June 28, 1913 



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CHICAGO NOTES. 



Mrs. A. H. Budlong and children are 

 at their summer home at Williams 

 Bay near Lake Geneva, Wis. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. will have a 

 new catalogue of florists' supplies and 

 plants ready for mailing. July 15th. 

 Send for one. 



Bassett & Washburn have placed 

 an order with Kroeschell Bros. Co. for 

 two 150 horsepower Kroeschell steam 

 boilers for their new range at Gregg 

 Station. 



Mr. Peterson has closed his store 

 at 2552 W. Division street and opened 

 another at 3336 Irving Park Boulevard. 

 He will build a greenhouse in connec- 

 tion with the store in the fall. 



A. Setterberg, landscape gardener, 

 has just completed a large piece of 

 work at Escanaba, Mich., on a 1000- 

 acre tract of land, converting it into a 

 suitable place for a summer home. 



Phil Schupp has returned from a 

 sight-seeing trip through what was re- 

 cently the floral district. He says that 

 Dayton, Ohio, is getting into shape 

 again and the whole country is mak- 

 ing great strides in the work of re- 

 storing former conditions. 



A. Miller, of A. Henderson Co., 

 seedsmen, is just back from a south- 

 ern trip, during which he visited the 

 peony show at Cleveland, Ohio, and 

 of which he speaks very highly. Mr. 

 Miller will leave June 27th for New 

 York and other eastern cities. Guy 

 Rayburn will also represent the same 



firm in the east, booking bulb orders 

 for the fall. 



The news of the death of Frederick 

 W. Brookes, of Morgan Park, whose 

 obituary is given on another page, was 

 learned with deep regret on Sunday. 

 .Mr. Brookes was a "gentleman of the 

 old school," and it is a matter of pride 

 that the foundations of Chicago's great 

 floral industry was started by such a 

 man. A resident of Chicago for 80 

 years and the builder of the first green- 

 houses erected in the city, with a 

 character above reproach, he was an 

 honor to the trade. 



J. Mangel is again living up to his 

 reputation for having the finest win- 

 dow display among the retail florists. 

 In the days of the old building, now 

 replaced with a modern one, his suc- 

 cess was attributed largely to the con- 



struction of the windows which placed 

 the flowers below the sidewalk. But 

 now with a high and rather narrow 

 window it is equally artistically done. 

 The upper third of the deep window is 

 a festoon of artificial foliage and flow- 

 ers, sometimes roses, and this week 

 daisies, giving customers the idea of 

 an overhead wedding decoration. 

 Flowers are banked on the corners and 

 a miniature pond is a favorite scheme. 

 Unusual flowers, old time favorites are 

 always among the attractions and the 

 results as an advertisement alone 

 more than repay the thought and ef- 

 fort. 



Visitors: A. T. Bushong, of Gary 

 Floral Co., Gary, Ind.; Walter Mott, 

 representing Benjamin Hammond, 

 Fishkill-on-Hudson. N. Y.; Frank Mad- 

 sen, Elgin, 111.; Mr. Kiting, seedsman, 

 Sedalia, Mo. 



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