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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



APRIL 11, 1912. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



[Oontlnued from paire 26.] 



Princeton, 111., where his greenhouses 

 are located. Percy Jones is handling 

 his wholesale department. 



President John F. Kidwell, of the 

 Chicago Flower Growers' Association, 

 reports that during Easter week over 

 200,000 carnations were moved. 



E. E. Pieser says Easter again dem- 

 onstrated the fact that the cut flower 

 market is a weather market. Accord- 

 ing to his view, had it not been for 

 the shower Saturday afternoon and the 

 threatening condition Sunday morning, 

 each local buyer's purchases would 

 have been enough heavier to have 

 cleaned up everything that was left. 



At Kyle & Foerster's, F. F. Benthey, 

 who is the Nestor of the wholesalers, 

 says that the Chicago market never 

 has handled such great quantities of 

 stock at any previous Easter, and that 

 the shipping demand never was so 

 heavy as this year. 



Miss Hertha V. Tonner was made ill 

 by the Easter rush, and at the opening 

 of the present week her sister, Miss 

 • Olga Tonner, was in charge of the busi- 

 ness. 



Wendland & Keimel are making ex- 

 tremely rapid progress in the planting 

 of their big range of rose houses. The 

 stock came from A. N. Pierson and is 

 fine. 



There was only a small attendance 

 at the meeting of the Florists' Club 

 April 4, and an adjournment was taken 

 to April 11, when the business of the 

 evening will be resumed. There were a 

 number of resignations, some of them 

 from officers of the club, the election 

 of a new secretary being made neces- 

 sary. 



C. W. McKellar has made a lease on 

 room 209 in the Atlas block. This is at 

 the west end of the hall and brings 

 him just west of Wietor Bros, and 

 Peter Reinberg. The space is more 

 than double what Mr. McKellar now 

 has and the room has a private en- 

 trance from Bandolph street, as well 

 as one from the hall along which so 

 many wholesalers are grouped. Mr. 

 McKellar has a two years' lease on his 

 old quarters, but the room is so well 

 located he expects no difficulty in dis- 

 posing of it. 



John Kruchten says that since 

 warmer weather has arrived his south- 

 ern customers are calling for Bride and 

 Maid instead of the Killarneys. 



At Winterson's Seed Store, John P. 

 Degnan says counter trade opened up 

 promptly when the weather turned 

 warm. 



Gus Swanson, who ships his flowers 

 to Zech & Mann, has done so well in 

 a rented establishment that he is build- 

 ing greenhouses for himself at River 

 Forest. He has had the L. Hansen 

 range of five houses at 7322 Ridge ave- 

 nue, which are again for rent. This is 

 the second tenant in three years who 

 has done so well in these houses that 

 he has built his own place. 



O. Johnson, of the Batavia Green- 

 house Co., who lives at Batavia, says 

 he did not see his home for three days 

 during the Easter rush. 



A. L. Randall and Mrs. Randall left 

 April 10 for West Baden. 



Martin Peterson says he had so good 

 an Easter that he has changed his 

 mind about selling out. 



The Easter rush required the serv- 

 ices at the Clark street store of the 

 Geo. Wittbold Co., of Miss Nagel, regu- 



VEGETABLE PUNTS " the MILLION 



ALL KINDS AND VARIETIES 

 SEND FOR OUR WHOLES/U.E LIST 



Call, write or wire us what you need, and let us quote you special 

 prices. Correspondence Solicited. 



Our stock of all kinds of Flowering, Decorative and Vegetable Plants 

 was never so large or in such a good condition. Call, if possible, and see 

 our stock growing. Visitors are always welcome. 



Our grounds are in close proximity to the D., L. & W. R. R. station, 

 and all trolley cars stop at the entrance. 



Let us book your order for Spring Plants early, and we will deliver 



when ready; or, let us contract with you to grow what you need. 



Our Wholesale Liat of all kinds of Flowerings, Decorative 

 and Vecr^table Plants, in abundance, for Sprin|f, new 

 ready. MAILED FREE. 



PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY 



ALONZO J. BRYAN, Wholesale Florist 



WASHINGTON, NEW JERSEY 



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Watcb lor oar Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pvri CaHnre Mnbroon Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper erades Is 

 thus easllv exposed. Fresn sample 

 brick, with illustrated book, mailed 

 postpaid by manufacturers upon re- 

 ceipt of 40 cents in poatace. Address 



TradeMsrk. AincricuiSpawnCo.,St PauLMiim. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



larly stenographer at the Edgebrook 

 greenhouses. 



One of the visitors at Foley's fac- 

 tory last week was Edw. J. Strubel, a 

 vegetable grower at Avonia, Pa. 



There's a new boss at Otto Witt- 

 bold 's. The stork brought him bright 

 and early on the morning of April 3 

 and he weighed nine pounds. Both 

 inother and son are doing well. The 

 new arrival is the fourth, being pre- 

 ceded by two girls and a boy. 



Business is heavier than ever before 

 with the John C. Moninger Co. In fact, 

 the greenhouse building this year bids 

 fair to show a considerable increase 

 over last season, which was considered 

 abnormal by practically everyone in 

 the trade. 



H. J. Stockmans, landscape gardener, 

 and the west park commissioners are 

 looking over the nurseries near Chi- 

 cago before buying stock for this 

 year's plantings. 



Fred Lautenschlager is telling a 

 story that he heard in the east on his 

 recent trip for Kroeschell Bros. Co. It 

 concerns a greenhouse owner who wit- 

 nessed the approach of a bad storm 

 and, fearing the destruction of the 

 houses, placed a board across the pur- 

 lins and hung on till the blow was 

 over. He says he never before real- 

 ized how small we are when nature is 

 in action. Nevertheless, his weight may 

 have been what saved the range. 

 ' The Boston Store had its usual 

 Easter sale of lilies at 29 cents per 

 pot, neither delivered nor wrapped. It 

 was the shortest stock, sold at practi- 

 cally cost price. Many thousands were 

 sold, all at the same price regardless 

 of the number of flowers, an officer be- 

 ing needed to keep the buyers in line. 



George Eeinberg has started to re- 



Special to the Trade 



Send for our Liat of Plants. We make 

 a specialty of growing Golden Self- 

 blanchini*. White Plume and Giant 

 Pascal Celery. 



Egir Plants, seed bed and pot-grown. 



Tomatoes, seed bed and pot-grown. 



Peppers, Cabbag^e, Lettuce, Cauli> 

 flow^er. 



FOX- HALL FARM 



Wholesile Plait Grawers, R f.o.Ns.2. NORrOLK,VA. 

 MsatiOB The Review when yoa writa 



build the houses that were put out of 

 commission last September by the 

 wind storm. Fourteen houses were dam- 

 aged at that time and a like number 

 will be erected. 



With the gas leaks closed up, the 

 crops of J. A. Budlong are coming 

 along in fine shape. The damage done 

 to a couple of houses of Marylands 

 was not as serious as at first thought 

 and they will be in crop before long. 



The big storm on the afternoon of 

 April 6 assumed the proportions of a 

 tornado north of town, but the only 

 greenhouses hit appear to have been 

 those of a vegetable grower named 

 Jennetine, in Evanston. Three houses 

 27x300 were demolished and several 

 people at work in them badly cut. The 

 wrecked plant is reported to have cost 

 $7,000 last year. Michael Hermes' 

 windmill was blown down, some glass 

 being broken. 



Waco, Tex. — An addition is being 

 built at the rear of the structure occu- 

 pied by Wolfe the Florist, on Franklin 

 street. This will provide extra space 

 which Mr. Wolfe greatly needs. 



Coliunbus, O. — The Columbus Floral 

 Co. has 77,500 square feet of glass and 

 is erecting two new houses 35x400, 

 which will give a total of 105,500 square 

 feet of glass. The material is being 

 furnished by the Foley Mfg. Co., Chi- 

 cago. 



