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The Horists' Review 



Dkcbmbeb 29, 1921 



30 E. Randolph Street 



OR Bros. 



CHICAGO, ILL 



Price List 



Subject to change 

 without notice 



PREMIER Per 100 



Special $25.00 



Medium 20.00 



Select 15.00 



Short 10.00 



RUSSELL 



Special 30.00 



Medium 20.00 



Select 15.00 



Short 10.00 



CARNATIONS 



COLUMBIA, BUTTERFLY Per loo 



Special $15.00 



Medium 12.00 



Select 8.00 



Short 6.00 



SUNBURST 



Special 15.00 



Medium 12.00 



Select 8.00 



Short 6.00 



ROSES— our selection, $8.00 per 100 



Long fancy Ward and Rosette $6.00 per 100 



White and Light Pink 5.00 per 100 



..$4.00 per 1000 

 . . .50 per bunch 

 . . .50 per bunch 



CALLAS, $3,00 per doz. | greens|iS« 



^A^ FLOWERS "at their best" h^ From Grower Direct ^^ 



¥fEIUIND-KBCH Cql 



«r^t. FI0WER CROIVERS 



CHICAGO 



corsage bouquets in one taxi. Each cab 

 was accompanied by a delivery boj-. 



Will They Never Learn? 



Nearly every wholesale house, it 

 seems, had one or two growers who 

 saved up most of the week 's cut of 

 white carnations and sent them to 

 market December 23. It seems remark- 

 able that the same thing happens year 

 after year. Nobody wants white car- 

 nations at Christmas and tliey can be 

 sold at Christmas prices only by making 

 each retailer take a few witli the colorccl 

 ones. When a wholesaler lias principal- 

 ly white, lie is distinctly out of luck, as 

 the buyers go elsewhere and leave them 

 on his hands, to be sold for cheap funeral 

 work after the lioliday. Growers who 

 might have obtained 6 to 8 cents for 

 their white carnations by sending them 

 in as fast as ready to cut, held them till 

 December 23 and only a few could be 

 sold before Christmas; they were sold 

 this week at 2 to 3 cents. But it was 

 the same last Christmas and, no doubt, 

 will be the same next Christmas. 



Various Notes. 



There was another increase in tele- 



graph delivery orders again this Christ- 

 mas. Both in and out, the principal 

 stores handled more of this class of 

 business than ever before, as the public 

 is gradually becoming acquainted with 

 the service. 



At 11 o'clock December 24 the em- 

 ployees of the supply department of 

 Pochlmann Bros. Co. gathered around 

 the desk of Manager T. E. Waters and, 

 with one of their prettiest young ladies 

 as spokeswoman, presented their chief 

 with a handsome gold ring bearing the 

 Elk's insignia. It is said that for once 

 Mr. Waters was speechless. 



The Fleischman Floral Co., in the 

 Eailway Exchange building, reports a 

 better Christmas than in 1920, principal- 

 ly done on plants and plant arrange- 

 ments, but with a good telephone busi- 

 ness on cut flowers. The telegraph de- 

 livery orders were more numerous than 

 ever before. Manager Edward Mallin- 

 son had his usual staff of extra sales- 

 men, among them being I. Rosnosky, W. 

 AVjrahamson and Richard Parker. The 

 salesmen say it was not difficult to get 

 good prices for good plants. Cyclamens 

 and poinsettias predominated in the 

 stock, but some excellent ericas sold 



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well. Azaleas were seen here and even 

 lightly flowered white ones were taken 

 at what, in the old days of Belgian im- 

 ports, would have seemed large prices. 

 The task of getting out orders was so 

 heavy Mr. Mallinson did not leave the 

 store from 8 a. m. December 23 until 

 4 p. m. December 25. 



C. J. Michclscn is well pleased with 

 the Christmas business of the E. C. Am- 

 ling Co., as it went ahead of last year, 

 which was the previous high mark. The 

 showing was made possible principally 

 by an increased supply of roses. 



Out at Bryn Mawr, where Johnson & 

 Jensen ar^"^ the center of a rapidly 

 growing resiofeqce dMrict, they report 

 a larger Christih^ than ever before, 

 principally with plants. They bought 



