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The Florists^ Review 



July 26, 1917. 



Summer Roses 



Our Summer Roses will please you. They are of exceptionally fine quality for 

 this season of the year. We receive large cuts daily. All the leading varieties, 

 all grades. Order here and avoid disappointment. Our prices are reasonable. 



. Do not omit your supply of garden flowers. Fine Delphinium, Gladioli, Calendulas, 

 Shastas, Cornflowers, Gypsophila, Tiger Lilies, Centaurea, Asters, etc. We still 

 have good Carnations. Water Lilies, Valley, Peonies, Orchids, Lilies. 



F RNE ^ C^ OMPANY 



L 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



30 E. Randolph St. 



Successors to ERNE & KLINGEL 



L D. Pkone Randelph 6578 

 ▲uto. 41-710 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



had. Eussell continues as the leader. 

 Red roses are probably in next active 

 demand. As Eichmonds are scarce and 

 of poor quality, this need is met by 

 Milady, which is in fair supply. Kil- 

 larney and White Killarney are both 

 scarce. Ophelia is plentiful, sells well 

 and comes in for a good portion of the 

 unsupplied orders for white. Sunburst 

 also is plentiful. Eoses cut from young 

 plants are on the increase and a large 

 supply of this class of stock is in early 

 prospect. 



Although there still are quite a num- 

 ber of carnations for this season of the 

 year, they are mostly of poor quality. 

 Good stock arriving, however, moves 

 fairly well. 



Valley is a little scarce, due to the 

 fact that growers are holding pips back 

 for next season because of the uncer- 

 tainty of obtaining any more. Orchids 

 are in supply just sufficient to meet the 

 demand. There are enough lilies. Some 

 outdoor sweet peas are arriving and 

 sell cheaply. Peonies are beginning to 

 shorten. Gladioli are quite scarce. 

 There have been fewer gladioli in the 

 market so far this year than in any 

 recent summer. Shasta dai-sies are 

 plentiful, but there are not one-half so 

 many to be seettr as at this time last 

 year. Asters ystill are scarce. The de- 

 mand for thetn is good. An abundance 

 of gypsophila may be seen. It sells 

 well. Centaureas also are in good sup- 

 ply and fairly active demand. Some 

 outdoor stocks are beginning to come 

 in. Pond lilies are plentiful and sell 

 fairly well. 



Greens generally are in good supply, 

 but a slight shortage of smilax was to 

 be noted last week. 



Express Companies to Curtail Pickups. 



"Wholesale houses have received notice 

 from the expro«s companies thst alter 

 August 1 there will be no pickup serv- 

 ice after ') p. m. It is explained that 

 this is to insure full cars on t]ic earlier 

 trains, to relieve the evening conges- 

 tion and insure each day's shipments 

 getting out that day. 



Until October 1 the change will not 

 affect the flower market, because the 

 wholesale houses are closing at 5 p. m., | 



F. T. D. Service in a Wholesale Way 

 is a new departure in Wholesaling Cut 

 Flowers to the Exclusive Retail Florist. 



To Buy Right is to make permanent connection with a 



house that protects you. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



Chicago 



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but between October 1 and June 30 

 probably ninety per cent of tlie cut 

 flower shipments have gone out after 

 3 p. m. 



The action of the express companies 

 will mean that customers must get their 

 orders in earlier, tliat growers must get 

 tlieir afternoon shipments into the 

 wholesale houses earlier and that the 

 wliolesalers must have tlie boxes ready 

 at 5 p. m. instead of letting things drag 

 along for an hour or more, as has been 

 (lone in previous seasons. Either that 

 or hire a wagon for the late orders, 

 which will not pay. 



The Draft. 



The trade suffered a severe attack of 

 arithmomania last week, when the draft 

 numbers came out. No large number of 

 those in business on their own account 

 were registered, but many had sons on 

 the lists and of the employees in retail 



stores, in wholesale houses and in the 

 greenhouses fully half are of military 

 age. The marvel, then, is that so few 

 of the trade found their numbers among 

 those to be called for immediate exam- 

 ination. 



The first well known trade name to 

 appear on the local lists was that of 

 E. F. Winterson, Jr. His was the one 

 hundred eighth number drawn. Sidney 

 Buchbinder held tlie one hundred tenth 

 number. Each is married. 



A. Miller, president of the American 

 Bulb Co., held the number in the seven 

 hundred fortieth capsule drawn at 

 Washington, 343. He has had four 

 years' training in a military school and 

 will make no claim to exemption. He 

 married after registering. 



Here is an incomplete list of the em- 

 ployees of Chicago wholesale florists who 

 held numbers low enough to bring them 

 up with the first call for examination: 



