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The Florists* Review 



August 4, 1921- 



WE 



•AREWAlTINGTOriLLTHATORDER-rOR. 



New Prices Effective July IJt 



Windier Umilino Service 



Three-Stripe Chiffon— Be$t Quality 



White, Pink, 1 6-in„ per yard 6c 



Violet,Lav'derf 4.in,_per yju^ 5c 



WINDIER WHOLESALE FLORAL CO., 



Sphagnum Moss 



One Bale $ 1.35 



Ten Bales 12.50 



Green Thread 



(Meyer's) 



One-pound box $ 1.75 



Ten boxes 16.50 



Number 2 Metalline Shower 



Pink and White 

 Per 50-yard bolt $1.5C 



All 1310 Pine Street, 



Phones ST. LOUIS, MO. 



is being remodeled to enlarge the ofiSce 

 space, made nec^ssarj' by steadily in- 

 creasing business. 



F. F. Benthey, the Nestor of the Chi- 

 cago wholesale florists, celebrates his 

 seventy-first birthday aniiiversarv Au- 

 gust 5. 



H. K. Ivens, who has been with the 

 Central Floral Co., Detroit, has returned 

 to the home of his parents in Chicago. 



The A. L. Randall Co. will have a 

 large display at the convention, in 

 charge of Sales Manager Edward Gala- 

 van, assisted by several of the com- 

 pany's eastern salesmen. General Man- 

 ager F. M. Johnson will attend. Accom- 

 panied by Arthur Hanson, Mr. Johnson 

 will spend next week driving to Wash- 

 ington in his Cadillac. They expect to 

 make calls on customers in twenty-five 

 towns en route. 



The California Floral Co. has changed 

 its name to the Homan Decorating Co. 

 and has moved from 3402 West Twenty- 

 sixtli street to Homan avenue and 

 Twenty-fifth street. The new store is 

 located in a residence district, one block 

 from the old location in the West Twen- 

 ty-sixth street business district. A. M. 

 Pekarek, manager of the place, says 

 business has been good this summer. 

 Wedding orders were fairly numerous 

 up to the latter part of July, and the 

 arrivals of soldiers' bodies from France 

 brought on a good run of funeral work. 



In all corners of the country growers 

 are unusually busy putting their green- 

 houses in shape for the coming season. 

 Fred Lautenschlager, of Kroesehell 

 Bros. Co., says last Aveek was one of 

 the liveliest weeks for greenhouse boiler 

 sales the company ever has liad. Or- 

 ders came from Vermont, Maine, New 

 York, Texas, Washington, Pennnyl- 

 vania, Minnesota and New Jersey. 



H. D. Caldwell, who is about to open 

 a flower store at 1375 East Fifty-third 

 street, is visiting his sister at his old 

 home at Paris, 111. He expects to open 

 his store about September 1. 



Frank Oechslin took a brief vacation 

 from business last week in the form of 

 an automobile trip through the lake dis- 

 trict about Kilbourn, Wis. 



Albert Koehler, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the A. B. C, is vacationing at 

 Mackinac Island. 



D. Wood Brant, well known in tlie 

 trade as of the old greenhouse firm of 

 Brant & Noe, of Forest Glen, now is 

 operating at 123 South Ridgeland ave- 

 nue. Oak Park, as the Illinois Fertilizer 

 Co. 



It is said that Nick Dahm, whose 

 place is west of Ev.-mston, has become 



ROSES 



Grown,, selected and packed 



by experts especially for 



summer shipment 



AMERICAN BEAUTY, the nationally 

 recognized typical rose. 



CRUSADER, fulfilling the idealist's con- 

 ception of a perfect red rose. 



BUTTERFLY, most charming of delicate 

 pink roses. 



RUSSELL, imperturbable, rejoicing in 

 summer heat. 



All Varieties, All Lengths, 

 All Good 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



174 N.Wabash Ave., 

 CHICAGO 



one of the l.-irgest and most successful 

 growers of gladioli in America. Mr. 

 Dahm 's greenhouse specialty is carna- 

 tions and lie wanted :i summer croii, so 



tried a small planting of gladioli. These 

 did so well he has kept adding to his 

 acreage year by year until this season 

 lie IS said to have r).000.000 bulbs ui the 



