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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



June 18, 1908. 



E. F. WINTERSON CO. 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



45-47-49 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



KSTABUSHXD 1894. 



LONG DI8TAMCK PHONK. CXNTRAL 8004 



FLOWERS 



For Special Occasions are a Specialty With Us. For June Weddings and Commence- 

 ments we can supply Fancy Long Stem Sweet Peas, Lily of the Valley, Peonies, etc. All other stock in 

 season at Chicago market prices. 



Baskets — Ribbons — Chiffons 



for your swell June Weddings. 

 Our Wire Work is the kind that stands up. Send us list of your wants for estimate. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



KlNlOnr BROS. CO. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



48-50 Wabash Ave. 



L. D. Phone, Central 466. 



CHICAGO 



We can at all times supply all flowers in 

 season at Chicago market prices. :: :: 



Mention The Review when you write. 



celebration of the best season the . firm 

 has ever known will bring together a 

 record attendance. 



July 1 will be especially interesting 

 this year because of the New York Flo- 

 f rists' Club's annual outing. Everything 

 promises the greatest success thexclub has 

 ever enjoyed. The gardeners' societies 

 of Tarrytown, Madison, Orange and Nas- 

 sau County have been invited to partici- 

 pate, lu fact, delegations from all hor- 

 ticultural clubs or societies in and near 

 New York will be cordially welcomed 

 and an opportunity for fraternal reunion 

 is here provided that should draw the 

 largest crowd the club has ever enter- 

 tained. 



The sympathy of the trade is tendered 

 the Johnston brothers, of the Johnston 

 Heating Co., in the death of their other 

 brother, George, whose early demise is 

 regretted by a large number of friends. 



Mrs. Frank K. Frank, wife of the flo- 

 rist at 1561 Third avenue, is recovering 

 from a serious illness. Mr. Frank takes 

 a gloomy view of the retail business, be- 

 cause of the general depression that has 

 so adversely aflfected the wage-earning 

 class of the east side, and sees little hope 

 of improvement before the return of 

 general prosperity. 



June 16 and 20 the New York Cut 

 Flower Exchange will distribute its an- 

 nual dividend of ten per cent to its stock- 



holders, a most satisfactory showing after 

 so strenuous a season. 



E. Bonnot, .the retail florist of Jersey 

 City, and of the firm of Bonnot Bros., in 

 the Coogan building, leaves with his fam- 

 ily next week for a summer in France. 



Joseph Levy, with John Seligman, says 

 he is writing the music for a new song, 

 with words by Mr. Saltford, on "The 

 Mysteries of the Wholesale Business. ' ' 

 There should be a wide demand for this 

 music, especially if it develops the solv- 

 ing of the problems. The music this 

 year will have to be written in a minor 

 key. 



The Brooklyn Retail Florists ' Associa- 

 tion is now well established and Secretary 

 W. A. Phillips announces the next meet- 

 ing for Monday evening, June 22, at the 

 Imperial. There are over 200 retail flo- 

 rists in the City of Churches. With har- 

 mony and cooperation, this society should 

 number every man and woman in the 

 business and prove a wonderful power for 

 mutual benefit. The New York whole- 

 salers have found their association of 

 enormous benefit. The same principle will 

 work in the retail department and in 

 other branches of the business, creating 

 and maintaining harmony on the basis of 

 fair play and square dealing and gener- 

 ous consideration of each other's welfare. 

 The plant growers also have demon- 

 strated the value of getting together. As 



already announced, they will celebrate by 

 a family outing on Staten Island June 

 25. Their regular meetings are held 

 monthly at the Hotel St. Denis. 



The roof gardens of the principal New 

 York hotels and the summer gardens at 

 t^ie Plaza and St. Regis have never been 

 so perfect and beautiful as this season. 

 Some of the retail florists cover the en- 

 tire expense of the summer by their con- 

 tracts for this style of decoration and 

 the care of the palms in the home con- 

 servatories. 



M. A. Bowe had some grand baskets 

 and bouquets at the opening of the aerial 

 theater on the New York roof June 15. 



Richard Vincent, Jr., of White Marsh, 

 Md., was an interested attendant and ex- 

 hibitor at the flower show last week in 

 New York. 



A much-needed rain fell all day Mon- 

 day in New York and vicinity. The peo- 

 nies arriving early in the week showed 

 the bad effects of the long continued 

 drought. Long Island crops of all kinds 

 have been greatly benefited. Sunday, 

 ,lune 14, the temperature hugged the 

 90 degree mark. 



A call at the factory of S. Jacobs & 

 Sons, Brooklyn, .June 13, found thi# 

 house, as usual, with many contracts 

 booked and many buildings in course of 

 construction. In addition to their reg- 

 ular work, they are now erecting some 



