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WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



163 N. Wabash Av% {i;°.^?°4SSl Chicagb 



MentloD The Review when you write. 



E. H. HUNT 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS 



I 31 N« ^rBDBSh AVO« L, D. Phone Randolph 4386 



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Tbt BeTlew when yon wit>fe 



boiler, capable of heating 42,000 square 

 feet of glass. 



Miss Bert Schiller has returned from 

 Wisconsin, where she has spent tho^ 

 summer, much improved in health. 



Friends • of Bobert Roberts, of the 

 Batavia Greenhouse Co., had difficulty 

 in recognizing him last week. It is 

 said he went to sleep in a barber's 

 chair and lost all his hirsute. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



With most of the convention party 

 back home, the wholesale district looks 

 more natural, and those who did not go 

 are being told what they missed. The 

 wholesalers passed through another 

 dull week, with plenty of stock on 

 hand to supply any size of order that 

 might come in. 



There is a fine, large supply of roses, 

 the bulk of them being Killarneys in 

 all grades, though some excellent 

 Marylands and Richmonds were also 

 noticed. Asters in white, pink, laven- 

 der and purple are abundant, and are 

 sold in big lots at low prices. Tube- 

 roses and gladioli are dull, arriving in 

 much greater numbers than can be 

 disposed of in any one day. Carna- 

 tions meet with a good call, and the 

 best are cleaned up daily. The cool 

 nights should improve them greatly 

 from now on. 



American Beauties have been quite 

 plentiful in all grades, but have been 

 confined mostly to one house. Easter 

 lilies and valley sell well and are not 

 overplentiful. A lot of outdoor stock 

 is coming in, and the recent rains had 

 a good effect on this kind of stock. 



" ' Various Notes. 



The American Apple Growers' Con- 



gress held its annual convention at the 

 Planters' hotel last week, being in ses- 

 sion for two. days. The ^i^te Horticul- 

 ,tural Society held its m<jeting at the 

 same time. The attendance was large. 

 Resolutions were adopted to improve 

 the packing, marketing and refrigera- 

 tion of apples. The election of oflScers 

 resulted as follows: President, J. W. 

 Stanton, Richview, 111.; vice-president, 

 Louis Erb, Cedar Gap, Mo.; secretary, 

 T. C. Wilson, Columbia, Mo.; treasurer, 

 Wesley Greene, Des Moines, la.; statis- 

 tician, L. A. Goodman, Kansas City, 

 Mo. It was also decided to again hold 

 the convention here, in August, 1913, 

 the dates to be determined by the ex- 

 ecutive committee. 



W. P. Brazill, one of our cemetery 

 superintendents, attended the meeting 

 of the National Association of Ceme- 

 tery Superintendents, at Milwaukee, 

 Wis., last week, and was elected vice- 

 president of the association. Mr. 

 Brazill is well known here among the 

 trade, and his friends were much 

 pleased about the honor conferred on 

 him. 



Frank A. Weber, of the H. J. Weber 

 & Sons Nursery Co., says that his firm 

 expects an extra busy fall season in 

 shrubs and in fruit and shade trees, 

 as heavy orders have already been 

 booked. C. C. Sanders, Emil Rothen- 

 heber and J. W. Schuette also expect 

 to put in a busy fall. 



William Ossick and Paddy Patton, 

 of the W. C. Smith Wholesale Floral 

 Co., put in a busy week rearranging 

 the cut flower and supply departments 

 in order to provide more room. 



The Kirkwood florists report that 

 violet plants are in poor shape and the 

 majority of them have died in the 

 field. Some of the firms will grow no 

 violets this year. W. J. Pilcher and 



Progressive Florists 



are Btartitiff to nso the Wedding Booklet, 

 "Flowers for the Brkle." It has produced 

 renuiikable renults oven in the duU season. 

 Samples free on request. 



Our new Advertising Cuts for the Fall sea- 

 son, and two new artistic Booklets, will be 

 ready about Sept. 15. Write us if interested. 



PAYNE JENNINGS &C0, 



626 PBDBRAL STREET, CHICAQO 



Mentluu The tUivlfW winfu yuu write. 



his brother-in-law, Robert Wolfsberger, 

 who grow only the new Mazzura vio- 

 lets, say they have a good lot of them 

 for this season, but that their stock 

 suffered greatly this summer and their 

 loss was great in plants, though they 

 saved enough to insure a good crop. 

 At any rate, violets from this locality 

 will be scarce this coming season. 



The J. F. Ammann Co., of Edwards- 

 ville. 111., who consign their output to 

 this market, will be in good shape this 

 season for a big crop of roses, carna- 

 tions and other cut stock. The stock 

 from this firm is always in good de- 

 mand in this market. ^ 



James W. Wade, manager for the 

 estate of Lemuel Ball, Philadelphia, 

 spent Monday, August 26, in this city, 

 calling on tbe florists and interesting 

 them in decorative plants. 



George Waldbart has his Grand ave- 

 nue store in elegant shape for the 

 coming season. A new Brecht refrig- 



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