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OCTOBEH 20, 1921 



The Rorists' Review 



105 



Chrysanthemums and Pompons 



ARE NOW AT THEIR BEST 



We have them in all colors and varieties. 

 We take pride in ourselves on our packing. 



TRY SAMPLE SHIPMENT. 



Violets Ready October Fifteenth. 



J. A. AXELL 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST 



Bush Street, San Francisco, Cal. 



WE CLOSE SUNDAYS 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS °^ ™^],oWe1Sv^§r shipping 



GIVE us AN INITIAL ORDER FOR TRIAL. 



Order DRIED FLOWERS for your Winter's Supply. 



STATICE— Lavender, white, yellow. STATICE Latifolia (fine variety). 

 STRAWFLOWERS-Acroclinium, Helichrysum. 



GREENS— Woodwardia, Plumosus, Adiantum, Brakes, etc. 



DOMOTO BROTHERS., 



440 Bush Street a!SPsh1p^ers San Francisco, Gal. 



carnations, which variety he handles ex- 

 clusively for them. Two truck loads of 

 art baskets were delivered from the 

 factory in as manv days last week to 

 Mr. Axell. 



The C. Kooyman Co. has been display- 

 ing a window full of fly catclier, or can- 

 nibal, jilants, cut in Oregon, where thoy 

 grow wild. Their oddity has l)ccn at- 

 tracting attention. The stems have 

 club-shaped heads with an aperture Ix'- 

 neath each head. The Oregon variety is 

 green, mottled with yellowish brown. 

 I'lies, ants and other insects that wan- 

 der into the aperture arc held by fine, 

 sticky, hairlike fibers. 



F. C. Jaeger & Son have a florists' 

 telegraph delivery window display to 

 feature the F. T. D. convention. An al- 

 most life-sized Mercury is flying, with 



flowers, over a revolving globe made of 

 blue, yellow and white statice. This 

 miniature world is encased in telegraph 

 wires. There is a map of the Ignited 

 States and also a miniature of the King 

 Edward hotel, Toronto, where the con- 

 vention was lield. 



The United Flower & Supply Co. is 

 in the thick of its mum season. It is 

 being congrattilittt'd on licing the first to 

 ojten a Chicago olTlicc. 



The Growers' Floral Co. has all its 

 varieties of mums coiniiig in, im-luding 

 yellow, white and ])ink Turners an(l 

 Bonnaffon. Excellent results are being 

 obtained from the new strawflower 

 drier. 



Domoto Bros, have received a large 

 shipment of mats in all colors from 

 Japan. Five hundred cases of lily bulbs 



are now coming through the custom- 

 house from Japan. The firm is at the 

 height of its mum season as well as of 

 its violet crop. 



Enomoto & Co. are just getting in a 

 big crop of their first Chieftain and Bon- 

 naffon mums. The stock is better than 

 e\('r before. 



The staff of Podesta «S: Baldocchi tri- 

 iimiihod again October 14 at a bowling 

 contest between nicn from the staff> 

 of I'elicano Rossi & Co. and Brown & 

 Kennedy. They ;ire soon to meet the 

 star bowlers of the Fillmore street 

 florists. 



B. Joseph is in southern California. 



The alterations in the store of Po- 

 desta & Baldocchi are rapidly nearing 

 completion. 



Darbee 's is still getting the magnifi- 



