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The Florists^ Review 



SBFTauBiB 26, 1012. 



CARNATIONS 



Can supply good stock in larg« quantity. 



The flowers axe clean, and the cooler weather has given them shipping quality — they will reach 

 yon in good condition. Stems are already of fair length and improving rapidly. 



MUMS 



LILIES 



Send your Ros^ orders here. We have 

 a large supply and cuts are increasing 

 daily. Good quality. 



White and Yellow ready in quantity. 

 Good stock and much more of it to 

 follow steadily. 



You can get all the EJaster Lilies yon 

 want if you send your orders to ns. 

 Large daily receipts. 



WE ALWAYS HAVE FANCY VALLEY ON HAND. 



fancy 



^lllffl C^ntllo V f ^^ ^^^ ^°^ receiving daily shipments of the best grade of Southern Wild I 

 WW IIU 9IIIII9A 'I Smilax. Three days' notice on big orders appreciated. Our hardy cut [■ 

 ■■^^■■i^HHHHHHiB ( Fcms are at all times the best in thee ountry. We would handle no others, j 



REMEMBER that we were the Introducers of natural prepared Oak Leaves, 

 Ruscus. etc. Those desiring the best stock can only get it through us. 



A* L. Randall Co 



Everytidng for Florists, 



L. J>. rkra* Ceatral 14N 



Prirate Kxekuire all 



DepartmeBts 



66 L Randolph Stmt, Chicajo 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



able weather. The cool weather fol- 

 lowing the forcing heat of early Sep- 

 itember has cut off the rose supply in 

 s^he sharpest manner. It really is re- 

 iharkable how small the supply was 

 last week after the glut early in the 

 month. Killarney and White Killarney 

 show good length of stem. While the 

 great call has been for white, the pink 

 has moved along fast, as has Maryland. 

 Eichmond is the slowest sort, but the 

 demand has improved. The other roses, 

 including Sunburst, Eadiance, Mrs. 

 Ward and Mrs. Taft, have moved along 

 in excellent shape and prices advanced 

 as the demand grew stronger. Septem- 

 ber 21 and 23 saw the demand stronger 

 than at any previous time this season. 



Carnations are improving steadily, as 

 well as increasing in supply. The crop 

 now on is mostly of medium stem but 

 of fair quality blooms. Mums took a 

 decided turn for the better during the 

 last few days and those now on the 

 market are of good quality. Smith's 

 Advance, October Frost, Golden Glow 

 and Unaka being the varieties in crop 

 at the present time. The supply is sev- 

 eral times as heavy as last week, for 

 most of the growers now are cutting at 

 least a few every day. Valley came 

 into sharp demand in the face of the 

 fall wedding season and highest grade 

 stock was sold at advanced prices. Cat- 

 tleyas are beginning to show life and, 

 while the full crop is not yet on the 

 market, the advance cuts are being 

 made and within a short time these 

 will be in good supply. Lilies continue 

 short of the demand, but the quality is 

 showing signs of betterment. Such 

 asters as are left, if at all good, are 

 bringing excellent prices, but the num- 

 ber is small. A few growers are for- 

 tunate in having late crops of gladioli. 

 They are getting two or three times 

 the prices that could be had at the 

 opening of the month. 



Greens of all kinds can be had in 

 quantity and shipments of new crop 

 boxwood have been reported. 



Something 



m Y Abbingdon Floral Com- 



^1 .^^^p_.>— pany, Hunts ville, Ala- 

 1^ £j%m7 bama, will have U>,000 

 I ^ 1 . WW Chrysanthemum Blooms 

 1 1 W T f to ofifer from Oct. 10 to 

 Nov. 16, 1912. Your or- 

 der will be appreciated. 



Correspondence solicited. 

 Mention Thr Kf »!»•*» wheu r«m write. 



Various Kotes. 



W. E. Lynch, of A. L. Vaughan & Co., 

 arrived back in Chicago last week after 

 having attended the funeral of his 

 sister at Northampton, Mass. On the 

 return trip Mr. Lynch looked over the 

 violets at Khinebeck and other points 

 and reports that the crops are in ex- 

 cellent shape. Shipments already are 

 being made to New York city. He says 

 that violets can be expected in Chicago 

 in a week or ten days. 



G. M. Eeburn, of A. Henderson & Co., 

 reports from the west that trade is 

 picking up rapidly for the retailer and 

 everything indicates a lively fall and 

 early winter business. 



John Brenner, formerly with the J. 

 M. Gasser Co., Cleveland, O., has been 

 added to the city force of Percy Jones. 



Bassett & Washburn report that 

 mums have fully recovered from the 

 heated spell and in addition to the yel- 

 low and white previously in crop 

 Unaka, pink, was cut for the first time 

 September 20. 



One large wholesale house reports 

 having expended $16 September 20 and 

 21 in telegraphing customers that or- 

 ders could not be filled. 



F. C. Hoerber, of Hoerber Bros., says 

 that the present shortage of stock is 

 worse than a glut. "Makes just as 

 much, if not more, work for the whole- 

 saler and at the same time keeps the 



PERCY 



Wholesalers of 



CUT FLOWERS and 

 FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



Write for Catalogue. 



JONES 



S6E. Randolph St., CHICilGO 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



shippers, growers and buyers on an 

 edge trying to make everything come 

 out right." 



President John F. Kidwell, of the 

 Chicago Flower Growers' Association, 

 reports a new stockholder in Lewis 

 Cannon, a shipper of cut ferns at Uno, 

 Mich. 



John Kruchten says the gardenia 

 crop has failed to come in as fast as 

 he would like and the shipments of 

 fresh stock received have hardly been 

 large enough to go around the city 

 trade. 



A. C. Spencer, of Kyle & Foerster, 

 says he is not sorry to see asters pass- 

 ing off the market. "There were so 

 many shipped in this year that they 

 were of little use and it took so much 

 handling to get the best sorted out 

 that we are glad to see the end of 

 them." 



E. F. Winterson, Jr., 'says that bulb 



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