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The Florists^ Review 



Sbpteubm 38. 1919. 





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now be short a delivery car. As it was, 

 he was just in time to see a stranger 

 backing the car out of a tight place 

 preparatory to starting. "When he saw 

 Mr. Ziska making for him, the thief 

 jumped from the seat, ran west, and 

 lost himself in the State street crowd. 



It is reported by W. A. Peterson that 

 the sale of peony roots this season 

 breaks all records at Peterson's 

 Nursery. 



•^^e first violets of the season were 

 reported September 21 by the E. C. 

 Amling Co. They came from Rhine- 

 beck. 



E. Zimmerman, wh6 has for some 

 time done a successful business at 1130 

 West Thirty-first street, has decided to 

 sell out and retire. 



Eight new display tables have been 

 placed fronting the elevator entrances 

 to the A. (L. Bandall Go. These will be 

 used to display novelties more advan- 

 tageously. Eric Jphnson, head of the 

 cut flower department, left September 

 25 on an eastern trip. 



After looking over the volume of 

 business done during the last five 

 months, H. B. Kennicott, of the Kenni- 

 cott Bros. Co., finds they are better 

 by far than the same months in any 

 previous year. 



After an extended trip through the 

 eastern states, during the course of 

 which he visited all the more important 

 cities of New England and many of 

 the lesser ones, T. E. Waters, head of 

 the supply department of the Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., returned to Chicago 

 September 27. He reports a highly suc- 

 cessful trip. 



For more than twelve years William 

 Fluegge, Jr., of ^Morton Grove, has 

 been a grower of pansies, geraniums and 

 all kinds of bedding plants. He is 

 ably assisted in his work by his good 

 wife, and their combined efforts have 

 been so successful that there is scarce- 

 ly a member of the trade in this part 

 of the state to whom they are not 

 known. 



The supply department of O. A. & 

 L. A. Tonner is adding a complete line 

 of glassware for table and window 

 decorations. 



Talk about luekl Just when every- 

 one wants to be making preparations 

 for the fall rush, J. A. Sikuta, of 3947 



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CHICAGO 



PRICES QUOTED ARC BY THE HUNDRED UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. 



ROSES 



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Milady 



Weiland.. . 



Thayer . 



Storey 



Ophelia 



Sunburst 



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$4. $ 3. 



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HEADQUARTERS FOR THE NEW ROSES- 

 CHAMP WEILAND, 



Russell, Storey and Thayer 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Carnations $2.00 @ 



Lily of the Valley. . 5.00 @ 

 Rubrum Lilies, Short, 5.00 @ 

 Easter Lilies... doz.. 1.25 @ 

 Chrysanthemums " 1.50 @ 



Smilax doz., 2.00 @ 



Adiantuni.«* 



2.00 @ 



2.00 @ 



Galax iOOO, $1.50 



Leucothoe ^ 



Mexican Ivy 



Flat Ferns, looo, $2.00 



Asparafl^ns. 

 Spreng^eri . , 



$3.00 



6.00 



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1.76 



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2.50 



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IfentloB Th« Reriew when joa write. 



West Twelfth street, .is summoned for 

 jury service. 



F. L. Eagleston, who last spring 

 opened the Flower Craft, a well ap- 

 pointed store at 1514 Hyde Park boule- 

 vard, is well pleased with this, his first 

 experience in the flower business. He 

 has Richard Rolston as artist, and there 

 are few more capable. Business was 

 good last spring, fair through the sum- 

 mer and has again become excellent 

 with the arrival of cool weather. 



While playing on the links of the 

 Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, James 

 Fisher, western representative of 

 Carter's Tested Seeds, Inc., fell and 

 injured his right knee. Though fortu- 

 nately not serious, the accident will dis- 

 commode him for some time. Speak- 

 ing of business, Mr. Fisher received a 



gratulatory letter from the home of- 

 fice on his splendid showing of business 

 for the last month. 



A large shipment of Dutch bulbs has 

 just been received by D. D. P. Roy. 

 The Lake Forest store is being rapidly 

 prepared for an autumn display. 



By way of a departure from the usual 

 course, Frank Winans, of Petoskey, 

 Mjch., who grows asters, has been send- 

 ing to retailers' a post card picture of 

 a box of his asters packed and ready 

 for shipping, with the following bit of 

 advice written on the reverse side of 

 the card: "Call for Winans' asters at 

 Zech & Mann's." 



This year the Peter Reinberg estab- 

 lishment has had more field-grown car- 

 nation plants to sell than ever before, 

 and they have been moving so much 



