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40 



The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 11, 1920 



Zech & Mann 



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Wholesale Cut Flowers 



30 East Randolph St., Chicago, 111. 



We are filling all orders 

 for all kinds of flowers 



There is 

 No More Reliable 

 Source of Supply 



for 



Cut Flowers 



and Greens 



T TT TTTQ Get your supply for Easter from us. 



-LiXJ-iXJ_jO Write for Drices. 



Write for prices. 



the much reduced shipments now coming 

 in are by parcel post. 



£aster Prospects. 



The consensus is that Easter will 

 make a new record for the trade, not 

 only in the Chicago market but through- 

 out the country. A tremendous volume 

 of shipping business is expected. The 

 view IS that there will be stock enough, 

 but not too much, and that good values 

 can be realized as the result of the pub- 

 lic's willingness to spend. 



Roses and carnations will be in lai-ger 

 supply than last year, also of better 

 quality. As to lilies, everyone says they 

 will be scarce, but there is beginning to 

 be a suspicion that cut lilies will go 

 around — at the price. 



Various Notes. 



The E. Wienhoeber Co., Elm street, has 

 completed plans for the increase of its 

 capital for the purpose of admitting the 

 older employees to a larger participa- 

 tion in the business. The newly created 

 shares are to be soldvto the employees 

 on favorable terms. Mr. Wienhoeber is 

 gradually turning the business over to 

 the younger men. 



The death of Harry M. Higinbotham, 

 which occurred March 5, removes an- 

 other of the family which came into 

 prominence in trade affairs when ,T. D. 

 Thompson and James Hartshorne built 

 the range of the Chicago Carnation Co., 

 on the Higinbotham estate at Joliet. It 

 was Harry, representing the sons and 

 daiigliters of the owner, who closed up 

 the affairs of the original corporation 

 and leased the greenhouses to the pres- 

 ent concern, of which P. \V. Peterson 

 is the head. Mr. Higinbotham was 51 

 years of age. 



.lohn Weiland is having an excellent 

 season on the north shore. Both the 

 stores, at Evanston and at Wilmette, 

 have been steadily busy. For a time 

 there was a preponderance of calls for 

 flowers for the expression of sympathy, 

 •ays. Manager John Weiland, Jr., but 



A WORD 



to the Out-of-Town Retail Florist 

 by a GROWER 



You wanted and expected something 

 to be done, something that would be 

 accomplished in tangible form, that 

 would represent YOUR RIGHTS. 



The initial steps in Chicago were taken in the 

 Growers' Petition of 1916, the first official and 

 practical document towards practical changes in 

 improving MARKETING CONDITIONS. I was 

 its first signer. It pointed out what could be 

 done for you as a Retailer — these things that are 

 now occurring. 



The Retailer finds conditions unjust in Extreme 

 High Wholesale Prices and Extreme Low Prices. 

 At times of low prices Department Stores take 

 advantage of the competitive system of one 

 Retail Florist against another in the same 

 locality. Stranger still are the sources of supply 

 that at such time provide the Department Store. 

 Your interests are under my observation in my 

 close contact with the Marketing Problems as 

 they directly present themselves in Chicag^ 

 Your attention is called to your opportunity. 

 Take advantage of it. 



JOSEPH KOHOUT 



Wholesale Rose Grower 



LIBERTYVILLE. ILL. 



