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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 1, 1909. 



Get your Easter 

 Stock 



In Milwaukee 



This year. You'll 

 find it pays. 



Easter Lilies, ^^^; 



••Carnations^ Sweet Peas, Violets.. 



And All 

 Other 



CUT FLOWERS 



Plenty of Asparagus Strings and Sprengeri Bunches 



In Large 

 Supply 



We can take good care of all orders at lowest market rates. Write^ phone or wire us — we do the rest* 



HOLTON & HUNKEL CO.- 



Without Doubt the Best Equipped Wholesale House in the Country. 



462 Milwaukee St., MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



MpTitInn The Review wben vou write 



something they heretofore have got along 

 without. 



E. Fransen invested in a new hammer- 

 less shotgun and gave it its first trial 

 Sunday afternoon, in company with John 

 Scheiden, of Evanston. 



Weiland & Eisch are again forcing 

 Easter lilies this year and say they are 

 having excellent results. They dropped 

 out of lily growing a year or two ago. 



Kruchten & Co. say they are doing a 

 good business on boxwood. A good many 

 houses overbought on this specialty last 

 season and are not giving it the attention 

 this year that they did last. 



Max Ringier, until recently with Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co., is now with Vaughan & 

 Sperry. 



J. A. Mendel is preparing to open a 

 new store at 578 West Eighteenth street, 

 where he has taken a lease for six years. 

 He will continue the old store at 422 

 West Eighteenth street as formerly. 



S. A. Wolcott, of the Bellevue Place 

 Co., Batavia, has returned from his trip 

 to Florida. 



George Asmus has a son 10 years old 

 quite ill with appendicitis. 



C. W. McKellar is receiving some good 

 double stocks, Beauty of Nice among 

 them, which he says sell well. 



Schiller, on West Madison street, made 

 a handsome wreath for the Ladies' S. A. 

 F. for the funeral of Mrs. Hauswirth, 

 the first death in the ranks of the la- 

 dies' society. 



Robert Noftham, of George Reinberg's 

 store force, is ill, threatened with typhoid 

 fever. 



C. M. Dickinson says the firm of E. H. 

 Hunt never had a more lively call for 

 baskets, pot covers and ribbons than this 

 Piaster and explains it by pointing to the 



fact that plant embellishments are this 

 season being used in many small cities 

 where the retailers heretofore thought 

 their customers did not appreciate these 

 additions. W. E. Lynch looks forward to 

 a record Easter in cut flowers. 



It is stated that Eaton's flower store 

 will remove May 1, from the corner of 

 Jackson boulevard aijd Plymouth place, 

 to 75 Jackson boulevard, where a store is 

 to be divided, making a space for the 

 new tenant. It will be small for a 

 flower store. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. is making rapid 

 progress on its new ranges of houses and 

 expects to have a better supply of sum- 

 mer stock tban ever before, believing the 

 flower business is now an all-the-year- 

 around affair. 



A. L. Randall says he has a feeling 

 that this Easter will prove far and away 

 better than last year's. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting Mrs. Jardine 

 and Kate Moulton, two roses not often 

 seen in this market. 



A. C. Spencer, at Peter Reinberg's, 

 says the spring crops are nearer than 

 close at hand — they're on. 



John Zech reports that Zech & Mann 

 figure on a big increase in Easter busi- 

 ness. They have had a good increase all 

 winter. 



Percy Jones, manager of the Flower 

 Growers' Market, says the Garland boys, 

 at Des Plaines, never had their stock in 

 better shape than this spring. 



Phil Schupp, of the J. A. Budlong es- 

 tate, says this is the first week in months 

 that stock has not cleaned up to their 

 entire satisfaction. 



Visitors: J. J. Soper, Rockford, 111.; 

 B. Eschner, Philadelphia; H. A. Fisher, 



Kalamazoo, Mich.; J. F. Johnson, Fort 

 Smith, Ark.; C. A. Schnell and Jerry 

 Jorgenson, with L. S. Donaldson, Minne- 

 apolis; L. F. Benson, Indianapolis; 

 James Aldous, Jr., Iowa City, la.; J, J. 

 Van Leuven, Brighton, Mich. 



Forestry Examination. 



The examination for the position of 

 citjr forester of Chicago is to be held 

 April 5. The job will pay $2,000 per 

 year. Those who have sent in their 

 names to the civil service commission for 

 the examination are: 



Ashby D. Chapman, Chicago, now employed 

 as an Inspector by the Chicago Telephone Co. 



Jean B. Franke, Chicago, practical florist and 

 gardener. 



Frederick C. Fisher, Chicago, ornamental hor- 

 ticulturist. 



Alexander H. Flsk, Chicago, landscape gar- 

 dener, with the West Park board. 



Jacob H. Prost, Chicago, assistant landscape 

 gardener, with the West Park board. 



Jens P. Peterson, Chicago, gardener. 



George W. Hendrie, East Lansing, Mich., 

 graduate of the University of Michigan and 

 the Stanford University Forestry School. 



W^illiam G. MacLean, Madison, Wis., park 

 foreman. 



Charles Jensen, Topeka, Kan., employed in 

 forestry work in the State of Kansas. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market 



Easter is in the air and everything 

 points to a big business. Stock is being 

 rounded into shape and the only thing 

 that the growers are having trouble with 

 is the lilies. • The black-stemmed ones 

 seem to eat up more heat and do less 

 growing than is pleasing to the owners. 

 From the outlook, lilies will be scarce. 



Trade has been rather quiet for ten 

 davs. 



