40 



The Florists^ Review 



Jancabt 29, 1920 



uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim 



I Order Now for St Valentine's I 



F rne ^ C ompany 



i 30 E. Randolph St. TS'iS^.JSlf^r CHICAGO | 



?SllllllIllllillilllllllllllllliilllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllinilllillllllllllllllll'll"lllllllllll'lllll"lll»ll»lll'lll»lll""B 



of the S. A. F. at Cleveland. A. T. 

 Pyfer, W. J. Keimel, A. F. Poehlmann, 

 C. W. Johnson, Paul R. Klingspom and 

 George Asmus were there. 



February 5 will be novelty night at 

 the Florists' Club. Guy French is in 

 charge. 



Last Sunday, January 25, George 

 Asmus celebrated his forty-eighth birth- 

 day anniversary. 



The shortage of sweet peas will soon 

 be ended. R. Scheffler, of Wheaton, will 

 do it. He had his range of 150,000 feet 

 of glass all in chrysanthemums for fall 

 and planted the whole place to sweet 

 peas as soon as the mums were cut. He 

 is almost ready to start picking and any- 

 one can guess how many millions ho will 

 send to market in the next five months. 



O. W. Frese was born January 29, 

 1866. It seems that many people, es- 

 pecially in Ohio, wear a buttonhole car- 

 nation on his anniversary. 



Wietor Bros., who do a big business 

 in young stock through Review classi- 

 fied ads, report that the call for carna- 

 tion cuttings has exceeded anything they 

 ever have known. They are sold out for 

 the present. 



A. J. Zech was at Milwaukee January 

 29 to attend a dance of the Florists' 

 Club. 



C. J. Michelsen returned from Florida 

 January 24, suffering from a severe cold 

 contracted on the way home. 



All three of the Damm brothers, 

 George, Rudoljjh and Christopher, are ill 

 with the prevailing malady. 



C. Engelniann, the English carnation 

 grower who was here last week, started 

 for home at the close of the convention. 

 As an item of personal baggage he took 

 with him S.HOO not-rontod cuttings of 

 Laddie obtained from the Richmond 

 Greenhouse Co. 



January 24 Miss p]ilna Frauciifelder 

 had a big rush order for funeral work 

 to be delivered in Stockholm, Sweden. 

 Being without connections there, she 

 cabled it to a subscriber to The Review 

 whose name and address were obtained 

 by telephone. 



J. E. Pollworth believes it is poor 

 business policy to crowd prices to the 

 point where buying stops. But it is not 

 easy to recognize the danger lino. 



It is reported that Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co., which did not go heavily into Rose 



WE DO 



AS WE SAY 



THESE ARE THE. DAYS 

 WHEN OUR SERVICE 

 MEANS SOMETHING. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



Wholesale Cut Flowers 



CHICAGO 



YOUR 



Protection 



FOR QUICK ACTION, WRITE 



SAM SELIGMAN 



Resident Buyer and Jobber in All Specialties in 



FLORISTS' SUPPUES 



239-241 Fourth Ave., New York 



Mention Xbe Xi<»riaw wben you v»nte. 



