The Flofets' Review 



AUGUST 15, 1912. 



We Have Been Abroad for You 



AND WE HAVE COLLECTED 



for your inspection the finest and most complete line of florists' 

 supplies possible. Mr. Baumann personally spent over five months 

 in Europe selecting samples, and many of these will be on display 

 at the S. A. F. Convention in the Coliseum. You can't afford to 

 overlook our exhibit — make Baumann's Booth your headquarters. 

 To see the largest florists' supply house in ^Chicago, and our com- 

 plete line, ' take Northwestern elevated t<r the Chicago Avenue 

 station and walk west one block. We're only 10 minutes' ride 

 from the loop. Whatever you do, don't neglect to get one of our 

 new florists' catalogues, just issued. If you can^ call, ^^ 



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L Baumann & Co., 357.359 w:chiciy *«.; Chicago 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Auburndale Goldfish Co. one day last 

 week, when the boy failed to shut off 

 the water in the tanks before he went 

 home. Mrs. K. N. Cooper, the mana- 

 ger, says she found over three inches of 

 water on the main floor and nearly six 

 inches in the basement the next 

 morning. 



The convention committees held their 

 final session, at the Union hotel, Au- 

 gust 12. There was rather lively discus- 

 sion of some of the reports, but all de- 

 tails were decided and all preparations 

 declared satisfactorily complete. The 

 funds have materialized in good shape, 

 the committees in charge of this part 

 having done good work. 



P. J. Foley was reported as being at 

 Nashville August 11. 



A. T. Pyfer reports that the Chicago 

 Carnation Co. will finish planting this 

 week. 



The Cook County Florists' Associa- 

 tion, A. C. Kohlbrand, president, holds 

 its regular monthly meeting tonight. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, 

 has started elevating the private siding 

 to the boiler house at the new plant, 

 80 that coal can be dumped from the 

 cars. A cable and drum arrangement 

 will enable the men to place cars at 

 will, without waiting for a switching 

 engine. 



Peter Reinberg bas been taking a 

 personal interest in the convention ar- 

 rangements, attending many of the com- 

 mittee meetings. He is looking for a 

 large attendance of his customers, Tim 

 Matchen says. 



E- C. Amling-Co. is arranging to take 

 parties of visitors on tours of growing 

 establishments next week. 



H«adquart*rs for 

 Society off Amorlcan Florlsto 



Auditorium Hotel 



CHICAGO 



W. S. SHAFER. Manager 



LOCATED at the comer of Michigan 

 Boulevard and Congress Street, over- 

 looking Grant Parlt and beautiful 

 Lake Michigan, within Ave minutes' walk 

 of Postoffice, BAilroad Offices, and the 

 Leading Theaters and Business Center; it 

 is unrivalled in this respect. It has an 

 equipment second to none,recent impiove- 

 ments having been made at a cost of over 

 1300.000. Abf olutely fireproof. 



High class restaurant and the best facil- 

 ities for serving large and small l)anquets. 



Rates per day $2.00 and up single; |3.00 

 and up double. 



With private bath, $3.00 and up single ; 

 $5.00 and up double. 



Mention The R«Tlew when joa write. 



John Kruchten says the larger quan- 

 tities of stock handled this summer 

 have not made up for the difference in 

 prices. 



A. L. Bandall Co. has completed the 

 big new ice-box. It has a concrete floor 

 and there is a concrete walk three feet 

 wide and fifty feet long along the front 

 of the boxes. The store will be open 

 evenings during convention week. 



Winterson's Seed Store has French 

 bulbs in this week, and advices that 

 Dutch bulbs are on the way. 



C. W. McKellar has only been in his 

 new store three months, but he re- 

 painted in honor of the convention vis- 

 itors, just the same. 



The Northwestern Floral Co., Gross 

 Point, cut their first mums of the sea- 



son August 10. The variety, of course, 

 was Golden Glow and for so early in 

 the season they were extremely good. 

 When the blooms reached Kyle & Poer- 

 ster there were a lot of Klehm's peo- 

 nies still in the ice-box in first-class con- 

 dition. 



The Batavia Greenhouse Co., Batavia, 

 111., expects to finish planting carna- 

 tions this week. 



Henry Wietor and Gus AUes, N. J. 

 Wietor's chief assistant in the store, 

 are on a trip into Wisconsin this week. 

 They will be back in time for the con- 

 vention. 



Miss Marie Hayes, of E. H. Hunt's 

 office force, is vacationing in Michigan 

 this week. General Manager Dickinson 

 of this firm reports that his son, Don- 



