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The Florists^ Review 



AVODST 26, 1920 



These are the market prices far 

 THE BEST STOCK 



Why Pay More? 



GLADIOLI . . . $3.00 to $4.00 per 100 



•ASTERS 3.00 to 4.00 per 100 



ROSES 4.00 per 100 and up 



Oar Motto: 'Nothing U too mnch trouble to please a customer." 

 164 NORTH WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



than they had there when they started 

 for the convention. Mr. Zech was not 

 in good practice, at that, not having 

 bowled for several months before the 

 convention. 



J. P. Kisch returned to the store Au- 

 gust 23 after having spent a restful 

 fortnight in Evanston. 



Cassimir Gouza, of the A. L. Eandall 

 Co., has moved into his new home on 

 the northwest side. 



The A. B. C. reports the arrival of 

 Dutch bulbs in quantity at New York 

 August 20. 



Koswell Schupp is pinch-hitting for 

 one of the bookkeepers of the J. A. 

 Budlong Co., during vacation. 



W. J. Smyth and wife drove to Al- 

 bany after the convention. 



A number of the trade visitors this 

 week have been in search of coal. Ap- 

 plying to jobbers as strangers, they 

 have been asked as much as $9 per ton, 

 f. 0. b. the mines. Coal dealers nearly 

 all advise holding off in the matter of 

 purchases at present prices, but the 

 same advice has been given for two 

 or three months, during which the mar- 

 ket has risen steadily. 



James Foley indulged in a few days' 

 vacation following the Cleveland con- 

 vention and then went to Columbus, 

 where the Vegetable Growers' Associa- 

 tion opened a convention August 25. 



Mrs. Helen Ackerson Uhle has come 

 from Springfield, O., where she acted 

 as manager for Charles Brunner, to take 

 a position in a retail store here. 



Irving Stein has sold the Nate Lewis 

 Floral Co., 34 "West Randolph street, 

 to S. M. Michels, who has taken posses- 

 sion. Mr. Stein has gone into partner- 

 ship with Sam Seligman, who has a 

 florists' supply business in New York. 

 The pair will make a good team, each 

 being a first-class salesman. They plan 

 to enter into active competition with 

 the older supply houses. 



C. S. Claussen, speaking of the fre- 

 quent assertions that gladioli have not 

 been bringing profitable prices this 

 season, says that last week, generally 



No Department 

 Store Sale*. 



"Every Coniignor a Partner, 

 Every Bayer a Booster." 



"WE DO 

 as 

 WE SAY" 



To Buy More is 

 to Grow Less. 



UNDER GROWERS' 

 SUPERVISION 



THE DOMINATING INDIVIDUALITY OB^ COMMISSION WHOLESAL- 

 ING of the KENNICOTT BROS. CO.. is an expression from a growers* 

 association that is "TRUE TO NAME." 



HERETOFORE a commission house dealing in cut flowers had no foundation 

 upon which to build up a healthy, growing vjsinesa. Shippers came and went and 

 the buyers did likewise. No plan had been devised for a strictly termed commis- 

 sion wholesaling to correlate the consignor with the consignee. 



WE SOLVED THE PROBLEM FOUR YEARS AGO. 



We have won the "GOOD WILL" of the commercial grower and the retail 

 florist. Our usefulness to grower and retailer as a middleman cannot be surpassed 



We need not make any apology as to how we do business. 



YOU can rely upon the SIGN of the TIMES. 



The Growers' Own. 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO,, 



174 N, Wabash Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



"PRINCIPAL LOCATION IN THE MARKET" 



H. B. KENNICOTT, Pres. 



J. E. POLLWORTH, Sec'y and Mgr. 



