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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 29, 191d. 



FLOWERS 



THAT SELL THEMSELVES 



GET THEM FROM THE QUALITY STOCK 



OF — 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



bulbs to a friend in the south, to be 

 planted and grown on. It is too early 

 to say as to the results, but the pros- 

 pects are not discouraging. 



The business established by Joseph 

 Wall still goes under that name, but is 

 run by his son, Julius Wall. The green- 

 houses, at 3235 North Springfield ave- 

 nue, are worth a visit at this season, 

 because Mr. Wall has the reputation of 

 growing bedding plants rather better 

 than most of the many small producers 

 on the northwest side. Two large, light 

 houses of geraniums, etc., were fine, the 

 plants selling as fast as they come into 

 flower. 



W. K, Partridge, of the catalogue 

 department of the W. W. Barnard Co., 

 who has been critically ill in the County 

 hospital, is convalescing. 



Bassett & Washburn say business is 

 twice as good as last year for Memorial 

 day. They cater principally to the out- 

 of-town trade. 



A. Lange stated last week that by 

 June 15 he expects to be located at 77 

 and 79 East Madison street, where he is 

 fitting up a much larger store than he 

 now occupies. 



Stanley Serafino, who does business 

 at the old A. Anthes site, 3440 North 

 Lowell avenue, as the Grayland Florist, 

 is one of the men, rare in the trade, who 

 can see it when another grower's stock 

 is better. He has been at the business 

 ten years and has done well, but is in 

 constant quest of knowledge. ' ' The bet- 

 ter the stock, the better it pays," he 

 says; "I work hard and I want to learn 

 so much about it that nobody can grow 

 better plants than mine." 



One of the curiosities of the trade 

 is the establishment of F. L. Otto, at 

 2138 North Kedzie avenue. For sev- 

 eral years he was located across the 

 street, but the site coming into request 

 for the large apartment house which 

 now occupies it, Mr. Otto bought the 

 lots nearly 300 feet deep at his present 

 place, tore down the greenhouses and 

 moved. He put up an enormous brick 

 stack and set the pipe posts for a great 

 greenhouse, glazing a small section at 

 the boiler end as a protection for his 

 stock plants — and there he stuck. There 

 are hotbeds and coldframes among the 

 piles of greenhouse material, and an 

 old residence partly remodeled for sales- 



Peonies 



for June Weddings 



and 

 Commencements 



Best home-grown stock 



Plenty Roses 

 Carnations 



Yellow Daisies, 



Very fine; 



Gladioli, Sweet Peas, 

 Calendulas, Stocks 



, LOWEST MARKET PRICES 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



= 164 N. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention Tbe Reriew when yon write. 



room use. There Mr. Otto lives all alone, 

 with no assistants and so much work 

 in sight he does not know where to be- 



gin. The location is one at which a 

 fine business might be done by one who 

 had proper equipment. 



