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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



JUNB 7, 1906. 



PEONIES 



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You can count on us for Peonies up to the Fourth of 

 July. Best goods. Present prices, 50c to 75c dozen. 



KENNICOn BROS. CO., 



40-42-44 

 RANDOLPH STREET 



Chicago 



Mention T^e BcTlew when yon write. 



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compared favorably with last year, when 

 capes were a glut at Decoration day. 



Forty-seventh Street. 



The greenhouse on the roof that 

 thousands see from the elevated railroad 

 each day, is over the store of J. W. 

 Niesen, who is doing a nice business. 

 It is the old Holden stand. Mr. Niesen, 

 who is a graduate of Wienhoeber 's, uses 

 the greenhouse for bedding plants. He 

 has done a large trade this spring in 

 filling window boxes. 



Julius Schnapp recently opened at 

 Forrestville and Forty-seventh. The store 

 makes a fine showing from the street 

 and the neighborhood is an excellent one. 

 A prosperous business is sure to result 

 with time and good work. Mr. 

 Schnapp 's right hand man is bis daugh- 

 ter, a clear-headed attractive young per- 

 son who is sure to make friends for the 

 store. 



Over at Lake avenue, close by the 

 Illinois Central station and in one of the 

 best locations on the south side, the 

 Johnson & Swan store has been so long 

 established that it has a trade which has 

 stayed with it through several changes in 

 management. Johp Mangel once bad an 

 interest here and the Mangel policy of 

 making at all times a good display of 

 stock is still practiced. 



Weather in May. 



Meteorologically May was a most 

 peculiar month. On the 9th, 36 degrees 

 was registered and on the 17th, 90 de- 

 grees; on the 27th, 42 degrees. There 

 was heavy frost on the 9th and light 

 frost on the 10th. The rainfall was 2.09 

 inches; in 1905 it was 5.14 inches and 

 the average for thirty-six years is 3.46 

 inches. There were nine clear days, eight 

 cloudy and fourteen partly cloudy. The 

 average velocity of the wind was fifteen 

 miles per hour, prevailing direction south- 

 west. 



Variotsi Notes. 



H. N. Bruns sails at the end of June 

 for a visit with his brother at Hamburg 

 and to have a look at the lily of the 

 valley. Mr. Biuns is among the largest 

 importers of valley pips, forcing about a 

 million a year, to say nothing of the 

 large business done in the sale of re- 

 tarded pips. He says that ever since 

 Easter the demand for cut valley has 

 been excellent and the average price in 

 May exceptionally good for that month. 

 June starts off with mor6 business than 

 he can take care of. 



George Reinberg is now nicely installed 



FOR 



June Weddings 



My place is Headquarters for Orchids. I make Orchids a Specialty and I 

 am the only Western Wholesaler who makes an effort to have Orchids always 

 on hand. Cattleyas in any quantity. Also White and Spray Orchids. 



Peonies, Fancy Valley, Sweet Peas, Daisies. Lilies, Adiantum, Smilax, 

 Asparagus strings and bunches; Ribbons and Chiffons for Bridal Bouquets, 

 and all Seasonable Supplies. 



Beauties, Roses, Carnations and all Seasonable Stock. You will get 

 prompt service and the b>est goods in the market if you g^ve me your orders. 



Send for complot* prlo* list. 



CHAS. W. McKELLAR 



51 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO 



Mention The Rerlew wheu yon write. 



in his new quarters on the Randolph 

 street side of the Atlas block, where 

 Manager Jos. Foerster is more than 

 pleased with the facilities of the new 

 store, which is four times the size of the 

 old one. The new ice-box is his especial 

 pride. Although the move was only a 

 matter of fifty feet, and in the same 

 builoing, a different mail carrier serves 

 at the new address, hence the change in 

 street number. 



Kruchten & Johnson, the new whole- 

 sale firm, opened June 2 at the quarters 

 vacated hj Mr. Reinberg. They express 

 themselves as more than pleased with 

 the business to date. At present their 

 stock is principally roses and carnations, 

 but shortly a full line will be carried 

 and they propose to make a bid for the 

 shipping business. 



E. C. Amling is congratulating himself 

 that he was especially favored in the 

 matter of quality of supplies for Decora- 

 tion day. For years he has preached the 

 wisdom of taking good care of the plants 

 through a glut in anticipation of the in- 

 evitable reaction. The growers who fol- 



lowed his advice profited by it at Decora- 

 tion day. Fred Weber's crop of summer 

 Beauties in finest order is coming in 

 handy. 



C. M. Dickinson announces that E. H. 

 Hunt has the general western agency for 

 the Sabin plant stand, which has been 

 so favorably received in the east. A 

 small brass model of the stand rests on 

 Mr. Dickinson's desk and was the means 

 of securing a number of nice orders prior 

 to the receipt of the stock. 



One of the polling places for Monday's 

 judicial election was in a show house of 

 the George "Wittbold Co., on Buckingham 

 place. Louis Wittbold thinks it a good 

 advertisement to have all the voters in 

 the precinct come into the show house 

 and says it is the only advertising he 

 has ever done which did not cost some- 

 thing; in fact, they are paid $15 for it. 



Where Odgen avenue branches from 

 West Madison street, Charles Fisk is do- 

 ing a constantly increasing business. 

 There is scarcely a foot of vacant ground 

 for blocks around, so that he isn't much 

 bothered with spring planting, but there 



