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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



April 29, 1009. 



Beauties 



Pink and Yellow. 

 $1.25 per bunch. 



We are in with a fine aop of Beauties; all lengths. 



KILL3RNEY 



Fancy Selected 

 Stock 



The best grown stock in the United States. Must be seen to be 

 appreciated. Average lengths, 3 to 12c Special lengths at reason- 

 able prices for special stock. 

 MAIDS, BRIDES, RICHMONDS, fine quality and prices 

 very low. 



PERLES 



Not very plentiful in the market, but we are getting a good cut of 

 short and medium lengths; all good stock. 



CARNATIONS-all the leading varieties in white, light pink, pink 

 and red. No one can handle orders as well as we, because our 

 supply is the largest in Uie wesL 



CALLAS and HARRISII- Large supply. 



All kinds of stock to be had in Chicago, we can furnish on short notice 



A. L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



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larney is in full crop, and is the most 

 abundant rose in the market, but at the 

 same time it continues to be the best 

 seller. .Maid is not in such large supply, 

 but is of good quality and is selling 

 fairly well. Bride is abundant and so 

 good that Kaiserin is not meeting with 

 active demand. Richmond also is in 

 good crop. There are now quite a num- 

 ber of other roses grown in enough 

 quantity so that one who wants to get 

 away from the staples can always find 

 some good stock suited to his uses. 

 Perle, that has been scarce all winter, is 

 now abundant. 



While carnations continue in large 

 supply, they are meeting with a little bet- 

 ter sale than a week ago, and prices 

 are not quite so low as then. There 

 are too many Enchantress. Growers 

 should cut down on this variety next 

 season. 



The violet season is practically at an 

 end. A few fair flowers still come from 

 Rhinebeck, but most of the growers have 

 found it no longer pays to pick. Local 

 singles are over. The Glencoe growers 

 are still picking a few good doubles. 



Sweet peas are coming in heavier 

 again, for the spring crops are on. Sweet 

 peas never were so good in this market 

 as they are this year, and there is no 

 better selling flower. Bulbous stock is 

 about at an end, although there are still 

 a few daffodils and jonquils. Outdoor 

 tulips are expected in a few days. Out- 

 door irises are coming from the south 

 to compete with the indoor irises, which 

 have been selling so well. The southern 

 lUac is about at an end, and it will be 

 some time before the local crop is ready. 

 Callas and longiflorums are bordering on 

 a glut, not that there are so many of 

 them, but that no one seems to want any. 



Smilax is still the scarcest item on the 

 market. Some of the wholesale houses 

 have advanced good quality ferns to 

 $3.50 per thousand. 



Peony Protpcctt. 



The backward spring is beginning to 

 alarm the peony growers in the central 

 part of the state, whose crops ordinarily 

 are just about right for Decoration day. 

 A letter from Spaulding & Son, at "Villa 

 Bidge, in the southern part of the state, 

 where Kennicott Bros. Co. has a big 



Headauarters In tlie Graat Centntl Market tor all kinds of 



Florists' Supplies 



Specially largre and fine stock of 



Natural Preserved Wreaths, Moss Wreaths and Metal Designs 



Qaalltles always the best and prlcea the lowest. 



L. BAUMANN & CO.. 



The Great Central ■ 

 Plorlsts' Supply ll«aa« 



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planting of peonies, puts it laconically as 

 follows, "It looks good to father," 

 and then goes on to explain that condi- 

 tions are about normal and stock in good 

 shape. But A. L. Vaughan, of Vaughan 

 & Sperry, last week made a flying visit 

 to some of the large peony growers in 

 the center of the state and found things 

 there considerably behind time. The 

 plants are not more than half as high as 

 usual at this date, but are in fine shape. 

 The ground is full of moisture, and the 

 stock is in condition to go ahead at a 

 tremendous rate with settled warm 

 weather. 



E. C. AmUng received the first peonies 

 of the season April 24, from E. E. Kenni- 

 cott & Co., Carbondale, HI. 



The peony is an important item for 

 Decoration day, many thousands of doz- 

 ens being required to meet the demand. 

 There seems to be no limit to the number 

 of good peonies that can be sold for 

 Decoration day, if the price ranges from 

 35 cents to 75 cents per dozen. Higher 

 prices curtail the demand. 



Bosineu Growing* 



The flower business is steadily increas- 

 ing in that every few days someone 

 opens a new flower store, and hardly ever 

 does one go out of business. Recently 

 Fred Quasthoff has built a greenhouse 

 and store at the corner of Forty-sixth 

 street and Cottage Grove avenue, in a 

 district where there was no flower store 

 for several blocks, and E. Morton has 

 opened the Park Flower Shop, at 1094 ' 



East Fifty-eighth street, close by the 

 busiest elevated railroad station on the 

 south side. 



Variottt Noto. 



A deal is on foot for the purchase of 

 the retail store of the Chicago Carnation 

 Co., at Joliet, by the Schiller estate. If 

 the transaction goes through, as now 

 seems likely, it will mean that Herman 

 Schiller, at present in the West Madison 

 street store, will go to Joliet to take 

 charge, and his friends who know of the 

 matter allege that he and a Joliet girl 

 are at the same time planning a matri- 

 monial partnership. 



The son of George Asmus has been ill 

 with appendicitis, but is now recovering, 

 though still in the hospital. 



The death of Mrs. Gottfried Amling, 

 mother of the Amling brothers, is re- 

 corded in this week's obituary column. 



Peter Keinberg is figuring on being 

 right in it ag^n this summer with a big 

 supply of the Mrs. Field rose. 



Ernest A. Asmus, who in partnership 

 with Emil Buettner formerly was in the 

 retail business on Evanston avenue, the 

 stand now occupied by L. Koropp, has 

 for the last two years been with the 

 State Nursery Co., at Helena, Mont., but 

 has now entered the government Forest 

 Service, and will have charge of the new 

 Muskrat Nursery on the Helena Forest 

 Reserve. 



Charles Handel, who has worked for 

 many of the large growers in this market 

 and who has recently been located at 



