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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



April 18, 1907. 



WE ARE 

 CUTTING 



CHOICE STOCK 



AND OUR 

 SUPPLY IS 



Abundant 



We are especially strong on Long BeautleSy but we have splendid erops 

 of all other Roses and Carnations. Send us your orders and yoiiUI be pleased 



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Write, wire or phone for Special prices on extra fancy, or short in quantities. 



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Flower Show. 



Vice-President E. Wienhoeber, who 

 also is treasurer, occupied the chair at 

 the quarterly meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, at 13 Congress street, 

 April 12. Much of the time was de- 

 voted to the details of issuing some forty 

 medals already awarded, the dies now 

 being ready. 



It developed that if the horse show is 

 abandoned this year the flower show will 

 be a bigger society feature than ever; 

 but the horse show people have an option 

 on the Coliseum for the only open week 

 in November and have not decided 

 whether or not to give way to the flower 

 show. 



The executive committee will hold a 

 meeting at 13 Congress street Friday 

 afternoon, April 19, at three o'clock. 



Various Notci. 



O. Johnson has retired from the firm 

 of Kruchton & Johnson. The business 

 hereafter will be conducted by John J. 

 Kruchten. 



Advices from Sarcoxie, Mo., are to the 

 effect that peony shipments will begin 

 the latter part of the current week. No 

 word has been received from southern 

 Illinois, but it is thought the cold 

 weather has had no effect on the local 

 peonies. 



There was a big display of flowers at 

 the council chamber Monday night, when 

 the new mayor and aldermen took their 

 seats. In recent years flowers have been 

 barred from the council chamber on these 

 occasions, but this was the first time a 

 republican mayor has been installed in 

 ten years and a change in this custom 



as well as others was in order. Henry 

 Klunder made for the post-office em- 

 ployees the big floral mail-box which 

 stood at the mayor's right. 



E. Wienhoeber Co. had the decoration 

 at the Fourth Presbyterian church for 

 the funeral of James H. Eckels on the 

 afternoon of April 16. There was a large 

 amount of work for this occasion, dis- 

 tributed among a large number of re- 

 tailers, for Mr. Eckels was widely con- 

 nected. Many telegraphic orders were 

 received from New York and other cities. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting some fine 

 Kate Moulton roses. The color is ex- 

 quisite. 



A. L. Vaughan, of Vaughan & Sperry, 

 has purchased and moved into a new 

 home at Oak Park. 



Jj. Baumann & Co. are making steady 

 growth and recently have enlarged their 

 quarters at 78 and 80 Wabash avenue, 

 above Bassett & Washburn and E. H. 

 Hunt. 



Bassett & Washburn report an excel- 

 lent April business. C. L. Washburn 

 says it has been as good as they possibly 

 could ask. 



Jensen & Dekema have acquired an 

 interest in W. N. Kudd's light pink and 

 scarlet seedling carnations, which are to 

 be sent out next year. 



Percy Jones says that every one at the 

 Growers' Market has been selling out 

 promptly since April 12. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. says that the cold 

 weather has not affected rose crops to 

 any considerable degree, but carnations 

 have shortened up materially. 



Under the new organization of the 

 city council, Alderman Keinberg will be 

 Kept busy. He is a member of the com- 



mittees on finance, judiciary, light, 

 streets and alleys and of the special com- 

 mittee on compensation. 



Last Saturday the Chicago Eose Co. 

 had on exhibitibii three vases of Queen 

 Beatrice roses sent by F. H. Kramer 

 from Washington. Many of the local 

 growers called to see it, having been no- 

 tified by Mr. Kramer that it would be 

 on exhibition. The variety is a cross of 

 Liberty and Chatenay, much resembling 

 the latter, and is to be distributed next 

 season. 



It is stated that George Collins has 

 abandoned, at least for the present, his 

 plan of going into business for himself. 

 As recently reported in the Review, Mr. 

 Collins had formed a partnership with a 

 board of trade man named Powell and 

 bought property for a range of green- 

 houses near Batavia, 111. They also had 

 ordered material for the houses, but fail- 

 ing to find water on the property they 

 canceled the orders. 



Visitors this week included George T. 

 Elliott and George C. Harbison, of 

 Brighton, Mass. 



Frank Garland, at Des Plaines, will 

 soon start tearing down five of his oldest 

 houses and replacing them with two new 

 high structures, each 41x150. He will 

 employ iron posts and a form of truss 

 construction to do away with purlin sup- 

 ports. He will use his own make of 

 cement bench; he is building for pos- 

 terity in this respect. He says he ex- 

 pects to plant roses on the benches be- 

 fore the houses are completed. 



The new Milwaukee theater in which 

 Lubliner & Trinz, known in the local 

 market as "the Syndicate," are inter- 



