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The Florists^ Review 



Decbubbb 12. 1018. 



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for the members of the club and their 

 friends and also will be a ladies' night. 

 There will be music and dancing. 



The old saying that ' ' the office should 

 seek the man" holds good in the case 

 of the Florists' Club, as no one seems 

 to want office. George C. Weiland de- 

 clined to permit his name to stand for 

 the presidency and the following slate 

 for 1919 was elected without opposition, 

 by unanimous ballot cast by the secre- 

 tary: President, A. J. Zecb; vice-presi- 

 dent, Walter Amling; secretary, A. T. 

 Pyfer; treasurer. Otto H. Amling; trus- 

 tee, Fred Lautenschlager, to take the 

 place of H. N. Bruns. 



Henry D. Neve, Grant Wiffin and 

 Xavier Wojtkiewicz, all of Des Plaines, 

 111., were elected to membership. 



Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., 

 sent in three varieties of chrysanthe- 

 mums, two of them being their new 

 sorts, Victory and Loyalty. The latter 

 was a yellow incurved mum which was 

 judged in Chicago November 23 and 

 scored 88 points. Victory, a white in- 

 curved, was judged on the same date 

 and scored 87 points. The third variety 

 was December Queen. The Chicago 

 Flower Growers' Association displayed 

 a large vase of George Ball's calendula, 

 also three varieties of pompons grown 

 by Mr. Ball. They were Golden Wed- 

 ding, yellow; Plumes, yellow, and Hilda 

 Canning, bronze. 



The attendance at the meeting was 

 large and was exceptionally good in 

 that it was representative of growers, 

 commission men and retailers. 



Various Notes. 



The burglar trust evidently has been 

 reading about the high prices asked for 

 flowers in the local market and con- 

 cluded that a lot of cash would be found 

 in some of the wholesale houses. De- 

 cember 4 several places were broken in- 

 to on the second floor of the Atlas block, 

 including the stores of Wietor Bros., 

 Charles W. McKellar, Archie Spencer 

 and John Kruchten Co. None of these 

 suffered any great loss, only a small 

 amount of cash and postage stamps be- 

 ing taken from each place, with the ex- 

 ception of Archie Spencer, who lost his 

 double-barreled shot gun, a new rain 

 coat and traveling bag. 



The newly formed Retail Florists' As- 

 sociation had its first evening meeting 

 at dinner at Hotel La Salle December 8. 

 The plan is to meet weekly for a while. 

 Although there are numerous matters 

 under consideration, the members' at- 

 tention at present is centered on the 

 short supply and high prices, which 

 necessitate many departures from the 

 old-time methods of running retail 

 stores. 



The funeral of Gottfried Amling, 

 father of florists, was largely attended, 

 December 5. The deceased was one of 

 the first settlers in the Maywood dis- 

 trict, although his last years were spent 

 in the home of his daughter, Mrs. 

 Dreschler, in Eiver Forest. He was 87 

 and it had been reported in The Review 

 several weeks ago that he was in a 

 critical condition due to the infirmities 

 of old age. Death came December 2. 

 Mrs. Amling predeceased him by several 

 years. Of their children, three sons, 

 Albert F., Ernst C. and William H., 

 are well known florists and one daugh- 

 ter, Mrs. H. Wehrmann, married in the 

 trade. There are eight grandchildren 

 also in the business and several great- 

 grandchildren growing up to it. 



A. L. Randall celebrated his fifty- 



Christmas Necessities 



On account of the scarcity of cut flowers for Christmas we are only quoting 



same on appiication. 



BOXWOOD: 



Box-Dwarf (Baby) fine stock, fresh and green, 60-lb. bags 30c per lb. 



Box-Tree — short, bushy branches, small leaves, clean and nice, 50-lb. 

 bags 25c per lb. 



Delivered in the City. 



GALAX: 



Bronze and Green, new stock, per 1000 $ 1.50 



Case lots of 10,000 12.50 



I.KUCOTHOE: 



Long green, per 100 $0.75 



Medium green, per 100 60 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSrS: 



Select tips, per bunch 35c and 50c 



Long sprays, per bunch 50c and 75c 



ASPAR.ACrS SPRENGEBI: 



Per bunch 25c and 35c 



FERNS: Per 1000 $5.00 



MISTLETOE: 



Choice, per lb 30c 



lO-lb. cartons, per lb 25c 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 

 164 North Wabash Avenue L. D. Phone Central 3373 CHICAGO 



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I ASPARAGUS PLUNOSUS, $2.00 per 100 1 



I THESE ARE EXTRA FINE SPRAYS | 



I We Ship to all Points | 



I IMPERIAL GARDENS, Sugar Land, Texas. | 



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