May 6, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



19 



Supplies for Decoration Day 



Order today- these things you cannot do without 



MAGNOLIA LEAVES-Your trade will approve. Qlagg CemetCrV VaSCS 



CYCAS LEAVES- Unexcelled quality. "i 



IMMORTELLES— Eull sized bunches. 

 RIBBONS - Largest stock in the west. 

 WREATHS -Every style or kind. 

 WHEAT SHEAVES -Our own make. 



12-ioch size : 

 Per doz., $2.50; 1 bbi., 3 doz., $7.00; 1 bbl., 5 doz., $11.00 



16>inch size: 



Per doz., $4.00; 1 bbl., 3 doz., $11.25 



Consult our catalogfue for any article— or write us 



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pOR MAY WEDDINGS we offer extra select Lily of the Valley, Bride, Killarney, 

 ^ American Beauties and Bridesmaid Roses, and of course a full line of all seasonable 

 Cut Flowers and Greens, Try us. We have the stock and can take care of all orders. 



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fourteen partly cloudy and thirteen 

 cloudy. The rainfall was 7.73 inches, 

 which is nearly three times as much as 

 normal. April 29 two and three-quarters 

 inches of rain fell, practically a whole 

 month's precipitation in one day. The 

 temperature was not as much below 

 normal as most people think. The official 

 weather man says the mean temperature 

 was 45 degrees, against an average of 

 46.3 degrees as the mean for the thirty- 

 nine years the weather office has now 

 been keeping records. But the fact is, 

 the month started warmer than usual, but 

 got colder and colder instead of wjirmer, 

 as it ought to do. 



Various Notes. 



Julius W. Niesen, who for four or five 

 years has run a retail store at the old 

 Holden stand, 753 Forty-seventh street, 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy May 4. 

 He scheduled liabilities of $3,055 and 

 assets of $326. 



The George M. Garland Co. says Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. advises that its truss- 

 roof houses withstood the recent high 

 winds better than did the houses erected 

 with purlin posts. 



Peter Reinberg planted out quite a 

 number of carnations last week, but they 

 are on light soil and neither the deluge, 

 the snow nor the frost appears to have 

 done them any harm. Most growers are 

 still waiting for spring before putting 

 their plants in the field. 



E. C. Amling says last week was a 

 specially bad one for the growers. Not 

 only did many of them suffer breakage 



by the storm, but cuts were extremely 

 light and the weather so bad business 

 was decidedly dull, while the growers had 

 to use coal at the winter rate. 



The Eaton Flower Shop moved to 273 

 Dearborn street May 1. The new store 

 on Jackson boulevard is in course of 

 remodeling. 



The Atlas Floral Co. gave up its store 

 at 37 Eandolph street April 30. They 

 had been in the store at 35 Randolph 

 street for over a month. 



L. Coatsworth was able to sit up Sun- 

 day, May 2, for the first time since his 

 illness. 



Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kill had Robert 

 Raha^Iey and his bride from Detroit as 

 their guests last week. 



C. W. McKellar is receiving large ship- 

 ments of the Cattleya Mossia; from the 

 east. He has had red gladioli for some 

 weeks, but not until this week enough to 

 go around. 



Jacob Schneider, of Rogers Park, died 

 May 5, after a short illness with pneu- 

 monia. 



Gus Alles, right-hand man in the store 

 of Wietor Bros., has been on the sick 

 list. 



Mrs. C. Frauenfelder underwent a seri- 

 ous surgical operation at Garfield Park 

 Sanitarium April 29. 



A. L. Randall returned May 4 from a 

 ten days' stay on his farm in Michigan. 

 He says the season is farther advanced 

 on the other side of the lake than it is 

 here, but is still backward. 



Beginning May 1, the Wells-Fargo Ex- 



press operates on the St. Paul railroad 

 instead of the U. S. Morton Grove, 

 Forest Glen and other towns supply a 

 large volume of cut flower shipments on 

 this line. 



Lord & Burnham Co., the New York 

 greenhouse construction firm, opened an 

 office in the Rookery building May 1, in 

 charge of George Sykes, as was an- 

 nounced in this column of the Review 

 February 18. 



Vaughan & Sperry were not able to 

 get into their new store May 1, remodel- 

 ing having been delayed by the glaziers' 

 strike. They had planned to continue 

 their stand in the Growers' Market for a 

 time, in any event, having a lease there 

 with some months yet to run. 



Miss Furlong, formerly with Weiland 

 & Risch, is now stenographer and assist- 

 ant bookkeeper for the E. F. Winterson 

 Co. 



John Mangel was 45 years of age Sun- 

 day, May 2. The son of a Spartan 

 mother, he has become liberal in all 

 things. 



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

 says he now feels safe on the peony crop 

 for Decoration day, it being now so late 

 there is little chance of injury to their 

 stock in the southern end of the state. 



The Foley Mfg. Co. says that its busi- 

 ness in greenhouse material to May 1 in 

 1909 has been practically double what it 

 was in 1908. due to better business condi- 

 tions and the lower prices of glass and 

 pipe. 



Ernest Oechslin, who was accidentally 



