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The Florists^ Review 



Apbil 1, 1920 



ROSES, CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS 



AND OTHER FLOWERS 



IN LARGE SUPPLY 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



is little interest in violets, as their 

 season is nearing its end. 



Greens of nearly all kinds are scarce, 

 shipments having come only slowly. 



The express service, outgoing, has be- 

 come normal. After giving pick-up 

 service only until 2 p. m., for several 

 days, the company restored full service 

 until nightfall for the Easter rush. Most 

 of the wholesalers are making prepara- 

 tions for maintaining the flow of out- 

 going shipments up to the late trains 

 Saturday night. 



Our Good Lack.. 



Numerous inquiries having come as 

 the result of scare heads in the daily 

 newspapers, it can be said that there 

 is no news regarding storm damage to 

 the local florists. The tornado which 

 visited the northwest section of Chicago 

 on Palm Sunday hit no greenhouses. 

 Sensational reports seem to have been 

 current at other places regarding the 

 damage here, but the losses to growers 

 were comparatively slight. 



The storm, which was one of the hard- 

 est blows ever experienced in this sec- 

 tion, followed a curved path which 

 carried it within a few hundred yards 

 of some of the big greenhouse sections, 

 but, by a miracle, it missed them all. 

 Striking at Elgin, the storm moved 

 southward as it traveled east and 

 skirted Elmhurst and Maywood. Turn- 

 ing north after passing Maywood, it 

 missed the establishment of Sam Pearce 

 by little more than a block and went 

 out onto the lake at Wilmette only a 

 few hundred yards south and east of 

 the greenhouse colony there. The Witt- 

 bold establishment at Edgebrook was 

 only a short distance out of the path of 

 the storm and the Poehlmann ranges, 

 at Morton Grove, were near enough so 

 that the hail which followed broke 

 about 1,000 panes. It constituted the 

 trade's heaviest loss, thus far reported. 

 Kirscht Bros, and other Morton Grove 

 growers also lost a little glass by hail. 



The gable ends of two houses of 

 Wietor Bros., in Rogers Park, were 

 blown in. One house was empty, just 

 being made ready for replanting. 



At Batavia, the Batavia Greenhouse 

 Co. lost a gable and a little broken 

 glass. 



WE DO 



AS WE SAY 



COMMISSION WHOLESALING 

 makes the 

 MARKET PRICE on 



CUT FLOWERS 



The Retail Dealer wants cut flowers at the 

 LOWEST PRICE— the Consignor wants 

 the HIGHEST PRICE. Between fulfilling 

 the demands of both Grower and Retailer 

 the LEVEL of a price is reached — that's 

 the Market Price — THE PRICE YOU 

 PAY. 



Commission Wholesaling, as we conduct it, 

 extends unexcelled facilities in supplying 

 the cut flower needs of the Retail Florist. 



DON'T GROW THEM— BUY THEM. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



174 North WaboMh Avenue 



CHICAGO 



YOUR 



Prvtectiw 



