AoousT 2, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



87 



Help Wanted 



Carnation and Rose 

 Growers and Helpers 



steady work for good reliable 

 men. State in first letter age, 

 references, married or single, 

 also wages expected. 



J. F. WILCOX A SONS 



COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA 



;;$ltiialioti Wanted 



'As manasrer or ' foreman, by middle-aged 

 married man; good general grower. Carnations 

 a specialty. Last 12 years manager for Wm. F. 

 Kasting. Only responsible position considered. 

 Correspondence solicited. 

 Address No. 100, care florists' Review, Chicago 



HELP WANTED 



Three first-class greenhouse helpers, men 

 who have had some experience. Must be sober 

 and dependable. This is a steady position. 

 Give references and state wages in your first 

 letter. 



CHAS. FRUEH & SONS 

 SAGINAW, MICHIGAN 



Help Wanted 



Rose growers and helpers. Good wages 

 and steady jobs. 



BASSETT & WASHBURN 

 Hinsdale, Illinois. 



Help Wanted 



First-class, all-round man, carnations a 

 specialty, to take charge of our camati(]^ 

 houses. Steady position and good chance for 

 advancement to right parties. State salary 

 and send references in first letter. 



SIEBRECHT, FLORIST, 

 Aberdeen, South Dakota. 



HELP WANTED 



Young man as traveling salesman. One 

 familiar with Plants, Bulbs. Seeds and 

 Greenhouse Supplies, and acquainted with 

 the trade in the eastern and southern part 

 of the United States. 

 Address No. 116, care Florists' Review, Chicato 



Help Wanted 



Man with wholesale cut flower experience, 

 for a large first-class Chicago wholesale cut 

 flower house. Must be willing worker. Fine 

 opportunity for right man. Chicago man pre- 

 ferred. State wages desired. 



Address No. 115, care florists' Review Chicago 



HELP WANTED 



By a well known seed house, a traveling 

 salesman familiar with the seed, bulb and 

 plant business and well acquainted with the 

 gardeners' eastern territory. Must come well 

 recommended. All communications strictly 

 confidential. Address with particulars 

 No. 109, care Florist*' Review, Chicago. 



"help wanted-male 



SEED TRADE 



Opening for a bright middle-aged man as A-1 

 executive, thoroughly familiar with the seed, 

 bulb and plant business and all details per- 

 taining thereto. Capable of handling store 

 force. Location New York City. Must have 

 high references. All communications strictly 

 confidential. Address with particulars. No. 

 108, care Florists' Review. Chicago. 



GREENHOUSES AND RESIDENCE 



SPLENDID BUSINESS. FINE HOME. SIX GOOD HOUSES. EIGHT FINE LOTS. 

 Comer location in a midwestem city of 200,000 inliabitants 



THIS PROPERTY FOR SALE 



The greenhouses are well located. There are eight lots 25x126 feet. Six greenhouses 21x166 

 feet. Five of them are Iron guttered with angular purlins, with seven-foot iron posts 

 under the gutters. 



The houses are stocked with over five thousand carnation plants, four thousand seven hun- 

 dred roses — American Beauty, Killarney Brilliant, Ophelia, Lady Alice Stanley, Hadley, 

 Madame Shawyer, Sunburst and Hoosier Beauty. About twenty-six hundred mums, in the 

 leading varieties; ferns, palms, asparagus, asters and snapdragons, and plants of all kinds 

 for pot plants for the coming season. There are three hundred and twenty-flve feet of 

 beautiful parking planted in flowers for stock plants. 



The greenhouses and everything are in fine shape. Large brick boiler house and garage, 

 built two years ago. Fine, new, 126-H. P. steam return tubular boiler, tested to carry one 

 hundred and twenty-flve pounds of steam. With new Morehead double system of steam 

 traps. The boiler is in flrst-class condition and heats the ofllce and dwelling. 



The ofllce is 26 feet square, with four good living rooms overhead. It opens into the shdw 

 room and rose house, also the back way to the kitchen of the dwelling. In eontainh 

 two counters, one large marble counter, with large mirror 4 x 10 feet and wall shelves back 

 of the counter. Fine, large ice box, with a large mirror in front and at one end. Large 

 wall case 12 feet long and 8 feet high. Case with glass sliding doors and marble base and 

 flnished with white enamel. One large marble top store table with marble slab 4x6 feet. 

 Private offlce with large safe, with double combination and money compartment. Good roll 

 top desk. There are three large plate glass windows and plate glass door in front of ofllce. 

 You can go out of the public ofllce Into the cellar, where a room is fitted up for storing cut 

 flowers, and a large zinc table for sorting. There are four rooms in the cellar under the 

 house, all cemented. One laundry room, with stationary tubs and clothes chute from the 

 bath room. 



