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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Febuuary 8, 1912'. 



Shipping Orders 



We grow Beauties, Roses, Carnations, Valley, etc., and ask a share of your trade, 

 knowing that our stock, our prices and our prompt attention will compare favorably 

 with what you are accustomed to. 



Batavia Greenhouse Co. 



Or**nliouaes: 



Batavia, 111. 



L. D. Pbone 

 2995 Randolpli 



Store: 30 E. Randolph St., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write 



Co., says traveling in the west is no 

 joke this winter. He waited at Pueblo, 

 Colo., two days for a train and at other 

 places almost as long. 



A. L. Vaughan & Co. are receiving 

 ferns from Massachusetts shipped in 

 corrugated paper boxes each containing 

 5,000 ferns. The shipper is trying to 

 save express charges for his customers. 



E. E. Piescr still is under the doctor's 

 care, but misses little time from the 

 store of Kennicott Bros. Co. 



T. D. Long, of Elitch 's Gardens, Den- 

 ver, was in town last week and will be 

 back in a fortnight on his way to New 

 York. 



Mrs. W. P. Kyle is progressing nicely 

 after the operation performed January 

 27, but will be in the lios})ital another 

 week or so. 



Otto W. Frese, at the Chicago Flower 

 Growers' Association, says Wellworth 

 Farms is fortunate in having a quite 

 good out of Killarneys. The shipment 

 Monday morning was 1,600. 



.James Stevens, erstwhile florist 

 bowler, has gone to Los Angeles to bag 

 a first j)rize of $2,000. 



The civil service board of the West 

 Park Commissioners will hold an exam- 

 ination February 27 to select a head 

 florist at the Garfield park conserva- 

 tory and the projiagating houses con- 

 nected with it. Tlie pay assigned to 

 the jiresent vacancy is $150 per month, 

 but as much as $200 can be allowed. 

 At the same time and place an exam- 

 ination will be held for positions under 

 the head florist jiaying $2.25 to $2.50 

 per (lay. A]ii)licants Dood not be resi- 

 dents of Chicago. Full details may be 

 had by addressing Fr(^il G. llciKliling, 

 superintendent ol' cinploynitMit, 1551 

 West Madison strct't. Chicago. 



The store of Schiller The Florist is 

 being redecorated throughout. George 

 Asmus says transient trade is so light 

 during the severcdy cold wi'atlicr that it 

 is no more incomenient to do it now 

 than in sumiiifr. Moreover, ''it pre- 

 sents a nice, clean, attracti\e appear- 

 ance for tlio Easter trade." 



Fred Lautensehlager says he was sur- 

 prised by the number of telegraph or- 

 ders recei\ed for Kroeschell Imilers last 

 month. He says the sevt^rely col<l 

 weatlier caused many boiler break- 

 downs, requiring new apparatus in a 

 hurry. 



Another firm has entered the green- 

 house material business in Chicago. The 

 Edgewater and Kosehill branch of the 

 Edward Hines Lumber Co. is specializ- 

 ing in pecky cypress and other green- 

 house lumber. 



We wish to announce to the trade that Mr. Thomas Pegler, one of the 

 best known and most popular men in the business, has joined our comiiany in 

 the capacity of (ieneral Manager. 



Oniers tor all varieties of cut flowers will have his personal attention. 



Telegraph and telephone orders from any part of the I'. S. A. or Canada 

 given special attention. 



FLOWER GROWERS' SALES CO., Inc., Boston, Mass. 



Office at 1 A Park Street 



Salesroom at BOSTON PLOWER EXCHANGE, Park Street. Telephone 3766 Ha> market. 



MeutioD The Review when you write, 



D. K. Harris, manager of the Pul- 

 verized IManure Co., has just completed 

 an extensive eastern trij). 



A new retail store was recently 

 opened at 10 North Western avenue by 

 H. G. Young, who also runs a store 

 at Melrose Park and has greenhouses 



at Mount Carmel. Mr. Young says the 

 new line of Easter baskets. Many of 

 business in the new location has been 

 considerably better than he expected. 

 Curtis Kindh'r, of tlie Eaedlein Bas- 

 ket Co., is on liis way home from Ger 

 many, where he lias heen selecting the 



