AuocST 12, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



He will travel by automobile, first vis- 

 iting Yellowstone park. Later he will 

 visit his former partner, B. B. Gray, at 

 Missoula, Mont. Mr. Gray owns a large 

 ranch and Mr. Alt will visit him a 

 month or six weeks before returning to 

 Salt Lake City. 



Mrs. HufE, of the Miller Floral Co., 

 has just returned from a two weeks' 

 vacation in Colorado. 



Elizabeth Huth, of the Flower Shop, 

 at Ogden, is back on the job, after 

 spending a month in California with 

 friends. 



Ella Grant Wilson was a guest of the 

 Salt Lake City florists for three days re- 

 cently. Saturday evening, July 31, all 

 the flotrists gathered at the Orpheum 

 theater, where a film of the F. T. D., 

 brought by Mrs. Wilson, was shown. 

 After the picture Mrs. Wilson and 

 many leading florists of the state were 

 guests of Robert Miller at a dinner at 

 the Newhouse hotel. After the dinner 

 the party met at the Miller Floral Co. 

 store, on Broadway, where Mrs. Wilson 

 gave an interesting talk on advertising 

 and told of the benefits to be gained 

 by organizing a florists' club. At the 

 close of the meeting a vote of thanks 

 was extended to Mrs. Wilson. G. J. B. 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The Kansas City Wholesale Cut 

 Flower Co. is receiving daily shipments 

 of fine asters, roses and Easter lilies. 

 Business continues good, according to 

 summer standards. 



Miss Helen Brown is spending two 

 weeks in Denver. 



Mrs. T. A. Moseley has returned from 

 a visit of several weeks in Chicago and 

 points farther east. 



Perry Onion, of Las Vegas, N. M., 

 was a visitor last week. 



T. J. Noll and John Stevens drove 

 to Pleasant Hill Thursday, August 5. 



The Pinehurst Floral Co. has enlarged 

 its local shipping room. Carpenters 

 from the greenhouses were there three 

 days tearing out old partitions and re- 

 arranging the room and office. Many 

 orders are being received for carna- 

 tion, poinsettia and cyclamen plants 

 and these are being shipped. 



The force of the American Green- 

 house Mfg. Co. is bringing to comple- 

 tion the new Longview rose house. They 

 began glazing during the week of 

 August 9. This house, 86x450 feet, is 

 claimed to be the widest house west 

 of the Mississippi river. 



The shipping orders of the T. J. Noll 

 Floral Co. were better than usual in 

 the last few days of last week. This 

 firm is receiving fancy gladioli; some 

 asters and roses are coming in better. 

 Its new automatic ice machine is being 

 used and is quite satisfactory. 



Miss Eleanor Wark, of the W. L. 

 Rock Flower Co., has gone to Colo- 

 rado Springs. 



Mrs. A. Newell and her daughter, 

 Marian, are in Yellowstone park. 



R. C. Kehm, of Des Moines, la., and 

 Mrs. Kehm were recent visitors. They 

 have recently opened a retail store. 



Miss Klein, of the Muehlebach Flower 

 Shop, left Saturday, August 7, for a 

 vacation at her home in Galena, Kan. 

 This firm has received a shipment of 

 china novelties, which Joseph Reichl 

 ordered while in New York lately. The 

 store had a busy week with funeral 

 orders, several social affairs and cor- 

 sages. Mr. Neff has employed a young 



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CHABIJiS JOHN MICHELSEN. 



THE smile of tolerance and good nature, apparent in the portrait, is a character- 

 istic of John Michelsen, one which has won many friends and served to 

 smooth his path of progress in the trade. Though no number know it, he will 

 celebrate his fortieth birthday anniversary August 15. Mr. Michelsen was born in 

 a little town in Denmark, only seven miles from the old German line, in 1880. He 

 worked in greenhouses there as a matter of preference at an age when most boys 

 were wading on the beach and, when the family removed to Chicago while he was 

 16, it was only natural he should seek the first opportunity for employment with 

 florists. He had a varied experience in the earlier years, progressing through 

 numerous old-time establishments, from that of Albert Fuchs, now defunct, to 

 that of C. Frauenf elder, still one of the leaders. In 1908 he joined E. C. Amling's 

 force, receiving the title of manager when the corporation was formed two years 

 later. In the decade he has added nearly a million dollars a year to the turnover 

 with which the company began. Equaling only his enjoyment of business is his 

 enjoyment of home. Many florists know and appreciate his perfectly kept home 

 and hospitable family in suburban River Forest. 



woman to make silk flowers, which are 

 beginning to take the place of the 

 organdie corsages. 



Edward Kice, of A. Newell 's store, 

 is on his vacation for two weeks. 



Henry Kusik & Co. are getting in 

 excellent roses, hqme-grown asters and 

 fancy gladioli. 



P. A. Manson, of Pleasant Hill, was 

 in the city Monday, August 2. 



A. N. Nielsen & Co., of Pana, 111., 

 have bought the John Stevens range 

 and have assumed control, with Carl 

 Christensen, of Minneapolis, as man- 

 ager. The range includes about 55,000 

 square feet of glass recently put up by 



the American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., as 

 Mr. Stevens' range was completely de- 

 molished in a heavy hail storm in May. 

 The work of glazing and painting is 

 now being done. Mums have been 

 planted and the carnations are being 

 taken in from the field. The new own- 

 ers will specialize in carnations and 

 mums for the local market. Mr. 

 Stevens intends to look for a new loca- 

 tion and will put up some glass next 

 spring. 



The Chandler Landscape & Floral Co. 

 is enlarging its retail store to five 

 times its former capacity and is making 

 the entire front of glass. It is putting 



