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 DETROIT, MICH. 



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Theater, Steamer and Funeral Flowers Our Specialty 

 Wc can refer to leading florists in all principal cities. 

 Established 1870. 



LOUISVILLE, KY. 

 JACOB SCHULZ, 



650 South Fourth Ave. 



NEW FLOWER STORES. 



New York, N. Y.— F. G. Shanley, 

 1363 St. Nicholas avenue. 



St. Louis, Mo. — Joseph Goldbach, 

 1806 Olive street. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Dayton, O. — The National Plant Co. 

 Is in the hands of a receiver and has 

 been advertised for sale. 



Attica, Ind. — The greenhouses of the 

 Attica Floral Co. were severely dam- 

 aged by a recent hail storm. 



One hundred and fourteen entries 

 have been made in the contest for the 

 Springfield (Mass.) Republican's prizfes 

 for attractive door yards. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 Among the Growers. 



H. C. Blewitt of Des Plaines, 111., re- 

 gards the price of sweet peas as hav- 

 ing averaged too low the entire season 

 to be profitable, though he is by no 

 means intending to abandon them. 

 He has fourteen benches, seventy-five 

 by five feet, and grows the standard 

 varieties in pink, white and lavender. 

 H'e is testing a new shell pink and a 

 lavender that is almost a sky blue 

 which, if they prove worthy, he will 

 grow extensively next year. The old 

 variety, Emily Henderson, he finds 

 the best summer white. 



Trade in the vicinity of the ceme- 

 teries is unusually lively. The back- 

 ward season has made this work, al- 

 ways crowded into a small space of 

 time, more than ever so. The man 

 witli stocky geranium plants in bloom 

 now, is much sought after. The sup- 

 ply is not likely to meet the demand. 



Frank Beu thinks there will be no 

 geraniums to spare on Decoration Day, 

 as advance orders are taking every- 

 thing unusually early. Vincas appear 

 to be a little scarce also, owing prob- 

 ably to the di-y summer of last year. 



Frank Oechslin looks for a pro- 

 longed spring trade. Geraniums not 

 in bloom now will come on late and 

 help out in the shortage so generally 

 found in early June. 



A. W. Myers handles a great many 

 lilacs. He says that while they are 

 latei than last year, the few hot days 

 have hurried them on so that they 

 will be all past by Decoration Day. 



Sam Pearse is still cutting daffodils 

 and his stock looks as fresh as early 

 in the season. He reports bulbous 

 stock on the whole as much more of 

 a success this year than last. 



The A. L. Randall Co. has secured 

 a ground floor location at 98 Lake St. 

 for their seed and poultry department 

 and have put the business in charge 

 of Mr. Seeley, formerly with Vaughan's 

 Seed Store. 



Personal. 



Ernest Oechslin is able to be about 

 his greenhouses again, but feels de- 

 cidedly weaker for the terrible ex- 

 perience he has gone through. 



The home of J. Meschler, superin- 

 tendent of the Jewish Cemetery, was 

 entered and money and clothing stolen, 

 it is reported. 



Miscellaneous. 



H. R. Hughes has again been drawing 

 crowds with a modern advertisement — 

 a May party participated in by FVench 

 dolls. Posted above the outside of the 

 entrance was an invitation to one hun- 

 dred children to come to a May 

 party Saturday night, a real affair 

 a stage to be placed in the window 

 where the children were to dance to 

 the music of an orchestra and a May 

 queen to be crowned on a throne. 

 When the evening came the crowd 

 on the street must have numbered one 

 thousand. They began to arrive by 

 six o'clock, and at ten there were 

 many still watching the happy scene. 

 The Sunday papers had cuts and Mr. 

 Hughes probably scored his best en- 

 tertainment in the history of the store. 

 Mr. Hughes' methods of advertising 

 are unique and costly but he says they 

 pay. 



What looks like a good carnation 

 support will be put on the market by 



a leading supply house and full de- 

 scription given next week. It is the 

 invention of Mr. French of Poehlman 

 Bros. 



Two warm days. May 12th and 13th, 

 brought out the blossoms on the fruit 

 trees. There was no gradual opening 

 up. The trees were perfectly bare on 

 the 12th and in full bloom on the 13th. 



Florists will have no trouble getting 

 their ice. The differences between the 

 dealers and their drivers have been 

 settled. 



The Bohannon Floral Co. will move 

 on June 1 to the new University Club 

 building, II Monroe street. 



'FLOWERS BY TELEGRAPH." 



Leading Retail Florists Listed by 

 Towns for Ready Reference. 



DtnTer, Colo. — Park Floral Co., 1708 

 Broadway. 



Washington, D. C— Gude Bros., 1214 F St. 



Atlanta, Ga.— Atlanta Floral Co., 41 

 Ptnch Tree St. 



Chicago — Hauswirth, "The Floilst," 232 

 Michigan Ave. 



Chicago — William J. Smyth, Michigan 

 Ave. and 31st St. 



Chicago— George Wlttbold Co., 1667-60 

 Buckingham Place. 



LonlsTlUe, Ky.— Jacob Schuiz, 650 South 

 Fourth Ave. 



Boeton— ThoB. F. Galvln, 124 Tremont St. 



Boston — Edward MacMulkln, 194 B07I- 

 Bton St. 



Boston — Hoffman, Florist, 60-61 MajM- 

 chusettB Ave. 



Boston — 3. Newman & Song, Inc., 24 Tr»- 

 mont St. 



Bcston — Julius A. ZInn, 2 Beacon St. 



Wellesley, Mass. — Tallby. 



Detroit, Mich. — J. Breltmeyer's Sons, 

 Miami and Gratiot Ave*. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Samuel Murray, 1017 

 Broadway. 



Kansas City, Mo.— Wm. L. Bock Flower 

 Co., 1116 Walnut St. 



Albanv, N. Y.— H. G. Eyres, 11 N. Pearl St. 



All>any, N. Y.— F. A. Danker, 40 Maiden 

 Lane. 



New York- Da-rid Clarke's Sons, 2138- 

 2141 Broadway. 



New York— Alex. McConnell, 671 5th 

 Ave. 

 New York— Young & Nugent, 42 W. 28th St. 



New York— M. A. Howe, 1294 Broadway. 



Brooklyn, N. Y.— The Blossom (C. C. Tre- 

 pel, Mgr.), Bond and Livingston Sts. 



Brooklyn, N. Y.— Robert G. Wilson, Ful- 

 ton St. and Greene Ave. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— Palmer's, 304 Main St. 



Toronto, Can. — J. H. Dunlop, 96 Yonje St 



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