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The Florists^ Review 



AnousT 7, 1919. 



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members of the 8. A. F. in Illinois. 

 The latest names turned in were those 

 of Sam Pearce, John G. Poehlmann, 

 James B. Foley, Arthur Eichel, Frank 

 Washburn and George Washburn, the 

 latter two of Bloomington. New an- 

 nual members are J. A. Johnson, of 

 Effingham, and George Grimsby, of 

 Clinton. 



August Jurgens recently returned 

 from Mississippi, where he spent sev- 

 eral months on his bulb farm. 



The American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., 

 of Chicago and Pana, last week in- 

 creased its capital stock from $125,000 

 to $200,000. 



At Des Plaines, George Hoefle is 

 building another big house, increasing 

 his space fifty per cent. He grows only 

 two crops, chrysanthemums followed by 

 sweet peas. 



A. Henderson & Co. received a car 

 of Paper Whites on the Canada, which 

 arrived at New York July 28, the first 

 of the season. 



August Lange celebrates his fifty- 

 first birthday anniversary August 7. 



W. H. Kidwell & Son are offering the 

 famous old Wentworth avenue stand for 

 sale. 



W. Abrahamson, who conducts the 

 store fixture department of the A. L. 

 Randall Co., was at Cleveland last week 

 to figure on the fixtures for the new 

 store soon to be opened by the United 

 Floral & Nurseries Co. He says three 

 or four of the leading florists of Cleve- 



land are figuring on new refrigerators or 

 other equipment to help take care of 

 rapidly increasing business and that it 

 no longer is a question of price but of 

 ability to turn out the fixtures in time. 



William Wienhoeber and wife have re- 

 turned from an enjoyable month's out- 

 ing in Colorado. 



At W. J. Smyth 's Arthur Weatherwax 

 says July business was good, although 

 the race riots did not help any. 



G. Swenson, the Elmhurst grower, 

 turns out good stock, all right, but he 

 ou^ht to, considering his experience. 

 Where is there an older active grower? 

 Mr. Swenson was 75 years of age 

 August 6. 



B. E. Kurowski returned last week 

 from a fortnight's fishing trip in Wis- 

 consin. His prize catch was a 10-pound 

 muskie. 



Among those who will go to the De- 

 troit convention are G. M. Reburn and 

 wife and Albert Koehler and wife. 

 Vincent Neil and S. Dumser will look 

 after the display of the American Bulb 

 Co. 



F. F. Benthey, Nestor of the whole- 

 sale florists,, celebrated his sixty-ninth 

 birthday antiii'ersary August 5. He 

 mbkes his headquarters with Kennicott 

 Bros. Co., where friends wished him 

 many returns of the day. 



Frank Schramm again is cutting the 

 long Russells that have made him fa- 

 mous. 



Two new Dodge delivery ears have 



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been ordered to replace the Fords in 

 George Wienhoeber 's equipment. 



C. J. Michelsen and family are motor- 

 ing to North Dakota, a round trip of 

 2,200 miles for the Packard. 



E. F. Winterson, Jr., left August 2 

 for Tipperary Cottage, his summer 

 home at Sheridan Beach, near Michigan 

 City. He expects to be gone three 

 weeks or a month. 



A. A. Martial, of Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., leaves August 9 for Toronto, where 

 ^a will have charge of Poehlmann 's ex- 

 hibit at the Canadian convention, and 

 then he will go to Detroit to take charge 

 of the exhibit there. 



A. T. Pyfer returned July 31 from 

 his vacation and says he feels well 

 rested. Mr. Pyfer visited John 



