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The Florists' Review 



NqVBMBBK 18, 1920 



JLL. 



Buy Direct of the Growers 



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OR DR05 



30 E. RANDOLPH STREET 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



In good supply for Thanksgiving 



All colors, $2.50 to $5.00 per dozen 



POMPONS in all Colors 



The largest supply in Chicago, 75c to $1.00 per large bunch 



ROSES AND CARNATIONS 



Our prices never are higher than others ask if they ship an equal grade of stock. 



^ k^ FLOWER^ "at their best" m^ From Grower Direct ^^ 



¥fEIIAND-KISCH Cot 



w^ilhA... FLOWER CROWERS cnaco 



Mentton The Berlew when jon write. 



denced by the late hour of their depar- 

 ture. 



In the course of the evening President 

 Waters introduced some Red Cross emis- 

 •saries to the assembled florists. The 

 Kuccess of the society's drive for sub 

 scriptions was enhanced by the pener- 

 ous contributions of the trade, all of 

 whom wore buttons ere the ladies ceased 

 their rounds among them. 



Various Notes. 



The committee, composed of K. .1. 

 Wietor, Fred Lautenschlager and C. W. 

 Johnson, appointed at the last meeting 

 of the Florists' Club to invite the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of Atnerica to Chi- 

 cago for next year's meeting, was 

 successful in its mission. C. W. John- 

 son's presentation of the invitation at 

 Washington met with the society's ac 

 iej)tance. 



There arc not many bugs of any kind 

 at Crystal Lake, where the greenhouses 

 .ilways are spick-and-span, but just the 

 same a bug has bitten Frank Schramm. 

 It is the variety known as the California 

 bug, which has attacked so many of the 

 local growers who have achieved a com 



PERCY JONES 



Wholesale Cut Flowers and Florists' Supplies 



30 East Randolph Street 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



100% Service 



Mi-ntioii Tlif Hcvlow when you writo. 



petencc. Mr. Schraimii docs not know 

 when he will succumb, but is looking 

 forward to spending at Ic.-ist one winter 

 on the coast. 



The Commercial Flower (irowers of 

 (-hicago met at the Hotel Kandolph 

 Thursday evening, November 18, to con- 

 sider raising the growers' assessment 

 collected by the wholesale houses to 

 five-eighths of one jier cent on sales in 



order that the extra one-eighth might be 

 j)aid to the C(unmercial Flower Growers 

 to cover local dues and dues in the 

 National Flower Growers' Association. 

 Discussion of President Kohout 's article 

 on stabilizing market conditions pub- 

 lished not long since in The Review 

 formed a feature of the evening. 



Eric Johnson has several warm per- 

 sonal friends at Memphis, as well as 



