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I'hc Florists^ Review 



Fbbbcabx 24, 1921 



ing to be a good Easter." optimized 

 Charles Johnson.' " I 'm going to fill this 

 store as full of stock as it will hold and 

 I'm going to sell it all. There won't 

 be anything left after Easter. Bight 

 this minute we're having better busi- 

 ness than last year. ' ' This store reports 

 a business considerably ahead of last 

 year for St. Valentine's day. "We 

 weren't quite prepared for such big 

 business," said Mr. Johnson, "but we 

 don't object to being surprised by good 

 business. ' ' 



O'Leary, Florist, 369 East Forty-sev- 

 enth street, reports that though St. Val- 

 entine 's day business was "not any- 

 thing wonderful," he disposed of a good 

 number of plants for that occasion. 



August Poehlmann is of the opinion 

 that the $1,650 spent by the Allied Flo- 

 rists' Association for St. Valentine's 

 day increased the sale of flowers in the 

 Chicago market for that day in the 

 neighborhood of $20,000. 



Xavier Wojtkiewicz, of Niles, has 

 been ill at St. Mary's of Nazareth hos- 

 pital, 1120 North Leavitt street. 



Plant sales for St. Valentine's day, 

 reports Peter Pearson, were thirty per 

 cent ahead of last year's. Prices on 

 them were ten to fifteen per cent lower 

 than a year ago, so the net result was 

 larger money receipts. 



The Congress Flower Shop, the name 

 under which the T. C. Fogarty Co. now 

 operates, reports business fully up to 

 the best previous records, which is say- 

 ing something, as Mr. Fogarty was with 

 O. J. Friedman, the founder of the busi- 

 ness, for more than twenty-three years 

 and has seen a lot of good times. 



W. A. Hansen, of the E. C. Amling 

 Co., was in Cleveland for a day last 

 week. He says the new store of the 

 Jones-Russell Co., which is to be opened 

 February 26, is the finest he ever has 

 seen. 



Paul R. Klingsporn, George Asmus 

 and M. Barker were at St. Paul Febru- 

 ary 10 to attend the booster banquet of 

 the Minnesota State Florists' Associa- 

 tion. 



Through the remodeling of the build- 

 ing in which they are located, A. L. 

 Vaughan & Co. and John A. Huebner 

 find themselves with a new entrance, 

 through the main hallway at 151 North 

 Wabash avenue. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation is preparing to supply its grow- 

 ers with parchment wrapping paper, 

 each sheet bearing the consignee's num- 

 ber. The trial of sample sheets shows 

 conclusively that the stock looks bet- 

 ter than it does when wrapped in the 

 customary old newspaper. As most 

 growers now grade their roses and wrap 

 them in bundles of twenty-five, the use 

 of the new wrappers will enable the 

 grower to build a following for his 

 goods — if the buyers like his roses they 

 will be able to identify and ask for 

 them. 



Richard Salm has begun cutting his 

 spring crop of Beauties at Union Grove. 



Visitors. 



A party of visitors last week included 

 Ram Murray and A. F. Barbe, of Kansas 

 City; Frank X. Stuppv, of St. Joseph, 

 Mo.; Glen Wilrox, of Council Bluffs, 

 and C. E. Gullctt, of Lincoln, 111. G. M. 

 Reburn took them about in his Marmon 

 and they thus were able to inspect nu- 

 merous growing establishments in the 

 two days at their disposal. On the way 

 to Maywood Saturday afternoon, to see 

 the big new L. & B. houses of Weiss 



Where 



Will I Get 



the best 

 Flowers 



7 



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ROSES 



Premier, Columbia and Russell 



Per 100 



Shorts $10.00 to $12.00 



Medium IS.OOto 20.00 



Long 25.00 



Ophelia. Sunburst, Hearst, Maryland, 

 White Kitlarney, Milady, Hoosler 

 Beauty and Montrose. 



Per 100 



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Medium $12.00 to 15.00 



Long 20.00 



CARNATIONS 



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Per 100 

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VIOLETS Per 100 



Home-grown Single $0.75 to Sl.OO 



Home-grown Double 1.00 to 1.^0 



Fancy New York Double 75 to 1.00 



SWEET PEAS 



Fancy Spencers. 



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BULBOUS STOCK I er 100 



Paper Whites • $6,00 



Tulips $(;,00to 8.00 



Jonquils 0.00 to 8,00 



Freesia 4.00 to 6.00 



MISCELLANEOUS Per 100 



Calendulas $6.00 to $10.00 



Valley 8.00 to 10.00 



Pussywillow S.OOto 6.00 



Mignonette Do .. $1.50 



FLORISTS' GREENS 



Dwarf Baby Boxwood, ppr lb $0.30 



Asparagus and Sprengerl, 



per bunch $0.35 to .50 



Ferns, extra good, lerlOOO 5.00 



Galax, per 1000 2,00 



Leucothoe, per 100 1.00 



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