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The Florists^ Review 



Dbcbmbbb 19, 1918. 



It cannot be said that there is an 

 oversupply of any flower and the prices 

 all along the line are much above those 

 of this date in other years. 



Christmas orders are being booked in 

 large numbers. The wholesalers are ex- 

 ercising the privilege of selection, each 

 according to his lights. Some houses are 

 taking orders only within a given ra- 

 dius, feeling that they need not this 

 year assume the risks of the far dis- 

 tances. Several are booking orders only 

 from those who have been buying reg- 

 ularly, and it seems to be the general 

 idea to decline with thanks the order 

 of the man who always makes a claim 

 after each holiday shipment. Of course 

 the buyer who has a reputation for be- 

 ing slow pay has little chance under 

 such conditions. 



It is quite likely, therefore, that the 

 total number of orders booked may not 

 be so large as recent conditions would 

 lead one to think and that it will not 

 be so difl&cult to fill orders as some ob- 

 servers have been predicting. Most of 

 the orders call for medium roses and it 

 looks as though there would be an ade- 

 quate supply for those who can use the 

 higher-priced grades. 



No one can remember when there has 

 been so little holly in Chicago the week 

 before Christmas, nor can anyone re- 

 member another year in which it took 

 three 5-dollar bills to get a case of it. 

 Bouquet green also is like the prover- 

 bial hen's teeth, which were not much 

 in evidence, but nobody seems to care; 

 by general consent bouquet green has 

 been listed among the nonessentials. 

 There is no great amount of boxwood, 

 but most of the buyers seem to have 

 obtained what they need. Mistletoe 

 equals all requirements. 



Workers Coming Back. 



One by one the young men are coming 

 back from the training camps and, most- 

 ly, going onto the old jobs. Every day 

 a familiar face reappears. 



Henry Niebuhr, who, before entering 

 the army, was chief accountant for the 

 A. L. Randall Co., is back on the job 

 again, having been released from the 

 army. He was stationed at Jefferson 

 Barracks, Mo. 



Joseph Carlin, who left the Fleisch- 

 man Floral Co. to enlist in the navy, 

 has been released from service at Nor- 

 folk, Va., and is back with his former 

 employers. 



Henry G. Wittbold, son of the Evans- 

 ton florist, called on friends in the mar- 

 ket the early part of the week in uni- 

 form, with the gold bar of a second 

 lieutenant on his shoulder. Mr. Witt- 

 bold has been released from the army 

 and goes on the officers' reserve. 



Allan Humason has returned east af- 

 ter a short furlough. Mr. Humason is 

 attached to the port of embarkation at 

 Hoboken, N. J., and was one of those 

 in charge of the sailing of the S. S. 

 George Washington, on which President 

 Wilson and his party went to France. 

 Mr. Humason expects to be discharged 

 from the service soon, at which time he 

 will take up the lines he formerly sold. 



Hilmer V. Swenson, well known to the 

 trade through his connection with flo- 

 rists' advertising, is back. Mr. Swen- 

 son was one of the first Chicagoans to 

 enter the army and be commissioned as 

 second lieutenant. He was retained in 

 this country as an instructor. Mr. 

 Swenson intends to enter the advertis- 

 ing business again. 



Lieutenant G. F. Leonard, who, be- 



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Louder 



Than 



Prices 



FOR 



Christmas 



WE OFFER 



Prices 



as 



Low 



as 



Others 



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Valley, Easter Lilies, Calendulas, 



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-AS WE HAVE- 



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