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The Florists' Review 



JcNB 10, 1920. 



P E O N I E S 



AND ALL OTHER FLOWERS FOR JUNE 

 WEDDINGS AND COMMENCEMENTS 



Our Prices Never Are Higher than Others Ask for an Equally Good Grade of Stock. 



Frne a Company 



30 E. Randolph St. 



WH01.MAI.« FLORISTS 



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CHICAGO 



supply of stock is so heavy just now, 

 because everyone in the market would 

 like to lay ofif to talk politics. The 

 Republican national convention, in ses- 

 sion here this week, seems to have done 

 nothing in the way of increasing the 

 use of flowers; excitement never helps 

 our trade, because it occupies the minds 

 of the people to the extent that flowers 

 are forgotten. One fact has developed, 

 however: A large number of those in the 

 market who generally vote the Demo- 

 cratic ticket say that this year they 

 want to see a change and will vote for 

 whoever is nominated at the Coliseum 

 this week. 



Following the Republican national 

 convention", July 5 to 10 we shall have 

 with us the Elks. Crowded as the city 

 J3 with political visitors, it is predicted 

 that still larger crowds will come with 

 the Elks. The politicians do not include 

 many florists, but there will be scores 

 of nuMubers of the trade here for the big 

 gatlu'ring of Elks. T. E. Waters, presi- 

 dent of the Florists' Club and manager 

 of the supi)ly department of Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co., has hung a big sign, "Wel- 

 come B. 1'. 0. E.," in the store. Inci- 

 dentally it shows the retailers a new 

 method' of making large work. Mr. 

 Watoi:s took a huge sheet of beaver 

 board nnd on it glued the familiar white 

 cajicbloonicn, making a solid back- 

 ground. A border and the lettering 

 went on with purple chenille. On the 

 reverse side, the background was paint- 

 ed with the Elks' purple and the letter- 

 ing and border put on with a white 

 capcbloonien. 



The window boxes around the main 

 floor of the Blackstonc hotel, which 

 made their appearance last week, are 

 John Mangel's handiwork. 



How favorable May was for the pro- 

 duction of greenhouse cut flowers is 

 shown by the report of the official 

 meteorologist, who shows seventy-five 

 per cent of the possible number of 

 hours of sunshine, against sixty-three 

 per ofnt as the normal for the month. 

 There was less than half of the average 

 precipitation. 



The growers are becoming alarmed 

 over the difficulty they experience in 

 starting the summer's accumulation of 

 coaJ. Many fuel dealers will not take 

 orders except from regular customers 



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