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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



DSCKMBBB 22, 1910. 



SPECIAL KILLARNEY 



Fanciest Flowers of the Season 



These Killameys are just what you want for the Christmas to New Year's holiday social season — 

 nothing to equal them has yet been produced; wonderful color, big heads on all lengths of stem, perfect 

 foliage — a triumph of the grower's art. Why use anything but the best ? Order of us. 



Beauties and all other Roses in large supply. 

 New Year's Special— Preesia Purity, pure white, tine stock, $5>00 to $6.00 lOO 



VIOLETS-ORCHIDS-VALLEY-CARNATIONS 



Tbe largest supply and llneat quality of aU tbe above 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



Ii. D. PkOB* Ceatnl 1496 



PrlTftto BxehmBK* all 



D«vartmeBti 



I9-2I Randolph St, Chicago 



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Nev/ Rose 



Now booking orders for HILDA, deep pink 

 sport of My Maryland. 2ia-iuch. tM.OO per luO; 

 $150.00 per 1000. 



A. L. RANDALL CO. 



19-Sl Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



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Beauties for Christmas at prices lower 

 than heretofore have prevailed. Fleisch- 

 man started- it by oflfering Christmas 

 Beauties at $15 per dozen, and others, 

 not to be outdone, quoted even lower 

 prices. A good many smaller dealers, 

 figuring on the 100 per cent basis, 

 I jumped to the conclusion that these big 

 retail stores must be buying their 

 Beauties at from $6 to $7.50 per dozen, 

 and the supposition, after passing 

 through a few hands, came to be stated 

 as an actual fact. It was natural that 

 buyers should put the wholesalers under 

 much pressure in the effort to secure 

 their own supplies on what they 

 thought to be the basis others procured 

 them. The fact appears to be that a 

 good many people have overlooked the 

 circumstance that when a retail busi- 

 ness reaches a certain volume the 100 

 per cent basis for prices no longer is 

 necessary, and that Fleischman and 

 several others appear to think that 

 they have reached the point where they 

 can afford to handle their leading items 

 on a fifty per cent basis. Early in the 

 week wholesalers refused to book or- 

 ders for first-class Beauties at less than 

 $10 per «ozen in large lots, and $12 in 

 smaller qH^ntitjfift^ At the middle of 

 the week itseemed as likely that 

 higher prices will be reached before 

 Christmas noon as that lower rates will 

 be necessary to clean up. 



The quality of roses never has been 

 better for Christmas; in fact, nothing 

 better could be asked. Killarney is 

 specially good. There is an abundance 

 of roses for all apparent requirements, 

 except possibly of Richmond, which is 

 in special request. The medium grades 

 of all varieties will be the ones that 

 run short. The call for funeral work 

 has let up at the same time that Bride 

 has come into heavy crop with many 

 growers, and the opening of the week 



BEAUTIES 



Here*! the Grade Yon Need 



A large supply of medium and short 

 BeautitB of best quality, as well as a good 

 supply of fancy long ><tema. 



BEST DOUBLE VIOLETS 



shipped direct from the growers to you 

 if you prefer. 



All other Cot Flowers in Season 



M. C. GUNTERBERG 



27 & 29 Randolph St., CHiaCO 



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saw the market overstocked with white 

 roses. 



Carnations have profited with the 

 days of bright sun, but the supply will 

 not exceed the Christmas demand. At 

 the opening of the week there were 

 more white than could be placed at 

 regular prices and this condition may 

 prevail through the holiday rush, 

 though shipping orders are likely to 

 take everything of good quality that 

 is on hand at the right time. 



Cattleyas are more abundant. There 

 are plenty of violets for immediate 

 needs and the prospect of enough for the 

 holiday demand. Poinsettias are not as 

 plentiful as in some other years, but 

 they are not selling specially well. 

 Paper Whites are everywhere and Ro- 

 mans are more abundant. A few Trum- 

 pet narcissi have arrived. There are 

 not many Harrisii or callas, but the 

 demand for these is light. Bouvardia 

 is less plentiful. There are more sweet 

 peas than at any previous Christmas. 

 Stevia is abundant. A bunch or two 

 goes with nearly every order. 



The green goods market is not appre- 

 ciably affected by the Christmas de- 

 mand, though there has been a big 

 increase in the call for boxwood and 

 galax because of the scarcity of bou- 

 quet green. A number of large ship- 

 ments of boxwood have arrived this 

 week and others are on the way. 



There is sonie excellent holly. Good 

 Christmas trees are scarce. 



Messrs. Scott Brothers, Elmsford, N.Y., 

 say: "Aphine is an effective and easily 

 applied spraying remedy for insects of all 

 kinds, in which we have absolute confi- 

 dence. We dipped all our cuttings in 

 this insecticide last year before putting 

 them in the cutting bench and again be- 

 fore potting into first pots, and we were 

 never freer from insects of all kinds, par- 

 ticularly those troublesome little thrips 

 on chrysanthemums. It is an effective 

 remedy lor scale on palms, crotons, etc." 



$2.50 per gallon; $1 00 per quart. 



FUNGINE 



An infallible fungicide for mildew and 

 other fungous diseases. Particularly 

 adapted for greenhouse purposes. 



A clean, safe and easily applied spraying 

 material, which does not stain the foliage. 



$2 00 per station; 75c per quart. 



Manufactiued by 



APHINE MANUfACTURING CO. 



MADISON, N. J. 



Pacific Coast Distribntins Aarenta 



MacRORIE-McLAREN COMPANY 



Westbank Bld«r. San Francisco. Cal. 



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Cut Flower Weather. 



The first seventeen days of Decem- 

 ber, and especially the latter half of 

 that period, scarcely could have been 

 more favorable for cut flower produc- 

 tion — and it is this part of the month 

 that makes the Christmas crop. It will 

 be remembered that last year the good 

 weather came a week too late and the 

 crops came just after the holiday. The 



