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1 he Florists' Review 



August 2, 1917. 



Roses, Asters, Valley, Easter Lilies, Rubrum Lilies, 

 Tiger Lilies, Water Lilies, Shastas, Calendulas, 

 Snapdragons, Bachelor's Buttons, Orchids, Gypso- 

 phila, Cornflowers, Centaurea, Sweet Peas, etc. 



F rne & Company 



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WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



30 E. Randolph St. 



Successors to ERNE & KLINGEL 



L D. Phone Randolph 6578 

 Auto. 41-718 



CHICAGO 



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is found difficult to move at even the 

 greatest concessiojis. 



American Beauties are hardly a fac- 

 tor in the market, as there is but a 

 small supply coming in. What stock 

 does arrive, however, is readily dis- 

 posed of. Good roses, of all varieties, 

 were not plentiful, but moved well. A 

 slight shortage of Eussell, which still 

 retains its supreme popularity, was 

 noticed at times in some houses, but 

 they could fill their needs in others. 

 All roses may be sard in a greater or 

 less degree to show the effects of the 

 heat. 



Carnations have about run their 

 course. Hardly any stock arrives and 

 with this shortening the demand also 

 has fallen off almost entirely. Valley 

 is not plentiful, as little forcing is be- 

 ing done. Orchids remain scarce. 



There were considerable quantities of 

 Easter lilies to be seen about the mar- 

 ket, but they had only a small sale. 

 A moderate supply of rubrum lilies is 

 also arriving. 



Gladioli are more plentiful, and good 

 quality stock is in strong demand at 

 good prices. A few stocks arrive, but 

 they are not in much demand. Sweet 

 peas, also, are only represented by a 

 little poor stock. Astfers are more 

 plentiful, but the quality on the whole 

 is poor. There are many daisies, but 

 they are not in large demand. Peonies 

 have about reached the end of their sea- 

 son. Centaureas sell only fairly well. 

 Snapdragons are of poor quality and 

 move slowly. 



Agmco Buys Pana Factory. 



The American Greenhouse Mfg. Co. 

 has bought the buildings and site of the 

 Progressive Mfg. & Mercantile Co., 

 Pana, 111., and work is now under way 

 to move the company's factory at 

 Cicero, 111., to the new location. 



The new plant comprises four brick 

 buildings with a floor space of about 

 80,000 square feet, besides a large office 

 building located directly on one of the 

 four railroads which run through the 

 five acres of ground owned by the com- 

 pany. Three railroad switches facili- 

 tate the handling of stock. A private 

 electric power plant is on the grounds, 

 while on the adjoining property is the 



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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. 



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city gas and water works. Of the 

 80,000 square feet of factory space 

 nearly 70,000 are main floor and room 

 for about 1,000 workmen is afforded. 

 Pana is about eighty miles from St. 

 Louis. 



Various Notes. 



The majority of growers have been 

 steadily reducing the number of varie- 

 ties grown, some of them now having 

 only two or three sorts of roses or a 

 half dozen varieties of carnations, but 

 at J. A. Budlong's it is considered good 

 policy to cling to a considerable num- 

 ber of varieties each of which has proved 

 profitable in its season. This establish- 

 ment probably grows more varieties of 

 roses than any other in this district. 

 The sorts planted for next season are 

 Mrs. Russell, Lady Alice Stanley, Mrs. 

 Wm. R. Hearst, Sunburst, Champ Wei- 

 land, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Hoosier 



Beauty, Milady, Double Wliite Killar- 

 ney, Killarney Brilliant, Ophelia and 

 Double Pink Killarney. Of the corsage 

 roses George Elger, Baby Doll, Evelyn 

 Nesbit and Cecile Brunner have been 

 benched. It will be noted that Ameri- 

 can Beauty and Killarney are not in the 

 list. 



The 5-story warehouse of the John 

 C. Moninger Co., which was destroyed 

 by fire on New Year's eve, is being re- 

 built this summer. The lower floor has 

 a 17-foot ceiling and is to be used as a 

 foundry. 



There are two things that impress 

 the eastern florist when he visits Cali- 

 fornia, said C. L. Washburn, in speak- 

 ing of his recent trip to the coast. The 

 first of these is the high quality of the 

 outdoor flowers, which are not surpassed 

 anywhere; the second, the low prices 

 at which flowers sell, carnations being 

 sold at retail for as low as 5 cents per 

 bunch of 100. 



