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The Florists^ Review 



Mat IB, 1910. 



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urea. The credit to be given Mr. Bohan- 

 non and his workers will be realized 

 when one stops to think that the com- 

 mittees were organized in the midst of 

 the Easter rush and that the drive closed 

 the night before Mothers' day. Could 

 there ever be a more difficult time to 

 take florists away from their business? 



It is reported that J. B. Deamud is in 

 a sanitarium at Traverse City, Mich. 



Frank M. Johnson and Henry Niebuhr, 

 of the A. L. Eandall Co., left May 12 for 

 a trip to New York. 



Paul Klingsporn says last week 's sales 

 of the Chicago Flower Growers ' Associa- 

 tion were considerably more than dou- 

 ble those of the same week last year. 



John Ziska was 35 years of age May 

 13. 



Not content with Jiaving reliable rep- 

 resentation in Japan and having bought 

 and paid for a large quantity of lily 

 bulbs in advance of the digging, A. Mil- 

 ler has started for Japan to look over 

 the situation there. The American Bulb 

 Co. believes there will be a great scram- 

 ble for this year's small crop of bulbs 

 and intends to be in on the ground floor. 

 Mr. Miller left Chicago May 10 and will 

 sail May 20 from San Francisco, on the 

 Korea Mam, for Yokohama. He ex- 

 pects to be away for two or three 

 months. 



George A. Kuhl, of Pekin, 111., who has 

 been on the Pacific coast for several 

 months, is back at the Presbyterian 

 hospital, but he is improving steadily 

 and hopes soon to be able to go home 

 and resume active business. 



John Poehlmann, of Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., left May 12 on a two weeks' busi- 

 ness trip through the south. 



A. G. Pruyser, of the Michigan Bulb 

 Farm, who has made his home here for 

 some time, has removed to Benton Har- 

 bor, to be at the scene of active opera- . 

 tions. 



At Crystal Lake Frank Schramm has 

 given one-fourth his s^ace to Bose 

 Premier. Five thousand plants have 

 been benched, occupying one house. 



Friends of P. J. Foley ofFered con- 

 gratulations May 12. It was his fifty- 

 second birthday anniversary. 



Wendland & Keimel Co., Elmhurst, 

 report having contracted for their next 



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season's coal supply at a price 45 cents 

 a ton less than they paid last season. 

 However, it is one of those elastic con- 

 tracts which permits the seller to change 

 the price at his pleasure and permits 

 the buyer to cancel if the price is raised. 

 This has been the best season in the 

 experience of Peter J. Schumer, who has 

 been growing at Evanston twenty-two 



years. He has space for about 35,000 

 carnation plants, but gives part of it to 

 sweet peas and calendulas. 



W. K. Partridge, of the W. W. Bar- 

 nard Co., is in the County hospital 

 with blood poisoning and is in a seri- 

 ous condition. He has been catalogue 

 man for the Barnard Co. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., at Chicago and 



