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April 12, 1919 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS 



CHICAGO. 



The Hoskins Kloral Co. of Elmhurst 

 has sold out to the Forest Park Floral 

 Co., which will operate both places. 



Mrs. Allie Zech is still in the hospi- 

 tal where she is making progress, 

 though not so rapidly as her friends 

 desire. 



August Koch, superintendent of Gar- 

 field Park and its noted conservatories, 

 will again maintain a vegetable gar- 

 den in the park for the purpose of 

 teaching, by object lessons, how to 

 plant and care for a successful home 

 garden. 



The paper lily, the cloth lily and 

 the wax lily are all striving to satisfy 

 the lovers of the good live lilies of 

 other Easter days. How much success 

 they will meet remains to be seen, 

 but here's honestly hoping that it will 

 not be much. 



Peter Miller says you never know 

 what is coming when you scratch your 

 finger in a flower store. To him it 

 meant a badly swollen hand and arm 

 and two weeks in a hospital, but he is 

 again able to attend to his duties and 

 happy indeed to be back. 



One of the happiest men in the 

 wholesale market is John Enders, for 

 his son Clarence, now in the Army of 

 Occupation, is getting ready to leave 

 and before many weeks are gone he 

 will be home once more, after having 

 made an enviable record as a soldier. 



Henry Kruchten says that a letter 

 just received from his brother Charles, 

 now with the Army of Occupation in 

 Germany, says that at last, after a 

 year's waiting, he has received letters 

 from home. He said that one of the 

 soldier's greatest hardships was the 

 failure of home letters to be delivered. 



T. Kirchoff, 4711 Milwaukee Ave., 

 has a modern range of houses and 

 grows a large portion of the stock 

 used in his retail store. Richard, a 

 brother, lately home from Dayton, 

 Ohio, where he was engaged in war 

 work, is now in the business with 

 him. A large line of bedding stock is 

 a specialty here. 



Fred Lautenschlager. who has just 

 returned from a trip to St. Louis and 

 vicinity in the interest of his firm, 

 the Kroeschell Bros., found the florists 

 preparing to add to their ranges 

 of houses and to put them in good 

 order for another big season. As a 

 consequence, the Kroeschell boilers 

 were never more in demand than now. 

 Mr Lautenschlager is of the opinion 



that there will be no extremes in 



building but the moderate sized plants 

 will be the ones to be enlarged. 



The wheals are buzzing at the Foley 

 Greenhouse Co.'s plant on 31st street, 

 near Kedzie avenue, and P. J. Foley 

 says there is unmistakable evidence of 

 the return to life of the building in- 

 dustry. That it will be retarded more 

 or less by the high cost of material is 

 probable, but as the prices of cut 

 flowers and plants have also been 

 high during the past year and there 

 seems no prospect of a decline, a mod- 

 erate amount of building will be done. 



The "something new" for Easter has 

 appeared in the windows of the Geo. 

 Wienhoeber store, where new things 

 are often found. Placques from 24 to 

 30 inches in length-and 12 inches wide 

 are painted green and on each is a 

 large bouquet of spring flowers, the 

 stems of which are in a container 

 placed in a large white Easter egg, 

 lying flat upon the plaque. Under the 

 edge of the bouquet is a white rabbit 

 of life size, and securely fastened to 

 the board. The egg and rabbit are 

 both of paper mache and the whole 

 arrangement is in good taste and 

 destined to be a good seller at from 

 ten to fifteen dollars each. 



Miss Marie Groth, well known to 

 the trade for her artistic skill in de- 

 signing and decorating the many nov- 

 elties in the Poehlmann supply depart- 

 ment, won the distinction of getting 

 the order for the Victory pennant ban- 



ner from the club women who organ- 

 ized for the coming Victory loan cam- 

 paign at the Blackstone last week. 

 Miss Groth made the pennant banner 

 24 x 6<i in. of white satin, edged with 

 gold cord and on either side of the 

 top hung heavy gold tassels. In the 

 center was a V-shaped laurel wreath 

 of gold cloth, each leaf overlapping 

 the next and slightly tinted with 

 green, the "V" standing for Victory 

 and also for fifth loan. The local pa- 

 pers gave a picture of the banner and 

 complimentary notice. Miss Groth 

 also originated the slogan, "Save to 

 Buy, and Buy to Save." 



ST. LOUIS 



The Growers met Wednesday, April 

 4, at 11 Mile House and discussed In- 

 surance and Publicity. 



Arbor Day was celebrated Friday, 

 April 6, by tree planting in memory of 

 departed soldiers. 



The St. Louis Wholesale Cut Flower 

 Co. ■will erect a new building east of 

 their present location. They desire 

 more room. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



John Dunbar, assistant superintend- 

 ent of parks, is in Hahnemann Hos- 

 pital where he has had a very serious 

 operation. 



Dewey Lester has taken a position 

 with J. B. Keller & Sons.. Cecil Les- 

 ter has been promoted to head clerk at 

 Hart & Vick's seed house. 



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