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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 12, 1909. 



TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS 



If you attend the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the S. A. F. 

 and 0. H. at Cincinnati, we will be glad to meet you at 



Gladiolus Headquarters 



...IN THE MUSIC HALL... 



We expect to have on exhibition one of the finest and largest collections of named Gladioli 

 ever put up, and it will give ub pleasure to have you inspect it. Yours very truly, 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, 



Floral Park, L. I., N. Y. 



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DES MOINES, lA. 



Current Comment 



J. S. Wilson Floral Co. is busy rebuild- 

 ing two greenhouses, one 20x185 feet and 

 the other 24x200 feet, and is also re- 

 modeling and enlarging the office and 

 salesroom. The company reports the first 

 year's business, ending July 1, as more 

 tlian satisfactory, and the business of last 

 July as more than double that of July 

 of last year. 



Alex H, Wilson, of the J. S. Wilson 

 Floral Co., left Saturday evening for a 

 vacation trip to Seattle, Wash., stopping 

 at Denver, Salt Lake and Twin Falls, 

 Idaho, on his way out. 



William Trillow is overhauling his 

 greenhouses, getting in shape to plant 

 carnations next week. He reports a good 

 increase in business over last year. 



The Guthrie-Lorenz Co. has moved its 

 store from Sixth street to the corner of 

 Seventh street and Grand avenue, where 

 the firm has double its former space, to 

 accommodate its fast increasing trade in 

 seeds and cut flowers. 



Lozier 's is putting in a new plate glass 

 front on the east side store and reports 

 business as good. 



Charles McAnilf has left the employ 

 of Lozier 's and is now doing carpenter 

 work at the fair grounds. 



Those going to the convention from 

 here, so far as now known, are J. S. Wil- 

 son and wife, and J. D. Fulmer, wife and 

 daughter. Booster. 



EL CAMPO, TEX. 



A storm in the last part of July de- 

 stroyed much j)roperty in this neighbor- 

 hood. Most of the buildings in town 

 were damaged more or less. Trees were 

 broken down and all sorts of plants were 

 laid flat on the ground. The storm con- 

 tinued with unabated fury for about four 

 hours, and after an interval of an hour 

 it returned, blowing in the opposite direc- 

 tion. 



Mrs. J. C. Wheeler's two greenhouses, 

 one of them a new, modern building, 

 shared in the general destruction. Both 

 houses were badly smashed, and the new 

 one, being more exposed, was a total 

 wreck. The stock, consisting of carna- 

 tions, chrysanthemums and a general line 

 of plants, was also completely ruined. 

 Mrs. Wheeler had just been long enough 

 in the business to get well started, and 

 she says, courageously, that she has saved 

 a little of the smaller greenhouse and 

 will start again. 



Lorraine Begonias 



LESS THAN MARKET PRICE 



6000 Lorraine Begonias, 2-incli stocic, 



strong healthy plants, full of shoots, 



^lO.OO per too. Don*t pass up this 



opportunity. It's a bargain. 



E. A. BUTLER & SON 



Wholesale and Retail Florists 



NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. 



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~ GERANIUMS " 



A customer wrote this week when ordering 1 50 Jean Oberle Geraniums to be shipped at the 

 Special Price of $3.00 per 100 prepaid, that' "In this connection we wish to state that the 

 Geraniums we bought of you last October gave the utmost satisfaction to our customers, and 

 incidentally to our pocket book; we will probably need to double our order next season; kindly 

 send us special prices for fall delivery." Not a bad letter, was it ? And don't you know that 

 such a letter means something to you as well as to us? Get your Geraniums from selected 

 stock, and you will please your customers. Ours represents the highest type of perfection. 



On some kinds we are still making special prices for orders booked now for November and 

 December delivery. Special offer for immediate shipment: 1000 in 20 varieties, from 2-inch 

 pots, $18.50; from 3-inch pots, $25.00. Cash with order. 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO., WHITE MARSH, MD. 



fRESH 



STOCK 



ORCHIDS 



Guaranteed 

 in Good 

 Order 



ORDER NOW and insure prompt delivery of Plants in dormant state. 



CATTLEYAS 



Mendelii Speciosiasima Oigr*^* Sanderiana 



Mossiae GH^as Chrysotoxa or Aurea 



Direct Importatlona. Send for price list. 



G. L. FREEMAN, 388 Appleton St., HOLYOKE. MASS. 



