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August 15, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



53 



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GLADIOLI 



First-class stock at reasonable prices. 



KILLARNEY, WHITE KILLARNEY, BEAUTIES, LILIES, Etc. 



Batavia Greenhouse Co* 



Gremilious**! 



Im D. Plion* 

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aid, is nursing a badly swollen foot and 

 leg as a result of a fourteen mile hike 

 with the Park Ridge boy scouts. 



John Mangel has noticed an increase 

 in retail demand ever since the cool 

 weather set in and says July was not 

 at all a bad month. 



Wietor Bros, and John Kruchten re- 

 decorated this week. All the wholesale 

 houses are in convention attire. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 leaves August 15 to take Mrs. Pieier 

 out of the hay fever belt. They go first 

 to Toronto. 



John Weiland, Evanston, in the last 

 few days cut over 200 blooms from 



twenty-five plants of Cattleya Gas- 

 kelliana. This is his second year with 

 orchids. 



Erne & Klingel are receiving ship- 

 ments of Cattleya Harrisoniana and re- 

 port a steady call for them. 



Bassett & Washburn report their first 

 cut of mums, August 10, found quick 

 sales. They were Golden Glow. Mrs. 

 Horton is on her second week of vaca- 

 tion, but Mr. Anderson, of the shipping 

 department, is back from Elk Bapids, 

 Mich. 



Harry Manheim, of Hoerber Bros., 

 is back from a vacation on an Indiana 

 farm and says that getting back to 



nature is fine business. The outdoor 

 carnations are being cut in good quan- 

 tities at the Des Plaines grounds. 



Phil Schupp, of J. A. Budlong's, is 

 highly pleased with his first cut of in- 

 door carnations that came in from the 

 Budlong Bowmanville plant August 12. 

 Golden Glow mums are also being cut 

 by this firm. 



Rudolph Ellsworth, of Wellwortb 

 Farm, at Downers Grove, was a visitor 

 to the Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation's store August 12 and says that 

 the stock on the farm and in the green- 

 houses is doing nicely. 



H. Van Gelder, of Percy Jones', had 



