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The Florists^ Review 



3vti 4, 1912. 



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Meotioo Tbe Review wben vou write 



they anticipate an exceedingly busy 

 year. 



A. C. Brown, of Springfield, 111., was 

 a caller at several of the wholesale 

 houses June 29. He was on his return 

 to Springfield after a trip to Milwaukee 

 on business. 



A. L. Vaughan, of A. L. Vaughan & 

 Co., reports that the first good shipment 

 of asters was received June 25. Since 

 that date the arrivals have improved 

 greatly in quality. 



Erne & Klingel report that June 29 

 was the biggest Saturday the new firm 

 has had since it started operations. 

 Everyone was on the run from early 

 to late. 



A change in the boiler system is be- 

 ing made at George Eeinberg's green- 

 houses and nine new high power boilers 

 are being installed to serve the places 

 of fifteen smaller ones. The planting 

 is all over with and, with the new heat- 

 ing system in, everything will be in 

 readiness for next fall. 



A. T. Pyfer, manager of the Chicago 

 Carnation Co., has been spending a week 

 at a family reunion near Dixon, 111. 



Seven steam cast-iron sectional boil- 

 ers are being installed in two large 

 vegetable ranges at New Castle, Pa., by 

 the John C. Moninger Co. Five of these 

 are for the new houses, comprising 

 about 100,000 square feet of glass, 

 which Weinschenk & George have just 

 completed. The other two are for E. P. 

 Weinschenk and will heat about 40,000 

 square feet of glass. 



H. N. Bruns' new house is practically 

 complete, including the heating system, 

 and will be planted soon. The front 

 of the house has large show windows 

 on Madison street and will be devoted 

 to a display of plants, while the rest of 

 the house will be devoted exclusively 

 to the growing of valley. 



The Bohannon Floral Co. will put a 

 Hudson delivery car into operation 

 about September 1 in order to take 

 care of the increased business. 



Phil Schupp, of J. A. Budlong's, is 

 back from a week's auto tour of north- 

 ern Wisconsin and reports an enjoyable 

 time, good weather being experienced 

 all the time. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bud- 





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long and daughter were the other mem- 

 bers of the party. 



A. Miller, of A. Henderson & Co., re- 

 ports that his firm has noticed a heavy 

 demand for the new Primula malacoides 

 plants, the orders that flooded in hav- 

 ing already exhausted the initial sup- 

 ply. This firm is making preparations 

 to handle a large shipment of French 

 bulbs that are due to arrive this month. 



W, W. Abrahamson, manager of the 

 supply department for Percy Jones, is 

 spending two weeks' vacation at Michi- 

 gan summer resorts. 



John Grossman, of the office force of 

 Poehlman» Bros. Co., is spending his 

 vacation on the farm of his parents at 

 Boonville, Ind. 



Bobert Hardies, of Manheim, is able 

 to be about after a severe tussle with 

 rheumatism.' 



Mr. Gelderman, of L. Baumann & 

 Co., thought he was the busiest man in 



Chicago Friday, June 28. In addition 

 to the regular run of work, he was pre- 

 paring two new catalogues for the press. 



The George Wittbold Co. is installing 

 a Simonds vacuum heating system at 

 the Edgebrook greenhouses and the 

 whole establishment is receiving a coat 

 of paint. Louis Wittbold says the 

 plants are about cleaned out and half 

 of the roses have been planted. A 

 summer crop of Bostons will be grown 

 in the houses that are to be devoted 

 to carnations next winter. The latter 

 stock is all in the field now. 



The annual meeting of the stockhold- 

 ers of the Chicago Flower Growers' 

 Association will be held July 6, when 

 President John F. Kidwell will present 

 the first yearly report. 



June was an unusually bright month; 

 there was an average of 12.1 hours of 

 sunshine each day, or eighty per cent 

 of the possible duration. The month 



