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The Florists' Review 



August 8, 1912. 



INVITATION 



VISITING FLORISTS DURING CONVENTION WEEK OR ANY 

 OTHER TIME WHEN IN CHICAGO, are cordiaUy invited to make 

 themselves at home at our place of business, where your mail can 

 be addressed with the assurance that same will receive the utmost care 

 until called for. 



We are centrally located on all direct and connecting lines with the 



Coliseum, where convention will be held. Our place is large, cool, airy 



and commodious, and we will endeavor to make you feel at home while here. 



Chicago is noted as the home of the Flower Industry, and as such you 



are invited to make your home with us— EVERYBODY WELCOME. 



Located between Michigan and Wabash Avenues, directly opposite 

 Chicago's Great Public Library. 



J. A. BUDLONG 



■BTABLIIHXD 1880 

 WHOLESALE GROWER AND SHIPPER OF CUT FLOWERS 



82 and 86 East Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



Mention The Kevlew wben you write. 



KYLE & FOERSTER 



L. D. PHONE RANDOLPH 3619 



Wholesale 



Commission 



riorists 



162 N. WABASH AVE.. CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



medium to long Beauties can be had, 

 but the supply is hardly equal to the 

 demand, the good ones moving along in 

 a brisk manner. Of the young short- 

 stemmed cuts the quality is good and 

 a fair price is being asked and received. 

 Aaron Ward, Melody, Lady Hillingdon 

 and Eadiance are also finding favor. 



Asters are more than plentiful in 

 different grades, for in the last week 

 the supply has almost doubled. The ship- 

 ments, however, include large quanti- 

 ties of low grade stock. While there 

 is no trouble at all in moving the best, 

 the inferior quality is so overabundant 

 that it is hard to name too low a price. 

 Carnations have no influence on the 

 market. A few shipments of the indoor 

 stock are still being made and some 

 good outdoor cuts have been coming in. 

 These are disposed of easily at fair 

 prices. Easter lilies have suddenly 

 dropped out of the running and the 

 price has made a sharp advance in the 

 last few days. The shortage in these 

 has helped the sale of auratums as well 

 as rubrum lilies to a certain extent. 

 Gladioli are in big supply and some fine 

 stock of America, Mrs. Francis King 

 and Augusta are to be had. These are 

 making a little better prices than the 

 weeks preceding. Mixed glads are seen 



in quantity, but little attention is paid 

 to anything outside of the three popular 

 varieties. Sweet peas are practically off 

 the market. Peonies have faded away 

 and for another nine months will be a 

 part of history. 



Various Notes. 



Did July strike you as delightfully 

 cool? Well, it was within three-fifths 

 of one degree of normal; that much 

 warmer, in fact, than the normal mean 

 temperature. The rainfall also was 

 just a trifle above normal. As for the 

 sun, it shone an average of nine hours 

 and forty-two minutes a day, or sixty- 

 five per cent of the possible duration. 



Fred Ottenbacher, of Zech & Mann's 

 shipping department, is on his vacation 

 this week. 



One of the week's visitors is Wm. 

 •Taap, of the Lister Park Greenhouses, 

 Duluth, buying greenhouse material. 



The death of Leonard Allaire, a 

 brother-in-law of W. E. Lynch, formerly 

 of E. H. Hunt's, was reported to the 

 trade August 5. Mr. Allaire, who also 

 had worked for E. H. Hunt for a time, 

 died August 4. 



Miss C. Paradise, of A. L. Vaughan 

 & Co., is back from Glenn, Mich., where 

 she spent two weeks. 



F. C. Hoerber, of Hoerber Bros., re- 

 ports that they have finished planting 

 their five houses of carnations, which 

 include Beacon, Enchantress, White En- 

 chantress and Victory. 



G. L. Grant is one of the California 

 delegates to the Progressive party na- 

 tional convention at the Coliseum this 

 week. 



Miss Parker has resumed her duties 

 with the Chicago Carnation Co., after 

 an enjoyable vacation. 



N. P. Miller, of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 invested in an Oldsmobile last week — 

 self-starter and all the latest frills. 



Charles E. Maier, on Armitage ave- 

 nue, reports an extremely busy week 

 with funeral work. 



E. E. Pieser went to the doctor's 

 August 5 and was told to go home and 

 to bed, as. he had a temperature of 103 

 degrees. 



Walter Kennicott has returned from 

 a hunting trip in northern Michigan. 



There was a good attendance at the 

 meeting of the Chicago Florists' Club 

 at the Union hotel August 1, when L. P. 

 Miller and N. P. Brunke were elected 

 to membership. Convention details 

 were the chief matters up for considera- 

 tion. There was the usual weekly meet- 

 ing of the convention executive cohimit- 



