Decbmbbb 26, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



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FOR 



HEW TEAR 



We Have Large Supplies of Stock 



• Look over your sales records and you will see that New Year's business has been increasing rapidly 

 for several seasons. You ran short of stock last year. Order heavier this time. . ^ 



A fine lot of Klllarneys 



Our Rose crops were just right for Christmas and will hold over into the New Year. The»Killarneyi 

 are as fine as we ever handled. The quantity for New Year's will be enough to take care of our regular 

 trade and some of those who were not satisfied with the roses they got elsewhere for Christmas. We 

 are here to serve you. Let us show you NOW. 



Call on U8 for all you peed for New Year's — Violets, Valley, Beauties, Bulb Stock, 

 Lilies, Stevia, Carnations, Greens — every things in good Supply. 



A complete stock of Florists' Supplies 



After by far the largest business we ever have done in Florists' Supplies, we still have a complete 

 assortment of all staple articles and the novelties (except some of the Christmas specialties) and can 

 make quick shipments. It's especially important that you have 



Corsage Ties, Corsage Shields, Ribbons, Violet Boxes, Cut Flower Boxes, Etc. 



Go over your stock at once, and send a rush order for anything that's low. Don't miss sales or 

 risk a failure to please your customers. Stock up again at once. Wire your orders if you are at a 

 distance. We ship at once. 



A. L. Randall Co 



Everything for Florists, 



L. D. Pko>« Ceatral 14M 



PriTBte Exehaare All 



D«partBeDti 



66 E. Randolph Street, ChicMo 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Greenhouse Co., reports the death, De- 

 cember 20, of Mrs. Higinbotham, 

 mother of the widow of the late Gus- 

 tavo Wittbold, at the family home on 

 North Halsted street. 



N. J. Wietor circulated a petition 

 last week which was signed by all the 

 wholesalers in the Atlas block and 

 which resulted in freight elevator serv- 

 ice Sunday. 



The George Wittbold Co. now has 

 charge of the plants at the Hotel La 

 Salle, one of its men spending the hours 

 from 1 a. m. to 6 a. m. on the job each 

 night. 



John Poehlmann says his company 

 never filled so many orders as this 

 Christmas but that the tickets did not 

 average so large as in some other years, 

 which latter fact he thinks due to the 

 impossibility of supplying all the car- 

 nations and short roses that were called 

 for. 



Peter Eeinberg is using all the wood 

 on the* Sunburst roses to work up stock 

 for next season. Most other growers 

 will do the same thing now that Christ- 



mas is over and the supply of cut 

 flowers will not be large. 



E. C. Amling Co. has invested in a 

 latest model Burroughs adding machine 

 operated by an electric motor. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. had Proserpine 

 tulips for Christmas, the first noted this 

 season. 



C. W. McKellar says the feature of 

 the Christmas business was not the 

 scarcity of carnations but the increased 

 use of baskets of other material than 

 flowers. 



The A. L. Eandall Co. has added 

 basket making to its many activities. 

 Three weavers were first put to work 

 to meet the demand for special shapes 

 made to order. The next step will be 

 to manufacture stock items. 



A. L. Vaughan & Co. report that 

 desert holly was unusually popular this 

 year and they could hardly meet the 

 demands, both local and out-of-town 

 orders being heavier than in previous 

 years. 



John Winandy, who is in the green- 

 houses of Hoerber Bros., was called in 



from Des Plaines to help out on the 

 shipping during the Christmas rush. 

 Harry Manheim says the out-of-town 

 orders amounted to an increase of about 

 ten per cent over last year. 



E. B. Washburn, of Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, writes from Pasadena that cele- 

 brating Christmas in California with 

 Fourth of July weather was a novel 

 experience to one accustomed to the 

 "old fashioned kind" that Chicago 

 enjoys. 



The four days preceding Christmas 

 set new records for Erne & Klingel and 

 Mr. Erne states that before next Christ- 

 mas they hope to have larger quarters. 



P. L. McKee, of the John C. Mo- 

 ninger Co., has recovered from an ill- 

 ness with fever. 



Additional -space will soon be given 

 to the plant department by Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., and C. G. Anderson, manager 

 of the plant end, will make a trip 

 through the east, where he intends to 

 pick up new varieties from eastern 

 concerns. The new department has 

 more than been a success and the num- 



