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32 



The Florists' Review 



December 25, 1919. 



Start the New Year Right 



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PYFER^S FLOWERS 



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also Carnations, Stevia, Narcissi, etc. 





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 best Quality in 

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CHICAGO 



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"Nothing is too 

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 please a cus- 

 tomer." 



and big woodwardia fronds, sloping both 

 from the front and from the sides to- 

 ward the upstanding desk on which lay 

 a sheet of music and a baton. A few 

 of the designs from friends were used 

 in the decoration, but most of the flow- 

 ers were chrysanthemums in radiating 

 lines to carry the eye to the faintly il- 

 luminated desk. Several boxes in the 

 theater, including the one Mr. Campa- 

 nini habitually occupied when not con- 

 ducting, were filled with floral pieces- 

 There was no person on the stage during 

 the service, which was entirely of music 

 from behind the scenes, but there were 

 many thousands in the theater who were 

 appreciative of a most impressive event 

 in which flowers bore a conspicuous part. 

 The funeral service was held Decem- 

 ber 22 and there were hundreds of 

 wreaths and other designs in addition to 

 those which had arrived in time for the 

 Sunday memorial. The demand for this 

 great quantity of high-grade work was 

 felt by practically all the first-class 

 stores and it brought many large tele- 

 graph orders to those represented in the 

 Pink Part of The Review during the 

 last two weeks. 



Coal Prices Oo Up. 



Don 't always believe what you read 

 in the daily papers. About a week ago 

 we learned from that source how the 

 government had settled the coal strike 

 — for which we all were glad — on the 

 basis of fourteen per cent advance in 

 wages, to come out of the operators ' 

 profits, prices to the public to remain 

 the same. Well, perhaps! Leastwise, 

 we are not of the public; we're the 

 goats. It now transpires that in the 

 contracts for the season's coal supply 



1881 to 1920 



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Wholesale Cut Flowers 



