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The Florists^ Review 



AvemntSi, IMA. 



SUMNER XeSES OUR Sf£(Mn 



BARGAIN PRICE LIST 



BUY DIRECT FROM THE GROWER 



We are Rose specialists and are cutting from 245,000 rose plants 

 We are now cuttinsr Russells from 60,000 plants 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES, COLUMBIA, RUSSELL, HOOSIER BEAUTY, 

 OPHELIA, SUNBURST and WHITE KILLARNEY. They are all our own 

 growth, guaranteed fresh cut and packed to arrive in good condition. 



RUSSELL AND COLUMBIA 



At the following bargain prices. 



Long, per 100 » $10.00 to $12.00 



Medium, per 100 6.00 to 8.00 



Short, per 100 4.00 



ASSORTED ROSES 



Our selection, in lots of 300 or more, all choice fresh cut stock. 

 Short lengths at the rate of $30.00 per 1000 | Medium lengths at the rate of $50.00 per 1000 



W hen ordering please state grade wanted. 



GLADIOLI and ASTERS at Market Prices 



NEW FANCY FERNS Per 1000, $2.00 



Adiantum Per lOO, $1.00 A«p. Sprays Per lOO, $2 SO to 3.00 



GALAX, bronze Per 1000, 2.00 Sprengeri Per 100, 2.00 to 3.00 



All seasoaable flowers not grown 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 othar ••asonable stock at market price* 

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



GfMihoiises: 

 Hinsdale ajHl brens StatiM, IIL 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Offke aad Store: 178 N.Wabask Avcmk 

 lone Distance Piione, Central 1457 



feels will be the biggest season of the 

 thirty he has been on Michigan avenue. 



Alois Frey and Mrs. Frey are pre- 

 paring to leave in a few days to make 

 their home in southern California. 

 After having returned early this week 

 from a trip to New York, they now are 

 visiting in Minneapolis. William Beyer, 

 for some years grower for H. C. Wull- 

 brandt, 5315 West Madison street, has 

 taken charge of Mr. Frey 's Crown Point 

 establishment and will conduct it for 

 the owner. 



After a vacation spent fishing at 

 Wooster, Mich., A. C. Kohlbrand visHed 

 A. E. Kunderd's gladiolus fields at 

 Goshen, Ind., and customers at South 

 Bend and Michigan points, returning to 

 his duties with the E. C. Amling Co., 

 August 25. 



George Wienhoeber joined the F. T. 

 D. at the Detroit convention. 



There is need for a good soil grinder 

 and at the S. A. F. convention Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., already operating ona 

 of their own construction, bought the 



Kost pulverizer shown by the W. F. 

 Kasting Co. 



The A. L. Randall Co., with about 375 

 employees, has started the publication 

 of a weekly house organ, especially as a 

 means of keeping the men on the road 

 informed as to what goes on at head- 

 quarters, but also in the interest of all 

 other employees. No name has been 

 given the pamphlet, but suggestions are 

 invited. Why not call it Randall's 

 Rustler t 



Aaron T. Pyfer was 41 years of age 

 August 26. 



Frank Oechslin and wife recently re- 

 turned from a tour of the Yellowstone. 



A. J. Zech journeyed from Detroit to 

 Niagara Falls at the close of the con- 

 vention to give Mrs. Zech her first view 

 of the falls. 



Anna Tonner left August 23 for 

 Winona Lake, Ind., where sue will spend 

 a vacation of two weeks. 



Visitors. 



E. D. Burton, manager of the New 



York office of the American Greenhouse 

 Mfg. Co., is in town. 



W. H. Englehart, president and man- 

 ager of the Idlewild Greenhouses, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., was here this week on his 

 way home from the convention, having 

 made the trip in Eric Johnson's ma- 

 chine. Mr. Englehart is a large buyer 

 on this market and says the approach- 

 ing season will be the best yet. The 

 summer business at Memphis has broken 

 all records. 



D. C. Horgan, of the Idle Hour Nurs- 

 eries, Macon, Ga., was in town this 

 week. He has been vacationing at 

 Battle Creek and attended the conven- 

 tion and was on his way home. Like all 

 the southern florists, Mr. Horgan is 

 figuring on a big season. He has almost 

 a monopoly in his territory, Macon be- 

 ing perhaps the largest city in America 

 with only one fully equipped florist. 



Harry Papworth, the widely known 

 New Orleans florist, came to Chicago 

 after the convention, his first visit in 

 a long time. He has a little idea in 



