AUGUST 23, 1917. 



The Florists' RevieY^ 



45 



Look 'who's here! 



LARGE YELLOW MUMS, A-1 Quality 



We can supply them from now on 



ALSO FINE SUMMER ROSES 



None Better on the Chicago Market 



IF YOU WANT GOOD STOCK AND GOOD TREATMENT 



Send us your orders for ROSES9 Gladioli, Asters, Lilies, Calendulas, Snapdragons, Stocks, 

 Daisies, Feverfew, Gypsophila and all other seasonable stock. Also Greens, such as Ferns, 

 Asparagus Sprengeri, Green and Bronze Galax, Leucothoe Sprays, Adiantum. We have 

 home-grown Asparagus— sure to reach you in good shape*. 



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We are in constant tOMch with market conditions and when a dedine takes place you can rely upon orders sent us receiving such benefits. 



Mention The ReTlew when you write. 



many years of close attention to busi- 

 ness. 



Frank Gorly, of St. Louis, who has 

 been vacationing in Michigan, came 

 across the lake to make the trip to the 

 convention with the Chicago party. 



Tire trouble displaced the cares of 

 l>usiiicss on A. Miller's drive to Detroit 

 last week. 



J. P. Dognan has a cable from one 

 of the Holland connections of Winter- 

 ^on's Seed Store stating that Dutch 

 bulbs will be shipped August 2~). 



Mrs. Albert Koehler, wife of the sec- 

 retary of the American Bulb Co., is vis- 

 iting at Marquette, Mich. 



C. J. Michelsen's father, who has 

 made many friends among his son's 

 business associates, has been in the 

 'lospital for the last ten days for an 



operation for rupture. He spent some 

 bad hours, but it is pleasant to record 

 that he now is getting along nicely. 



W. X. Rudd is on the program of the 

 Association of American Cemetery 

 Superintendents, which holds its con- 

 vention at Barre, Vt., August 28 to 31, 

 for a paper on pricing cemetery lots. 



There was a quiet little birthday 

 celebration in Evanston Sunday, August 

 11) having been the seventy-third anni- 

 versary of Peter Risch, head of the firm 

 of Weiland & Risch. 



Several growers in the vicinity of 

 Chicago are preparing against a pos- 

 sible future need, by trying out, on at 

 least one bench, the growing of toma- 

 toes and other varieties of vegetables 

 yielding to culture under glass. They 

 are prompted to do this by the feeling 



that it is not impossible that they may 

 l)e called upon by tlie government at 

 a future date to utilize their facilities 

 in aiding in tlie production of food- 

 stuffs. 



Visitors. 



S. Bryson Ayres, of Independence, 

 Mo., was a visitor last week, on his 

 way home from Harvard University, 

 where lie has ])t'eii taking a short course 

 in landscape architecture. 



Alex. Xewett returned to St. Joseph,. 

 Mo., August 18, after spending a few 

 days' vacation renewing acquaintances 

 here. 



J. V. McKay, of Jackson, Miss., was 

 a visitor last week. During his stay ho 

 was entertained by Felix Reichling, of 

 Peter Reinberg's. 



