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The Florists^ Review 



August 8, 1912. 



GLADIOLI 



First-class stock at reasonable prices. 



KILLARNEY, WHITE KILLARNEY, BEAUTIES, LILIES, Etc. 



Data via Greenhouse Co* 



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verized Manure Co., returned August 6 

 after several days' absence from Chi- 

 cago. 



Oscar Leistner, sales agent for Ove 

 Gnatt, says the American oak sprays 

 will be widely used this season. 



The Des Plaines Floral Co. is this 

 5'ear extending the line of stock grown 

 to include one house devoted to smilax, 

 another to violets, and one large bench 

 to plumosus, the rest of the range being 

 given to carnations. 



C. A. Wooley, secretary of the Illinois 

 Flower Box Co., has been appointed 

 Chicago manager for the Burlington 

 Willow Ware Shops, of Burlington, la. 

 He expects to have a complete display 

 of sample baskets within a few days 

 and, in order to make room for them, 

 has leased a new office at 180 North 

 Dearborn street, room 508, 



Eric Johnson, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., returned August 5 from a fine fort- 

 night 's outing at Sister Lake. 



Many in the trade have known that 

 Miss Hertha V. Tonner, who has been 

 in the commission cut flower business 

 for her own account for a number of 

 years, is preparing to be married, but 

 few have heard that the fortunate 

 young man is Tom Fogarty, l)uyer for 

 O. J. Friedman. 



Gus Alles, N. J. Wietor's right-hand 

 man, says that this is turning out to be 

 an excellent summer for Wietor Bros. 



The team to represent Chicago in the 

 convention bowling has been selected, 

 as follows: E. Farley, captain; Joseph 

 Foerster, W. Wolf, J. Huebner, George' 

 Asmus. 



John Kruchten and family are home 

 from Hackley, Wis. 



A meeting of the board of directors 

 of the Chicago Flower Growers' Asso- 

 ciation was held August 7 to take uj) 

 matters pertaining to the coming S. A. 

 F. convention. 



Following the death of August Dres- 

 sel, of Crown Point, who died three 

 weeks ago, Mrs. Mary Kutz, oO years 

 old, who for years has been his house- 

 keeper, shot herself through the heart 

 and was found by neighbors in the 

 Dressel residence July 30. 



August Poehlmann and family have I 

 returned from a trip via automobile 

 through Wisconsin. The vice-president 

 of the S. A. F. is busy helping getting 

 things ready for the convention. 



A: Henderson & Co. received a car- 

 load each of Formosa lily bulbs and 

 sphagnum moss this week. 



C. L. Washburn is wearing a "Votes 

 for Women" button as a result of his 

 recent nin-in with Cupid. Mrs. Wash- 



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l)urn was among those who attended 

 the Progressive convention in Chicago 

 to aid the equal rights cause. 



H. Van Gelder, of Percy Jones, says 

 that orders on his supply department 

 were coming unusually fast last week. 

 The ribbon department was the busiest 

 in weeks. 



Erne & Klingel state that greens 

 were not slighted in the rush of busi- 

 ness that came with the cool weather, 

 and the last week proved a banner one 

 on all kinds. 



PTiil Schupp, of .T. A. Budlong's, 

 states that the fool weather has not 



done any harm to valley, and he points 

 out that the stock on hand is as good 

 as in midwinter, if not better. 



Major General C. M. Dickinson is 

 again in command at E. H. Hunt's, 

 after a ten days' expedition with his 

 patrol of Park Ridge bov scouts to 

 Whitehall, Mich. 



H. H. Wilkerson, manager for Henry 

 Wittbold, says that the decorating de- 

 mands are holding up in fine shape, 

 despite the fact that the weather is 

 hardly the best for outdoor social 

 affairs. 



H. P. Grossmann, of the auditing de- 



