July 18, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



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sta, $4.00 and $5.00; America, $6.00 per 100. All other cut flowers in season, also a 

 ;s' Supplies. 



sts, 1316 Pine Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



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GLADIOLI 



First-class stock, long stems, at reasonable prices. 



PEONIES, BEAUTIES, ROSES, LILIES, ETC. 



Batavia Greenhouse Co* 



Qreenbousea: 



Bat»vl». XU. 



L. D. Plione 

 tMS Xtaadolpb 



Stores 30 E. Randolph St., CHICAGO 



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week, A. L. Eandall, S. G. Anderson, 

 G. Kaedlein and J. W. Page. 



August Jurgens has returned from 

 his visit to his horticultural establish- 

 ment in the south. 



Hans Rowalt has returned to Kyle & 

 Foerster for the summer. A. C. Spencer 

 and family spent a part of last week 

 at Bluff Lake. 



Peter Reinberg now is devoting a 

 considerable part of his time to the 

 affairs of the school board, to which he 

 was appointed by Mayor Harrison. 

 Work for the public has become a 

 habit with Mr. Reinberg. 



C. W. McKellar and wife spent last 

 week motoring to and from the Dells 

 of Wisconsin. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet, 

 lias begun benching carnations. It has 

 been an exceedingly dry summer at 

 •Toliet; with rains all around, there 

 liave been only a few light showers 

 •there. The carnation plants have been 

 kept growing by continuous cultivation. 



Fritz Bahr went to Seattle last week, 

 expecting to be gone possibly a month. 



Mrs. L. H. Winterson was taken 

 liome from the hospital July 14, her 

 second operation having proved entirely 

 successful. 



Joe Trinz has been visiting at Co- 

 lumbus. 



W. Lubliner is in town, having closed 

 ■lis store at Toledo. He has several 

 new locations under consideration. 



E. F. Winterson had Charles Graham, 

 of Cleveland, as his guest July 15. The 



two are in charge of the convention 

 sports. 



John Michelsen, of the E. C. Amling 

 Co., says Wendland & Keimel now are 

 cutting as many as 15,000 to 20,000 

 roses per day. 



The adjourned quarterly meeting of 

 the Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 was held at the Art Institute July 16. 

 The plans are to make the spring show 

 much larger than the one which drew 

 such big crowds to the Art Institute 

 last March. 



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

 plans to take Mrs. Pieser out of the 

 hay fever zone early in August and 

 therefore will miss the convention. 



Wietor Bros, are planting this year 

 10,000 of Bonfire carnation, having 

 been well pleased with its performance 

 last season. 



The Batavia Greenhouse Co. has be- 

 gun to cut outdoor gladioli at Batavia. 



H. W. Rogers is again at his accus- 

 tomed place with Weiland & Eisch, 

 having returned from Spring Lake, 

 Mich., after a fortnight's vacation 

 spent with his family there. 



Latest reports from L. Baumann are 

 that he has gained nine and one-half 

 pounds since he went abroad some 

 months ago. Mr. Gelderman says it 

 looks as though Mr. Baumann would 

 have to run for alderman in his ward 

 when he returns. 



P. L. McKee is spending his week- 

 ends at Lake Maxinkuckee, Culver, 

 Ind., with his family and, as a result. 



fish stories are going the rounds at the 

 J. C. Moninger Co. Forty-six and one- 

 half pounds sounds pretty big for an 

 Indiana lake. 



Louis Wittbold is spending his vaca- 

 tion at Wheeling, with his wife and 

 family. He expects to be gone two or 

 three weeks, but comes into the store 

 occasionally to see how the work is 

 progressing. 



Mrs. Kindler returned last week from 

 a six weeks' trip through Nebraska, 

 Colorado and Utah in the interests of 

 the Raedlein Basket Co. She says 

 Salt Lake City is a veritable garden 

 spot. 



The John C. Moninger Co. reports 

 that the United States Government is 

 making a test of this firm's paint and 

 putty, with a view to adding these 

 articles to the government contract list. 



Otto Wittbold reports that damage to 

 the extent of $5,000 was caused by the 

 freezing of nursery stock at Edgebrook 

 last winter. A unique advertising 

 stunt of Mr. Wittbold 's is the printing 

 of a condensed St. Paul timetable of 

 trains between Edgebrook and Chicago 

 on the back of the cards of the Otto 

 Wittbold Nursery Co. 



H. H. Hughson, president of the 

 I Hughson Steam Specialty Co., has 

 purchased an interest in what was for- 

 merly the Thurtell-Field Co., makers of 

 steam traps. Mr. Field has retired 

 from the firm and in future the com- 

 pany will be known as the Thurtell- 

 Hughson Co. This is an entirely sepa- 



