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The Florists' Review 



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OCTOBKB 21. 1920 



A large and dependable supply of ^ 



Mums for All Saints' Day 



A quality to fit the needs of every retailer 



Carnations, Roses, VaDey, Peas 



Our Price* Never Are Higher than Others Aek for an Equally Good Grade of Stock. 



FrNE a ft OMPANY 



30 E. Randolph St. 



WHOT.MAT.B VIX>RUTS 



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CHICAGO 



SELECT MUMS 



ROSES, SWEET PEAS, GARDENIAS 

 and all other Seasonable Flowers for particular buyers. 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



members of the Allied Florists' Association. 

 Newspaper editors will receive baskets of flow- 

 ers. State street merchants will have window 

 displays decorated with real flowers. The asso- 

 ciation is oCTering a prize to the merclinnt whose 

 display is the most beautiful, also the most 

 practical for cooperation in our "Say It with 

 Flowers" program. 



Wednesday noon the Association of Commerce 

 holds its weekly meeting at the Hotel Jji Salle. 

 At this big event there will be a speaker who 

 will tell of the need of flowers in modem busi- 

 ness and at all tables there will be flowers and 

 also the "Say It with Flowers" folder. 



Amistice day flowers will be distribiited to 

 wounded and sick service men In the hospitals 

 In Chicago, at Fort Sheridan and the Great 

 Lakes. 



Two ways of cooperating with the biggest of 

 all flower weeks are: Use the folders and iwsters 

 and auto banners, which will be sent free. All 

 retail members of the Ailed Florists' Association 

 will receive these folders in plenty of time to en- 

 close them in their monthly statements Novem- 

 ber 1 and also to mail them out to their cus- 

 tomers to whom monthly statements will not go. 

 Posters will be furnished free and are for use 

 in windows. This is the first Item of coopera- 

 tion. The second is to dress up the display so 

 that the shop will be a regular "honest to gosh" 

 flower show. 



The newspaper publicity matter will start 

 November 4, four days before the beginning of 

 the week. These ads will tell the public all 

 about the big "Say It with Flowers Week" and 

 hundreds of flower shows all over town. 



Tbeir Natal Dajrs. 



John P, Degnan, of Henderson's Seed 

 Store, was born October 16, 1873. At 



the age of 10 he entered the Randolph 

 street training school, in the class then 

 in charge of S. F. Leonard. 



W. J. Smyth, who is treasurer of both 

 the Retailers' Association and the Al- 

 lied Florists' Association, was born at 

 Albany, October 20, 1863. He began his 

 Chicago experience as a boy with E. 

 Wienhoeber. 



August F. Poehlmann was born at 

 Milwaukee, October 21, 1869. He started 

 in the greenhouse business at Morton 

 Grove at the age of 20, or thirty-one 

 years ago. How time does fly! 



N. J. Wietor was born in Rogers 

 Park, where the greenhouses now stand, 

 October 24, 1872. He has not yet taken 

 up golf. 



Various Notes. 



It is one of C. J. Michelsen's convic- 

 tions that equipment is cheaper than 

 labor, so the E. C. Amling Co. has in- 

 stalled a new system of bookkeeping 

 which will enable one bookkeeper to do 

 the work of two or three. It is a Bur- 

 roughs machine, built to meet the spe- 

 cial needs of the cut flower commission 



business, and writes the customer's 

 statement while posting to the account, 

 all with the pressure of a single key. 



C. W. Johnson has removed to Rock- 

 ford with his family, having taken 

 charge of the Buckbee greenhouses and 

 store October 1. 



John Poehlmann approves the idea 

 for a recognized list of twelve birthday 

 flowers, and thinks Vincent Gorly's list 

 is as good as can be made. Mr. Poehl- 

 mann asks his friends to help push it 

 along. 



"Word has come from C. L. "Washburn 

 that he found O. P. Bassett extremely 

 ill at Pasadena, his advanced age ren- 

 dering recovery improbable in spite of 

 an indomitable spirit. 



The A. B. C. distributed two cars of 

 giganteum bulbs October 18. 



P. C. Schupp says that seventy-five 

 per cent of the business of the J. A. 

 Budlong Co. now is shipping trade. 



Zech & Mann, who have numerous 

 customers in New Orleans, report that 

 All Saints' day orders for chrysanthe- 

 mums are coming in nicely. 



J. Bomberger, who was located on 



