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The Rorists'^ilcview 



Fkbruabv 20. 1913. 



Heaviest Crops 



OF THE 



All varieties of Cut Flowers are in full crop with our growers, and 

 we can furnish any quantity of anything you need— fine quality 



CARNATIONS ROSES CATTLEYAS 



Can furnish in thousand lot« at at- You can get any length you want, 



tractive prices. Plenty of shorts. 



Fine western-grown stock: reach 

 you fresh. 



Western Headquarters for VIOLETS— we handle an enormous quantity. 



EASTER LILIES SWEET PEAS BULB STOCK 



Always have them ; now booking A big supply of all colors. Can you Everything in large supply— good 



orders for Easter. 



use a quantity? 



goods, moderate prices. 



For anything in the line off GREENS, there is no better source off supply than Randall's. 



A. L. Randall Co 



Everything for Florists, 



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66 L Randolph Street, Chicato 



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TRY US FOR BEAUTIES 



A very fine lot of Beauties are ready for your call — the best on this market. 



KILLARNEYS-WHITE KILLARNEY-OTHER ROSES. These are bound to suit you, for we Avould have to hunt 

 a long time to find better stock. 



CARNATIONS-TULIPS- VIOLETS-FREESIA-JONQUILS. The market affords plenty, and big or littie. we 

 can fill your order. 



Greens of all kinds— INexican Ivy— Qalax— Ferns— Leucothoe 



A. L. VAUGHAN & CO. 



(NOT INC.) 

 161 N« Wabash Avenue, Phones: -central 2571-2572. Automatic 48734. CHICAGO 



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a corresponding increase. The question 

 is asked if the city florists are as en- 

 terprising as those in smaller towns in 

 taking bold of a business opportunity. 

 The special demand was for violets, 

 orchids, valley, gardenias, sweet peas, 

 red roses and red carnations. There 

 was so much stock in the market, espe- 

 cially of violets, that even with the in- 

 creased demand it was not possible to 

 clean up. There still is plenty of room 

 to push Valentine's day without ad- 

 vancing prices unduly. 



There was good, active business at 

 the close of the week, though there was 

 so much stock that prices were ex- 

 tremely low. If there is at present any 

 shortage in the market it is of strictly 

 first-class Beauties; there are not enough 

 of these so that it bothers anyone to 

 sell them. Roses are abundant; even 

 the shorts are equal to all demands. A 

 notable feature is that Sunburst is again 

 coming into the market in some quan- 

 tity. 



Carnations continue extremely plenti- 

 ful, but some wholesalers say they are 

 able to get somewhat better prices than 



in the first week in Lent. There is an 

 unusual proportion of splits, which, un- 

 der the conditions, are extremely hard 

 to sell. Kose-pink Enchantress, split, 

 is nearly unmarketable. Violets are 

 overabundant. Aj»parently the Chicago 

 market is giving, even at the low prices, 

 a better return than the Rhinebeck 

 growers can get nearer home, for the 

 number of growers shipping has in- 

 creased. Also, the locally grown sin- 

 gles are in full crop; it is said some of 

 the growers cannot pick all the flowers 

 now being produced by their plants. Ihe 

 pick of sweet peas also has increased 

 considerably. Much of the stock is 

 short-stemmed and difficult to sell; the 

 long-stemmed sweet peas go well. Cat- 

 tleyas have had another relapse, though 

 the supply does not seem to be unduly 

 large. Bulbous stock continues ex- 

 tremely cheap. How the growers can 

 make any money on tulips, daffodils, 

 jonquils, Paper Whites, freesias or Ro- 

 mans at present prices is difficult to see. 

 Easter lilies and valley also are abun- 

 dant. 



Smilax is slightly less plentiful and 



rather stronger in price. Other greens 

 are abundant. 



Various Notes. 



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

 says his concern wrote more tickets Feb- 

 ruary 15 than on any 6ther one day in 

 the concern's history, and it is the old- 

 est house in the market. 



Mrs. George Hartung has returned 

 home from the hospital, much improved 

 in health. 



O. Johnson, of the Batavia Green- 

 house Co., says he thinks his concern 

 will drop carnations and give the space 

 to roses for next season. 



C. W. McKellar says St. Valentine's 

 day certainly did a great deal for the 

 growers of orchids, gardenias and vio- 

 lets and that growers of red roses and 

 red carnations also shared the benefits. 



J. P. Sinner is now able to attend to 

 the supervision of the greenhouses of 

 Sinner Bros., though minus the fingers 

 of his right hand. 



The Chicago Florists' Club is looking 

 forward to a large meeting March 6, 

 when President Farquhar, of the S. A. 



