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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 6, 1909. 



Chrysanthemoms 



PINK. $1.00 per bunch. YELLOW, $1.25 to $1.50 per bunch. 



PERLES 



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

 short and medium lengths; ail good stoclt. 



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 the we^t 



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



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists "f^^^'^" 19-21 Randolph St., Chicago 



Beauties 



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



KILL3RNEY ^'"'^s.^'"^ 



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. 



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still are plenty of all varieties. Quality 

 generally is good, in spite of the dark 

 weather, and crops are on so heavily that 

 even an all-day blizzard May 1 produced 

 little apparent effect. Beauties are in 

 good demand, and as the spring crop 

 from winter 'rested plants is being cut, 

 tjkk; cmality is especially good, particu- 

 larly %n the medium-length stems. Kil- 

 IHrney is in heavier crop than any other 

 \fariety. 



Some growers say the reduction in the 

 supply of carnations was as much due to 

 the passing of a crop as to the unseason- 

 able weather, and these think it will be 

 some little time before there is again an 

 qversupply of this flower. But others 

 say a few days of sun will bring on 

 another heavy cut. The bad weather re- 

 sulted in an unusual proportion of splits, 

 and the prices at which these must be 

 sold pulled down growers' averages. 



Sweet peas continue one of the best 

 selling items on the list. The supply is 

 not so large as recently, and the best 

 flowers are making fine prices. A few 

 fair Rhinebock violets still are coming in, 

 but the season for them is about over. 

 Pansies are in request. Iris in yellow 

 and blue sells well. The supply of Har- 

 risii and calla lilies is not as great as 

 it was, and better prices are obtained. 

 Valley has had a few days of brisk sale. 

 There still are good jonquils. 



The early peonies have met with no 

 special demand ; Old Red seldom does. 

 The fact is that peonies are not specially 

 wanted until Decoration day, when they 

 are the popular flower and their season 

 fairly opens. The belated season will 

 cut a good many growers out of Decora- 

 tion day, but there will probably be 

 peonies for everyone, because of the 

 large numbers which will be cut by the 

 southern growers. 



It sometimes is impossible to fill orders 

 for smilax, and as high as 25 cents a 

 string is asked. Fancy cut ferns are 

 now quoted at $4 and up. 



Damage by Storm. 



The heaviest storm the Chicago green- 

 house community ever has suffered swept 

 over the city at a little after six o'clock 

 April 29. The storm appeared to be in 

 two sections, one south of the city and 

 one northwest. The Rose Hill district 



HMulqiuurtora In the Great CentimI'Market for all kinds of 



Florists' Supplies 



Specially large and fine Btock of 



Natural Preserved Wreaths, Moss Wreaths and Metal Designs 



Qualities always the best and prices the lowest. 



L. BAUMANN & CO.. ^ii^S!"sSS^H..^ 

 ^s;il^^^i.7l, 118 East Chicaii AnnuB, CHICAGO 



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escaped. There was only a little scat- 

 tered hail; wind did most of the dam- 

 age. 



The greatest loss was at the Wilmette 

 plant of H. P. Gerhardt, where seven 

 houses and a stable were practically de- 

 molished. 



The brick stack of N. C. Moore & Co., 

 at Morton Grove, was struck by light- 

 ning and fell on the pump room, de- 

 molishing the building and contents, in- 

 cluding a new gasoline engine that had 

 never been started. The sleeping quar- 

 ters of the men were also destroyed, with 

 a part of one greenhouse, and of course 

 flying bricks broke a lot of glass. Heat 

 and water were shut off several days. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., at Morton Grove, 

 lost about 300 boxes of glass, the west 

 ends of both ranges suffering from the 

 wind. It broke in for as many as five 

 or six bars on some houses that after- 

 ward had to be boarded up. One new 

 unglazed house was blown out of plumb. 



At the new plant of Hoerber Bros., 

 which Nick Miller is building under con- 

 tract at Des Plaines, the sashbars for five 

 300-foot houses were up. Glazing was to 

 have begun May 3. Four of the five 

 were blown down, and the fifth required 

 a good deal of strengthening. The ma- 

 terial was not much broken, so the loss 

 is labor and time. 



Heim Bros., of Blue Island, were hit 

 by hail. Their loss was heavy. 



At Park Ridge Fred Schramm lost 

 about ten boxes of glass. August Priebs 

 lost a few panes in the gables of two 

 houses. A report that Ben Gruppe had 



sustained a serious loss proved un- 

 founded. 



At Hinsdale, Bassett & Washburn 

 were hit by the tail of a hail storm and 

 lost forty to fifty boxes of glass in their 

 south houses. 



At W. L. Palinsky's, a row of hotbed 

 sashes were blown over onto another row, 

 breaking considerable glass and spoiling 

 some stock. 



At Des Plaines the river flooded H. C. 

 Blewitt's place so he had a foot of water 

 in the greenhouses for three days. 

 Charles "WiflSn also was flooded, but not 

 so badly. 



At Frank Oechslin's some glass was 

 broken in the south end of the houses, 

 but more damage was done to the sashes 

 that were blown about by the gale. 



At Garfield park the wind broke 600 

 panes of glass 24x24. The circumstances 

 seem to indicate that most of the missing 

 glass was not driven inward, as some 

 might suppose, but was forced outward 

 by the violent currents or pressure of air 

 which the storm created inside the build- 

 ing. One evidence of this is the fact 

 that, though the wind blew from the 

 northwest, the west side of the big, high 

 palm house was but slightly injured, as 

 compared with the rest of the building. 

 Besides damaging the conservatories, the 

 storm broke a lot of hotbed glass, by 

 sweeping the sashes from their places 

 and scattering them about the grounds. 



April ^Teather. 



Weatherwise, April was a remarkable 

 month. There were only three clear days. 



