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The Florists^ Review 



Apuil 14, 1921 



now. Their flowers will all be cut and 

 sold or in storage for Mothers' day this 



y-^''^^- Various Notes. 



The average date of the last killing 

 frost at Chicago is April 18, but in 1884 

 there was a killing frost May 29, so 

 ilon't be in a hurry to start the bedding 

 out. 



VV. J. Smyth was at Detroit this week 

 to attend a meeting of the directors of 

 the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Associ- 

 ation. He was accompanied by Hilmer 

 V. Swenson, who for several months has 

 been the association's sales manager. 



President A. F. Poehlmann called a 

 special meeting of the Chicago Whole- 

 sale Cut Flower Association at luncheon 

 at Hotel Eandolph April 14, a meeting 

 witli the directors of the Allied Florists' 

 Association to be held an hour later. 



Tlie Devon Trust & Savings Bank, 

 of which N. J. Wictor is a vice-president, 

 although organized as recently as Janu- 

 ary 15, had built up deposits of $256,- 

 786.07 at the time it answered its first 

 call for a statement, March 31. 



Arthur Andrew Weatherwax is having 

 a busy week, riding the Masonic goat 

 in Van Rensselaer Lodge. During four 

 consecutive evenings he is taking all the 

 degrees from fourth to thirty-second. 



The quarterly meeting of the directors 

 of the Chicago Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion will be held at the association's 

 oflices April 19. 



J. G. Schumann, of Elmhurst, has re- 

 moved to Knightstown, Ind. 



Walter J. Pasvogel, of Norwood Park, 

 has sold his ])lace to Eno Gums and 

 Charles Eiigelbrecht, of Eivcr View, 111., 

 who will take possession July 1. They 

 will work the entire place in carnations. 

 Mr. Pasvogel has no plans for the future 

 except that he will take his first vaca- 

 tion in fifteen years. He began growing 

 in 1906, with his father, William Pas- 

 vogel, and started in business for him- 

 self eight years ago. 



C. L. Washburn says the muslin 

 placed over the broken places in the 

 Bassett & Washburn greenhouses after 

 the recent hail storm, when nearly 50,- 

 000 lights were knocked out, was a life- 

 saver. It saved a crop of roses and en- 

 abled them to reglaze without undue 

 haste. 



John Furrow and Mrs. Furrow are in 

 town this week. Their errand is to buy 

 stock for the new store Furrow & Co. 

 will open in Oklahoma City in about two 

 weeks. 



Adolph Nielsen, of Pana, 111., was here 

 last week, combining business and pleas- 

 ure. He has done so well he is increasing 

 his glass again tliis year. 



Paul R. Klingsporn had as his guests 

 April 11 two well known store men en 

 route to positions on the Pacific coast. 

 Raymond Kester, formerly with the J. 

 M. Gasser Co., Cleveland, was on his way 

 to Seattle to take charge of the store of 

 Hollywood Gardens. William Gibson, 

 who once was with Hollywood Gardens 

 but recently has been with Mrs. E. A. 

 Williams, Pittsburgh, was on his way to 

 Berkeley, Cal. The two met here by 

 accident and continued their journey in 

 company as far as Denver. 



A. Dietsch Co. has the contract for 

 the millwork on twelve new greenhouses 

 to be built at once by Vischer Bros, let- 

 tuce and cucumber growers, at Toledo. 



The daily newspa])ers take pleasure in 

 exploiting the family affairs of Albert 

 Fuchs and never fail to refer to him as 

 "the millionaire florist," although he 

 has not been a florist for at least a 



Order Now for 



Mothers' Day 



Our Mothers' Day Price List 



will appear in this space 



next week 



These Are Our Current Prices 



FINE NEW CROP OF RUSSELL ROSES READY NOW 



$8.00, $10.00, $12.00, $15.00, $18.00 and $20.00 per 100 

 We want you to try these Ruf sells betause «ve know you %vill nvant more ef them 



EXCELLENT ROSES 



Premier, Columbia, Milady: Per 100 



Long fancy $20.00 



Choice medium $15.00 to 18.00 



Good shorts 8.00 to 10.00 



Ophelia, Sunburst, Hearst, Maryland, Pink and White Killarney: 



Long fancy $15.00 



Choice medium $10.00 to 12.00 



Good shorts 6.00 to 8.00 



Special fancy roses billed accordingly 



Other Choice Stock 



Carnations: • Per 100 



Fancy first-class stock $ 3.00 to $ 4.00 



Choice medium stock 2.00 



Sweet Peas: 



Fancy Spencers ■ • 1.00 to 2.00 



Calendula— Orange King 4.00 to 6.00 



Pansies: Per dozen bunches — $1.00 to $1.50. 

 Violets: 



Single or double 75 to 1.00 



Valley 8.00 



Pussy Willows 3.00 to 5.00 



Mexican Ivy 1.00 



Adiantum: Per 100 1.00 to 1.50 



Asparagus Plumosus: Per bunch 35 to .50 



Asparagus Sprengeri : Per bunch 35 to .50 



Ferns: Per 1,000 5.00 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE 



Remember all Chicago set clocks ahead one hour March 27. 

 Unless you did the same you should dispatch your order by wire 

 sixty minutes earlier than formerly. 



A TV. J ^feir & CMti-Pa iry^ 



Oar Motto: '^othlntf la too much trouble to picaac a coatomcr." 

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