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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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We Shall Be Pleased 



To mail a copy of our New Cata- 

 logue to any Florist not now on 

 our mailing list who would be in- 

 terested in receiving it. = 



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HIGHLAND PARK GREENHOUSES 



FRITZ BAHR, Proprietor. 



HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois, Aug. 25th, 1907. 

 E. H. HUNT, 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 111. 



Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your Catalogue of Florists' and 

 Greenhouse Supplies for season 1907-08, and wish to congratulate 

 you on your success in your efforts to give to the trade not only 

 a most complete catalogue, but what I would term seventy-six pages 

 full of suggestions and a list of necessities for modern Florists' 

 establishments. No catalogue of any other house can be compared 

 with it in regard to originality, neatness, excellent half-tone 

 illustrations and the valuable information it contains which is/ 

 of so much help, especially to the progressive out-of-town Florist 

 who desires to employ up-to-date methods in his business, which 

 means success. With my best wishes, I am 



Truly yours, FRITZ BAHR. 



Sp.olal Kallroad Rate*— If you wish to visit CtilcaKo from time to time, write us about it. We shall be pleased to make 

 it poss ble for you to gei tbe Special Reduced Rates granted by the railroads to the ChlcaKO Association of Com- 

 merce, of which we are a member. Special rate circulars sent on request. 



E. H. HUNT, 76-78 Wabash Avenue, Chicago 



Mention The Review when .vou write. 



week with A. L. Randall at his farm in 

 Michigan. Mr. Goerisch reports that Mr. 

 Randall has the beat crop of peaches in 

 his section. 



Philip Schupp says that the house of 

 J. A. Budlong has every rt 'son to be 

 pleased with the summer business. He 

 says their far southern buyers have left 

 their standing orders on the books right 

 through the summer, a circumstance 

 heretofore without j)recedent. They are 

 cutting some fine Brides and Maids from 

 carried-over stock. 



Augusl Poehlmann sent word home 

 from Philadelphia that he had lost his 

 pccketbook, with his money, railroad tick- 

 ets and blank checks. 



The edelweiss at Lincoln park is at- 

 tracting much attention from the daily 

 papers. 



E. E. Pieser says that for the first time 

 in history August was a better month 

 than July for the Kennicott Bros. Co. 

 Incidentally it is worth mentioning that 

 it is the first time in many years that 

 Mr. Pieser has spent the entire month of 

 August in the store. 



John Muno has practically gone out of 

 cut flower growing, after having devoted 

 nearly twenty years to it. His establish- 

 ment now is nearly all devoted to an au- 

 tumn Mop of cucumbers, which will be 

 followed by lettuce. He has retained a 

 few carnations. 



P. L. McKee, of the J. C. Moninger 

 Co., and Mrs. McKee leave September 19 

 for a trip through the east, including a 

 visit to relatives in North Carolina and 

 Tennessee. 



Mike Stauch is in town this week, look- 

 ing for a greenhouse establishment that 

 can be bought on favorable terms. He 



wants to grow cut flowers for the whole- 

 sale market. 



E. C. Amling is receiving some fine 

 Monrovia chrysanthemums, and, as usual 

 with the first of the season, they dre 

 bringing $4 per dozen. 



Zech & Mann think the roses are far- 

 ther advanced than usual at this date. 

 They are cutting Brides of good October 

 quality. 



Dan Vaughan is here from Louisiana, 

 visiting his brother, A. L. Vaughan. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting some Kate 

 Moulton roses that find prompt sale. 

 They have good stems and the necks are 

 strong enough to hold up the buds. 



Word has come from p]vergreen, Colo., 

 where Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sperry are so- 

 journing, that Mr. Sperry was injured in 

 an accident while horseback riding the 

 other day. His horse fell and rolled upon 

 him, the pommel of the saddle inflicting 

 a bad injury, and when the horse got 

 upon his feet he stepped on one of Mr. 

 Sperry 's hands, cutting it badly. The 

 physician says Mr. Sperry will not be 

 able to be about for three or four weeks. 



W. A. Arnold, foreman for George 

 Reinberg, while at the convention at Phil- 

 adelphia, made a trip to Rutherford and 

 bought another carload of orchid plants. 



Vaughan & Sperry still have peonies, 

 red and white. They have kept excellent- 

 ly. This is a later date than peonies ever 

 before were seen in this market. 



O. P. Bassett is suffering with hay 

 fever. 



C. W. McKellar and the champion lady 

 bowler have just returned from the con- 

 vention. They visited New York, Wash- 

 ington and other points last week. 



The E, F. Winterson Co. reports a 



satisfactory business, with French bulbs 

 and Boston ferns as the principal items 

 on the street floor. 



Peter Reinberg had contemplated send- 

 ing out the Marshall Field rose next 

 spring, but Leonard Kill states that he 

 has about concluded to hold it for an- 

 other year. The way it is blooming 

 pleases them immensely. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. say they have 

 not had a dull day all summer and that 

 shipping trade has been by far the best 

 part of the business. They are already 

 cutting some splendid roses and look for-« 

 ward to an exceedingly large fall busi- 

 ness. 



The telegraph strike is slowly wearing 

 itself out. The service is now quite fair. 



Peter Reinberg has now equipped 

 twenty-three of his boilers with the Mar 

 tin rocking grate. 



O. J. Friedman had the family order 

 for the Nelson Morris funeral. The prin- 

 cipal piece was a casket cover of valley. 

 This funeral brought out one of the larg- 

 est floral displays seen in this city in 

 many months and nearly all the leading 

 retailers had their share, 



W. L. Palinsky has recovered from the 

 illness that prevented his attending the 

 convention. 



John Bratt, at Glen Ellyn, has sold his 

 greenhouses for removal from the prop- 

 erty and is contemplating a trip West 

 with a view to locating there. 



The George Wittbold Co, has installed 

 an electric pump at its Buckingham place 

 establishment. When the city water 

 pressure runs down the electric pump is 

 automatically started, forcing water from 

 a well on the place and maintaining a 

 steady pressure. 



