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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Mat 9, 1912. 



WIETOR BROS. 



162 North Wabash Avenue, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



CURRENT Price List. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



Per doz. 



80-inch atema $4.00 



48-inch stems 3.00 



36-inch ■terns 2.60 



30-inch sterna 2.00 



24-inch stems 1.50 



20-inch stems 1.25 



16-inch stems 1 .00 



Short stems 75 



PINK ui WHITE KILLARNEY Per 100 



Extra special $7.00 



Selects 6.00 



Fancj 5.00 



Medium 4.00 



Good 3.00 



Short stems 2.00 



RICHMOND 



Extra specials $7.00 



Selects 6,00 



Fancy 5.00 



Medium 4.00 



Good 3.00 



Short stems 2.00 



, ROSES, Our Selection, 



JARDINE Per 100 



Fancy $8.00 



Good 6.00 



Short stems 4.00 



UNCLE JOHN 



Fancy 6.00 



Good 4 . 00 



Short stems 2.00 



CARNATIONS 



Extra special 2.60 



Fancy 2.00 



Good 1.50 



Carnations for Mothers* Daj 3.50 



LILIES 



Fancy per 100, $8.00 to 10.00 



8.50 

 3.00 

 1.60 

 1.00 

 .50 



F«rnB per 1000, 



Smilaz per dozen, $2.00 to 



AdUntom per 100, 1.00 to 



Galas perlOOe, 



Spreigeri or Asparigiis Sprays per bunch, 



$2.00 per 100 



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HOLTON & HUNKEL CO.'^rvlSi.y^X?' 



4fi2 Nilwflnkee Street Nilwankee Wis Trumpets, Lilies 



IVL i'luwaiuice oireci, rauwaiui;i;, ni». and ail other cut nowERs and grebus 



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A. Zech, of Zech & Mann, is collect- 

 ing prizes for the Chicago Florists' 

 Bowling League and has received the 

 first donation from H. E. Philpott. It 

 is a handsome watch fob and will be 

 presented to the man making the high- 

 <>8t individual total in the league games 

 of the season. 



A. L. Vaughan entertained R. M. 

 Parson, of Roswell, N. M., several days 

 last week. 



C. L. Washburn and E. B. Washburn 

 visited Aurora May 7. 



O. W. Johnson, of the Batavia Green- 

 house Co., says the peonies have fairly 

 jumped since the warm weather arrived 

 May 5. 



The ball team of the Chicago Carna- 

 tion Co., Joliet, met another defeat 

 May 5. 



Phil Schupp, of J. A. Budlong. re- 

 ports that 150,000 carnations have been 

 planted in the field. 



Stollery Bros, are using a fine thirty 

 horse-power E. M. F. delivery car and 

 say that "she's fine when she's go- 

 in'. " Considerable tire trouble was 

 the only complaint, but a new tire 

 filler has been installed and they look 

 for easy sailing from now on. Of par- 

 ticular note at this store was the pro- 

 fusion of baskets and basket arrange- 



|9VERY now and then a well- 

 L9 pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a 

 new advertiser to 



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Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are. buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Cazton Bldg. Chicago 



ments. Mr. Stollery says that where 

 they formerly sold one small bunch of 

 sweet peas, for instance, they now put 



three bunches in a basket, add a touch 

 of ribbon and the whole goes with 

 less effort than before. 



"How to Decorate Automobiles and 

 What to Use." This might well be 

 the title of a new circular for florists 

 which L. Baumann & Co. are issuing 

 for the florists. Mr. Gelderman says 

 the florists have a big field open to 

 them in this line during the dog days 

 and thinks it a shame it has been neg- 

 lected by the trade for so long. 



The Des Plaines Floral Co. will build 

 a Garland movable greenhouse this 

 summer. 



Josephine Foley, 4-year-old daughter 

 of the president of the Florists' Club, 

 is ill with scarlet fever, but is reported 

 as doing nicely. 



George M. Garland Co. is now han- 

 dling Revero hose as a side line. Paul 

 B. Rosenberg, a graduate of the Mos- 

 cow Horticultural College, has been 

 added to the staff and will represent 

 the firm in the western territory. B. 

 J. Maynard is making an extensive trip 

 through Canada and the east. 



A curved-eave private greenhouse is 

 being erected for L. Kuppenheimer at 

 Winnetka by the Foley Mfg. Co. 



H. N. Bruns has engaged passage for 

 himself, Mrs. Bruns and three children 



