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JANDAHY 



1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



35 



White Lilac 



We now have a large and steady supply of fancy White 

 Lilac, the finest flower of the season. $1.50 per bunch. 



Carnations 



Orchids 





Again in large supply and at moderate Special fine Cattleyas, $6.00 to $9 00 

 prices. Write us for special quotations on big per doz. Also Dendrobium Formosum 

 lots. Can supply good stock in quantity. and all other seasonable varieties. 



Valley in Large Supply— Good stock, $3.00 to $4.00 per 100; special fancy Valley, 



$5.00 per 100. 



Killaraeys, Beauties, Lilies, Violets, freesia, Mignonette, Bulb Stock, Greens 



Can furnish all staple stock in best quality and large quantity 



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



A. L. Randall Co. 



r9-2l Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



&. D. Fhone Central 1496 



Prirato Exehanre 4ll 



Department* 



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Wilson's Corsage " Bouquet Holder 



Award of "HlBhly Commended" at the S. A. F. Trade 

 XxUbltlon at Cincinnati 



Holds Corsage-Bouquets securely and gracefully. 



Prevents damage to apparel. 



Adjustable to any diameter of bouquet stem. 



Adaptable to anything from Violets to Roses. 



Does away with corsage pins. 



A handsomely silver plated article and ornamental in itself. 



Samples to the trade, 25o each, by mail poitage paid. By 

 the dozen, $8.00, poitage paid. Oorreipondence lolleited. 



Address 



ROBERT G. WILSON, ■SSS.^ivS" 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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made for cash and sales are for cash, no 

 books except the bank book being re- 

 quired. 



John Kruchten's business is growing 

 to the extent that he plans to take on 

 more help and enlarge his facilities. 



John Zech predicts that the scram- 

 ble for roses will continue for at least 

 two weeks, unless the demand falls off 

 I'ccause of the higher prices which the 

 shortage necessitated. He says the 

 oause of the shortage is that all the 

 jjrowers forced their crops for Christmas 

 'Without thought of the following weeks. 



The store formerly occupied by the 

 Honthey-Coatsworth Co. has been leased 

 'lom May 1 to an office supply concern, 

 •f that flowers will no longer be handled 

 ' iiere. 



C. M. Dickinson, of E. H. Hunt's, was 



» Springfield for a couple of days last 

 ■*eek. 



E. F. Kurowski, president of the John 



C. Moniuger Co., recently was at Geneva, 

 N. Y., to attend the annual convention 

 of the salesmen and territorial managers 

 of the Herendeen Mfg. Co., makers of 

 the Furman boilers, for which the 

 Moninger Co. is agent for the green- 

 house trade. Mr. Kurowski was much 

 impressed by boiler tests he saw in prog- 

 ress there. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. last week re- 

 ceived a solid carload of canna roots 

 from Arthur T. Boddington, New York. 

 The pile of boxes, each containing 250 

 roots, makes an imposing showing. 



Frank Pastemick says the Wienhoeber 

 force is being kept busy with table work. 



Kyle & Foerster have put in an ex- 

 tension telephone to the order desk, 

 thereby saving many steps each day. 



The Illinois Heater & Mfg. Co. manu- 

 factures self-watering window boxes, 

 flower pots, etc., and has recently opened 

 a branch at 717 Market street, San Fran- 



cisco, Cal., with a full line of stock to 

 take care of their Pacific coast trade. 

 This firm recently shipped a carload of 

 these goods to the Conard & Jones Co., 

 West Grove, Pa., who are the distrib- 

 uting agents for New York, New Jersey, 

 and Pennsylvania. 



Vaughan & Sperry report that many 

 growers of daffodils are meeting with 

 disappointment, an extremely large pro- 

 portion of the stock coming blind. 



Mr. Fink, of Kennicott Bros. Co., was 

 on the sick list last week. The Kennicott 

 corporation had its annual meeting Janu- 

 ary 22. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has placed an or- 

 der with the Moninger Co. for the roof 

 material for five more 350-foot houses, 

 the glass for which was bought of the 

 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. some weeks 

 ago. 



Joseph Ziska is negotiating for the 

 sale of the Libertyville plant of the Chi- 

 cago Kose Co., with the intention of de- 

 voting all his attention to wire work. 



Bassett & "Washburn supplied the 

 Hinsdale waterworks with coal for ten 

 days during the famine. 



Carl Thomas was on the sick list all 

 last week. 



Henry Wensel, of Anglen, Mo., is in 

 town this week buying material for three 

 houses to be erected by Wensel & Hecht, 

 who recently have purchased the estab- 

 lishment of George Hecht. 



J. A. Valentine, Denver, spent a couple 

 of days in town this week on his way to 

 Pittsburg to the carnation convention. 



Martin Eeukauf, of Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., is in town. 



Among last week's visitors were John 

 C. Irvine, of John Irvine & Sons, Bay 



