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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 





August 1, 1907. 



Gladioli 



When you have given our 

 Asters a trial, you will agree 

 with us that it is first-class 

 stock. Large cut on. 



We have a big supply of fine "Glads." Give 

 us your order for these and you will be pleased. 



FANCY FERNS, 



MassacbusettB or Michigan pick. 

 —Try us— 



HOSE 



Five Fine Brands— each 

 good as money will buy. 

 Three quarter-inch. 



as 



Per 100 feet Per 100 feet 



^S^\^:::::::::::::::::::::::*^^ wizard. 5.piy $io.oo 



Florist KinK* 7-Ply 14.00 Whirlpool. 5-ply 12.00 



A FULL LINE OF FERTILIZERS. Samples gladly sent free on request. 



If you haven't our catalog^ue, send a postal today ; you need it ; it will save you money. 



A. L. RANDALL CO., 19*21 Randolph St, CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



the practice of practically every house in 

 this market to refuse local buyers stock 

 which is called for by shipping orders. 



■ They do this because the local patron- 

 . age never is stable and because the sat- 



■ isfied out-of-town buyer usually comes 

 ^ back for all he needs. 



Unlimited Phones Win. 



A committee of the city council has 

 for months been wrestling with a new 

 ordinance for the telephone company. 

 Peter Eeinberg has been one of those 

 who have stood steadfast in a demand 

 for an unlimited service, and at length 

 the company and the majority of the 

 committee have agreed that the ordi- 

 nance shall provide for an unlimited 

 service at the present rate, if the sub- 

 scriber so wishes. Every wholesale florist 

 ■would have found his telephone charges 

 greatly increased under the measured 

 rate. 



Johnson's Speculation. 



Ole Johnson has been preparing to 

 turn a trick with a bunch of peonies in 

 storage. He has held something over 

 1,000 dozens until the market has be- 

 come practically bare of stock. Now he 

 is bringing them out and, as he says, 

 he sees ' ' nothing in giving them away. ' ' 

 One thousand dozens is no great lot for 

 this market, but it remains to be seen 

 whether the August flower buyers want 

 cold storage peonies at high prices. 



The Biggest Box. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is installing in 

 its city store the largest ice-box in this 

 market. Its length is forty-five feet 

 four and one-half inches and John 

 Poehlmann says they expect to cut 

 enough stock in the next season so that 

 even that last half inch will be needed. 

 The box is seven feet deep and seven 

 feet high, built by Orr & Lockett. 



Thirty-first Street. 



There are four retail flower stores 

 within a few steps of the corner of 

 Thirty-first street and Indiana avenue. 

 Hildred, a few doors north from the 

 comer, has an attractive store and main- 

 tains a good summer window. He has 

 been located here many years and re- 

 ports a steady annual increase in busi- 

 ness. 



L. D. Phone Central 8508. 



CHAS. W. McKELLAR 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



51 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



ORCHIDS a Specialty 



FANCY STOCK UK PI0NIB8, YALLBT, BEAUTIES, 

 B08E8, CABNATI0N8 AND GBEENS OF ALL KINDS 



Can always supply the best goods the season affords. 



WIRE WORK AND A COMPLETE 

 LINE OF ALL FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



You are invited to inspect our exhibit of 



GLADIOLUS BLOOMS 



At Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, during Conventiofi of S. A. F. 

 That glorious variety AMERICA will be there. 



Write us for prices on cut blooms of Gladiolus. 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Floral Park, N. Y. 



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A few doors south is the old E. Hobbs 

 place, now conducted by George C. Wag- 

 ner, who, besides his cut flower trade, 

 does a large spring business in bedding 

 plants and especially in filling window- 

 boxes. 



At Vernon avenue and Thirty-first 

 street H. S. Morton is building up a 

 nice trade. He is an energetic young 

 man and branching out as rapidly as his 

 facilities will warrant. 



At Michigan avenue W. J. Smyth's 

 employees report July business as, if 

 anything, better than usual. Mr. Smyth 

 is himself at his summer home at An- 

 tioch and only comes to the city for a 

 day or two each week. 



Various Notes. 



There was a mix-up Sunday evening 

 at a resort on Lincoln avenue in which 



Henry Welsh fell and broke his neck. 

 Four of the young men in the place 

 were arrested, among them , Charles 

 Kruchten, son of Nick Kruchten, the 

 well-known carnation grower and broth- 

 er of John Kruchten, the wholesale flo- 

 rist. There appears to be no special 

 reason for holding young Kruchten, save 

 that he was in the place at the time the 

 accident occurred. He is 19 years of 

 age arid an excellent carnation grower, 

 working at times for a number of the 

 Bowmanvillc growers. 



Henry Wehrman's asters as seen at 

 Amling's show the result of three years' 

 careful selection. He has saved his own 

 seed during that period, reserving each 

 season the finest flowers of each variety 

 in his patch. The result has been a 

 decided improvement in his strains. 



A. C. Kohlbrand, of Amling's, has 



