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The Florists^ Review 



Januabt 16, 1920. 



The Wise Owl Says Buy 



Pyfer's Flowers 



Russell, Columbia, Premier, OpheUa 



. And Other Roses in good supply 



also Carnations, Stevia, Narcissi, Greens 



A rn^ ^feir & Cpnipa ir 



OUR MOTTO: 

 "Nothing is too much trouble to please a customer." 



164 N. Wabash Ave.» 



L. D. Phone, Central 3373 



CHICAGO 



THE STEADINESS OF OUR BUSINESS IS BASED ON 

 QUALITY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME OUR PRICES NEVER 

 ARE HIGHER THAN OTHERS ASK FOR FINE FLOWERS. 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



Ask the man who 

 Buys from us. 



Cameron. Mr. Purdy has been western 

 representative of Spang, Chalfont & 

 Co., Inc., pipe manufacturers, for sev- 

 eral years, while Mr. Cameron la a 

 prominent corporation lawyer. 



W. J. Keimel, president; Paul Weiss, 

 secretary and treasurer; H. C. Wend- 

 land, C. S. Claussen and C. J. Michel- 

 sen were at Richmond, Ind., January 9 

 to attend a meeting for the completion 

 of the organization of the new Rich- 

 mond Greenhouse Co., which recently 

 bought the Joseph H. Hill cariiation 

 range. The corporation has $60,000 

 capital. 



C. L. Sherer, of the Chicago Flower 



-Growers' Association, has the sympathy 



of all who have heard of the sad event, 



4n the death of his only child, a boy 2% 



years old, January 9. 



Wietor Bros., who do a large business 

 each year in the production of cuttings 

 for the trade, comment on the unprece- 

 dented demand for Carnation Nebraska. 

 They say practically every order in- 

 cludes Nebraska, while many orders 

 «all for nothing else. 



Eric Johnson was in St. Louis last 



week to attend the funeral of Mrs. 

 Schaeffer, wife of one of the proprietors 

 of the flower store in the Scruggs-Van- 

 dervoort establishment. 



H. B. Kennicott has gone to Florida 

 to spend five or six weeks on the orange 

 and grape fruit farm of the Kennicott 

 family. It is 270 miles south of Jack- 

 sonville and it is summer there now. 



P. M. Johnson has been at Grand 

 Rapids to attend the furniture show and 

 has been looking after other out-of-town 

 interests of the A. L. Randall Co. Mr. 

 Johnson is a great believer in florists 

 developing their business by means of 

 side lines. 



C. J. Michelsen has gone to meet the 

 spring. As Mrs. Michelsen went along, 

 the combination of business and pleas- 

 ure is apparent, although they will be 

 away only a few days. 



A quarterly meeting of the directors 

 of the Chicago Flower Growers* Asso- 

 ciation was held January 13. Several 

 of the growers are planning large addi- 

 tions to their ranges this spring. 



The annual poultry show of the W. W. 

 Barnard Co. will be held January 27 to 



PHYSALIS FRANCHETIl 



JAP LANTERN 



The finest everlasting ever offered, a 

 beautiful orange-colored husk, l^a-in. to 

 2hi-in. in length. 



3 lanterns to stem. 20 in. long. $10.00 per 100 



5 lanterns to stem, 30 in. long, 117.00 per 100 



8 lanterns to stem, 40 in. long. $26.00 per 100 



Cash with order, satisfaction guaranteed. 



E. KENDIG, The Florist, Oswego, N.Y. 



31. The company offers prizes for poul- 

 try, rabbits and pigeons entered for 

 competition and will have a special 

 display of pheasants and wild ducks. 

 Lectures and demonstrations on all 

 phases of the poultry industry will be 

 offered for the instruction of visitors, 

 who have attended this show in former 

 years in great numbers. 



A. Miller is spending the week calling 

 on customers of the A. B. C. in the Twin 

 Cities. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., formerly a large 

 grower of lily of the valley, has re- 



