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The Florists^ Review 



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BEAUTIES 



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NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO USE ITHEIVI. 



While Mums are in eeason, your discriminaticg customers will like something else — and here 

 you are, a fine crop of long Beauties. The quality is the best so far this eeason; it could scarcely 

 be better. Prices reasonable, so you can use them in quantity. 



FANCY ROSES MUMS FOR ALL 



We offer you all the Fancy Roses, including Taft, 

 'Vard, Russell, etc. The quality of our Roses has wide 

 renown. Let us fill your order today and show you that 

 our stock is the stock you will prefer to use. 



We have all the big varieties and a full line of Pom- 

 pons. Our prices represent the best values in Mums to 

 be found anywhere that there is a large and dependable 

 supply. Try us on Mums and be convinced. 



GOOD CARNATIONS IN ALL COLORS 



We now have full cuts from hundreds of thousands of plants— the largest supply of Carnations in this market, and 

 probably in the United States. All colors ready in quantity. Order enough. 



We Are Ready to Fill Your Orders for Violets 

 CATTLEYAS VALLEY WILD SMILAX 



Home-grown, fancy orchids, that 

 leave nothing to be desired— our supply 

 now is large and values are excellent. 



We never are without Valley. Prices 

 within everybody's reach. Order 

 freely. 



We now have a steady supply of 

 Wild Smilax- can ship without ad- 

 vance notice. 



A. L. Randall Co# 



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Everything for Florists, 



L. D. Phone Central 7720 



Private Ezchanire all 



Departments 



66 E. Randolph Street, Chicago 



Mention The Review wbea yog write. 



Only 6 weeks 

 Until Christmas 



Have we your order? Better Hurry. 



When you will want all the baskets that you can get. We 

 have them now, as we were fortunate in receiving our stock 

 from Germany before the war broke out. At present our line 

 is complete but orders are coming fast. 



TU KKACH OUR STORE:— Take a Chicaso Avenue, Division Street, Milwaukee Avenue or Armitage Avenue car at Sute 

 and Randolph Streets and get ofi at Huron Street. The cars stop risht in front of our store. 



RAEDLEIN BASKET CO., CHICAGO 



SPECIALISTS IN FLORISTS' BASKETS 

 I I 713-717 MILWAUKEE AVENUE I I 



lUatlM The Brlew wbea yoo wrlta. 



WIETOR BROS. 



162 North Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Wholeaale Growers 

 of Cut Flowers 



L. D. Phone 

 Randolph S081 



MenHoTi Th> RatIpw when yon writ**. 



New Stores. 



The week has been unusually pro- 

 lific in new business ventures. Here 

 are some of them: 



A. Iralson, who recently returned 

 f'om Idaho, has bought out F. C. 

 Mendonza, who for many years has been 

 located at 356 East Forty-third street, 

 taking possession November 4. The 

 location is within a few doors of where 

 ^Ir. Iralson ran a flower store for sev- 

 eral years. 



Mr. Mendonza has leased a store at 



6235 Halsted street, adjoining the 

 Empress theater, and within a few 

 days will open a first-class retail store 

 there. 



S. Y. Bloom opened a retail store 

 October 31 at Sixty-fifth street and 

 Cottage Grove avenue. There were 

 appropriate ceremonies, including a 

 dinner for friends in the trade at one 

 of the south side restaurants that 

 evening. 



Charles A. Johnson, formerly of Chi- 

 cago, Chillicothe and Boswell, N. M., 



last week opened a retail store at 3205 

 West FuUerton avenue, making a quick 

 start by buying an outfit of Bender 

 fixtures. 



October Weather. 



The weather bureau says this was 

 the warmest October since 1879, with 

 the single exception of October, 1900. 

 The mean temperature was 59 degrees, 

 as against 61 degrees in the two record 

 years. The percentage of sunshine was 

 exactly normal, six hours and thirty- 

 six minutes per day, with the precipita- 



