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The Florists' Review 



FSBBOABT 5, 1920 



ST. VALENTINE'S 



A FULL SUPPLY OF ALL SEASONABLE 

 FLOWERS HERE— ORDER ENOUGH 



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JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



E. F. WINTERSON CO., 



166 N. Wabash Avenue 



L. P. Phone Central 6004 

 ESTABLISHED 1892 



Chicago 



DAILY SHIPMENTS off the finost stock In ROSES. CARNATIONS, VIOLETS and BULBOUS FLOWERS. Hoadquartors 

 for WILD SMILAX, FANCY FERNS. ADIANTUM and all croon sood*. DON'T FOROET - Our Supply Department is com- 

 plete - RIBBONS. CIIIFFONS, BOXES. CREPE PAPER AND WIRE DESIGNS. 



ceived, a constitution will be adopted 

 and officers elected, at the meeting 

 called for February 16. 



The Call for Funeral Work. 



The tremendous increase in the de- 

 mand for funeral work has been appar- 

 ent in all classes of flower stores and has 

 kept everybody on the jump. Coupled 

 with the brisk business along other 

 lines, the spurt in the call for "work" 

 has made probably the most active 

 January any of the retailers ever has 

 seen. They have had trouble to buy, 

 but no trouble to sell. They have paid 

 big prices and they have received much 

 larger ones. Retail prices at the end of 

 January were at least double what we 

 once called normal prices. 



The reason for the jump in the call 

 for funeral flowers is apparent in the 

 report of the Department of Health. 

 Note these figures: 



Deaths week ending: Infln. Pneum. Other 



Jan. 17, 1920 21 132 598 



Jan. 24. 1920 200 272 698 



Compare this with the record of the 

 latter half of January a year ago and we 

 see why the demand for flowers and the 

 prices are so much stronger than then: 



Deaths week ending: Influ. Pneum. Other 

 Jan. 25, 1919 184 157 673 



In the third week of January this 

 year 10,712 cases of flu were reported to 

 the health authorities, against 1,330 in 

 the same week a year ago. The disease 

 is much more prevalent, but far less 

 virulent than last year. Because of the 

 epidemic public funerals again were 

 forbidden February 2, with the result 

 that the demand for flowers was checked 

 to some extent, but there were protests 

 from so many quarters the ban is sure 

 to come off soon. 



Various Notes. 



How many years is it since there was 

 an addition to Chicago's short list of 

 really first-class flower stores f 



L. B. Bohannon, Kentuckian by birth, 



BEST QUALITY 



VIOLETS 



FOR VALENTINE'S DAY 



From the largest grower. $20.00 per 1000. 



Parties not known must send cash. 



TELEPHONE— TELEGRAPH CONNECTIONS. 



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No. 3 Sticker 

 lOOO .... $i.oo 



Terms: postpaid, cash with order. 



THE JOHN HENRY CO^ Lansing, Mich. 



celebrated his forty-eighth anniversary 

 February 5. 



In the closing days of January August 

 Jurgens began his annual shipments of 

 outdoor jonquils from the bulb farm at 

 Bidgeland, Miss. The location is ten 

 miles north of Jackson, on the Illinois 

 Central railroad, and the flowers are in 



the boxes only twenty-four hours. Hun- 

 dreds of thousands will be shipped in 

 the next few weeks. 



Another Dodge delivery car was put 

 on the street last week by George Wien- 

 hoeber, who now operates three ears. 



Sam Pearce had a splendid January. 

 Although without lilies, he cut consider- 



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