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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 22. 1017. 



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The Mail Order 

 Wholesale Cut Flower House 



of Chicago 



-OUR F. T. D. SERVICE DID IT- 



Whatever advertisements you read in this paper as to quantity — quality — or 

 prices on Cut Flowers, bear in mind that you can get it at "Kennicott's" — 

 besides our F. T. D. Service is the Best Inducement for your bus'iness. 



F. T. D. Service 

 is a protection to 

 tlie Retail Florist. 



It's cheaper to buy cut flowers in tlie 

 World's Greatest Cut Flower Market 

 than it is for you to grow them. 



Easter Lilies Carnations 



Bulbous Stock 



THE PIKES PEAK FLORAL CO. 



COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 



Randall self-contained electric fountain 

 in the conservatory at the rear of Mr. 

 Mangel's store is causing favorable 

 comment. 



Among other advantages which will 

 accrue to George Fisher & Bro., at 

 their new quarters on the main floor at 

 183 North Wabash avenue, where they 

 expect to be located by April 1, is the 

 benefit of being able to work by day- 

 light in nearly any weather, one side 

 of the room being almost entirely 

 glass while another side is supplied with 

 two large windows. 



It is stated that the H. V. Swenson 

 Co. already has sold half of its million 

 Mothers' day stickers. 



Stuart B. Coatsworth, son of Louis 

 and Helen Coatsworth and grandson of 

 F. F. Benthey, died March 17 and was 

 buried at Rosehill March 17. It was 

 Louis Coatsworth who built the F. J. 

 Benthey greenhouses at Newcastle, de- 

 stroyed by last week 's tornado. 



Chicago was well represented at the 

 New York show last week and at the 

 rose show in Philadeljihia this week. In 

 addition to those mentioned in last 

 week's issue, Ernst C. Amling, of May- 

 wood; Alois Frey, of Crown Point; Au- 

 gust Jurgens, Frank McCabe and Fred 

 Lautenschlager were there. 



Sam Pearce, widely known as Chi- 

 cago's largest forcer of Easter lilies and 



Dutch bulbs, celebrated his fifty-eighth 

 birthday anniversary March 20. 



Mrs. Frank Williams, of the Atlas 

 Floral Co., has been ill at home the last 

 week. 



A most attractive St. Patrick 's day 

 window display was shown at the store 



H. B. Kennicott is in Florida. 



ROCHELLE 



Paper Tots and Dirt Bands. See pa^e 117. 



of George Wienhoeber last week. The 

 exhibit included carnations and tulips 

 dyed green, hyacinths, shamrocks and 

 other plants, all in old-fashioned high 

 hats made of birch bark. A made-up 

 harp occupied the center position of the 

 window. 



Robert Newcomb, of the American 

 Bulb Co., returned from the St. Louis 

 show March 19 with so bad a cold he 

 could not speak above a whisper, which 

 everyone will recognize as a condition 

 serious for a salesman. 



March 17, backward as is the spring, 

 was the largest March day in the history 

 of Winterson's Seed Store, says J. P. 

 Degnan. 



' John Plodzien, 1508 North Oakley 

 boulevard, has purchased a new delivery 

 car. 



Visitors. 



J. R. Lewis, representing Ralph M. 

 Ward & Co., New York, was one of last 

 week 's callers. 



Samuel Seligman, representing 

 Wertheimer Bros., New York, is in town 

 again. 



