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The Florists^ Review 



January IS, 1917. 



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WIETOR BROS.. 



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CHICAGO 



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AMERICAN BEAUTIES Per doz. 



48 to 60-inch stems $5.00 



36-inch stems 4.00 



30-inch stems 3.00 



24-inch stems 2.00 



Mrs. Chas. RuMell 



Fancy stock 



Per 100 

 .$10.00 @ $20.00 



Miniature Roses Per 100 



Baby Doll $3.00 



Elger 8.00 



Pink KUlamey, White Klllamey, Klllamey 

 Brilliant, Sunburst, Richmond, Ophelia 



Per 100 



Extra Special $10.00 



Select 8.00 



Fancy 7.00 



Medium 6.00 



Good 6.00 



Short stems 4.00 



Carnations Per 100 



Fancy $2.50 



Good $1.50 @ 2.00 



Per 100 



$ 6.00 



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Miscellaneous 



Valley 



Lilies $12.60 @ 16.00 



Ferns per ICOO. $2.50 



Smilax per doz. strings, 2.00 



Adiantum 



Galax (bronze and green), per 



1000 $1.25 



Asparagus Sprengeri. ...I boh. 



Asparagus Pluniosus ) $0.50 



Boxwood per lb., .25 



Other Green Goods Market Rates. 



ROSES, our selection $4.00 per lOO 



Mention The ReTlew when yog write. 



houses that are only a few steps from 

 liis residence. He was reported last 

 week aw about to receive greater free- 

 4loin, but the severe weather has retarded 

 liis convalescence. 



Matthias Mann and a party of grow- 

 ers visited the plant of the J. D. Thonij)- 

 son Carnation Co., Joliet, 111., January 11, 

 to inspect the company's new carnation, 

 8uperb. 



Herman W. Rogers, for seventeen 

 years in the employ of Weiland & Risch, 

 left January 16 for Detroit, where he 

 will make his home. 



At the Rienzi Flower Shop, 281.'5 

 Broadway, G. C. Seffens has fitted up 

 a special room called the Green Room for 

 the display of ferns, etc. All the bloom- 

 ing stock is in the main salesroom. 



The American Bulb Co. received a car- 

 load of 2.50,000 gladiolus bulbs January 

 15, which had been on the road during 

 the recent zero weather. That the stock 

 arrived in first-class condition shows 

 tiiat most of the losses which have oc- 

 <-urred this season have been due to 

 somebody's lack of caution. 



C. Frauenfelder reports that the new 

 year is starting quite satisfactorily, al- 

 though funeral work at i)resent is the 

 heaviest item. 



It is reported that IMrs. Albert V. 

 Amling is quite ill at her Maywood home. 



That business never was better with 

 the downtown retailers in the first half 

 of January than was the case this year 

 is Fred Ronsley 's opinion. He adds that 

 with good business prices paid for stock 

 have been lower than usual, roses not 

 much lower, but carnations about half 

 what they cost during the same time last 

 year. 



W. I). Desmond, formerly in business 

 at Minneapolis, has joined the sales 

 force of Poehlmann Bros. Co. He will 

 travel the northwest. 



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 OUrr LICO bons. chiffons and Corsage Shields. A full line of Cut Flower and Plant Bas- 

 kets. Send us your supply orders. 



We have a good stock of all seasonable Cut Flowers and Greens. 



Are yoa getting our Weekly Price List ? If not, send us your Name and Address. 



O. A. & L. A. TONNER 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND SUPPLIES 

 80 E. Randolph Street l. D. Fhona Central flt84 CHICAOO, ILL. 



A basket of Killarney roses, donated 

 by John Mangel to the Allied Bazaar, 

 brought .$19 when raffled off at the 

 Coliseum. 



The supply department of Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. boasts an electrically operated 

 machine which turns out greening pins 

 with great rapidity. 



At Union Grove French & Salm did an 

 unusual thing when they cut back in 

 Novenil)er the plants in half of one of 

 the big houses. They were planning on 

 a late-.Tanuary crop. It is well known 

 that the whole ])lace is in Russell. 



The considerable increase in business 

 that usually follows marked improve 

 ment in facilities has come to W. .1. 

 Smyth. Last summer the store was re- 

 modeled and the boulevard side turned 

 into possibly the largest show window 

 in town. The business now is breaking 

 records. 



Winterson 's Seed Store received a 

 shipment of Belgian tuberous-rooted be- 

 gonias January 12, having them come 

 on from New York by express to avoid 

 danger of freezing. 



Cleaned out of every usable ])lant at 

 Christmas, Frank Oechslin is bringing 

 along a large quantity of azaleas that 

 could not by any i)ossibility have been 

 got in for the holidays. Cyclamens, too. 



are abundant now and bulbs soon will be 

 ready in quantity. 



"Visitors. 



R. E. Jones, of the Advance Co., Rich- 

 mond, Ind., was a visitor January 11 and 

 12. 



J. L. Johnson, of De Kalb, 111., was in 

 town January 1.5, purchasing material 

 for another greenhouse to go up in the 

 spring. 



F. H. Henry, of Henry & Lee, New 

 York, has been in town this week. 



Among the visitors in the city last 

 week were James McLaughlin, of the 

 J. M. Gasser Co., Cleveland, O., who paid 

 his first visit to the Chicago wholesale 

 market, and Peter Freeman, of Aurora, 

 111. 



TOLEDO, O. 



The Market. 



The market was in good condition last 

 week. There was plenty of stock of 

 everything seasonable, with the prices 

 moderate. Business is reported good 

 with retailers since the holidays. The 

 stores are clearing large quantities of 

 stock, but not enough to clean up the 

 big receijits. The locally grown stock 



