jDLt 11, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



21 



LILIES 



Don't Forget We Can Furnish Fancy Qiganteums in Thousand Lots Any Day 



Giganteum (Easter) Lilies are about the best summer flowers for decorations or work— big, bold flowers— in them your 

 customer's money will make a better show than in anything else you can ofier in warm weather. Also, and this is im- 

 portant, these lilies are grown where it is cool ; they are hard and will ship— tkere wiH be absolutely no waste. Abso- 

 lutely no limit to our supply if given forty-eight hours' notice. 



Giganteum 



Auratum 



Candidum 



ROSES 



GLADIOLI 



You will find herealarge supply of fine Roses— Eallarney, Our Gladiolus crop is on— can furnish any quantity- 



Richmond and White Killamey that will ship. Our summer nice clean stock in white, light pink, red or mixed colors, 

 supply is larger than ever before and the quality sure to please. You will need these right along. Order some today. 



We are ready to furnish all the Asters you need. Qood supplies of white and light pink, 

 with other colors ready soon. 



-^___ ___- VALLEY CARNATIONS 



3 WW EE X "EAs We have it always ready for your Still can furnish Carnations remarkably 



Fine outdoor peas in any quantity. order. good for the time of year. 



Our Ferns are the finest in the country. Let us ship you res^ularly a standing order. 

 Write for our special proposition on your year's supply. 



A. L. Randall Co 



Everything for Horists, 



L. D. PhoB« Ceatral 1499 



Prlrate KxehAnge all 



DepArtments 



66 E. Randolph Street, Chicago 



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Mention The Review when you write. 



Send your orders for Summer Flowers to 



CHAS. W. McKELLAR 



22 E. RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO 



Everything in seasonable 

 stock, at lowest market 

 prices. Long: distance Phone, 



Central 3598 



Mention The Review when 70a write. 



creasing quantities of horse manure, 

 and has found no difference in the re- 

 sults he has obtained. It costs him 

 $20.50 per car at his place. 



John Ganger, who does business 

 under the name of Ganger & Gormley, 

 has leased a store in the Fine Arts 

 building, on Michigan avenue, and is 

 fitting it up in first-class style. He 

 expects to be ready to open there about 

 August 1. The store on North State 

 street, where he has a lease with five 

 years yet to run, will be sold. 



W. W. Coles passed through Chicago 

 July 3 on his way from Kokomo, Ind., 

 to Oden, Mich., where he will spend 

 two months. Over the telephone he 

 told The Eeview it has been an excel- 

 lent season for all in the trade in his 

 part of Indiana. 



H. H. Wilkerson, of Albany, N. Y., 

 has been employed by H. Wittbold, 

 as business manager. 



At the first annual stockholders' 

 meeting of the Chicago Flower Grow- 

 ers' Association, held July 6, Fred 

 Stielow and Fred Schramm were elected 

 directors to fill the places made vacant 

 by the resignations of John Meiers and 

 Joseph Schoos. 



The Cook County Florists' Associa- 

 tion will hold its first annual picnic 



next Sunday, July 14, at Karthauser's 

 grove, in Bogers Park. The admission 

 is only 25 cents and an attendance of 

 at least 200 is expected by President 

 Koblbrand and Chairman Zech. To 

 get to the grounds take the Clark street 

 car to Devon, or the Evanston car to 

 Clark and Devon, walk west to Ridge 

 avenue and north to the grove, which 

 is close to Adam Zender's greenhouses 

 and in the center of a growers' com- 

 munity. 



Erne & Klingel have received several 

 shipments of northern peonies and re- 

 port that they find favor with the 

 trade. 



There were more than fifty in the 

 party that picnicked on the grounds of 

 A. T. Pyfer, at Joliet, July 7. After 

 dinner there was a ball game between 

 the Cook County Florists' Association 

 and the team representing the Chicago 

 Carnation Co. The game went six in- 

 nings, greatly in favor of the locals. 

 The Chicago party did not start back 

 to town until after supper on the lawn. 



A. L. Vaughan left July 10 to spend 

 a week amonpr the summer resorters at 

 Fremont, Mich., where he and his fam- 

 ily hope to escape from the cares of 

 city life. 



P. Pearson, on Gunneson street, will 



leave July 13 for a business and pleas- 

 ure trip to the Dakotas. He has had a 

 fine season. 



Adolph Benesh, of Winterson's Seed 

 Store, is vacationing. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 reports an unprecedented occurrence in 

 the simultaneous arrival July 4 of the 

 first shipments of outdoor gladioli from 

 southern Illinois and from Michigan. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. made the first 

 cut of Lady Hillingdon roses this week 

 and Otto Frese says they hold up well 

 even when shipped to distant points. 



The Chicago Florists' Club will hold 

 its regular meeting at 8 p. m. July 11 

 at the Union restaurant. Convention 

 details will then be pretty well 

 closed up. 



Hoerber Bros, report the first cut of 

 outdoor sweet peas July 5, white, pink 

 and lavender being in the initial ship- 

 ment. 



The full force of Wietor Bros, is busy 

 cutting. Not only is the cut in the 

 greenhouses heavier than ever before at 

 this date, but there is a fine crop of 

 hay on the firm's farm near the Evans- 

 ton drainage canal that is being cut 

 this week. 



A fine basket of Elberta peaches 

 was received at the Chicago Flower 



