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I'hc Florists' Review 



Apbil 8, 1920 



St, Louis for Your Cut Flowers and 



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Kandolph Tuesday night, April 6. The 

 purijose was to discuss a city-wide spe- 

 cial sale of carnations under the au- 

 spices of tlie Allied Florists' Associa- 

 tion. Less than a dozen retailers wei*e 

 in attendance and therefore no action 

 was decided upon. 



Secretary Lautenschlager's notice of 

 the club meeting April 8 was decorated 

 with a front-page portrait of Treasurer 

 Paul E. Weiss, who was announced to 

 talk on coal. 



One of the curiosities of Quarantine 

 No. 37 is exhibited in the supply of 

 Spanish irises seen at the establishment 

 of the A. L. Bandall Co. The quarantine 

 prevents the importation of the roots, 

 but permits the importation of the cut 

 flowers. Consequently Chicago growers 

 received no irises from Holland last fall, 

 but Bandall now gets the cut flowers 

 from Canada, which admitted the roots 

 as usual. The duty is twenty-five per 

 cent. 



A few weeks ago H. N. Bruns had a 

 disastrous experience with a leaking gas 

 main in the street adjoining his green- 

 houses. Considerable valley was ren- 

 dered valueless. The gas company asked 

 August Poehlmann to make an appraisal 

 of the damage in its behalf, which he 

 did. There is good prospect that Mr. 

 Bruns will be paid for the loss. 



It is announced that Payne Jennings, 

 well known to florists through his activ- 

 ities in the advertising field, has been 

 elected vice-president in charge of sales 

 for the Machinists' Supply Co. 



The American Bulb Co. has received a 

 large number of letters about its recent 

 advertisement in the Sunday Tribune, 

 telling the public to buy lilies. In every 

 tase the letters are commendatory. 



Wendland & Keimel Co., Elmhurst, is 

 busy building new benches and replant- 

 ing the roses, but had 42,000 flowers for 

 Easter. 



Charles Drissler, of the store force of 

 Wietor Bros., lost his father March 30. 

 In ten days the venerable gentleman 

 would have been 80 years old. He died 

 of heart failure while walking on the 

 street. 



The flu a few weeks ago brought pros- 

 perity to many florists, but not to Damm 

 Bros. Ordinarily their lilies are among 

 the best on the market, but this year all 

 three of the brothers were laid up with 

 the epidemic at a critical time in the 

 growth of the lilies. The result was that 

 they did not have more than one-third 

 the number of salable flowers which 

 should have come from their bulbs. 



Eric Johnson had the most unpleas- 

 ant Easter in hia career. Starting the 

 week with a slight illness, by Wednes- 

 day he had to see a physician and spent 

 Ihe throo rush days nursing an abscess 



in his left ear, which pained liim as 

 much as the carnation average pained 

 some of the picklers. 



Frank Schramm must take out his old 

 boiler and put in a larger one, to take 

 care of the fifty per cent increase in 

 his glass area now in progress. It will 



interest growers who stick to old-fash- 

 ioned methods to learn that he has satis- 

 fied himself of the economy of carrying 

 125 pounds pressure on the boiler, al- 

 though he chokes it with a reducing 

 valve to three and one-half pounds pres- 

 sure on the main flow pipe. 



