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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 6, 1918. 



Mr. Bohannon says it lias more than 

 paid him to push these and single vio- 

 lets — doubles are not handled. 



Bassett & Washburn say that their 

 average daily cut of carnations for the 

 last ten days has been around 15,000. 



John Mangel says Lent has not cut 

 down the business as he anticipated and 

 for the last two weeks his staff has 

 found plenty of work. Funeral pieces 

 have been especially numerous and this 

 class of work has helped considerably 

 in holding up the volume of sales. 



A. L. Yaughan states that while or- 

 ders are more numerous than last year 

 at this time, the footings on the indi- 

 vidual orders do not figure so high, 

 owing to the advanced prices of last 

 winter, due to the extreme weather 

 that caused prices to hold firm. 



Lubliner & Trinz have not yet se- 

 cured a new location to take the place 

 of their present headquarters on Ran- 

 dolph street. Mr. Trinz announces that 

 their new Chicago theater, on Forty- 

 seventh street, is nearing completion 

 and will be , opened soon. A second 

 theater is in process of construction on 

 Central Park avenue, while the site for 

 a third is being considered. 



James H. Burdett, whom many florists 

 know as press agent for the flower 

 shows, ex-secretary of the Horticultural 

 Society of Chicago, is now a member 

 of the state civil service commission. 

 His was the first appointment made by 

 the new governor. 



Paul Blome, 1361 North Clark street, 

 has found considerable business in the 

 way of table decorations and reports 

 trade has held up beyond expectations 

 for Lent. An ^der has been placed 

 with Buchbinder Bros, for one of the 

 new model Buchbinder refrigerators, 

 which, it is hoped, will be ready in 

 time for Easter. 



Frank Oechslin has been forced to 

 discontinue all shipping business on 

 Easter stock, on account of the heavy 

 local demand. A walk through his 

 establishment explains why business is 

 so rushing, as everything is in apple-pie 

 order and the stock in the best of con- 

 dition. 



The Geo. Wittbold Co. has put a new 

 Autocar into commission. Tt has a 

 carrying capacity of one and one-half 

 tons and will be used for light delivery 

 purposes in the city. 



J. W. Davis, of Davenport, la., was 

 in town February 28, with Mrs. Davis, 

 on their way home from a three weeks ' 

 outing in Florida. Mr. Davis is the 

 controlling factor in the model plant 

 of the trans-Mississippi section. He has 

 been picking 20,000 sweet peas a day 

 from one house, shipping them to the 

 A. L. Randall Co. 



Mrs. K. N. Cooper, manager of the 

 Auburn dale Goldfish Co., seems to be 

 getting more than her share of hard 

 luck since the first of the year. The 

 latter part of December Mrs. Cooper 

 fell on an icy walk and she has not yet 

 recovered from the shock. She has 

 been confined to her home on this ac- 

 count for the last six weeks. As re- 

 ported in The Review, her establish- 

 ment was recentUy burglarized, and on 

 top of all this the mysterious death of 

 a young colored woman, employed by 

 her, is causing Mrs. Cooper consider- 

 able worry. The woman failed to re- 

 port for work for several days and on 

 investigation was found in a hospital, 

 where she died several days later. Mrs. 

 Cooper is planning a trip to New i 



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