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June 18, 1914, 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



PEONIES 



9 AND ALL OTHER STOCK YOU NEED . 



For June Weddiifg's and School Closings 



ORDER OF HEADQUARTERS 



KENNICOn BROS. CO. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 

 163 N. Wabash Avenue, L. D. Phme, Central 466 



CHICAGO 



Mptitlon Th«» Rpvtoxv whon yoii wrltp. 





We now have a LARGE 

 CUT and good quality of 



ROSES 



BEAUTIES 

 CARNATIONS 



ALL VARIETIES 



Order from us and get the freshest stock and of best keeping quality and have 

 the assurance of supplies such as can only come from :J,000,000 ft. of modern glass 



DETDD DriRIDrDr ^^ ^* Randolph St., 



rLlLK KlIIIDlIiIi, 'c?nrAri846 Chicago, ill. 



Current Prices 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES Perdoz. 



Extra long $3 00 



36-inch stem 2.60 



:<0-inch stem 2.03 



2l-inch8tera 1.75 



•.^0-inch stem 1 ,50 



15-inchsteni 1.25 



U-inch stem 1.00 



Short $0.50 (« .75 



Richmond 



^•JllJr^n'ey \ P" 1(0 



W hite Kni«rne V Relent $8 01 



Mrs. Ward \ ^Short. 



Bulsrarie 



t 00 



ROSES, our selection, $3.00 per 100 



Carnations rer 100. $1 CO (o $3.00 



Vallpy per lUO, 3.00 



Sweet Peas per h 0, .'f> ^ 



Easter Lilies per doz., 1 .50 ^ 



Peonies per 100, 6 OO w 



Adiantum per loo. 



Asparagus Sprays per bunch, .50 ((i. 



Ferns per lOCO. I.S.OO; per 100, 



Smilax per doz., 



Subject to Change Without Notice 



1 00 

 1.50 



2 00 

 S.OO 

 1.00 



.75 



35 



2.00 



Mention The Rerl^w when yon write. 



flower force, are expecting the early 

 arrival d0 the square white envelopes. 



Work Jff replanting is rapidly going 

 on at tlw Bassett & Washburn estab- 

 lishmentf^5,000 carnations already are 

 planted »r early flowering. 



Charle^Klehm says that Klehm's 

 Nurseriej^Tias twice as many peonies 

 in stora^'as at this date last year, but 

 he does not fail to remind one that last 

 year was an off year. 



Robert Xortham, of George Rein- 

 berg's, was able to leave the hospital 

 June 14, after his operation for appen- 

 dicitis. He is convalescing at his home, 

 6608 Loomis street. 



Because of failing health, W. L. 

 Palinsky is contemplating retiring from 

 business. 



C. E. Pruner has returned from a trip 

 in the southwest. He makes his head- 

 quarters with Erne & Klingel. 



B. E. Gage, of Peterson Nursery, 

 made a four days' motor trip to Elgin 

 on business this week. 



The E. C. Amling Co. reports this 



week that sales are again running 

 ahead of last year, after a fortnight of 

 bad business. 



School closings still cut quite a figure 

 in the market, according to A. L. 

 Vaughan, who says a number of orders 

 this week have specified that "nothinij; 

 else will do, as these are the class 

 colors. ' ' 



Rose planting has been finished at 

 the establishment of Wietor Bros., and 

 the benching of carnations has been 

 begun. 



When A. L. Randall and Frank .John- 

 son, who live in adjoining houses, made 

 their recent experiments with auto- 

 mobiling it was with a .iointly owned 

 Overland. Mr. Randall liked motoring 

 even better than he had expected, but 

 did not like the car so well as he might, 

 with the result that last week he bought 

 an Apperson Jack Rabbit. Mr. John- 

 son has the Overland. 



John Mangel's stand in the entrance 

 to the Field office building probably 

 will not be opened until autumn. The 



work of fitting it up has been at a 

 standstill lor weeks. 



A large part of C. W. McKellar's 

 time these days is being devoted to 

 supervising the remodeling of his re- 

 cently acquired country home. 



Plant business has been exceptionally 

 good this spring with F. H. Reifert, 

 IS West Sixty-fifth street. 



The installation of an air brush is 

 almost complete in the plant of the 

 Raedlein Basket Co. and Cu^-t Kindler 

 expects to be turning out some unusual 

 cfl'ects in baskets before long. 



Arnold Ringier, secretary of the W. 

 W. Barnard Co., reports that counter 

 trade has been far in advance of a 

 year ago. This concern has always 

 something to attract the eye of the 

 suburbanite and a favorite method 

 seems to be live poultry, which fits in 

 well with the department of poultry 

 supplies. 



Visitors: William Swinbank, Syca- 

 more, 111.; Andrew Peterson, Hoopeston, 

 HI.; Maurice Fuld, of the Knight & 



