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JANUABT 22, 1920. 



The Florists^ Review 



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Say it with Waxed Flowers 



%ince natural flowers are so scarce and high priced, with probabilities of a more serious situation to come. 



As to quality, our waxed flowers cannot be surpassed, being iLade by experts of long experience in their line. 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Carnations, White or Pink »2.U0 $16.50 



Chrysanthemums, White, Pink, Lavender 3.t0 25.00 



Dahlias, White, Pink, Lavender 2.75 22.60 



Easter Lilies 3.00 26.00 



Orchids, White or Lavender 2.75 22.50 



Roses, White, Pink, Yellow 2.60 20.00 



Sweet Peas 1.00 9.00 



Cape Flowers, White, Pink, Lavender. Blue, Eed $3.00 per box of 500 



Waxed Leaves, Rose, Maple, Galax, etc 85c per gross 



We also carry an extensive line of cloth flowers for all purposes, 

 and list below the numbers more adapted to florists' use. 



Per Gross 



Carnations, White or Pink $ 5.40 



Dahlias, Pink, Yellow, Lavender 10.00 



Easter Lilies 9.00 



Orchids, Purple, Lavender 10.50 



Roses, White, Pink, Red 6.00 



Sweet Peas 9.36 



Forget-Me-Nots, Blue 2,00 



Valley $2.50, $6.50, $7.25 and 11.50 



We stock a complete line of all varieties of Foliages, Prepared 

 Adiantum, Lycopodium, Asparagus, Grasses, Ruscus, Statice, Etc. 



THE McCALLUM CO. 



PITTSBURGH, 



"Ti^e Home that Service Built" 



PENNSYLVANIA 



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L F. WINTERSON CO., 



166 N. Wabash Avenue 



L. D. Phon> C«ntr«l 6004 

 ESTABLISHED 1892 



Chicago 



DAILY SHIPMKNTS off th« fflnsst stock in ROSES. CARNATIONS, VIOLETS ami BULBOUS FLOWERS. Hoadquartors 

 for WILD SMILAX. FANCY FERNS, ADIANTUM and all croon sooda. DON'T FORBET — Our Supply Dopartmont ia com- 

 ploto — RIBBONS. CHIFFONS. BOXES, CREPE PAPER AND WIRE DESIGNS. 



Artificial Flowers 

 Waxed Flowers 



LOTOS MFG. CO. 



1S66.68 Clybonra Ato., CHICAGO 



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circumstance that Samuel J. Pearce was 

 elected a director of the Jefferson Park 

 National Bank at the annual meeting 

 January 14. 



A. Lange was the first Chicago florist 

 to show Japanese irises this season. It 

 was a blue variety of especially fine 

 quality and the earliest shipments re- 

 ^■liled for $10 and $12 per dozen, an 

 unprecedented price. He still gets $8 

 per dozen for them. 



There has been an immense amount 

 of illness among the members of the 

 trade in tlie last few days. Scarcely 

 any wholesaler or retailer has had a full 

 '•rew and some of the smaller establish- 

 ments have had their troubles multiplied 

 I'.v the absence of the sick. Even the 

 larger concerns have felt the diminished 

 man power. At one time last week 

 eleven of the store force of the A. L. 

 Kandall Co. were at home because of 

 illness. January 19 all but three were 



Crepe Paper, assorted colors, per 100 $31.00 



Crepe Roses, white and pink, per 1000 20.00 



Crepe Carnations, white and pink, per 1000. 20.00 

 Crepe Mums, white, pink and lavender, lOOO. 30.00 



These exceptional prices for check with order only 

 THE JOSEPH M. STERN CO., Cleveland, Ohio 



New Wax Sweet Peas 



Send Us an 

 Order for Our 



They are very natural looking; very good for basket and design 

 work. Give them a trial. Per lOO, $1.75; per 1000, $15.00 



R. E. Gebhardt Co. »*^" «»•««' *•- 



CHICAGO, ILL 



again at their places. Otto Goerisch is 

 among those still on the sick list. 



Roswell Schupp, of the J. A. Budlong 

 Co., recently has had opportunity to 

 look over the houses of some of the 

 growers and reports the buds on the 

 carnation benches like the sands on the 

 shore. He says huge quantities of them 

 are at the stage where a few days of 

 good weather will open them and pre- 



dicts the biggest spring crop of carna- 

 tions this market ever has known. 



John Poehlmann's suggestion to hes- 

 itant retailers: "How can you expect 

 the public to pay more than you ask; if 

 not satisfied with your profit, why not 

 try asking a little more?" 



C. J. Michelsen has driven his Pack- 

 ard in from River Forest^ and home 

 again at night, on the sub-zero days the 



