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The Florists' Review 



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July 1, 1920 



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WIETOR BROS 



30 East Randolph Street 



Phone 

 Randolph 2081 



CHICAGO, ILUNOIS 



CURRENT PRICE LIST s.^...*^. 



ithout notice 



Premier 



Per loo Columbia 



Special $16.00 



Select 12.00 



Medium 8.00 



Short 5.00 



Russell 



Special 16.00 



Select 12 00 



Medium 8.00 



Short 5.00 



Per 100 



Special $16.00 



Select 12.00 



Medium 8.00 



Short 5.00 



Carnations 



Good and Fancy $4.00 



Ferns, per 1000. $4.00 



Galax, per 1000 2.00 



Sprengeri, per bunch. .$0.50 - .75 



ROSES, our selection, $5.00 per 100 



Ophelia 



Select $8.00 to 12.00 



Medium 6.00 to 10.00 



Short 4.00 to 8.00 



Sunburst Per 100 



Select $8.00 to $12.00 



Medium 6.00 to 8.00 



Short 4.00 to 6.00 



as they did last June, while during the 

 part of the month that stock was scarce 

 prices averaged much better than last 

 year. Roses did especially well; average 

 rose prices were at least double those 

 of June, 1919, and during the third week 

 of the month this year some growers 

 received three or four times as much 

 for their stock as they did in the same 

 week last year. 



When the wholesalers and growers 

 do well it is a certainty that the re- 

 tailers are having brisk business. 



First Car from Palm Factory. 



A matter of more than usual interest 

 engaged attention at Morton Grove 

 June 28. It was the opening up of the 

 first car of palms shipped to Chicago 

 from Bassett & Washburn's kentia fac- 

 tory at Sierra Madre, Cal. The car 

 contained 2,400 plants and came through 

 by express at a cost of a little more 

 than $1,000. Packing charges were 

 only 5 cents per plant. The palms had 

 been knocked out of the pots and each 

 ball of soil had been sewed in burlap. 

 Wet sawdust a foot deep had been put 

 on the floor of the car and the plants 

 stood on it so close together that they 

 could not shift. After five days on the 

 road they opened up in perfect condi- 

 tion. C. L. Washburn was there to see 

 the car opened and had as his guest 

 Roy P. Wilcox, of Montebello, Cal., who 

 also is in the palm business but who is 

 not yet ready to ship finished kentias 

 in carload lots. 



Greenhouse Builders Luncheon. 



In the management of a large busi- 

 ness one of the greatest difficulties is to 

 obtain proper cooperation between the 

 different departments. This President 

 P. L. McKoe, of the American Green- 

 house Mfg. Co., secure? by means of 

 monthly meetings of department heads 

 and other principal employees; every- 

 body gets a thorough knowledge of 

 everything that is going on, so nobody 

 works in the dark. The meetings con- 

 clude with a luncheon, that of June 26 

 being served in a private dining room 

 at the Hotel Randolph. There were 

 twenty present, including Mr. Brown, 

 of the New York office, Mr. Dolan, of 

 the Kansas City office, and Mr. Andrews, 

 superintendent of the Pana factory. 



You can have in your store, like these, 



ROSES 



All varieties — All lengths — 



Best quality 



We also offer Gladioli, Lilies, Larkspur, Yellow Daisies and 



all other stock in season in large supply for you. 



New Ferns and other Greens 



Our Motto: 'Nothing Is too much trouble to please a customer." 

 164 NORTH WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



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