AoouST 6. 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J3 



Poehlmanh Bros. Co. 



OrnCC AND SXLESROOM, 33-35-37 RANDOLPH STREET 



n?SS^J?^ CHICAGO, ILL. 



Summer business has steadily increased the last few years and YOU can do buSifiess NOW IF YOU 



HAVE THE RIGHT KIND of stock You will need THE BEST. 



We have made preparations for large supplies of 



Fancy Flowers 



FOR SUMMER 



Killarney, Bride, Mrs. Palmer, Richmond, and Carnations 



Asparagus Strings, Smilax and all Cut FIdwers in Season 



If yon need the 

 Best Grade ol 



W%^^^^%.^ this market affords, order of U8— we have the goods. Also quantities of 

 IC v8IC8l good, medium and short Roses. 



POEHLM ANN'S FANCY VALLEY) we mk. these a SpeeWI,. 



EXTRA FINE HARRISII LILIES ISffiirieXr. 



ALL STOCK SHIPPED AT CURRENT MARKET PRICE 



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Here's a new line — hard fired, non absorb- 

 ent, Kreen aiazed. Much the most attactlve, 

 Inexpensive ware for the display of cut 

 stock In Ice box and store. 



CUT FLOWER VASES 



Inside measure Per doz. 

 4 xl2 inches $1.80 



Inside measure Per doz. 



8 z4i8 inches 10.60 



4 x6 •• 90 6>flxl0 •• 2.10 



8 x9 " 1.20 4iflxl5 " 2.40 



4»sx9 " 1.60 5iaxl8 " 6.00 



With first order, if amounting to $10.00 or more, we will put in free one 16-incb Italian flower 

 pot and saucer in green mat. Packed free, F. O. B. Zanesville, 60 days net or 2% discoimt 10 days 



ZANESVILLE STONEWARE CO., 



Decorated Stoneware 

 Speolaltlea 



* Zanesville, 



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invitation, to the new plant of Wendland 

 & Keimel, at Elmhurst. He says the 

 25,000 feet of glass, built this spring, is 

 all planted to Killarney except for a few 

 Richmond. The first cut was made Aug- 

 ust 1 and the indications are for splen- 

 did results. 



A. C. Spencer and wife started August 

 3 for a fortnight's outing in the woods 

 near Cook's Mills, Mich. 



F. F. Benthey spent a day at New 

 Castle recently. The summer Beauties in 

 the Coatsworth greenhouses are giving a 

 fine cut. 



A team of ball players from the whole- 



sale market went to Bowmanville Sunday 

 for a chastisement by the score of 28 

 to 5. 



The Poehlmann Bros. Co. closed its 

 business year July 31. John Poehlmann 

 says the results were about as in the pre- 

 ceding year and adds: "They might 

 have been a good deal worse; they might 

 have been some better." 



John Enders is at Peoria and later in 

 the week will go to Sheboygan. 



It is reported that the stork visited 

 the home of Fritz Bahr, at Highland 



I Park, August 1 for the sixth time. 



^ President Leonard Kill plans to pilot 



the florists ' club 's delegation to the con- 

 vention in person. 



Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Winterson are pre- 

 paring to go to the convention by way of 

 the lakes. 



E. C. Amling says that he hears noth- 

 ing but good reports of the Crego aster 

 from those to whom he sold seeds last 

 season. He says that so far as heard 

 from it germinated well and made fine 

 growth. The first flowers are now being 

 cut. 



The big fire at Canal and Sixteenth 

 streets August 3 upset the afternoon's 

 shipments from Bassett & Washburn, as 

 no train from the greenhouses at Hins- 

 dale was able to pass the fire all that 

 afternoon. 



There is a "For Rent" sign in the 

 Eaton flower store on Jackson boulevard. 



Gus AUes is again on duty at the store 

 of Wietor Bros., after a vacation, and 

 Charles Drissler is away. 



Ben Bubel, for Fleischman 's, has be- 

 gun suit in the Municipal Court to col- 

 lect a bill of $45 from an actress called 

 Toby Claude. 



Visitow. 



The first visitor en route to the con- 

 vention was H. E. Philpott, of Winnipeg, 

 who was here last week and has gone on, 

 A. Fitzgerald, of the Morehead Mfg. Co., 

 Detroit, was here' in quest of those need- 

 ing steam traps. Mr. Boston, of the 

 Stiles Co., Oklahoma City, Okla., was 

 looking up cut flower supply. Mr. Boel- 

 ter, of Boelter & Quehlke, Appleton, vis- 

 ited the market while in town on other 

 business. J. J. Waaland, of Findlay, O., 

 was here buying material. Miss Living- 

 ston, of Grand Rapids, also was here. 



