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The Florists^ Review 



June 30, 192! 



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A\'^ 



OR Bros. 



30 East 

 Randolph Street 



Wholesale Growers^of 



CHICAGO 



CUT FLOWERS 



Large Supplies of the 



Popular New Roses and ^Carnations 



Valley is equal to all requirements, 

 unless the call is received too late in the 

 day. Cattleyas constitute almost the 

 only scarce item. The demand at $2 per 

 flower is limited, but is sufficient to 

 take up more good flowers than are 

 available. 



Flat ferns, which were $6 per thou- 

 sand a month ago, niav now be had 

 for $2. 



Extrusion of the Beauty. 



Famous as Chicago once was for its 

 Beauties, the Beauty here is no moro. 

 It has been pushed out by other 

 varieties. For several years Beauty 

 has been going downhill. One by one 

 the large growers cut down their plant- 

 ings and finally dropped it. The final 

 act has come this spring, when Richard 

 Salm, at Union Grove, Wis., and 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., at Morton Grove, 

 have thrown out all their Beauties. 

 These were the last of the growers here 

 to let the Beauty go. Both had made 

 great successes with it in earlier years 

 and clung to the old favorite in the 

 hope it would come back, but after 

 last winter's experience they gave up; 

 they concur in the opinion of other 

 Beauty growers, that Beauty can no 

 longer be grown profitably in this 

 vicinity. Mr. Salm, whose range was 

 all in Beauty, has planted Premier, 

 Columbia and Milady. At Poehl- 

 mann 's Beauty's space has been given 

 to other roses. 



Draw the curtain. Shed a tear. 



William Dittman, of Newcastle, Ind., 

 still shijis a few Beauties to this market, 

 but will drop the variety when he 

 finishes replanting this year. Next 

 season any Beauties offered on this 

 market will have had a ride from New 

 York or Philadelphia. 



TMrty-two Years at It. 



This was the thirty-second season 

 that Klehm's Nursery has placed 

 peonies in commercial cold storage. 

 The start, in 1890, was in reality 

 merely a trial, as only five bucketfuls 

 were stored. The experiment was so 

 successful that what was, for those 

 days, a considerable quantity was 



ROSES 



Grown 



by experts, each variety by a 

 specialist, expressly for ship- 

 ping. 



Cp1pnfp|1 by experts who add to long 

 JClCtlCU market experience a working 

 knowledge of the retail trade. 



ParkpH ^^ experts who add to efficient 

 1 atftvU and painstaking care an under- 

 standing of flowers. 



For the express purpose that 

 they be in the best condition 



TO RIDE 



Kennicott Bros. Co 



174 N. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



stored the next year and since then the 

 business has grown to large propor- 



tions. This year somewhere betweei 

 150,000 and 200,000 flowers were stored. 



