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The Florists^ Review 



Apbil 23, 1914. 



IF YOU USE RANDALL'S ROSES, YOU WILL MAKE MONEY 



You can get at Randall's any or all the varieties that are on the market — and you can get any 

 quantity — the lenglh you want, good quality — and at the price you want to pay. We have a specially 

 good cut of medium-length Killarney. 



BEAUTIES 



Here you can get just the Beauties your trade calls 

 for. Full crops now on. Glad to quote quantity prices, 

 either as they run or for selected stock graded to your order. 



LILIES 



How about your Lily orders? We can supply Gigan- 

 teums, Eubrums or Callas in quantity— fine stock of all 

 three, and at prices that will let you make better than 

 the usual profit. 



FANCY SPENCER SWEET PEAS 



You can get them here— all you want, and the product of the best growers for this market. 

 Order regularly of us and we will keep you supplied. You can build up a fine trade on these. 



CARNATIONS VALLEY 



We believe it is conceded that we handle more Carnations Ther« never is a time we are without Valley. You can get 



than any other house in the west. It stands to reason that what you need by wiring Randall— but why not place a stand- 

 we can meet your needs if anybody can. Prices to your liking. ing order for your regular needs— then YOU will always have it. 



Plenty off Daisies, Snapdragon* Stocks and all flowers In season. Also a good supply off Ferns and 

 all other greens. See our ad off Chrysanthemum Cuttings In the Classified section off this paper. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Everything for Florists, 



L. 9, Pk«M Cratnl 7710 

 PilTSia Bxekmat* M 



66 L Randalpli Street, ChicMo 



Mrutioo Tht- K«Tlew wbeD yoa write. 



so great that buyers' ideas as to price 

 could be met. All varieties were avail- 

 able. 



The foretaste of summer of course 

 stimulated the production of carna- 

 tions, but these were so far short of 

 the demand at the opening of the week 

 that they continued to clean out fairly 

 well even after the receipts had risen 

 on the flood tide. 



The summer heat practically finished 

 the single violets, nor could the east- 

 ern doubles stand the heat on their 

 long journey. Probably there will be 

 a few violets until well into May, but 

 as a market factor they are out until 

 October. 



Sweet peas went down grade rapidly 

 last week. The old winter-blooming 

 varieties were about out and the win- 

 ter Spencers showed the heat in short- 

 ened stems and smaller flowers. The 

 older, spring-blooming Spencer varieties 

 are beginning to come in. 



Lilies were a glut last week and 

 there was considerable loss of stock 

 that was held over from Easter. The 

 heat brought out the late lilies with a 

 rush, so that there was far more good 

 stock than would be sold at profitable 

 prices, with no sale at all for soft, 

 overripe lilies. Indoor bulbous stock 

 was practically finished at Easter, but 

 there has been a flood of southern jon- 

 quils, which, under the circumstances, 

 returned the shippers little. Spanish 

 iris is plentiful, as are stocks and snap- 

 dragon. There is no special call as yet 

 for valley and neither cattleyas nor 

 gardenias are in oversupply. 



The big tumble in temperature at 

 the opening of the present week did 

 not change conditions, as it was not 



Carnations 



Large and Fancy $3.00 per 100 



^ Roses 



Whit* and Pink Killarney, 12 to 14-inch stems $4.00 to $5.00 per 100 



L. A. WHITMORE, - - Buchtel, Ohio 



M^ntloD Tb« R»Tlgw when yon writ*. 



sufficiently long continued. April 20, 

 with frost in the air in the morning, 

 the market was full of poor stock, the 

 summer heat of Saturday having done 

 great damage. April 21 summer re- 

 turned and the hope of a check to crops 

 was dissipated. There are signs that 

 the Beauty crops will be quickly cut, 

 while rose growers will now prosecute 

 in earnest the work of replanting, 

 although this is not the market factor 

 it was before it became the custom to 

 run the Killarneys three or four years 

 without replanting. If the warm 

 weather and bright sun continue the 

 only relief will come through the run- 

 ning out of crops. 



Association Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Cook County 

 Florists' Association, April 16, H. E. 

 Smith, of Danville, 111., was elected to 

 membership. Letters from J. F. 

 Ammann, secreta,ry of the Illinois 

 State Florists' Association, regarding 

 express rates, and from John Young, 

 secretary of the S. A. F., regarding 

 affiliation, were received without ac- 

 tion. President N. P. Miller appointed 

 the following standing committees: 

 Good of the club — Paul R, Klingsporn, 



chairman; Walter Scott, H. N. Bruns, 

 W. J. Keimel. Membership — J. L. 

 Raske, chairman; Max Awizzus, John 

 Swanson, G. Swenson. Sports — Peter 

 Olsem, chairman; A. J. Zech, Wm. 

 Lohrman, Walter Amling. Transporta- 

 tion — A. C. Kohlbrand, chairman; A. T. 

 Pyfer, E. A. Olinger. 



Poehlmannville Notes. 



April 20 was village election day. 

 A. F. Poehlmann is president of the 

 village and holds over. Richard Salm 

 was reelected as one of the three trus- 

 tees. At the school election held April 

 18 Guy French, an eleventh-hour can- 

 didate for trustee to please his friends, 

 ran a good race but failed to beat the 

 banker who was up for reelection, 

 Adolph Poehlmann and Louis Ficken- 

 ger, outside foreman for Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., being the other members of 

 the board. 



The new houses that now are well 

 under way at Plant A, being an exten- 

 sion of the houses last built, will make 

 a block of thirteen houses, each 27x 

 1,000 feet, covering 351,000 square feet, 

 or almost exactly eight acres. There 

 will be two partitions across the range, 

 but not a purlin post in the whole eight 



