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The Florists^ Review 



May 11, 1922 



corner. Mr. Bookedis has a 10-year 

 lease, and it recently was reported that 

 the term rental is $55,000. 



Old heads in the business sometimes 

 have difficulty in realizing the passage 

 of time, but anyone who knew the estab- 

 lishment of Wussow Bros., at 445 West 

 Eightieth street, seeing it now will real- 

 ize the flight of time. The father of the 

 firm settled there in 1872. The prop- 

 erty now belongs to his widow, but the 

 sons operated it for some years. The 

 plate is absolutely empty now and the 

 range of glass is falling into decay. 



George ijisher & Bro., whose store 

 at 183 North Wabash avenue usuallv is 

 made attractive by the cheerful tinkle 

 of the cash register, did its full share 

 to start the Mothers' day market off in 

 good shape by heavy purchases Mav 8. 

 The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of 

 America are holding their fifth biennial 

 meeting here this week. The opening 

 session was at the huge Carmen's hall. 

 The Fisher tirm had the decorations 

 and supplied several great set pieces 

 and a dozen or more big baskets of 

 flowers from subsidiary organizations, 

 some of them representing as much as 

 $75 each. Joseph Ziska & Son made the 

 special wire frames for the big designs. 

 About 10,000 flowers were used for the 

 opening day. Later the entire displav 

 was moved to Medinali Temple, where 

 the decorations will be maintained all 

 this week. 



The Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation has rented one of the big rooms 

 of the Western Cold Storage Ware- 

 house for two months and will handle 

 practically all its peonies there. In- 

 coming shipments will go direct to the 

 warehouse and outgoing shipments will 

 be dispatched from there, only small 

 lots for inclusion with misceilaneoiis 

 orders and the stock for city sales ))e- 

 ing sent to the store. Manager Klings- 

 porn figures that the peony will domi- 

 nate the market from now until the 

 first week in July. 



The five trucks of Mcarz Bros., 1581 

 Ogden avenue, scarcely ever are idle. 

 These are the enterprising gentlemen 

 who took over the business of C. H. 

 Fisk, Inc. Of their five machines, one is 

 a Stutz, one a Studebaker, two are 

 Fords and one is a White, said to be one 

 of the first of that make sold to any Chi- 

 cago florist. It has been in daily opera- 

 tion since 1911, except for a few days 

 for overhauling each winter. It has 

 made its fifty or sixty miles a day, Sun- 

 days and all, and has outlasted several 

 other cars. Its total mileage now is es- 

 timated above 225,000. 



Dr. Knapp, whose peony plantation 

 at Evansville has been famous for 

 years, is this season making the first 

 cut of consequence from the new place 

 in Tennessee. Years ago the idea of 

 southern Indiana plantations was to 

 make Memorial day. Now the idea is 

 to plant still farther south to make 

 Mothers' day. Miss O. A. Tonner says 

 the Tennessee stock is maintaining Dr. 

 Knapp 's reputation for qualitv. 



A. T. Pyfer & Co. report the arrival 

 of the first candiduni lilies of the sea- 

 son, all the way from Texas. 



Efforts to put cut flowers of iris on 

 this market from California have met 

 with varying success. Some small ship- 

 ments coming through nicely, larger 

 ones have been tried and the stock 

 heated in transit. 



The E. Wienhoeber Co. is having an 

 excellent season and William Wienhoe- 

 ber, who personally looks after the buy- 



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