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The Florists^ Review 



Januabt 30. 1919. 



ALL THE LEADING VARIETIES 

 or UNUSUAL QUALITY 



ROSES 



NONE BETTER TO BE FOUND 

 ANYWHERE IN THE MARKET 



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Orchids 

 Freesia 

 Violets 

 Callas 



Easter Lilies 

 Sweet Peas 

 Valley 

 Narcissi 



Carnations 

 Calendulas 

 Daisies 

 Mignonette 



Galax, Smilax, Boxwood, Sprengeri, Plumosus, Leucothoe, Adiantum, Ferns, Mexican Ivy 



Our Pricet arm no Higher than Othera and Market Pricee Prevail 

 WE ARE OPEN UNTIL 8 P. M. ON SATURDAY. BUT CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY 



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Agents for 

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30 E. Randolph St. 



WHOLKSALK FLORISTS 



L D. Phone Randolph 6578 



CHICAGO 



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I For St. Valentine's Day we have just what you require I 



I in Cut Flowers and Greens. I 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



160 North Wabash Avenue 

 CHICAGO 



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interesting report, stating that while 

 in New York last week carnations were 

 selling at 10 and 12 cents, splits bring- 

 ing 6 cents, and even at those figures 

 stock moved without any trouble. He 

 says 10-inch roses sold for 15 cents and 

 12-inch for 20 cents, while longer- 

 stemmed stock was far higher than it is 

 in the Chicago market. In Philadelphia 

 Mr. Klingsporn says carnations brought 

 10, 12 and 15 cents last week and fancy 

 Laddie sold for 20 cents. Roses were 

 about the same in price as in New York. 

 The only flowers that he saw on his trip 

 that were lower in price than on the 

 . Chicago market were orchids. Mr. 

 Klingsporn says he is glad he is located 

 in Chicago, after seeing eastern condi- 

 tions, and thinks that the retailers 

 would feel the same if they made a visit 

 to other large markets. 



C. L. Washburn will leave Chicago 

 about February 15 for Pasadena, Cal. 

 Mr. Washburn will not go directly west, 

 as he has planned going to New Or- 

 leans first, then to Galveston and San 

 Antonio, Tex., and from there to Pasa- 

 dena. At Pasadena he will meet his son, 



E. B. Washburn, on business matters, 

 as the latter will start for Chicago at 

 the end of February to take charge of 

 the business of Bassett & Washburn 

 during his father's absence. Mr. Wash- 

 burn will be accompanied by his wife 

 and will return sometime in April. 



Among the growers who are vacation- 

 ing are W. J. Keimel and Albert F. Am- 

 ling. They are at Hot Springs, Ark. 

 Mrs. Amling is with them. 



Bonvallet & Co., the concern with 

 which C. S. Clausen is identified, is pre- 

 paring to plant about 800,000 gladiolus 

 bulbs on about twenty acres at Wichert, 

 HI., for cut flowers. 



To provide space for what is expected 

 to be the largest i^ripg business to date, 

 the American Bulb Co., on the west 

 side of Wabash avenue, has rented the 

 basement of the E. C. Amling Co., just 

 across, on the east side. The concern 

 already has a large basement space in 

 the Le Moyne building, but it is prac- 

 tically all occupied by gladiolus bulbs. 



Peter Reinberg has added $200 per 

 year to the S. A. F. publicity fund. 



James G. Hancock, who is widely 



known in the trade, has gone into the^ 

 insurance business with G. N. Wright & 

 Co., 659 Insurance Exchange building. 

 He writes everything^ but specializes 

 on accident insurance. 



C. A. Samuelson, whose store is on 

 motor row, has a special window decora- 

 tion for automobile show week. The cen- 

 tral piece is a limousine made of flow- 

 ers. 



Word has been received of the safe 

 arrival at Orange, Cal., of E. C. Amling 

 and his family party. They expect to 

 be there about two months. 



"We are picking a few now," says 

 Henry Wehrman, of Maywood. "A 

 few" last week was 40,000 sweet peas. 



While F. M. Johnson was walking 

 down the street in Washington, D. C, 

 a few days ago he saw a Randall electric 

 fountain playing in the window of the 

 Marche flower store. Inquiry developed 

 that it had been in almost constant 

 service for two years. 



McKinley day, as it is known in Ohio, 

 is Frese day in the Chicago market. 

 O. W. Frese was born January 29, 

 1866. Of his fifty-three years he has 



