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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mat 23. 1907. 



...WE WOULD LIKE... 



To handle your 

 order for 



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DECORATION DAY 



We shall have as good stock as the market affords and large supplies 

 of all seasonable flowers. No one will look closer after YOUR 

 — interests. We want to make YOU a permanent customer! '~" . 



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ZECH & M3NN 



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35 RANDOLPH STREET. 



Phone Central 3284. 



Chicago 



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Diverging Views. 



One of the results of our intermittent 

 summer has been that there is more va- 

 riation in prices and market opinion than 

 is ordinarily the case. Take, for ex- 

 ample, Easter lilies: Some houses are 

 holding them at $2 a dozen, while others 

 are glad to sell at $8 per hundred. Take 

 the case of smilax: Quotations range 

 from $15 per hundred to $25 per hun- 

 dred. These are exceptional items, but 

 there is much variation in the prices 

 asked all through the list, showing widely 

 divergent views of market conditions. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. S. M. Pritchard died May 15 at 

 the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. M. 

 Dickinson, at Park Bidge. Interment was 

 at Park Bidge May 17. 



Thomas Minon, father of Steve Minon, 

 well known in the market through his 

 many years' service with Kennicott 

 Bros. Co., was struck by an automobile at 

 Douglas boulevard and Central Park ave- 

 nue May 17 and died Sunday night with- 

 out having recovered consciousness. 



0. W. McKeller has put in a new dis- 

 play case especially for orchids. It is 

 plate glass on the front and sides, with 

 mirrored back, and it shows off the 

 orchid exhibit in first-class style. It 

 already has increased the business in this 

 department. 



E. C. Amling has placed an order for 

 a thirty-five horse-power Silent Knight 

 automobile, said to be moi'e nearly noise- 

 less than any other machine in the mar- 

 ket. 



O. Johnson has secured space with the 

 Chicago Rose Co. and started Monday 

 selling stock on commission for two or 

 three of the growers who have consigned 

 to him during his previous business con- 

 nections. 



Peter Reinberg has planted five houses 

 of the Mrs. Marshall Field rose, between 

 25,000 and 30,000 plants. This year they 

 had only 7,000 plants, but found the va- 

 riety the most profitable of any they 

 grew. 



Pi J. Hauswirth will be in his new 

 store on Michigan avenue next week. 



George Weiland says business is not 

 brisk in Evanston just now. 



C. M. Dickinson, at Hunt's, calls at- 

 tention to the fact that in his adver- 

 tising of To-bak-ine he warned the grow- 

 ers as long ago as the Easter number 

 of the Review that an unusually severe 

 attack of insect pests was to be ex- 

 pected this spring. 



Miss Martha Gunterberg will conduct 

 the flower booth at the big bazaar to be 

 given by the Angel Guardian Orphan 



I cannot say enough in praise of 



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I do not see how any up-to-date 

 florist can get along without it. 



GEO. W. FAGAN. 

 Atlantic, Iowa. 

 May 15, 1907. 



Asylum at the Coliseum the first week in 

 June. Miss Gunterberg sells the orphan 

 asylum's cut flowers at the Growers' 

 Market. 



Webster Randall has been on the sick 

 list this week. 



Mrs. Frank Chance, wife of the man- 

 ager of the Chicago National League 

 Baseball Club, with her mother, is visit- 

 ing at the home of Leonard Kill. For 

 Mr. Kill's birthday the Cubs, now in 

 New York, sent him a handsome combina- 

 tion Morris chair and table. 



E. Franscn, of Scheiden & Schoos, says 



that they are handling Boston ferns in 

 considerable quantity these days, finding 

 them excellent sellers. 



D. J. Murphy has left the employ of 

 Albert Lies. 



Vaughan & Sperry are this year add- 

 ed to the list of firms putting peonies in 

 cold storage against the later demand. 



On Sunday, May 19, the florists' base- 

 ball team went to Morton Grove for a 

 game with the team bearing the name of 

 Poehlmann Bros. It is said to have been 

 a gay and disputatious occasion. No 

 two witnesses agree as to the score, but 

 it was not in favor of the city team. 



Tna lA.dam Schillo Lumber Co. has 

 botfght the property it occupies at the 

 northwest corner of Blackhawk street 

 and Hawthorne avenue and at the south- 

 west corner of Hawthorne avenue and 

 Weed street for $117,000. The property 

 has an east frontage of 624 feet, with a 

 depth of 220 feet through to the north 

 branch of the Chicago river. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has a growing 

 appreciation of the Killarney rose. John 

 Poehlmann says that one bouse has given 

 them about 100 long-stemmed blooms a 

 day in the last few weeks, together with 

 the usual proportion of shorter stock, and 

 that the select flowers have sold for 15 

 cents each without trouble when there 

 have been times that the surplus of long 

 Beauties were worth no more than that. 



Joseph Marks, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., leaves this week to make the first 

 Pacific coast trip for the firm. He goes 

 first to the Pacific northwest. Farney, 

 the firm's other traveler, is now in Okla- 

 homa. 



A Joliet paper says that J. D. Thomp- 

 son has leased one-half of the Elmer E. 

 Henry story at 110 North Chicago street, 

 where he will open a flower store. The 

 paper adds that * * everything will be pop- 

 ularly priced, so that anybody can avail 

 themselves of the most beautiful flowers 

 for any occasion. A fine, big refrig- 

 erator has been ordered, and the store 

 will be in the most elegant shape for 

 handling this class of business." Only 

 a few weeks ago it was advertised in 

 .Toliet that Mr. Thompson had taken the 

 flower department of the Spot Cash 

 store. 



Wietor Bros, are increasing their plant- 



