AcGttST 13, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J5 



. Co. 



OrnCE AND SXLESROOM, 33-35-37 BANDOLPH STREET 



■nSsr^ CHICXGO, ILL. 



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



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



We have made preparations for larg^e supplies of 



Fancy Flowers 



FOR SUMMER 



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



Asparagus Strings, Smilax and all Cut Flowers in Season 



If you need the 

 Best Oracle of 



V^^^^^^ this market affords, order of us— we have the goods. Also quantities of 

 ICvvSCSI good, medium and short Roses. ^r:y\cM 



POEHLNANN*S FANCY VALLEY) w. ■a. »«. > spa*ii,. 

 EXTRA FINE HARRISII LILIES | KKiKoX. 



ALL STOCK SHIPPED AT CURRENT MARKET PRICE 



Mention The Review when you write. 



task to find that quantity, but it re- 

 quired some hustling to get that many 

 this week. 



Kennicott Bros. Co., which for many 

 years has kept close account of the cost 

 of wirr work, says that large users should 

 buy generously at present — competition 

 has brought the prices down to where 

 the wire department is an advertisement 

 and nothing else. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. says the use of 

 corrugated pasteboard boxes for growers ' 

 shipments will become much more gen- 

 eral. They find that a box will make 

 several trips between Morton Grove and 

 the store, and on each trip will save 

 in express charges nearly the original 

 cost of the box. 



Phil Schupp, at Budlong's, says busi- 

 ness is excellent compared with other 

 Augusts; the only difficulty is to find 

 the stock. 



Vandas are now in crop, and C. W. 

 McKellar says they are selling first rate 

 at ,25 cents per flower, where good work 

 is to be done. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. is receiving 

 gladioli by the wagon-load and finds good 

 sale for the special varieties, but not 

 much demand for the common stuff. 



Zeeh & Mann report that the present 

 summer is considerably better than last 

 with them. John Zech says they are 

 specially fortunate in having quite a few- 

 roses at present, when the local trade 

 will take anything that can be spared 

 from the shipping orders. 



W. E. Lynch, of E. H. Hunt's, leaves 

 for Massachusetts Thursday, August 13, 

 to join his family, who already are vis- 

 iting at the old home there. 



Vaughan & Sperry say they do quite 

 a retail business with boxes, both cor- 



rugated and otherwise. A great many 

 buyers who visit the market find it worth 

 while to assemble all their purchases in 

 one place and pack them in a box to 

 save breakage. 



Peter Reinberg and Leonard Kill, with 

 their wives, motored to Salem, Wis., Sat- 

 urday afternoon, returning Monday 

 morning. 



The George Wittbold Co. is preparing 

 to tear down its two oldest greenhouses, 

 on the Halsted street side of the place, 

 and rebuild in one wide, high structure. 



Miss Martha Gunterberg returned Au- 

 gust 10 from her six weeks' outing in 

 Minnesota. 



J. B. Deamud is on his farm at Cairo, 

 Mich., and expects to go from there to 

 the convention. 



Fred Lautenschlager, as state vice- 

 president of the S. A. F., has sent out 

 a neatly printed announcement of the 

 Florists' Club's special train to Niagara 

 Falls, August 17, urging a large attend- 

 ance and soliciting new members. 



Among the week 's visitors were : Adam 

 Heim, of the Heim Support Co., Con- 

 nersville, Ind. ; W. J. Pilcher, of Kirk- 

 wood, Mo., who is building a new range 

 of houses; Miss H. B. Whittet, of Min- 

 neapolis. 



Canfield, O. — August 6, lightning 

 struck the greenhouses of the Altimo 

 Culture Co., but no serious damage was 

 done. 



Chatham, N. Y.— The Chatham Floral 

 Co. has been building an extensive addi- 

 tion to its greenhouses. Meanwhile a 

 part of the force has been engaged in 

 transplanting 20,000 carnation plants. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



There is no change in conditions, as 

 far as business is concerned. The gen- 

 eral trade is in a kind of comatose state. 

 There are quantities of fine flowers of 

 all kinds in the wholesale houses. Only 

 the best will tempt buyers, and a little 

 of that goes a long way. 



Various Notes. 



For a long time, rumors of a new 

 wholesale house have been going the 

 rounds. Sometimes it was a growers' 

 market that was predicted, but devel- 

 opments during the last week indicate 

 that several old employees of the older 

 house have gotten their heads together 

 and propose opening for themselves. 

 They have not, up to the present, of- 

 ficially announced their new business, but 

 as the ' * hen has been on ' ' for several 

 months, it will more than likely hatch 

 out by the time this is in print. 



A special meeting of the Pittsburg 

 Florists' Club was called Saturday after- 

 noon in the oflSce of the Pittsburg Cut 

 Flower Co., to consider an inTitation 

 of the Chamber of Commerce to be rep- 

 resented in the sesquicentennial parade, 

 which will occur in September. A com- 

 mittee was appointed, consisting of Sam- 

 uel McClements, W. Breitenstem, A. W. 

 Smith, Jr., H. L. Blind, J. W. Ludwig 

 and T. P. Langhans, to confer with the 

 Chamber of Commerce and arrange for 

 a large float to represent the Pittsburg 

 florists. 



Carnegie, Pa., will have an old home 

 week, and have a trades parade, in which 

 C. H. Puhlman, of that town, expects 



