August 31, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



23 



FANCI EST ASTERS 



We still have a very large crop of Asters. It includes white, light pink, dark pink, purple and lavender, in all 

 lengths, short to medium and extra long. These are the best outdoor Asters we have seen this season. Order all you need. 



Also extra choice greenhouse-grown Asters, steqps Z^ to 

 36 Inches ; they're exhibition stock. 



KILLARNEYS VALLEY 



Fine stock on all lengths of stem. We always can furnish the best. 



A COMPUETK LINK OF IXORI8T8* SUPPLIKS-WIRB AND WK 

 SHIP ON NKXT TBAXN. 



FIELD.OROWN CARNATION PLANTS 



Floe stock. Order quick if you want them. 



Mn.LawK>n |6.00 per leO; tSO.OO per lOno 



Winsor 6.00 per 100; 60.00 per 1000 



Saiutamo 7.60 per 100: 6U.00 per 1000 



Wlilte PerfecUon 6.00 per 100: 60.00 per lUOO 



EnchantreM 6.00 per 100: 00.00 per UOU 



EARLIEST WHITE CHRTSANTHEMUH 



Smith'* Advance (October delivery), stock planU, 40c each; 

 $4.60 per doz.: 136.00 per 100. 



AeLe Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



Prlrate Exchanse all 



Departments 



66 E. Randolph Street, Chicago 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



WE ARE READY WITH THE STOCK AND 



We Want a Share of Your Orders 



With our big range of new houses we are cutting a larg^e quantity of line stock and are in position to make a 

 strong bid for the patronage of out-of-town buyers who want the squarest of square treatment. 



BEAUTIES KILLARNEYS VALLEY 



A sood cut now on; quality as good as Steady supply : pink and white; give us a This will be one of our specialties; always 



the best. chance to show you. can supply. 



We shall have a good supply of CARNATIONS all through the season. A full line of all other Cut Flowers aad Greca Gocds. 



Batavia Greenhouse Co. 



"^SSJSSK'm. mSs^bSSw. Storet 30 E. Randolph St., CHICAGO 



Mention Thp Rpvipw when vou write 



by Miss Martha G. Gunterberg. Miss 

 Gunterberg stopped for a visit to the 

 Bhinebeck violet growers, who are her 

 consignors, and did not return to Chi- 

 cago until the middle of the week. 

 While returning from Boston to New 

 York on the Massachusetts, the steamer 

 caught fire. There was a narrow escape 

 from a disaster and the eastern news- 

 papers made front page material of it, 

 one New York daily illustrating its 

 story with a snapshot of the Chicago 

 ladies, made as they were leaving the 

 boat. 



W. J. Smyth and family are on the 

 way home from California and will 

 arrive here September 1. 



Harry Van Gelder, manager of tue 

 Percy Jones business, left for Texas 

 August 26, expecting to be absent ten 

 days. He is much improved in health. 



August 17 Bassett & Washburn gave 

 their annual picnic for their employees 

 and families. There was an attend- 

 ance of 175 and the various sports 

 were hotly contested. 



The E. H. Hunt establishment has a 

 new coat of white throughout. Paul 

 M. Bryant, secretary, is at Milwaukee 

 this week. Clifford Pruner has had a 

 serious time from the recurrence of 

 an old poisoning with ivy, but is back 

 on duty this week. Charles Erne is 



having his annual tussle with hay 

 fever. A. F. Longren went on the 

 load August 29. 



The A. L. Randall Co. has consoli- 

 dated the sales oflSces of the cut flower 

 department and the supply department 

 at the rear of the building, gaining 

 considerable space for cut flowers. Miss 

 Tonner returned August 28 from her 

 vacation and W. W. Bandall returned 

 the same day from his eastern trip. 

 Frank Johnson is visiting northern 

 customers this week. 



Mr. Schafer, of the E. F. Winterson 

 Co., has returned from a 400-mile trip 

 in his Buick car. 



John Kruchten says the gardenias 

 will soon be in bloom. 



Hoerber Bros, are expecting great 

 things of a crop of late asters. 



George Eeinberg's store staff is again 

 complete — all had their vacations. 



C. W. McKellar visited Carrillo & 

 Baldwin, the orchid growers at 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y., last week and says 

 they have a splendid place. 



A. Henderson & Co. and Winterson 's 

 Seed Store received large shipments 

 of French bulbs August 29. 



Wietor Bros, report an extremely 

 brisk demand for field-grown carnation 

 plants. One of the recent sales was 

 18,000 plants to the W. E. Lynch 



^ Budlong's 



E Blue Ribbon Valley 



Aieunuu iiie Keview wiieu you write. 



Floral Co., whose new greenhouses are 

 just being completed. 



C. A. Samuelson is making a trip to 

 the Pacific coast. 



Kyle & Foerster say that the North- 

 western Floral Co., Gross Point, is 

 ready with its new crop of carnations 

 in good shape much earlier than last 

 year. 



H. E. Philpott, president of the 

 Florists' Club, who has given his time 

 almost exclusively to club affairs since 

 the July meeting, is back from the con- 

 vention to remain until after the club 

 meeting September 7. 



Tim Matchen says that Peter Bein- 

 berg has already cut and sold his 

 Golden Glow chrysanthemums. The 

 best flowers made $2 per do:^en. 



Ollie Zech, with Zech & Mann, is on 

 his vacation this week. There is a 

 rumor in the market that he has taken 

 the opportunity to consummate a con- 



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