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The Florists^ Review 



NOTIUBBH 20. 1820 



Papier-Moche Forms for Making Frieze Wreaths 



()-inch $0.50 doz.; $4.00 per 100 12-inch $1.10 per doz.; $ 8.75 per 100 



8-inch 60 doz.; 4.50 per 100 14-inch 1.50 per doz.; 11.75 per 100 



10-inch 75 doz.; 6.00 per 100 IG-inch 2.00 per doz.; 15.00 per 100 



THREAD 



SILKALINE THREAD, the very best for florists, FF or MEYER'S SMILAX THREAD, a very good thread 



FFF at $2.00 per pound at $1.80 per pound 



WIRE DESIGNS 



_The most complete stock in Chicago. Prices always right. We make suggestions 

 on special wire frames always to benefit florists. A trial will convince you, 



JOSEPH ZISKA & SONS 



169-175 North Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Wire Design Specialists. Complete Line of Florists' Supplies. 



Service and Prices. A Trial Order (send it by mail if yoa can't come) wUl Convince You. 



hUl November 22 and the day marked 

 Mr. Nissen 's first absence from his post 

 in the eight and one-half years he has 

 been office man for the Chicago Flower 

 Growers' Association. 



Sweet peas are slow in progress this 

 month and to that fact George J. Ball 

 attributes their present good prices. The 

 November and December crops are, bo 

 to speak, on the knees of the weather 

 man. 



There are 2,068 square feet of space 

 in the basement rose department of the 

 E. C. Amling Co. C. J. Michelsen says 

 its capacity is the grading and counting 

 of 10,000 roses per hour. Mr. Michelsen 

 will have nothing to do but work for a 

 month, as his home is quarantined. June 

 has a light case of scarlet fever. 



The death of Abe Iralson, as the re- 

 sult of an automobile accident, is re- 

 corded in this week's obituary column. 



C. L. Washburn says he noted with 

 interest the "Open Letter" of J. A. 

 Cannon in The Review of November 

 11, containing the sentence: "Flowers 

 during the present season are of a 

 poorer quality and higher in price than 



a year ago. 



'The remark leads to 



the belief," says Mr. Washburn, "that 

 the gentleman does not get his stock 

 from the Chicago market, because 

 flowers here never were better than 

 this year, while prices have not been 

 higher than last autumn, except, per- 

 haps, for mums." 



The wholesalers are being repeatedly 

 warned that the supply of ferns will 

 not last till spring. The eastern ship- 

 pers have put the price up steadily, 

 "to conserve the stock on hand." 



F. O. Wildhagen and L. J. Dumwald, 

 of Waterloo, la., have been here this 

 week. From strawberry plants they 

 have advanced to gladioli and have a 

 crop of bulbs to sell this season. They 

 bought a large quantity of planting 

 stock last spring, obtaining it from 

 several sources, and say they have 

 learned that there is a great differ- 

 ence in the health and vitality of the 

 same variety from different growers. 



Mr. Johnson, of the Johnson Floral 

 Co., Kendallville, Ind., who has been a 

 Review reader for fifteen years, was a 

 visitor this week on his way home from 

 the University of Illinois, where he 

 spent Fathers' day, November 20, with 

 his son. 



Andrew Brown, aged 25, a former em- 

 ployee of Poehlmann Bros. Co., whose 

 sister is an office assistant at Morton 

 Grove, died November 19 and was 

 buried at Niles Center November 22. 



H. B. Kennicott swung around the 

 firclp of the flower consuming centers 



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Wholesale Houses 



dispose of the Cut Flowers that daily ^rive in 

 the Chicago Market. k 



The Bulk of the Business, 



however, is done by a few. It is those few that 

 receive a supply of Cut Flowers in as great a 

 quantity as we do. 



Filling So Many Cut Flower Orders 



from first hand, most naturally we must have a 

 lot of stock coming in ALL THE TIME. 



YOUR ORDERS SHOULD RECEIVE THE 

 BEST ATTENTION. 



Gla»8 by the 

 Million. 



Production 

 by the 

 Thousands, 



IMMORTELLES 



1920 CROP 



Red, White, Blue. Purple, Yellow, $45.00 per 100 bunches 



Immediate Delivery 

 Will sell less than case lots of each color 



C. J. SPEELNAN & SONS 



470 Greenwich Street 



NEW YORK CITY 



