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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 22, 1907. 



Florists' 

 Supplies 



A largre and varied 

 stock of 



Ribbons 



Cords 



Baskets 



Hampers 



Paper Boxes 



Cycas Leaves 



Moss 



Hose 



Twine 



Chas. W. McKellar 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



51 Wabash Ave. 

 Chicago 



ORCHIDS 



A Specialty 



A fine assortment of 

 Cattleyas and other 

 Orchids always on 

 hand. 



L. D. Pbone Central SS98. rKKSS EVERY DAY 

 FANCY STOCK IN TALLEY, BEAUTIES, B08E8, CABNATIONS 

 AND GBEENS OF ALL KINDS 



Can always supply the best groods the season affords. 

 A complete line of all Wire Work constantly on hand 



Mention The Review when you write. 



About G-edit. 



' ' Anybody can get credit in Chica- 

 go." It was a member of an eastern 

 firm with country-wide connections who 

 said it. Chicago has been notoriously 

 lax in credits, but gradually the lesson 

 is being karned and wholesale florists 

 are exacting more prompt payments. 

 Easy credits often are an aid in expand- 

 ing sales, but the house which is most 

 careful in its credits and most prompt in 

 its collections is the one which almost 

 invariably shows the best percentage of 

 profit at the end of the season. In the 

 approaclung season wholesalers, if they 

 extend credit to those who have no basis 

 for it other than fair reputation, will 

 exact more prompt payment than in 

 other seasons. 



Endorse Telephone Ordinance. 



Following the special meeting of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club at J. A. Bud- 

 long's August 16 to discuss convention 

 matters, the club listened to a statement 

 by representatives of the Chicago Tele- 

 phone Co., and on motion of George As- 

 mus, seconded by J. B. Deamud, voted 

 its approval of the ordinance as it now 

 stands, providing for unlimited service 

 at $1'J5 per year, and recommended to 

 the city council that immediate action 

 be taken in adopting the franchise. 



Various Notes. 



Vaughan & Sperry are going into the 

 fertilizer business on a larger scale this 

 season. Since tlie growers have had so 

 much trouble, one way and another, in 

 getting stable manure, they have turned 

 their attention to bone, sheep manure, 

 etc., and have discovered that these are 

 especially valuable in greenhouse work, 

 if rightly used. The result has been a 

 great increase in the business jobbers 

 do in these fertilizers. 



The George Wittbold Co. is this sea- 

 son building quite a number of the ce- 

 ment benches invented by Louis Witt- 

 bold. The principal feature of thie in- 

 vention is the mold in which the bench 

 is cast, all in one piece. Mr. Wittbold 

 has figured that the cost of the cement 

 bench, with ((ement supports and prac- 

 tically indestructible, is only 8 cents 

 a square foot, including the cost of la- 



bor. This is no more than the cost of 

 wood benches. He plans to patent such 

 features of his mold as can be protected 

 and to place the mold on the market, so 

 that any grower can build his own 

 benches. 



A. A. Sawyer, at Oak Park, has been 

 at work for several years on a special 

 strain of Comet asters, which he now has 

 developed to a high state of perfection. 

 He calls this strain Sawyer's Beatifu- 

 can. The flowers are of maximum size 

 and the stems run twenty-five to thirty 

 inches long. E. H. Hunt has handled 

 his output ever since he bought out Tom 

 Corbrey. 



H. F. Halle is building a conservatory 

 ^t the rear of his new store at the 

 corner of Clarendon avenue and Sheri- 

 dan road. 



Frank Johnson, of the A. L. Kandall 

 Co., left Tuesday, July 20, for a western 

 trip in which he hopes to combine a 

 little business with much pleasure. He 

 will go to Colorado and possibly to Salt 

 Lake. 



Otto Wittbold and Mrs. Wittbold. are 

 visiting eastern plant growers and in- 

 tend returning by steamer on the Great 

 Lakes. 



Harry Manheim, of J. A. Budlong's 

 store force, was on vjn-ution last week. 



Among the visitors last week were J. 

 F. Johnson and Mrs. .lohnson, Fort 

 Smith, Ark. 



John Ghormley, formerly with Wien- 

 hoeber, Fleischman and Canger & 

 Ghormley, left August 17 for Minneapo- 

 lis, where he will have charge of the 

 florists' department of the Wni. Donald- 

 son Co. 



L. P. Walz, who is well known in this 

 market, is prospering at Seattle, Wash. 

 He has just opened a retail store down- 

 town and has rose gardens in the sub- 

 urbs. 



The growers on "the ridge" are not 

 interested in the price the city pays for 

 the Rogers Park waterworks system, for 

 the improvement in service and reduction 

 in rates make the change at any price 

 look good to them. 



Peter Reinberg is rapidly finishing six 

 houses 27%x260 at his farm property. 

 Either two or four more will follow 

 these later this season. 



W^m. L. Kock, of Kansas City, spent a 



portion of last week in this vicinity. 



George Eeinberg has moved the oflice 

 of his city salesroom to the west side of 

 his place and is building in its place a 

 large cool room, to be operated with out- 

 side air. 



E. F. Winterson and Mrs. Winterson 

 started on August 16 for a visit with 

 Mrs. Winterson 's parents at Rutherford, 

 N. J. 



T. C. Joy, of Nashville, Tenn., was in 

 town last week om his way home from 

 a trip of several months ta the Pacific 

 coast. 



C. L. Washburn and his son, E. B. 

 Washburn, are at their fisliing club near 

 Athelstane, Wis., for a fortnight's stay. 



G. P. Merrifield, of the Merryvale 

 Greenhouses, Helena, Ark., is spending a 

 week in town. 



L. Baumann & Co. have a paper bou- 

 quet holder after the style so fashion- 

 able many years ago and which H. H. 

 Battles, of Philadelphia, was first to re- 

 introduce in the retail trade. These are 

 imported goods and are in great .demand. 

 The packing is ingenious. Iron rods are 

 fastened to cleats in the cases and the 

 bouquet holders strung on these rods in 

 bunches of one dozen each, so that each 

 rodful hangs separately and the lace-like 

 edges of the holders are not bruised, no 

 matter in which position the case may 

 lie. 



P. J. Hauswirth expects to remain in 

 the east, following the S. A.. F. con- 

 vention, to attend the annual meeting of 

 Red Men at Norfolk, September 9. 



Sam Pearce has his place largely 

 planted to poinsettias. He is growing 

 several thousands in pots and has all the 

 high houses planted to benched poinset- 

 tias for cutting. 



Fred Lautenschlager. of Kroeschell's, 

 was the advance guard of the Chicago 

 convention party. He left here Au- 

 gust 14. 



E. r. Amling is putting in a number 

 of big new tables to give additional 

 facilities for handling stock. 



Allie Zech returned Saturday from a 

 two weeks' visit at Cleveland and its 

 vicinity. 



It seems that growers never will learn 

 that the more nearly every flower in the 

 bunch is like every other flower in that 



