 and that the weather is like summer. 



Among the recent visitors have been 

 William Dittman, New Castle, Ind.; E. 

 D. Smith, Adrian, Mich.; W. C. Konzel- 

 man and hia partner, Mr. Dille, who are 

 preparing to build a range of green- 

 houses at Greensburg, Ind. 



Bowling. 



The following are the scores of the 

 Florists' Bowling League made Jan- 

 uary 13: 



