DBCKMBBE 30, 1909. . 



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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



31 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



48-50 Wabash Ave. 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



LONG DISTANCB TELEPHONE, CENTRAL 466 



We can supply absolutely everything that is to be had in the Chicago market 

 —and often we can supply when stock is to be had nowhere else. 



Tbere ia a saylns amone the Florists of Cblcaeo and the West :— 

 "When you are stuck, go to Kennlcott's; you can set It there." 



We sell at wholesale only and — all stock is billed at Chicago market rates day of Qshipment 



Send Your New Year's Order Here 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Ever Ready 

 Flower Pot Covers 



The best »U cheapest Pet Cevirt new •■ the ■irket. 

 New Reduced 

 Price List 



Per doi. 100 

 To fit 4-m. pots.Sl.OO $ 7.00 

 To fit 6-in.pote. 1.10 8.00 

 To fit 6-in. pots. 1.20 9.00 

 To fit 7-in.pots. 1.35 10.00 

 To fit 8-in.pots. 1.60 12.00 

 To fit 9-in.pots. 1.85 14.00 

 TofitlO-in.pots. 2.10 16.00 

 To fit 12-in. pots. 2.36 18.00 

 Order now. Covers can be had in green, 



pink, white and red. Specify whether you wish 



Cevers to fit standard, % or ^ size pots. 



Only 5c in stamps sent, will brlngr prompt 



reiponse of a sample cover, by mail, with all 



details of sizes and colors. 



Ever Ready Hewer Pot Cover Co. 



W. H. GREVER, Manager 



146 Hughes Avenue, BUfrALO, N. Y. 



Mention The Keview when you write. 



limited shipments and held great quan- 

 tities for Friday. Hence the avalanche 

 and its inevitable result. If these men 

 would ever learn common-sense methods 

 and would stop this infernal pickling, 

 everybody — grower, wholesaler and re- 

 tailer — would be satisfied. But the seU- 

 JDg of blooming plants, baskets, hampers 

 and boxes of beautiful plant combina- 

 tions continues to grow in volume every 

 holiday, and will continue until the curse 

 of delayed shipments and pickling is at 

 an end. Even the honest growers, who do 

 ^■"P their full cutting daily, are injured 

 "^^yond computation by this idiotic and 



oft-repeated scheme to realize high 

 prices; wholesalers and retailers are both 

 handicapped seriously. 



The plantsmen and the retail distrib- 

 utors of plants had the Christmas of 

 their lives, however, and were practically 

 sold out by Christmas eve. Deliveries 

 continued all through the night. Nearly 

 every wholesale cut flower store was open 

 until morning. After midnight the buy- 

 ers were numerous and lunches and coflfee 

 were served the employees and visitors by 

 Traendly & Schenck and many other 

 prominent wholesalers. 



Variotis Notes. 



John Young, of Bedford, was an in- 

 terested visitor and apparently the hap- 

 piest of the crowd, with his big cut of 

 Beauties. Mr. Young has opened an 

 office in the Childs building on West 

 Thirty-fourth street, and on the door it 

 reads, "Office of the New York Flo- 

 rists ' Club. ' ' Mr. Young says it means 

 just what it says, and that any member 

 of the club is welcome to its conveniences 

 at any time. 



As a sample of how the millionaires 

 purchase plant combinations for Christ- 

 mas gifts, one of them left an order for 

 these baskets that aggregated $1,800 — 

 one order, remember, and to only twenty 

 friends, an average to each of $90. 



January 10 the Florists' Club will hold 

 its meeting, an important one, as the 

 year's committees will be appointed and 

 the new officers will orate and special ex- 

 hibits will be made. There should be a 

 large attendance. The club retains its 

 rooms in the Grand Opera House build- 

 ing. 



The Aphine Mfg. Co. is now the name 



of the insecticide enterprise with head- 

 quarters at Madison, N. J., under the 

 management of M. C. Ebel. After New 

 Year's, Boston, Philadelphia and Chi- 

 cago will have public demonstrations of 

 its efficiency. 



The Wilson-Hoyt Co. has opened an 

 office in the Metropolitan building, at 1 

 Madison avenue, H. H. Hasse, the sec- 

 retary of the company, is in charge. 



Charles Weber, of Lynbrook, is much 

 enthused over the reception given his 

 new pink carnation, and is arranging to 

 put it on the maxket. It will compete 

 for the honors at the Pittsburg meeting. 



August Millang handled a large assort- 

 ment of blooming plants last week, and 

 cut orchids from Ordonez Bros., of Madi- 

 son. 



The raffle of Manager Jackson, of the 

 Cut Flower Exchange, in the Coogan 

 building, Friday, December 24, for two 

 big turkeys, resulted in landing C. Bon- 

 net and C. Smith, the wholesalers, as the 

 lucky winners out of 100 aspirants. 



The Christmas valley of W. H. Sie- 

 brecht, of Chappaqua and Astoria, was 

 as perfect as any that ever reached the 

 New York market. 



The big plant houses are adding auto 

 trucks to their conveniences. Both the 

 large growers at Eutherford have them, 

 and the retailers are leaning fast to auto 

 methods of service, Myer, of Madison 

 avenue, being the latest to add the rapid 

 transit facilities. 



A. T. Bunyard reports rapid progress 

 in his new store. 



The firm known as the Boston Florist, 

 at Thirty-fourth street and Lexington 

 avenue, will open a branch store next 



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