OCTOBBB 23, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Buy Direct of the Grower 



Our Chrysanthemums are all bome-sfrown, beingf much superior to the California 

 stock. Pompons — a \&rge quantity of White, Pink and Yellow, fancy stock. 



We are rose specialists and are cutting: from 245,000 rose plants grovrn by 

 skilled help, and all even quality, brousfht in 2 and 3 times per daj^ from our greenhouses. 



PRICE LIST: 



Russell and Columbia 



Fancy long, per 100 $20.00 to $25.00 



Fancy medium, per 100 12.00 to 15.00 



Medium, per 100 10.00 



Short, per 100 6.00 to 8,00 



Ophefiajoosier, White KiOamey, Sunburst 



Extra long, per 100 $12.00 to $15.00 



Good medium, per 100 8.00 to 10.00 



Good short, per 100 5.00 to 6.00 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



.White, Yellow and Pink, large, $3.00 to $4.00 per doz. 



CARNATIONS, per 100, $6.00 



NEW FANCY FERNS .' Per 1000, $2.50 



Adlantnm Per 100, $1.00 to $1.50 Asp. Sprays Per lOO, $2.50to 3.00 



GALAX, bronze Per lOOO, 2.00 Sprengeri Per lOO, 2.00to 3.00 



All seasonable flowers not errown by us will be procured for our customers. A trial order solicited. 



In buying direct of the grower you are assured of fresh stock at all times and the most even run of quality possible. 



All oth«r ••asonabi* stock at marfcat pricas 



Closed all day Sunday and open Weekdays, 8:00 a. m. until 5:00 p. m. 



GreealMiscs: 

 Hinsdale isd Gregfs Statioa, III. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Office Hd Store: 1 78 N. Wabash Avesae 

 Lonf Distance Phone, Ceatral 1457 



the Bassett & Washburn palm factory 

 at Sierra Madre. 



J. C. Vaughan is again a grandfather, 

 Dr. and Mrs. Roger Vaughan having 

 welcomed their fourth child, a daughter, 

 last week. 



The death of F. O. Franzen, formerly 

 in the florists' business on North Clark 

 street, is reported in this week's obitu- 

 ary column. 



Phil Broadbeck has been growing 

 roses twenty-six years. He says he 

 still works 365 days and a good many 

 cold nights every year and he thinks 

 The Review didn't know what it was 

 talking about when it said recently 

 that nobody had lost anything through 

 Sunday closing by wholesalers and re- 

 tailers. 



Eric Johnson thinks the rose market 

 will be well supplied during the next 



few weeks and that prices, compared to 

 those of last year, should encourage the 

 retailers to push the selling. 



The Fleischman Floral Co., which 

 likes to advertise good flowers at mod- 

 erate prices, used a costly space in the 

 Tribune, October 21, to offer cattleyas 

 at $1.25 each, made up in corsages. 

 Dr. Maurice Rubel, oflScial head of the 

 concern, says prices for the last year 

 rarely have given the retailers real op- 

 portunity to develop the business and 

 he cites valley at 15 cents a spray 

 wholesale, $3 per dozen retail, as one 

 of the luxuries the public usually elects 

 to go without. 



There was a quiet home wedding at 

 the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. 

 Amling, in Oak Park, October 15, when 

 their second daughter, Gertrude, be- 

 came the bride of Elmer Volkman. Miss 



Amling had, for several years, worked 

 in the office of the E. C. Amling Co., 

 where she had come to be known to 

 most of the florists of Chicago. Harold 

 Amling was home from Culver Military 

 Academy for the wedding. 



The A. L. Randall Co. now has forty- 

 two salesmen, not counting those who 

 wait on customers in the store. 



George Wienhoeber has two new 

 Dodge delivery cars on the street, re- 

 placing the Fords. 



Peter Reinberg left for West Baden, 

 Ind., October 20, for a two weeks' va- 

 cation. 



Joseph Einweck has returned to his 

 former position with Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, after an absence of thirty months 

 in Siberia, as a member of Company E, 

 27th Infantry, U. S. A. He acted as 

 interpreter and was also engaged in 



