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The Florists^ Review 



FtBBDABT 26, 1920 



are to be put in and an order has been 

 placed with P. J. Orbesen & Co. for 

 the installation of a 50-foot storage re- 

 frigerator to be connected with the 

 Kroeschell refrigerating machine oper- 

 ating the five other boxes. 



George V. Wienhoeber has succumbed. 

 Among the first of florists to adopt the 

 automobile for delivery, he has stead- 

 fastly refused to buy a pleasure car, 

 but his last week's purchases included 

 a Packard. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation reports having received and 

 shipped 110 out-of-town orders in one 

 day during February. The shipping 

 alone up to February 20 had exceeded 

 any entire month's business in the 

 previous records of the concern, includ- 

 ing December with its splendid Christ- 

 mas. 



Albert Cole spent February 22 in 

 Cleveland. 



Theodore Vogel, for many years with 

 W. J. Smyth, left February 25 with the 

 intention of making his home at Los 

 Angeles. Recent additions to Mr. 

 Smyth's staff are Bernard J. Sherman, 

 who recently sold his north side store 

 to Herbert Youngquist and Arthur Nel- 

 son, and Miss Nungesser, daughter of 

 Charles E. Nungesser, a florist at Manis- 

 tee, Mich. Arthur Weatherwax went to 

 Defiance, O., last week to deliver a 

 casket cover turned out at the Smyth 

 store, and to arrange the flowers at a 

 funeral. 



Major Frederick Kensel, who has just 

 left the Marine Corps, in which he had 

 been an officer since graduating from 

 West Point, will represent the A. L. 

 Bandall Co. in Milwaukee. Major Ken- 

 sel has traveled widely in Europe, South 

 America and the Orient and is regarded 

 as well suited to the company's work. 



John Borachazka, who sold his green- 

 houses in Rogers Park to Albert Gullett 

 a year and a half ago, is in the city 

 again after a short stay in Minneapolis. 

 He contemplates buying or renting a 

 small range in the vicinity. 



George Way, of the Duro Paper Prod- 

 ucts Co., is traveling in the west. 



Our trade slogan is getting in its 

 work, as witness the following para- 

 graph clipped from the Chicago Trib- 

 une: " 'Say it with flowers.' 'Affable 

 Louie' Choromokos, for seventeen years 

 proprietor of the Athenia caf6, 1521 

 North Clark street, has become a florist 

 at Wilson avenue and Broadway. He 

 sold the saloon to George Salos, an op- 

 timistic employee." 



Ernest Knecht, for some time a mem- 

 ber of the staff of John T. Muir, is laid 

 up with inflammatory rheumatism. A 

 recent addition to the force is Mrs. 

 Homer Knablet, who has removed to 

 Chicago from Clinton, Ind., where she 

 has been employed by Herman G. 

 Hershey, the well known florist. 



February 27 is the day on which the 

 desk of C. L. Washburn is specially dec- 

 orated. His employees and friends have 

 said it with flowers on his anniversary 

 these many years. Mr. Washburn is 62. 

 He and W. J. Smyth both came to Chi- 

 cago from Albany, N. Y. 



Wm. Beyer, who has charge of Alois 

 Frey's greenhouses at Crown Point, has 

 the place in first-class condition and 

 is upholding tradition in the matter of 

 turning out unusually well grown Mrs. 

 Ward carnations. 



The friends of A. C. Kohlbrand, of 

 the E. C. Amling Co., make much of the 

 gentleman's birthday anniversary. He 



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