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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 8, 1909. 



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WIRE US 



WE SHIP AT ONCE 



If you are short for your Easter trade call on us— rush 

 orders are our specialty. No matter what it is you need 

 for your big Easter trad^ we can fix you out with just the 

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Cut rioivers or Supplies 



No house in this market has better facilities for getting orders out promptly and as wanted. 

 We have the stock, the people to do the business and the will to take care of late orders. 



NO MATTER WHAT YOU WANT, WIRE RANDALL. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



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All other varieties are in excellent crop 

 with most of the growers. April 5 the 

 temperature shot up to 74 degrees in the 

 shade for a couple of days, and it 

 brought along the stock at a rapid pace. 

 Roses in general are of better quality 

 than usual at Easter, and the same may 

 be said of carnations. The Easter sea- 

 son never saw better quality in the two 

 great staples of the business. 



From all directions there comes the re- 

 port that lilies will be on the short side; 

 there has been a great deal of disease, 

 and many of the growers say they will 

 not have near all their crop ready. But 

 at the same time the market has been 

 easy on lilies. Fancy, long stock has 

 held up fairly well, but every buyer has 

 been fixed out one way or another. A 

 large part of the supply is decidedly 

 short in stem, but usually with good 

 flowers. A large part of the short stock 

 is being sold in pots. 



The violet situation gives some concern. 

 The buyers fear the quality will not be 

 as good as their trade demands, and are 

 not placing orders as freely as they 

 should. Sweet peas, if of the better 

 grades, are selling exceptionally well, but 

 the short peas are not moving. 



All bulbous flowers are in good supply, 

 and there is an immense number of 

 southern narcissi on the market, so that 

 there is no prospect of high prices, and 

 every buyer can find something with 

 which to do business at Easter. 



Business in March. 



Since the March sales have been fig- 

 ured up, there is a general expression of 

 satisfaction. In a majority of the whole- 

 sale houses, the sales considerably ex- 

 ceeded last year, and where they did not 

 make a favorable record, the cause was 

 easily found in the supply of stock; the 

 demand was all right, except for a day 

 or two in the third week in the month. 



Oedits Again. 



Interested wholesalers have received 

 letters from a firm of attorneys at Des 

 Moines, la., with regard to the financial 

 condition of Loziers, Incorporated, a con- 

 cern which has been a large buyer in this 

 market and elsewhere. Every time a 

 buycT gets beyond his depth, it revives 

 the discussion of credits in this market, 

 and occasions a temporary stiffening of 



Headavuutera In the Great Central Market tor all kinds of 



Florists' Supplies 



Specially large and fine stock of 



Natural Preserved Wreaths, Moss Wreaths and Metal Designs 



Qaalitles always the best and prices the lowest. 

 L. BAUIVIAIMiM & CO.| Plorlst?*8upply Hobm 



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Mention The Review when you write 



backbones. The trouble lies in the period- 

 ical oversupply, when it is either a case 

 of billing out stock at good prices to 

 someone who doesn't care much what he 

 ' ' pays, ' ' or selling at exceedingly cheap 

 prices to a Greek who has his roll in his 

 pocket. Under such conditions, a good 

 many mpn will "take a chance." 



In every department of the flower 

 business credits are too lax and too long. 

 It should be a matter of serious consid- 

 eration that those who have established 

 reputations for refusing to sell where 

 there is any doubt about getting the 

 money are apparently making just as 

 gre-at profits as anyone else, and certainly 

 saving considerable worry. 



Mr^ Frey Retires. 



Alois P. Frey, who for several years 

 has been head gardener at Lincoln park, 

 resigned his position April 3 to devote 

 his time to the management of the range 

 of greenhouses at Crown Point, Ind., in 

 which he is interested, doing business as 

 the Eoselawn Nurseries. Mr. Prey's suc- 

 cessor has not yet been appointed. 



The Season's Novelty, 



George Wienhoeber, at Fleischman's 

 Jackson boulevard store, has the season's 

 leading novelty in a violet or orchid ham- 

 per of his own designing. Inspired by 

 the pronounced shape of women's hats 

 this spring, and the great amount of talk 

 these * * inverted waste baskets ' ' are creat- 

 ing, he procured a number of the straw 

 shapes of various colors and turned them 



right side up again. This his box-maker 

 did for him by sewing a bottom over the 

 opening, cutting out the crown and hing- 

 ing it on again as a cover. Then, to 

 make them easily filled with flowers, a 

 box was put inside. Mr. Wienhoeber 

 trims the outside of these hat-hampers 

 with ribbon and flowers before filling, 

 so that no two are alike. They constitute 

 by all odds the most distinct of the 

 Easter novelties. 



The Weather in March. 



March was a single degree warmer than 

 the average, but 5 degrees colder than 

 last year, and 7 degrees colder than 

 March of 1907. The rainfall was only 

 1.03 inches, as against 2.57 inches as 

 normal. The wind movement was 10,828 

 miles, against 11,719 in 1908. But what 

 affects cut flower production was that 

 there was just a trifle less than forty 

 per cent of the possible duration of sun- 

 shine, not much more than three-quarters 

 what there was in March, 1908. This 

 year March had only six clear days, eight 

 partly cloudy and seventeen cloudy. 



Club Doings. 



The Florists' dub appears to have en- 

 tered upon a period of unusual activity, 

 for last week it established a record with 

 three ' ' doings ' ' in two nights. The reg- 

 ular meeting was held at the Union April 

 1, with an attendance of some thirty 

 members. Albert T. Hey presented the 

 constitution and by-laws as revised by 

 him and they were ordered printed for 

 the consideration of the balance of the 



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