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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 4, 190T. 



White and Pink 



35c, 50c and 60c per doz. 



We are 

 headquarters 

 this year 

 as usuaf. 



N 



Best 



Stock 



The Market 



Affords. 



All other stock in aeason at current 



market prices. We always can 



fill orders if stock is to be 



had in this market. 



48-50 Wabash Ave., 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. «S, 



Mention The ReTlew when 70a write. 



sprinkling carts. The latter employees 

 receive $5 more a month. 



Last April gardeners in all the parks 

 were given an advance in wages to $65 a 

 ' month. They were satisfied until the 

 teamsters had their pay raised to $70. 



June W^eather. 



The mean temperature at Chicago in 

 June was 66 degrees, which is exactly 

 normal for the month, according to the 

 weather bureau 's averages for thirty- 

 seven years. But the first half of the 

 month was cooler than usual and the lat- 

 ter half warmer than normal. It was as 

 cool as 49 degrees June 8 and as hot as 

 91 degrees June 17. The rainfall was 

 double that of June, 1906, but about nor- 

 mal for the season. 



Various Notes. 



Anton C. Zvolanek, of Bound Brook, 

 N. J., widely known as a sweet pea 

 grower, was in Chicago one day last week 

 on his way home from a trip to Cali- 

 fornia. It was his first visit to the west. 



J. D. Tliompson has installed a hand- 

 some new Orr & LocKett ice-box in his 

 retail store at Jolict. It is a duplicate 

 of P. J. Ilauswirth's box for his new 

 store except that Hauswirth 's box is in 

 marble and Thompson's in mahogany. 



Preparations for the club's picnic at 

 Morton Grove are progressing favorably. 



N. J. Wietor and John Sinner are away 

 for their annual fishing expedition on the 

 Wisconsin lakes. 



W. L. Kroeschell, the boiler-maker, 

 has been serving his country for a fort- 

 night, on jury. 



H. E. Stump, traffic manager of the 

 American Express (-0., who was killed 



by a fall from an automobile June 27, 

 had many friends in the wholesale cut 

 flower market. He never failed to do his 

 best to relieve the troubles of any whole- 

 saler who called upon him — and the 

 visits were frequent. Mr. Stump 's funeral 

 on Sunday brought out a big display of 

 flowers, and many of the wholesalers 

 showed their appreciation of Mr. Stump 's 

 friendship by sending designs. 



The janitor who looks after the cut 

 flower houses in the Atlas block was 

 killed Saturday afternoon by a fall down 

 the elevator shaft. 



E. F. Winterson 's son completed the 

 public school course June 28. He expects 

 to go to Culver Military Academy in the 

 autumn and to have a college course be- 

 fore going into the flower business. 



E. E. Pieser, of the Kennicott Bros. 

 Co., has been ill with lumbago for a 

 couple of days. 



Flint Kennicott is doing jury duty in 

 the Superior court. 



The family of A. L. Randall has taken 

 up its summer home on Mr. Randall's 

 ]\Iichigan fruit 'farm, where the commis- 

 sion man himself will spend most of the 

 summer. 



Klehm 's Nurseries planted a field of 

 peonies two years ago at Goodland, Ind., 

 but they forgot to mention it around the 

 market. A good part of the stock now 

 in storage was cut there this year and is 

 in fine shape. 



The retailers have reported a fair run 

 of wedding work for June and it appears 

 from the public records that there were 

 more weddings in town than ever before, 

 3,306 marriage licenses having been 

 issued in the month. 



E. H. Hunt has a now line of grass- 



growing novelties, which really are de- 

 serving of the name. They are the product 

 of a local firm of artists and sculptors. 



Two-ply jute twine, of which the 

 wholesale florists use such large quanti- 

 ties, in the last few months has advanced 

 from 9^/^ to 15 cents per pound. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. says it has had 

 excellent success with its first crop of 

 Kaiserin. Quality has "been excellent and 

 the buyers were clamoring for a share of 

 the daily cut. 



Ned Washburn is at home for the sum- 

 mer from college at Madison and con- 

 tinuing his course in horticulture at the 

 greenhouses and store of Bassett & 

 Washburn. 



Vaughan & Sperry say that.at the rate 

 their peonies have been pulled out of cold 

 storage in the last week, they will be 

 cleaned up much sooner than they had 

 expected. 



Peter Reinberg's rose crop is holding 

 out heavier than that of most growers. 

 A. C. Spencer says that for the first of 

 July they consider business good. 



C. W. McKellar says that the crop of 

 cattleyas in common with other crops is 

 much reduced, but still equal to demand. 



George Reinberg reports having sold 

 out, clean in rose plants. 



Among recent visitors were A. E. 

 Crooks, of Benton Harbor, Mich., and H. 

 W. Buckbee, Rockford, 111., the latter ac- 

 companied by his architect, for he is pre- 

 paring to remodel his store. 



Elkhart, Ind. — William Currier has 

 bought the interest of his partner, Wil- 

 liam H. Snvder, in the greenhouses, for 

 $1,.500. 



