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KILLARNEY WHITE KILLARNEY RICHMOND 



We can fill all your orders-any variety, any length— stock thafts specially good value 

 at our current prices. Quality we firmly believe to be the best on this market. 



CARNATIONS 



All the fancy carnations yon need— just let ub know what you can use and we will see that you get 

 what you want, when you want it, and at th» right price. We shall have big crops from now on. 



Peas 



Violets Orchids 



Specially fine singles. Western grown— unexcelled. 



Valley 



We always have it. 



None better anywhere. 

 "'^^' ' THE LARGEST STOCK OF FLORISTS* j^^PPLIES IN AMERICA. 



A. L. Randall Co. 



Everytlung for n«rists, "^v^^^^r 66 E. Randelph Street, Chica^ 



Mention The ReTtew when yon write. 



g Budlong's 

 E Blue Ribbon VaDey 



Mention The ReTiew when yon write. 



store, on Monroe street, did so well 

 last week that it is being continued 

 indefinitely. John T. Muir holds the 

 lease. 



L. Hoeckner, who supplies the whole- 

 salers with their newspapers for wrap- 

 pers, between rushes at Peter Rein- 

 berg's, left April 1 for a trip to New 

 Orleans and Galveston. 



E. E. Pieser says that March was 

 the biggest month in the history of 

 the Kennicott Bros. Co. 



Mrs, Peter Olsem, wife of the green- 

 house superintendent of the Chicago 

 Carnation Co., was operated on for 

 appendicitis March 26 at St. Joseph's 

 hospital at Joliet. She is recuperating 

 nicely. 



August Jurgens says that he never 

 has had better Murillos or Golden Spurs 

 than this year, but that prices have 

 not met the cost. He thinks it will 

 be necessary for him to take up other 

 crops. 



C. W. McKellar reports that the big 

 orange ti'ee in the special greenhouse 

 of the Eldredge estate, at Belvidere, 

 began blooming last week. 



The E. C. Amling Co. received 

 another shipment of Mignon rose March 

 31 from E. W. McLellan Co., San 

 Francisco, but this time the flowers 



BIG CROP ROSES 



Satisfaction guaranteed or you may return shipment. Pink and White 

 Klllarney and Red Richmond. 



Good Short, 6 to 14 inches @ $0.02 each 



Medium, 16 to 18 inches @ .04 each 



Long. 20 to 22 inches @ .06 each 



Extra Special, 30 inches or over @ .12 each 



Carnations, Pink, White and Red @ 02 each 



Swaat PaaSy Pink, White and Lavender 60c per 100 



ALL KINDS OF QRKKNS TKIIMS. CASH 



W. E. TRIMBLE GREENHOUSE CO., Princeton, III. 



Mention Tbe Rerlew wben yon write. 



had heated and only a part were sal- 

 able, after rebunching. Some of the 

 retailers have been sending to New 

 York for this rose. 



The meeting of the trades committee 

 to close up 1912 convention affairs did 

 not materialize last week. Treasurer 

 N. J. Wietor was at the trysting place, 

 but no one else appeared. 



Tim Matchen reports that Peter Rein- 

 berg replanted several houses of roses 

 last week, an unusually early date. 



O. Johnson says that spring has ar- 

 rived in earnest at Batavia. One can 

 see it in the increase in cut as well 

 as feel it in the atmosphere. 



Paul Blome has installed a new 

 Buchbinder refrigerator done in white, 

 which adds greatly to the appearance 

 of his Clark street store and affords 

 improved display for cut flowers. 



The Bohannon Floral Co. had an 

 unusually heavy run on corsages March 



29, and the store force had about all 

 it could do to turn out the orders. 



Incorporation papers have been taken 

 out by David J. Haskins, John W. 

 Harris and Frank Amberg under the 

 name of the Haskins Floral Co., with 

 capital stock of $25,000. The company 

 has purchased the property of Reid & 

 Chambers at Elmhurst, HI., and expects 

 to add considerable glass with the view 

 of shipping extensively to the Chicago 

 whales^e market. No plans have been 

 announced as to what stock will be 

 grown or the amount of glass to be 

 erected. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., who are fore- 

 handed, carry two carloads of glass, 

 about 800 boxes, in storage at the 

 greenhouses. It was bought when the 

 market was especially low and is looked 

 on as a cheap form of insurance against 

 loss following a storm. 



Fred Klingel, of Erne & Klingel, 



