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The Flor&ts' Review 





April 27, 1916. 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



the erection of one house 60x500 feet, 

 two houses 30x415 feet and a service 

 building. 60x100 feet, with a chimney 

 7x150 feet. In addition there will be 

 a packing room 17x30 feet, tiled, on 

 steel construction. The total cost will 

 be approximately $65,000. The work 

 is to be completed on or before Oc- 

 tober 1. 



At Crown Point Alois Prey is cut- 

 ting an extremely fine crop of snap- 

 dragons, varieties of his own raising 

 from cross-fertilized seed. 



C. W. McKellar notes an increased 

 call for corsage bouquets for the 

 Easter parades. He says the call this 

 year wmb so strong it produced the only 

 short|l^ in the market, that of flowers 

 Buitaole for corsage use. 



Felix Eeichling says the records show 

 last week's sales to have made the 

 largest Easter total in the history of 

 the Peter Reinberg establishment. 



One Rudolph Cohn has been arrested 

 for paying a bill at Charles T. Neig- 

 lick's with a bad check, pocketing cash 

 change. The complaint was signed by 

 Robert D. Vardaman. 



Early in the morning of April 21 the 

 office of the Geo. Wittbold Co., on 

 Buckingham place, was the scene of 

 another attempted robbery. Two watch- 

 men, on duty at the rear, noticed that 

 the light in the office had been turned 

 out and one of them went to investi- 

 gate. He encountered two masked men, 

 who demanded information as to where 

 the money was kept. The watchman 

 refused to answer and was dragged 

 into the new Wittbold apartment build- 

 ing and severely beaten. The robbers 

 escaped. The other watchman called 

 Louis Wittbold, who had the injured 

 man taken to the hospital. 



N. J. Wietor took time during the 

 Easter rush to contract for a few train 

 loads of West Virginia smokeless coal 

 for next season's supply. He expects 

 to see a Mothers' day demand almost 

 equal to that for Easter. 



The local retail trade is keeping the 

 seedsmen on tbje. , jump- At Winter- 

 son's Seed Store the crowd already has 

 cleaned up many items, but the slow 

 sale of boxwood is a subject for com- 

 ment. 



A bright orange body on a new 



A. T. Pyfer & Co. 



L. D. Phone Central 3873 



30 East Randolph St.^ Chicago 



Mothers' Day Price List , % 



CASNATI0N8 



Extra large fancy. 

 Choice 



PerlOO 

 $ 6.00 

 5.00 



White KUlamey 



KUlarney V Rood 



R'<^hmond \^^^ 



ROSES 



.Special 



(Select $ 6.00@ 



Sunburst i^^* 



Mrs. Russell 10.00® 15.00 



Extra specials billed accordingly. 

 American Beauties, per doz $ 3.00®$ 6.00 



MISCELLANEOUS Per 100 



10.00 

 8.00 

 5.00 

 4.00 

 10.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 



Easter Lilies, best grade $10.00 



Callas 12.50( 



Valley 



Sweet Peas 75(j 



Spanish Iris 4.00< 



Mignonette 



Adiantum 



Ferns, per 1000 



Smilax, per dozen 1 



Asparagus Plumosus per string. . . .60( 

 Asparagus Plumosus, per bunch... .35 

 Asparagus Sprengeri, per bunch... .25 

 Subject to market changes. 



112.50 

 16.00 

 5.00 

 2.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 

 1.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 .75 

 .50 

 .50 



FLOWERS OF QUALITY 



Mention The RcTtew when yon write. 



light car carries the name and fame. of 

 Kidwell & Son up and down the south 

 side. 



The George Wittbold Co. published 

 the largest Easter ad this season, a full 

 page in the Herald of April 20. A 



