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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



July 22, 1909. 



KILLARNEY 



Best roses in the market today. Supply 

 large, but demand so good for this stoclc 

 that we advise early orders. 



AURATUM LI LIES 



Fine. %\ ftO per doz. 



tmpQror Cornflower 



ASTERS 



White, pink and purple, $1.00 to 

 $3.00 per 100. 



PEONIES 



Excellent i^tock. Sure to pleaae 



GLADIOLI 



Amerlra and FlorUtu' King. 



Our Carnations are holding up splendidly and will ship well 

 Finest Ferns in Largest Quantity. Headquarters for Fancy Valley 



A.L. 



Co. 



Wholesale Florists '^^-Hl-r"'" l^-^l Randolph St, Chicago 



Mention The Review wben vou write 



be only one per cent of the net earnings 

 over $5,000 of corporations. Applying it 

 to some of the firms in this market, 

 Poehlmanu Bros. Co., with the stock 

 practically ail in the hands of three 

 brothers and none outside of the family, 

 will be obliged to pay the tax, while Wie- 

 tor Bros, and Bassett & Washburn, each 

 with two members of the firm, will be 



' exempt. The A. L. Kandall Co., with 

 practically all the stock in the hands of 

 three people, Kennicott Bros. Co., with 

 all the stock in the hands of the Pieser 

 family, E. H. Hunt and the Benthey- 



-Coatsworth Co., each family corporations, 

 will be subject to the tax, but their com- 

 petitors, such as Vaughan & Sperry and 

 E. C. Amling, will not be bothered, and 

 the Budlong estate will be exempt. 



The law, if it finally gets on the books, 

 will require that the chief officer of every 

 corporation file with the collector of in- 

 ternal revenue in the Government build- 

 ing a sworn statemeut of the gross in- 

 come and net profits of the concern for 

 the year ending December 31. The pen- 

 alty for failure to file such an affidavit 

 is that the collector may assess the tax 

 on any sum that seems right to him, and 

 if anyone makes a wrong return, which 

 of course no florist would do, he is liable 

 to fine. The amount of the tax, though 

 it may ntn to quite a number of hun- 

 dreds of dollars a year with several of 

 the local trade corporations, is not so 

 objectionable as the principle on which 

 the tax is based. 



Various Notes. 



There was a report in the wholesale 

 market July 19 that Joe Beaver had 

 dropped dead. Mr. Beaver has been with 

 .T. L. Raske, on Jackson boulevard, for 

 some time, and when seen the next day 

 authorized the Review to state that the 

 story was considerably exaggerated. He 

 has a summer cottage on Putin-Bay, 

 where he intends to spend the month of 

 August. 



Mrs. A. M. Schafer has given a five- 

 year lease to Chas. Handel on all her 

 greenhouses at 229 Balmoral avenue. The 

 plant covers 40,000 square feet. The ar- 

 rangement went into effect June 1, but 

 Mr. Handel was given possession May 17. 

 Mr. Handel at once began planting the 

 entire space to roses, Richmond and Kil- 



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 Central «004, 



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Plantsmen, Nurserymen, Seedsmen 

 and Florists' Supplies 



We can supply everything the Florist uses. 



Catalogue Free. 



Meptlon The Review when you write 



larney, and had finished the job, with 

 IG.OOO plants in place, by July 3. Mrs. 

 Schafer, who 'las been a successful 

 grower in tliis location for nine years, is 

 going out of business entirely, on account 

 of her health. In addition to the long 

 lease on her greenhouses, slie is selling 

 out her stock of chrysanthemums and 

 field plants of carnations. She will 

 spend next winter with a brother in 

 Texas. 



Bassett & Washburn's baseball team 

 defeated the team from Vaughan 's 

 Greenhouses, Western Springs, by a score 

 of 26 to 19 at Hinsdale July 18. It was 

 the fifth contest the two teams have had, 

 each having previously won two, so that 

 this game decided the championship. Ned 

 Washburn is manager of the Bassett & 

 Washburn team and says they are open 

 for game.s with any aggregation of green- 

 house employees. C. L. Washburn is 

 chief rooter and it is said the latest suc- 

 cess was largely due to his enthusiasm. 



The latest list of members of the Asso- 

 ciation of Commerce shows quite an addi- 

 tion in the number of florists who belong. 

 New names on the list are those of O. J. 

 Friedman. J. E. Hauswirth, .Tohn 

 Mangel, Peter Reinberg and C. A. Sam- 

 uelson. In the supply line, the name of 

 Tj. Baumann & Co. is a new one. 



R. Hansen, of Elmhurst, has retired 

 from business and removed to Kansas to 

 make his home. His establishment has 

 been sold to E. H. Rabe, whose sons will 

 conduct and enlarge it. 



Frank Ayers, brother-in-law of C. W. 



McKellar and right-hand man in that 

 gentleman's wholesale house, has gone to 

 Canada, up north of Montreal, with a 

 party of friends on a fishing and hunt- 

 ing expedition. G. H. Pieser, president 

 of the Kennicott Bros. Co., also startetl 

 July 19 for Montreal, by boat. 



Louis Dreher, of Deerfield, has sold his 

 place to Witthoeflfet Bros. Violets and 

 sweet peas were his specialty. 



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

 Mich. 



Wietor Bros, have begun to cut White 

 Killarney in some little quantity, btt 

 say they are not as white as they would 

 like them. 



The establishment of Hoerber Bros., at 

 Des Plaines, will be completed within an- 

 other week; the last of the ten houses is 

 now being erected. The roses have been 

 planted some little time, and carnations 

 will go on the benches of the last three 

 houses early in August. Two large boilers 

 are being set and a big brick stack is 

 going up. 



Quite a few members of the tradfe at- 

 tended the funeral of John Thorpe July 

 17. The pallbearers were F. F. Benthey, 

 J. C. Vaughan, W. N. Rudd, Ed Kanst, 

 George Woodward and Joe Curran. 



W. J. Smyth is not recovering from 

 hig recent accident as rapidly as had 

 been hoped. He will not be able to leave 

 the hospital for some days, and it is 

 feared it will be some time before he can 

 use the injured leg. 



Probably few in the market know that 