The dwelling is a nine-room house, made of light colored brick with dark brown trim- 

 mings. The rooms downstairs are all flnished in oak, upstairs are natural wood varnished 

 There is a large sitting room with fireplace and mantel. A large dining room with bay 

 window and built-in sideboard with large mirror and leaded glass doors in. the cupboards 

 and drawers for the silver, table linen, etc. The library looks out on the conservatory. A 

 large front hall which opens into these rooms. A good sized kitchen and pantry. A good 

 sized clothes closet and stationary lavatoryHn the kitchen, also sink with two large draining 

 boards. Large glass-enclosed back porch, also large front porch. There are four large 

 rooms upstairs with a clothes closet in each room. A large bath room with fine, open 

 plumbing. A large open porch or balcony upstairs. Electric lights and gas throughout the 

 house. A gas grate upstairs and down. The front room upstairs has a large fireplace 

 with gas grate and mantel. You can go from the library through a hall and Into the cellar, 

 also out into the conservatory. Stained glass windows in sitting room and dining room, 

 also stained glass window on the landing of the stairway. 



The streets are all well improved, good cement gutters, storm sewer and sanitary sewer. 

 The parkings are planted with nice hard maple and shade trees. 



Most of the walls of the greenhouses are brick with pressed brick front. These are all in 

 good shape and planted up for the season with plenty of stock for next year. A good local 

 retail and shipping trade. Auto delivery car. 



Property is worth $20,000. Will make liberal disconnt and terms to right party. Owners 

 have other business interests which demand their attention. For particulars, panoramic 

 photograph, price and terms, write to 



IOWA SEED COMPANY, Agaits. DE8 MOINES. IOWA 



FOR SALE 



Four Horizontal Tubular Boilers and 

 two water tube boilers. Good condition. 



Address ARMSTRONG MFG. CO. 



SPRINCriELD, OHIO 



FOR SALE 



At once, three modem greenhouses, well 

 stocked with roses, carnations, etc., together 

 with store, in town of about 9 0OO population 

 in north central Iowa, doing about $9000.00 

 per annum. We have been offered more than 

 we are now asking. Write us immediately for 

 full particulars if interested. 



Address No. 85, care Florists' Review, Chicago 



FOR LEASE- GREENHOUSES 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



3 houses, 25x100 feet each, steam Iieating' plant; 

 also If desli-ed, 5-room cottagft adjoinlnfir: good lo- 

 cation just south of Country Club district; close to 

 car line; place has been a money maker. In an- 

 swering give experience and references. 



RALPH P. SWOFFORD & CO. 



310-13 Rlalto Buildinsr. Kansas City, Mo. 



Do You Want to Buy ? 



A retail flower and seed business in a pros- 

 perous city of 18,000 people in Illinois, doing a 

 yearly cash business of 112.000.00 or more, and 

 where the field for expansion is not yet nearly 

 developed to its capacity. Possession now or 

 later. For further information 



Ad dress No. 20, care florists' Review, Chicago 



PARTNER WANTED 



We want a practical landscape man to 

 invest from $1,000.00 to $5,000.00, with 

 service to develop the landscape depart- 

 ment. Slate experience, age and references 

 in first letter. 



THE CREST NURSERY, PIQUA, OHIO 



FOR SALE 



Two Modern Greenhouses 



Gas. fuel, self-watering plant and five acres 

 of good land in connection with greenhouses. 

 Modem residence half block away, will be sold 

 separately or both greenhouses and residence 

 together. Good shipping business; will pay for 

 itself in two years if properly managed. Situ- 

 ated in one of the best cities in Arkansas. Part 

 cash, part terms. 



E. C. PRUNER 

 30 E. Randolph St., CHICAGO, ILL. 



FOR SALE 



Will Sell to Rieht Party 



The following: Greenhouses, bol'er. 1-ton truck, 

 electric motor and pump, pots for the coming sea- 

 son, the best varieties of all kinds of beddlnsr plants 

 for stock, 75<)0 sq. ft. of double strength glass, one 

 No 10 Kroesehell hot water boiler. Kefer to my ad 

 of July 19 for full particular. This Is a (;ood invest- 

 ment for right party. 



LOUIS P. EAULK. R. F. D. 3, Box 63, Bellevue, Pa. 



FOR SALE 



MOREHEAD STEAM TRAP 



1 No. 8 Return Steam Trap. 

 1 No. 2 Receiver, all complete. 



In first-class condition. 



Quick Cash Sale Price, 



$85.00 for entire S.vstem. 



THE LEEDLE ROSARY COMPANY 

 Springfield, Ohio 



FOR SALE 



Half interest in 30,000 ft. of glass, first- 

 class store, fully equipped, in live town 

 doing A-1 business. For further parti- 

 culars 

 Address No. 86, care Florists' Review, Chicag* 



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