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The Florists' Review 



Sbptbmbbb 16. 1920 



JOSEPH ZISKA & SONS 



169-175 North Wabash Avenue, C HICAGO, ILL. 



SPECIAL WEEKLY OFFER OF ITEMS EVERY FLORIST USES: 



GENUINE HOLLAND AIR FERN, $1.50 per dozen bunches, $11.50 per 1000. 



WHITE WOODEN EASELS, write for special prices. 



GOLD LETTERS, No. 1, 60c per 100, $5.50 per 1000; No. 4, 45c per 100, $4.00 per 

 1000. 



SILKALINE thread, Meyer's, FF or FFF, $2.25 per pound. SMILAX thread, 

 Meyer's, $2.00 per pound. YAZOO Florists' Green Thread on tubes, $1.25 per pound- 

 Wire Design Specialists. Complete Line of Florists' Supplies. 



Service and Prices. A Trial Order Will Convince You. 



fact he has two in his arms trying to 

 put their sticky hands in his hair. 

 Many views of the great tract along 

 the Des Plaines river, recently pur- 

 chased by the county, also are shown. 



Sunday Closing. 



During the summer a large number 

 of retail stores have remained closed 

 on Sunday. Many of them have closed 

 at 6 p. m., or at least 7 p. m., on week 

 days, possibly excepting Saturday. 

 The approach of autumn indicates a 

 disposition on the part of some of those 

 who have worked short hours to resume 

 the longer day and the 7-day week. 

 Particularly on the near north side, 

 these retailers are being urged strongly 

 to stick to the present practice. Wil- 

 liam Wienhoeber, of the Ernst Wien- 

 hoeber Co., is one of the principal ad- 

 vocates of the short hours. He says 

 the public has become educated to 

 buying and thinking of flowers during 

 business hours and that it no longer 

 will pay anyone to be open nights and 

 Sundays. There will, of course, always 

 be some stores, especially those where 

 the proprietor lives on the premises, 

 which practically will never close. 

 But so are there all-night restaurants, 

 though they never are of the better 

 class and they do not seem to keep 

 trade from going to the places which 

 keep short hours. And did you ever 

 notice, the progressive retailers ask, 

 that the never-close flower stores sel- 

 dom seem to have any help? 



"TeU the World." 



"Tell the world," writes Percy 

 Jones, in mailing advertising copy to 

 The Review. "Gladly," say we, "if 

 by 'the world' is meant the world of 

 florists, nurserymen and seedsmen. ' ' Of 

 The Review 12,000 copies are printed 

 each week; every reasonable effort is 

 made to confine their distribution to 

 the trade, to keep them from going 

 into the hands of persons not entitled 

 to buy at wholesale prices. 



Here's What We Like. 



Chief among the complaints of the 

 growers and wholesalers is their belief 

 that the retailers make inadequate 

 effort to sell flowers in times of abun- 

 dant supply. Therefore the practice 

 and success of Mr. Wolf, of the Armi- 

 tage Floral Co., 2065 Milwaukee avenue, 

 is a matter of more than passing in- 

 terest. That Mr. Wolf has made his 

 method pay seems to justify the urge 

 on others to do likewise. 



Every Saturday morning during the 



THE 

 GROWERS' OWN 



YOUR PROTECTION 



JUST RETAIL FLORISTS 



WE SELL NO OTHERS 



East to West 



from BUFFALO to DENVER. 



North to South 



from Winnipeg to New Orleans — 

 all between cities like Cleveland, 

 Omaha, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Paul, 

 Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City — 

 are tributary to Chicago—are heavy 

 buyers in Chicago— OUR EXPRESS 

 service goes through all these cities 

 DIRECT TO YOU. 



WHY 



buy elsewhere than CHICAGO? 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



174 N. Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



••THE PRINCIPAL LOCATION IN THE MARKET" 



H. B. KENNICOTT. Pres. 



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



