April 29, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



19 



Supplies For Decoration Day 



ORDXB TODAT-THXBX' THINGS TOU CAN NOT DO WITHOUT. 



CEMETERY VASES CYC^IS LEAVES RIBBONS 



All styles. Unexcelled Quality. Largrest stock in the west. 



MAGNOLIA LEAVES IMMORTELLES WREATHS 



Your trade will approve. Full sized bunches. Every style or kind. 



Growers Nurserymen 



We handle your favorite insecticide. Full line of Fertilizers, Keep in touch with us on Sphagnum Moss. We have cars 

 Rubber Hose, coming in right along. 



el^Sve^l™" I Consult our catalogue for any article— or write us 



LAWN SEKD 



In packages. Send for 

 prices. It will sell well. 



A* L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



PrlTate Exchange all 



Departments 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Winterson's Seed Store 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., ^"Ifrlt-r^^oor"' CHICAGO 



BAY TREES 



We have just taken in a car of fine trees, in 

 STANDARDS, PYRAMIDS, and half standards. 

 Shall be glad to quote prices on application. 



StlU have CALADIUMS and TUBEROSES, also a fair stock left of BOX- 

 WOOD, in Bush and Pyramid shape. 



-SUPPLT CATALOGUS FRKK.- 



Mentlon The Review when you write. 



Decatur, has leased the greenhouses of 

 Mrs. A. M. Schafer on Balmoral avenue 

 for a term of five years, beginning 

 June 1. 



Monday morning all the wholesalers 

 were in receipt of a neatly-printed card, 

 as follows: 



Mr. Robert Rahaley, 



Manager of the Michigan Cut Flower Exchange, 



and 



Miss Helen Mnrpby 



have Just been married and Intend to spend their 



honeymoon in Chicago. 



They will, o( course, visit all of the wholesale 



flower shops. Kindly treat them well and 



advise them a little, as they are both 



very shy. 



Very truly yours, 



Some of the Detroit Florista. 



At last accounts the arrival of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Eahaley was being awaited with 

 interest. 



Carl N. Thomas went to West Spring- 

 field, Pa., April 24, to spend the summer 

 on the farm. 



John Mangel had a half dozen Golden 

 Glow chrysanthemums in his window 

 April 26. They were the first large 

 mums of the year received by the A. L. 

 Eandall Co. 



The many friends of C. Frauenfelder 

 will regret to learn of Mrs. Frauen- 

 felder 's illness. 



L. Coatsworth had no sooner returned 

 from Mudlavia, Ind., freed from his rheu- 

 matism, than he was taken ill with ap- 

 pendicitis. The physicians feel that an 



operation will be necessary, but fear to 

 perform it in his present weakened con- 

 dition. 



Ed Armstrong, who has been with 

 Weiland & Bisch for some time, has ac- 

 quired the Palace Floral Co., at 189 

 North Clark street, from Margaret 

 Nichols. This is one of the oldest flower 

 stores in Chicago, having been in exist- 

 ence twenty-three years and having 

 graduated several of the now well known 

 retailers. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. has practi- 

 cally completed its big new range at 

 Plant B, and the soil is now being put 

 in the benches. At Plant A posts are 

 just being set for the range to go up 

 there. At Plant B a new chimney 325 

 feet high is up about seventy-five feet. 

 This will be a landmark when completed. 

 It is made of tile reinforced with iron 

 and concrete. 



E. B. Washburn has been proposed for 

 membership at the Chicago Athletic 

 Club. 



Clifford Pruner, of E. H. Hunt's, ex- 

 pected to go on the road this week, but 

 is detained by an ulcer on his right eye. 



The condition of Mrs. O. P. Bassett, 

 who is ill at the Mary Thompson hospi- 

 tal, is slightly improved. 



C. M. Dickinson is building a new resi- 

 dence at Park Ridge. 



C. W. McKellar reports that Cattleya 



Mossiae is coming into crop and that the 

 scarcity of orchids will be relieved in a 

 few days. 



George Wittbold was 77 years of age 

 April 25. 



Ami Allison Lindley Randall is spend- 

 ing the week on his farm in Michigan. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. has for some 

 days been receiving well grown candidum 

 lilies. They have sold rather slowly at 

 $3 per dozen stalks, because Harrisii and 

 callas were so plentiful. 



George Reinberg is pushing the re. 

 building of several of his oldest houses. 



Phil Schupp says that the present crop 

 of Beauties is the best ever cut at the 

 J. A. Budlong establishment. 



The next meeting of the Florists' 

 Club will be held at the Union Restau- 

 rant, May 6. The following have handed 

 in applications for membership: A. A. 

 La Vaque, of the Pittsburg Plate Glass 

 Co. ; Otto Goerisch, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co.; W. J. Smith and T. M. Vogel, also 

 P. W. Peterson, Joliet, HI. Secretary 

 Winterson has sent each member a copy 

 of the proposed new constitution and by- 

 laws. 



F. Schramm, at Park Ridge, has a 

 light pink sport from Lawson that he has 

 submitted to the American Carnation 

 Society for registration under the name, 

 Kathleen B. W. 



Jacob M. Prost was the^successful con- 



