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The Rorists^ Review 



Jolt i6. 1921 



says most quotations are forty per cent 

 below the prices quoted him last Jan- 

 uary and in some cases the reduction 

 is sixty per cent. Mr. Pearson believes 

 that nearly all buyers in America have 

 placed their orders considerably above 

 present prices and that the exporters 

 will undertake to justify themselves 

 by sending the best grade of bulbs 

 Holland has produced. He looks for 

 much better stock than last year and 

 believes that growers will have a bet- 

 ter chance to make a profit. 



Paul Weiss is looking for someone to 

 build a large greenhouse range adjoin- 

 ing the establishment of the Batavia 

 Greenhouse Co., at Batavia, HI. The 

 Weiss concern has a fine piece of land 

 along its switch track which will be 

 sold on favorable terms to anyone who 

 wants to use the site for greenhouses. 



J. A. Budlong Co. has adopted banana 

 baskets for shipping gladiolus spikes. 

 The standard crate used for shipping 

 a bunch of bananas holds 300 gladioli, 

 standing up. P. C. Schupp says that 

 a trial of these baskets showed the 

 stock traveled in so much better condi- 

 tion than in boxes that he has laid in 

 a season's supply. 



, Mrs. Julia Fink, mother of Mike 

 Fink, who is a well known florist, died 

 July 19 and was buried July 21 at St. 

 Adelbert 's cemetery. She was 85 years 

 of age. Her husband was one of the 

 pioneer florists of Chicago and Mrs. 

 Fink for many years was his active 

 assistant. 



C. J. Michelsen finds business so dis- 

 tributed that he can not absent himself 

 over the week-ends, but each summer 

 he takes his outings in the midweek 

 days. Last week he and his family, in 

 the Packdrd, drove to Kilbourn, Wis. 

 This week they are in Michigan. 



There is an old saying about not keep- 

 ing all one's eggs in the same basket 

 and Edward Enders, president of C. A. 

 Samuelson, Inc., is pleased that his con- 

 cern applied it to its funds in bank. 

 Samuelson 's has two bank accounts. 

 One was tied up last week by the clos- 

 ing of the Michigan Avenue Trust Co., 

 a few doors from the flower store. A 

 number of checks were out at the time, 

 but were immediately replaced by 

 checks on the other account. Thomas 

 Fogarty also had an account in the 

 closed bank. 



H. V. Winn, formerly advertising 

 copy-writer for the A. L. Bandall Co., 

 has been appointed retail sales manager 

 for the Chalmers car, at Michigan ave- 

 nue and Twenty-fifth street. 



C. L. Washburn writes from Pasa- 

 dena tliat E. B. Washburn, who has been 

 ill for some time, is much improved. 



This is P.iul Klingsporn's busy sea- 

 son. C. L. Sherer is in Michigan. Wil- 

 liam Klingsporn is at Philadelphia. Ed 

 Hunt also is vacationing. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Sherer are i" company with John 

 Kruchten and wife. 



The representative of the florists on 

 the executive committee in charge of 

 the north side parade, July 26. in cele- 

 bration of the Pageant of Progress, 

 was H. D. Schiller. Decorated floats 

 were reviewed at Broadway and Wilson, 

 passing the store of Schiller the Flo- 

 rist, a block south. 



The firm of Plodzien Bros., 1836 Pet- 

 erson avenue, has been dissolved. John 

 Plodzien will continue the business, 

 using the name of Highridge Florist. 



George Stollery, who with Fred Stol- 

 lery composes Stollery Bros., this year 

 a 28-year-old partnership, recalls that 



A Man Can Die But Once 



And the other] sacraments are not of 

 daily occurrence. But he lives some 

 twenty thousand days and many florists 

 consider him a customer but the one 

 supreme day. 



To regard funerals as the mainstay of 

 your business, and be satisfied so, is a 

 perverted view not calculated to pro- 

 duce growth. 



You should not rest till most of those 

 whom you should serve come to feel that 

 they need to have a few flowers in the 

 house'all the time, as the English do. 



A multiplicity of small sales makes a 

 stable volume. 



MAKE THE 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



174 N. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



SUMMER PAY 



The McCallum Company 



MANUFACTURERS-IMPORTERS-WHOLESALERS 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



when they established greenhouses at 

 Carmen and Glendale avenues, in 1893, 

 Sheridan Park and Edgewater were 

 prairies. It was when the Wilson ave- 

 nue boom struck that the brothers en- 



tered the retail business, at Leland 

 and Broadway, later on Wilson avenue 

 and in the last eight years in the re- 

 modeled "It" station at Broadway and 

 Wilson. 



