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The Florists' Review 



May 1, 1818 



Mothers Day 



May 11, 1913 



YOU 

 Push if 



We Supply the Stock 



WE HANDLE more Carnations than any other house in the West. We urge all Retail 

 Florists to push Mothers' Day, as it already is one of the big special flower days. 

 Advertise "Bright Flowers for Mothers Living, White Flowers for Mother's Memory," and 

 call on us to supply the stock. 41 Write for Special quotations on your full order. 



Easter Lilies, fine quality, $6.00 to $10.00 per 100. 

 Daisies, white or yellow, $1.00 to $1.50 per 100. 

 Butterfly and other peas, fine quality at low prices. 

 Pancy Roses, quality that will stand every comparison. 

 Valley, all you want of it, fine. 



t OTHER STOCK IN SEASON-QUANTITY AND QUALITY 



ffu L. Randall Co. 



ETerrthing for norists, MJ^u''[::^r,e'"f'Di^^ 66 E. RanMph St., Cliicago 



Mention The Rerlew wbea tou write 



cial demand and the supply is not over- 

 abundant. The same is true of all 

 the yellow roses^ as- well as Mrs. Taf t. 

 Snapdragon is much in evidence and 

 some excellent 8t<}ck is being moved 

 off without much trouble. Sweet peas 

 have been the greatest problem. Early 

 last week there was a serious oversup- 

 ply, but the market improved with 

 some reduction of receipts at the close 

 of the week. At the opening of the 

 present week, however, warm, bright 

 weather again increased supply and 

 lowered prices. Valley is still finding 

 the usual spring demand. Violets are 

 at last done for this season, although 

 a few were seen as late as April 26. 

 Smilax is scarce. Ferns are stiffening 

 a little in price. 



Various Notes. 



Frank Johnson, of the A, L. Randall 

 Co., says that the addition to the floor 

 space made this week by taking the 

 basement is 8,000 square feet. Four 

 fl3or8 and the basement now are occu- 

 pied. Frank Pasternick joined the sales 

 force of the Randall establishment April 

 22. 



Frank Oechslin is in New York, vis- 

 iting relatives and noting what is new 

 among the plantsmen. 



Peter Reinberg began planting car- 

 nations in the field April 24, rather 



earlier than most of the growers thought 

 it safe to begin. 



Two meetings of the creditors of Gan- 

 ger & Bergman have been held in the 

 last few days. At the last one it was 

 stated that enough cash already had 

 been realized from the book accounts 

 so that a payment can be made to the 

 creditors without delay. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., which held a 

 lease on the old store formerly occu- 

 pied at 30 East Randolph street, moved 

 the big ice-boxes and fixtures to Morton 

 Grove this week, the lease expiring 

 May 1. 



Lubliner & Trinz now are in tem- 

 porary quarters at 29 West Washing- 

 ton street. They held out on Ran- 

 dolph street till the last day of their 

 lease. 



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

 is keeping bachelor's hall, Mrs. Pieser 

 having gone to PTiiladelphia to try a 

 new sanitarium. 



At Winterson's Seed Store retail seed 

 and plant trade is breaking all records 

 this week. 



A. T. Pyfer says he expects to see 

 Mothers' day show another big increase 

 this year. 



A dinner was held April 24, at the 

 Union, to which all the chairmen of 

 S. A. F. convention committees were 

 invited and at whioh all the details -were 



cleaned up and a final dividend ordered 

 paid to those who had contributed to 

 the fund for the entertainment of the 

 convention last August. Treasurer N. 

 J. Wietor is this week sending the con- 

 tributors checks for forty per cent of 

 the sum paid in. After this is done 

 there will be a balance of a few dollars 

 that was ordered turned over to the 

 Chicago Florists' Club. 



Adam Zender was at Milwaukee April 

 25 to attend a directors' meeting of 

 the Holton & Hunkel Co., which is 

 building again this year. 



John Michelsen, of the E. C. Amling 

 Co., spent a day at Crown Point, Ind., 

 last week, the guest of Alois Frey, 

 antirrhinum specialist. Mr. Michelsen 

 says Mr. Frey has a number of good 

 seedlings, but that two are so excep- 

 tionally fine that he looks to see them 

 make a big hit. One is about the color 

 of Bulgarie rose, the other about lik^ 

 a well colored Killarney Queen, and 

 they each produce spikes of bloom a 

 foot and a half long on stems as thick 

 as one's finger. 



The E. Wienhoeber Co. has made a 

 rather large advertising contract with 

 the Tribune. The first advertisement 

 appeared April 26. Quality will be 

 featured, not price. 



P. L. McKee, of the John G. Moninger 



