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OCTOBKB 28, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



19 



Mums! Mums!! 



Every Sire Every Color Every Price 



Can fill the largest orders for any grade of stock. All the best yarieties. Fiae stock in every size of flower. 76c 

 to $3.00 per dos. Our selection, a e^oocl grade, $10.00 to $18.60 per 100. 



POMPONS, yellow and light pink, $1.00 to $1.50 per bunoh, about 50 flowers. 



We have led the market on 

 Pink Kiilarney and this season 

 we have added White Kil- 



larney.iast as fine. Good grades, $3.00 to $8.00 per 100; 



extra long, select, $10.00 to $12.00 per 100. 



KILLARNEY 



BEAITIES 



Fine stock at from $5.00 to $6f00 

 per 100, to $3.00 and $4.00 per 

 doz., for the special, longest. 

 Medium in proportion. Order Beauties of us; you will like 

 our stock. No one can supply better Beauties. 



Richmond and My Maryland 



Qood stock, $3.00 to $6.00; extra Ions:, fancy, $8.00 per 100. 



The Violets we handle are considered the 

 finest coming; into the Chtcatco market Reg- 

 ular Btandlnfr orders solicited, thereby en- 

 abling us to Rive 70U choice selection 75c to $1.00 per 100. Finest 

 home-growu singles. 50c to 75c per 100. 



VIOLETS 



aRNATIONS 



Our supply of Carnations has in- 

 creased larsrely and the quality has 

 contii ued to improve. Don't hes- 

 itate to wire. If you vrant to be in touch with carnation 

 headquarters, always send your orders to Randall. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



PrlTate Exehange all 



Departments 



fancy Valley always on hand, $3.00 per 100; extra select, $4.00 per 100. finest Fancy Ferns, $1.50 per 1000. 



WILD SBIILAX— headquarters lor the best g^rade of stock. 



Ae Le Randall Co. 



r9-2l Randolph St, Chicago 



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THE REAL THING IN ARTS AND CRAFTS 



FLORISTS' BASKETS AT SENSIBLE PRICES. 



patlTtfiSM'tm *ow''cS,eS.d"wHE"2 Buriington Willow Ware Shops, Inc., Burlington, Iowa, 



where I hare better facilities than ever to tarn out a Btrictly high claeB line of Arte and Crafts florist baskets. 



I have designed a variety of new styles and shapes which I feel confident will please. |/\|||u p ui iDDADf\ 

 Any order or inquiry addressed to the above firm will have my personal attention. JUniN L. iIUddAKD 



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the visiting ladies on the night of the 

 stag. J. B. Deamud was appointed chair- 

 man of the privilege committee and 

 Frank Johnson was added to the com- 

 mittee on flower booth. 



The following applications for mem- 

 lii'iships were received: A. Miller, A. 

 Hergland, Albert Erickson, D. A. Kobert- 

 '^on, John Schollsmann, Harry Frank, Jr., 

 Andrew Skafgard and E. G. Johnson. 



A. C. Brown, of Springfield, was a 

 visitor at the meeting and made a short 

 tnlk. 



Variotu Notes. 



E. C. Amling says that he knows just 

 \bere President Taft is, swinging around 

 'lie circle, without looking at the news- 

 papers. He can tell it from his orders, 

 ^ince the president got back into the 

 'hipping radius there have been Chicago 

 'lowers wherever the President dined. 



Frank Oechslin has recently received 

 '^vo carloads of azaleas from Belgium 

 •ind already has some of them started for 

 " hristmas. 



^. A. Samuelson's force of decorators 



went to Riverside last week to do the 

 work in church and home for Ned "Wash- 

 burn 's wedding. Bassett & Washburn 

 supplied over 500 Virginia Poehlmann 

 mums. 



Miss Martha C. Gunterberg is the latest 

 addition to tho list of wholesalers re- 

 ceiving Rhinebeck violets. 



Martin Reukauf , of Bayersdorf er & Co., 

 Philadelphia, was in town last week on 

 his way home from a trip to the Pacific 

 coast. He had not been in his house 

 since the S. A. F. convention, but ex- 

 pects to be back here and at Milwaukee 

 for the flower shows. 



Mrs. H. F. Port, widow of former 

 florist at Maywood, has removed to 3213 

 West Harrison street, where she will open 

 a flower store. 



A. L. Randall and family have re- 

 turned to the city from their summer 

 home in Michigan. Mrs. Randall is re- 

 covering from the effects of her recent 

 fall there. 



Kyle & Foerster report the presence 

 in the market last week of Alpha Elber- 

 field, of Kansas City. Mr. ElberfieM is 



one of the largest buyers of stock in 

 Chicago. 



Louis Wittbold says the Geo, Witt- 

 bold Co. is figuring on adding largely to 

 its stock of cattleyas. They have lately 

 cut quite a few more than they needed 

 in their own store and have sold them 

 through C. W. McKellar. 



F. C. Struvy, one of the veterans 

 among the retail florists of Chicago, and 

 who is now proprietor of two first-class 

 stores here, expects soon to retire from 

 business and return to his home state, 

 California, where he owns a fine farm. 

 Mr. Struvy has many friends in Chicago 

 who will be sorry to see him leave. He 

 is offering his fine stores and Chicago 

 property for sale and intends to wind 

 lip all his business here before leaving 

 for the west. 



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

 calls attention to a fact which probably 

 is not generally known, regarding the 

 cost of handling wild smilax. This arti- 

 cle must be kept in public cold storage 

 warehouses and when the jobber wants 

 to pull out a part of his supply the 



