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The Rorfsts^ Review 



Jolt 13. 1920 



Use 

 Our 



EASTER LILIES 



In Your 

 Work 



ROSES 



OF GOOD 

 QUALITY 



We have a large supply of fine quality 



PEONIES 



GLADIOLI and all other stock in season. 

 You will find this a good source of supply. 



ZECH & MANN 



Wholesale Cut Flowers 



THAT WILL 

 SHIP 



30 East Randolph Street 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



although since his return from France 

 he has been with Thomas Fogarty, at 

 Friedman's. Freres & Co. plan to do a 

 general wholesale business in cut 

 flowers. 



Word has come from Pasadena, Cal., 

 that O. P. Bassett is quite ill with 

 rheumatism. The veteran Chicago 

 grower is now in his eighty-seventh 

 year. 



As an instance of what Columbia will 

 do when well handled, Poehlmann Bros. 

 Co. is cutting 40-inch stems from plants 

 benched in 1920. 



The employees of the A. L. Randall 

 Co. are arranging a picnic, to be held at 

 Reisig's grove at Lyons, July 24. The 

 factories will be closed that day. The 

 offices and supply department will close 

 at noon and everyone will attend the 

 outing except enough of the cut flower 

 staff to take care of the Saturday after- 

 noon orders. 



Peter Reinberg, Mrs. Reinberg and 

 Master Charles Reinberg returned from 

 San Francisco July 12. 



Wholesalers report that the American 

 Railway Express is settling for c. o. d. 

 shipments much more promptly than in 

 the earlier days of government control. 

 When the express service was consoli- 

 dated the wholesalers had lengthy lists 

 of c. o. d. shipments for which no re- 

 turns had been made. It has taken a 

 long time to wark these out, but nearly 

 all of the old cases have been settled 

 and the c. o. d. service is working much 

 better than heretofore. 



The directors of the Chicago Flower 

 Growers' Association held a meeting 

 July 13 to close up the year's business 

 prior to the annual meeting of the stock- 

 holders, which will be held July 15. 

 The association's year closed June 30 

 and it is current report that its sales 

 for the twelve months passed three- 

 quarters of a million. 



George Ball and his party set out 

 July 11, in Mr. Ball's new 6-cylinder 

 Knight, for a motor trip to Pittsburgh, 

 Philadelphia, Washington and New 

 York. With Mr. Ball were three of his 



—-Present and Future 



Our service to the RETAIL FLORIST 

 arises to every occasion — 



CUT FLOWER BUYERS through us 



dominate the market. 



YOU WANT this EXTRA service; then 

 try 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



174 North Wabash Avenue 



The Principal Location of the Market 



CHICAGO 



H. B. KENNICOTT. Pres. 



J. E. POLLWORTH. Sec'y & Mgr. 



'VmitT Grswen' 

 Sapcr 



"ROSES 

 ALL 



SUMMER'^ 



