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The Florists^ Review 



Septhmbbr 29. li)21 



Store of Mrs. Percy Waters, on Dan forth Avtnuc. 



sciiijirc feet. Mr. Dunlop was tln' first 

 to force lilies of the valley and to use 

 butted glass and raised heuelies. 



Mr. Dunlop opened a retail store on 

 Yonge street, ne:ir College, and then 

 moved to 5 King street, west, where lie 

 was located for years. He moved to 9(i 

 Yonge street and was located there for 

 fifteen years. In 1913 the property at 

 Lansdowne avenue was found not suit- 

 able for growing flowers, owing to the 

 influx of factories, and Mr. Dunlop and 

 Mr. Winnett decided to sever their part- 

 nership of thirty-five years. Mr. Dunlop 

 moved to Richmond Hill, where he has 

 carried on business under the name of 

 J. H. Dunlop & Son. 



The store on Yonge street being found 

 too small for the growing retail business, 

 he moved to 8 and 10 Adelaide street, 

 west, and in 1914 increased quarters 

 were secured, which enaljled the whole- 

 sale department to be housed in the same 

 building. 



The store was always conducted sep- 

 arately from the greenhouses, but in 

 1919, after Frank had come home from 

 the war, it wa,s deemed advisable to in- 

 corporate the retail department as .1 seji- 

 aratc concern, the name of Dunlop 's, 

 Ltd., being given to it. The building on 

 Adelaide street, with a frontage of sixty- 

 five feet and three stories high, was pur- 

 chased. The store is one of the finest 

 in the country and has every conven- 

 ience of a modern flower store. The re- 

 tail department is capitalized at $1;'J0,- 

 000. The officers are: President, .lohn 

 H. Dunlop; vice-president, Frank D. 

 Dunlop; secretary-treasurer and manag- 

 ing director, George M. Geraghty. Mr. 

 (ieraghty is a most capable manager, 

 who lias been with Mr. Dunlop for four 

 teen years. He was the first iiresident 

 of the Toronto Retail Florists' Club and 

 of the Canadian Retail Florists' Asso- 

 ciation. 



The growing department was incorpo- 

 rated at .l!,S.")(l.0(iO, with J(diii H. Dun- 



lop as president and treasurer and Frank 

 D. Dunlop as secretary. Mr. Dunlop is 

 widely known as a rose grower, the Dun- 

 lop rose having received awards from 

 several growers' organizations. 



Simmons & Son. 



Simmons & Son was one of the earliest 

 established florists' firms in Toronto. 

 This was in 1894. The first store was 

 opened at the corner of Carleton and 

 Mutual streets by John Sanderson Sim- 

 mons, after he had spent several years 

 in the greenhouses and stores of some of 

 Toronto's pioneer florists. The store 

 was soon moved to Yonge street, just 

 below College, and after a few months at 

 this address to 266 Yonge street, where 



the business was carried on until 1917. 

 During the stay at this address business 

 l^rospered and the store was enlarged by 

 taking in 268 Yonge street. 



In June, 1914, another important 

 move was made, when the beautiful, 

 large store at the corner of Yonge and 

 Elm streets was opened. The store has 

 a frontage of fifty-one feet on Yonge 

 street and extends along Elm street one 

 hundred and ten feet. 



The store is finished in ivory and is 

 well equipped, with oflSce, two refriger- 

 ators, large windows on both frontages, 

 well arranged store room and large 

 workrooms. In the basement is a large 

 mossing room and under construction is 

 a large cooling room for surplus stock. 



The business was carried on under the 

 name of J. S. Simmons until a few years 

 ago, when a partnership was formed 

 with his son, Ernest Stevenson Simmons, 

 and the name was changed to Simmons 

 & Son. 



In 1919 they started their own green- 

 houses at Brampton, the South End 

 Greenhouses being purchased. The stock 

 is used wholly in their own retail store, 

 none being sold to outside florists. 



Simmons & Son do a large telegraph 

 business. They carry a fine stock of 

 flowers and a wide range of baskets. 

 They deal in pottery and are specializ- 

 ing in this at the present time, as a 

 large demand has developed for it. 



Tidy & Son. 



Tidy & Son are the oldest retail flo- 

 rists in Toronto, having been estab- 

 lished in 1878. Three generations have 

 been connected with the business. ""The 

 firm has a rather lengthy history. They 

 started with greenhouses on Bleeker 

 street, but these were pulled down 

 eighteen years ago. The store was first 

 located on Yonge street, where Simp- 

 son's large department store is now lo- 

 cated. The first move was to 49 King 

 street, west, and then to 75 King street, 

 west, where they carried on business for 

 fourteen years. Eight years ago they 

 moved to their present store, at 79 King 

 street, west. 



The store is 21x100 feet. They have 

 two stories and a basement. T'pstairs is 

 a small conservatory. In the liasement 



Store of Simmons & Son, at Yonge and Elm Streets. 



