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26 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 20, 1911. 



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KENNICOTT BROS. CO 



163 N. Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



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extra clerks that it looked crowded 

 even in the lulls, which were short and 

 infrequent. Few flower stores make a 

 larger number of sales than does 

 Lange's. He could not fill all his 

 orders for sweet peas. 



Plants, and then more plants, ex- 

 presses the main call with the Geo. 

 Wittbold Co. Made-up baskets were 

 also in big demand. Louis Wittbold 

 Baid that Friday it looked as though 

 business would be light, but Saturday 

 and Sunday more than made up for it, 

 and little was left. 



Lilies had the main call with Leo- 

 pold Koropp, but plant baskets also 

 sold well, and the total business was 

 considerably ahead of previous years. 



Cinerarias sold especially well with 

 Stollery Bros., and it was said that 

 "cut flowers weren't in it compared 

 with plants. ' ' They found only slight 

 demand for fancy basket arrangements. 



H. N. Bruns says business for Easter 

 was the best ever. Not a single Easter 

 lily was left in the store. Baby Eam- 

 blers and other plants at $2.50 and $3 

 had an extra good call. 



"An enormous business, with fancy 

 made-up baskets as the leaders, and 

 azaleas, Baby Kamblers, Easter lilies, 

 etc., following closely," is the report 

 from George Asmus, manager for Schil- 

 ler the Florist. Everything salable 

 was disposed of and stock was bought 

 Monday morning to fill orders. 



Various Notes. 



John Starrett, florist at the La Salle 

 hotel and one of the oldest men in the 

 trade in Chicago, is having more than 

 his share of misfortune. Wednesday 

 morning, April 12, his son Will, who 

 was employed by the Chicago Carnation 

 Co., was found dead in bed, and Sun- 

 day, April 16, a daughter, Mrs. Copper- 

 smith, died under tragic circumstances, 

 it being suspected that she received a 

 dose of the wrong medicine. Will Star- 

 rett was 26 years of age and leaves 

 a widow. Mrs. Coppersmith was 29 

 years of age and is survived by her 

 husband and two children. The two 

 families live within a block of each 

 other on Cottage Grove avenue. 



August Poehlmann states that Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co. had six large houses of 

 lilies for Easter. He estimates the 

 number of flowers at 125,000 and says 

 that on the whole the length of stem 

 and quality of bloom was all that any- 

 one could ask. They had none of the 

 dwarf lilies that were so common. 



Mrs. Katherine Stollery, wife of 



Current Price List 



Orchids. Cattleyas perdoz., $6.00 



Gardenias 



$7.50 

 4.00 



CARNATIONS 



Special . large and fancy 



Select 



Splits 



PerlOO 



13.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 



ROSES 



American Beauty, 



perdoz.. $1.50 @ $1.00 



White Killamey $.3.00® 8.00 



Killarney 3.00® 8.00 



My Maryland 3.00® 8.00 



Richmond 3.00® 8.00 



Extra special roses billed accordlnKly. 



MISCSIXANSOUS Per 100 



Sweet Peas, fancy $ >1.'25 



" medium $0.75® 1.00 



Easter Lilies 10.00® 12.00 



Callas 10.00 @ 12.00 



PerlOO 



Valley, select $3.00 



** SDOClftl A. 00 



Daisies, white and yellow '.. $1.00 ® 2l(IO 



Jonquils 3.00 



Daffodils 3.00 



Tulips 3.00® 4.00 



DECORATIVB 



Asparagus Plumosus 



per string $0.50 @ $0.75 



Asparagus Plumosus 



per bunch 35® .50 



Asparagus Sprengerl 



per bunch 25® .50 



Adian turn, fancy, long 1.00 



Smilax per doz., $2.00 



Mexican Ivy per 1000. 6.00 .75 



Ferns " 4.00 .46 



Galax " 1.00 .16 



Leucothoe Sprays .75 



Subject to market olianBes. 



Chicago Carnation Co. 



A. T. PYFER, Manager 



30 East Randolph Street, 



New 

 Number 



CHICAGO 



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Wired Toothpicks 



Manotaotored by 

 W. J. COWEE, BERLIN, N. Y. 



10.000.... $1.75; 50.000.... $7.50; Sample free. 



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George Stollery, of Stollery Bros., died 

 Tuesday, April 11, after a six weeks' 

 illness of peritonitis. Her husband and 

 four children survive her. 



C. W. McKellar says that although 

 he had a crop of Cattleya Mossiae that 

 enabled him to fill advance orders, he 

 could easily have sold four times as 

 many for Easter. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. received the first 

 lilac of the season the day before 

 Easter, and the day after Easter the 

 first Parrot tulips arrived from south- 

 ern Illinois. 



A. L. Eandall says that April 14 his 

 firm chopped up 3,000 pounds of ice 

 for packing with the outgoing ship- 

 nfents. 



H. W. Rogers, of Weiland & Risch, 

 with his family, is spending a few 

 days at Spring Lake, Mich., where Mr. 

 Rogers' mother, aged 71 years, is crit- 

 ically ill. 



Joun Michelsen says that the E. C. 

 Amling Co. during the night of April 



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14 got in 130,000 sweet peas, but that 

 this large number is considerably less 

 than the receipts of the corresponding 

 night last year. They found the peas 

 about the best selling item on the list. 



D. Freres has bought the large ice- 

 box used by Vaughan & Sperry while 

 they were located in the Flower Grow- 

 ers ' Market and is having it set up 

 in the new quarters in the Atlas block, 

 where he will be located after May 1. 

 The Chicago Carnation Co. has ordered 

 an Orr & Lockett box for its new store. 



C. L. Washburn says that Bassett & 

 Washburn never hit an Easter so suc- 

 cessfully as this season. Beauties being 

 in heavy crop with them. 



In the Flower Growers' Market they 

 refer to Hertha V. Tonner as the Iris 

 Queen, because of the large quantities 

 of this flower she is handling. 



Winterson's Seed Store is momen- 

 tarily expecting the arrival of two cars 

 of bay trees from Belgium. 



John Kruchten reports the addition 



