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The Florists^ Review 



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LILIES 



FOR EASTER 



TIE BEST-THE BEST 



'READY TO BOOK YOUR ORDER""^"""^"" 



Randall's Easter crop of Lilies is famous — everybody who ever has tried them knows that there 

 never are any finer and seldom any as good. For years and years Randall's Lilies have been the Standard 

 by which all other Lilies have been judged. Some years one grower and some years another will claim to 

 have Lilies "as good as Randall's," but Randall's Lilies always have been acknowledged as the leader. 

 These are true Giganteums — the best bulbs money would buy, forced by the best grower we know. Natu- 

 rally, we have the best flowers. Those who have had them before will want them again; those who use 

 them this year for the first time will become regular customers. They will be packed at the greenhouses 

 in wooden boxes of 100 flowers each. 



NOW BOOKING ORDERS 

 at $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00 per 100, according to length 



ALL CUT FLOWERS IN LARGE SUPPLY 



No matter what you need, Randall has it. Roses, Carnations, Sweet Peas, Orchids.' Bulbous Stock, Valley, Greens. 

 Our stock is of first-class quality and the supply today is the largest of the season. 



Easter 



Here is a splendid value — Japanese 

 Pot Cover, for 6, 7 and 8-inch pots, 

 nest of three, brown or green and 

 brown. Per nest of three, QQm 



See cut. 



NO NESTS BROKEN 



Pot Covers 



Special Willow Pot Cover, nest of 

 6, sizes to fit 4, 6, 6, 7, 8 and 9- 

 inch pots. Natural color, QISj% 

 per nest , . wUv 



In green, brown, red, yel- 0^4 pc 

 low or pink, per nest ▼ IbC^I 



If varnished, Sl.SO per nest. 



T* K«t tli«B« pricas you 

 must HMtitlon this ad. 



A FULL LINE OF EASTER BASKETS AND POT COVERS. 



A. L* Randall Co 



EYerything tor ntrists, 



L. 9. PkM* CeatnJ 77iO 

 PrlTSt* Bxehaif* All 



66 L RaiM^ Street, CliicM* 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



whom this offer was made came back 

 thus: "You needn't mind; if we want 

 to buy flowers for our sale, we will go 

 direct to a wholesaler. ' ' To one Michi- 

 gan avenue retailer the request was 

 made that his donation be in the form 

 of Colonial bouquets, ready for sale. 



Retailers Flan Exhibition. 



A trade exhibition announced as the 

 "first annual" is being planned by 

 the Retail Florists' Association of Chi- 

 cago. It is to be held on the afternoon 

 and evening of March 23 and 24 in the 

 hall back of J. L. Baske's flower store 

 at 140 West Jackson boulevard. Every- 

 body who has anything of interest to 

 the store men is being invited to ex- 

 hibit, space gratis, and a large dis- 

 play is expected, as "this exhibit will 



bring together most of the prominent 

 retail florists of Chicago," according 

 to the letter of H. Dieu Schiller, re- 

 cording secretary, 4509 Broadway, to 

 whom all communications should be ad- 

 dressed. The other officers are: Presi- 

 dent, George StoUery; vice-president, 

 F. O. Franzen; treasurer, Louis Witt- 

 bold; financial secretary, A. Vander- 

 poel. 



Credit Association Working. 



The Wholesale Florists' Credit As- 

 sociation has opened an office at 117 

 North Dearborn street, in charge of 

 F. S. Webb, and is busy compiling 

 records. Thus far the membership is 

 largely local, but the scope of the or- 

 ganization is national. Manager Webb 

 states that all but three of the Chi- 



cago wholesale cut flower houses sub- 

 scribed at the start. 



Various Notes. 



Twenty-four years is a long time 

 to sell flowers in one place, but F. R. 

 Weissgerber is preparing to celebrate 

 his silver jubilee at the corner of 

 North Hamilton and Cornelia avenues. 

 He has a small range of glass back of 

 the store, where he grows ferns and 

 bedding plants, wholesaling any not 

 needed in his local retail trade. For- 

 merly he used considerable of his space 

 for lilies, but he found it more profit- 

 able to buy all his cut flowers and use 

 his glass for plants. Miss Carrie Weiss- 

 gerber does much of the buying and 

 has charge of the store. "She is my 

 right-hand man," her father says. 



