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The Florists^ Review 



August 12, 1915. 



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! BEAUnES, ROSES, ASTERS, GYFSOPHILAS I 



and all Green Goods 



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Remember we have in quantity everything that is seasonable, and can supply 

 you with quality stock at as reasonable a price as anyone else. Buy here. 



A. L.VAIGHAN & CO 



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for a few days, are bending all their 

 energies to finishing the planting of 

 carnations. Many of the growers 

 found it impossible to handle the com- 

 post or go in the field during the rainy 

 month of July. 



Miss Marguerite McNulty, of Peter 

 Reinberg's store staff, and Miss Nettie 

 Parker, of A. T. Pyfer & Co., started 

 August 6 on a personally conducted 

 tour of the Pacific coast, going by way 

 of Minneapolis. 



C. W. McKellar says he has found 

 business rather better than usual this 

 summer. 



Charles W. Erne, of Erne & Klingcl, 

 believes there is another heavy rose 

 crop due in a short time, so that the 

 market will be well supplied with stock 

 fpr the rest of the summer season. 



Charles London says George C. 

 Weiland, of Evanston, a member of 

 the Chicago Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion, has just received a shipment of 

 Italian ceramics, including table foun- 

 tains and many novelties. Miss 

 Geirner leaves September 1 for a two 

 weeks' visit at the Panama-Pacific ex- 

 position. 



Sullivan Bros., 863 East Sixty-third 

 street, are offering home-grown" gladi- 

 oli and asters. These are grown on 

 what the brothers facetiously call 

 their farm at Lawndale. 



Fred Liebermann, with Kennicott 

 Bros. Co., is on a two weeks' vacation. 

 Miss Lillian Zettervalt has returned 

 from her outing. 



The store of J. B. Thurman, 4246 

 Indiana avenue, has been redecorated 

 throughout in white. Mr. Thurman 

 has been quite busy this summer with 

 funeral work. 



By way of a summer's outing, Fred 

 Morphett, bookkeeper for A. Hender- 

 son & Co., left Chicago August 6 for 

 Detroit. After a short visit there, he 

 will sail the length of Lake Erie to 

 Buffalo. Then crossing to Canada at 

 Niagara Falls, he will proceed to 

 Toronto for a last visit with an old 

 schoolmate, who leaves for the front 

 with the Canadian troops next month. 



M. Pekarek, proprietor of the Cali- 

 fornia Floral Co., 3402 West Twenty- 

 sixth street, is busy these days ex- 



Flowers 

 De Luxe 



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Everything in Cut Flowers at Lowest Prices 



A.T. Pyfer & Co. 



A. T. PYFER, Manager 

 30 E. Randolph St., ?e"pn/cllie^StTp'S,' CHICAGO 



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patiating on the virtues of a recently 

 acquired Buick touring car. 



The Jackson Floral Shop, 748 East 

 Sixty-third street, after repainting and 

 decorating, is ready for a large fall 

 business. 



Winterson 's Seed Store reports hav- 

 ing dispatched an order June 30 to its 

 pansy seed grower in Germany and to 

 have received the seeds by parcel post 

 August 6, which is as quickly as would 

 have been the case in ordinary times. 



Joseph Yacha, Jr., 2448 West Forty- 

 seventh place, has just finished bench- 

 ing mums. They are apparently in 

 fine shape. He has been fairly busy 

 with funeral work. 



The Irving Park Florist, 4226 North 

 Crawford avenue, is quite busy these 

 days selling plants and working on 

 funeral designs. 



Otto F. Larson, 1604 "West Sixty- 

 third street, finds his new machine 



Osage Greenhouse 



We have a nice stock of GLADIOLI, 

 ASTERS and CARNATIONS. 

 We solicit a trial order. ** f 



TURNER B. SARGC4«IT, Pnp , OSAGE, IOWA 



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quite indispensable in the delivery of 

 funeral work. 



Visitors. 



A delegation of eastern florists, con- 

 sisting of Patrick Welch, president of 

 the S. A. F., and wife, and Miss Nellie 

 Clexton, of Boston; Thomas J. Grey 

 and wife, also of Boston; J. V. Kinder, 

 of Charleroi, Pa., and E. J. Fancourt, 

 of S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., Phila- 

 delphia, arrived in Chicago late 

 Thursday, August 5. The following 

 day they were motored through the 



