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28 



The Florists' Review 



NOVEMBEB 21, 1912. 



PRIZE-WINNING 



CARNATIONS 



OUR CARNATIONS WON MORE PRIZES 

 at St. Paul and Cleveland than any others 



Five Entries— Five Prizes and Sweepstakes at St. Paul. 



Thirteen Entries — Six Firsts, Five Seconds, One Third 

 Prize at Cleveland, in strong competition. 



You are sure of getting the best Carnations 

 grown when you buy from us. Order early 



CHICAGO CARNATION CO. 



30 East Randolph Street, a. t. pypbr, Mgr. CHICAGO 



THANKSGIVING PRICE LIST 



(Taklnar Effect November %5) 



CARNATIONS Per 100 



De Luxe, select, large, fancy $5.00 Q | 6.00 



(Prices this week, $3 00 @ $4.00) 

 ROSES 

 American Beauty— 



Perdoz $1.50 @ $5.00 



WhiteKillamey 6.00 @ 8.00 



Killarney 6.00® 8.00 



My Maryland 6.00 @ 8 00 



Richmond 6.00 @ 8.00 



Specials billed according to grade. 

 Chrysanthemums— Per doz. 



Yellow $1. 50 @ $3.00 



White l.50@ 3.00 



Pink 1.50 @ 3.00 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Easter Lilies 12.50 



Valley, select 8.00 



Special 4.00 



Violets 1.00® 1.25 



DECORATIVE 

 Asparagus Plumosus— 



Per striuK $0.50 ® $0.75 



Per bunch 35 @ .50 



Asparagus Sprengeri- 



Her bunch 25® .50 



Adiantum, fancy, long 1.00 



Smilaz. fancy, long, heavy 



stiings perdoz., $2.00 



Ferns per 1000, 2.00 



Subject to marlcet chansea 



Mention The Esvlew whea you write. 



Besolutions on the death of Charles 

 E. Schoenle were prepared by F. J. 

 Fillmore, C. C. Young and W. E. Ogle. 



Various Notes. 



J. E. Muldoon reports that the stork 

 left a handsome baby boy at his home 

 in Kirkwood last week. 



E. J. Windier, the well-known South 

 Grand avenue florist, has taken his 

 brother, J. J. Windier, as a partner in 

 his business. 



The annual banquet to florists, gar- 

 deners and nurserymen, as provided for 

 in the will of the late Henry Shaw, 

 takes place Thursday, December 12. 

 Richard Vincent, Jr., president of the 

 S. A. F., will give an illustrated lecture 

 on the London flower show. The 

 Florists' Club meets the same afternoon, 

 and Mr. Vincent will be the principal 

 speaker there also. 



Large crowds are visiting the free 

 mum show at the Missouri Botanic 

 Garden. Mr. Jaenicke says that from 

 4,000 to 5,000 persons attend «ach day. 



Gov. Hadley has appointed H. C. 

 Irish as a member of the State Board 

 of Horticulture. Mr. Irish is a member 

 of the St. Louis Florists' Club and in 

 1907 served as its president. The ap- 

 pointment is a good one and pleases the 

 members of the club. 



The W. C. Smith Wholesale Floral Co. 

 reports a good call for violets and fancy 

 mums. Wm. Ossick, the secretary, says 

 business has been good in all lines of 

 late. 



E. W. Guy, of Belleville, is on a six 

 weeks' hunting trip with a party of 

 friends. 



At George H. Angermueller 's they 

 say red ruscus and prepared magnolia 

 leaves are in special demand. 



Fred Foster reports a good week in 

 funeral work. November 16 he had 

 several large, costly pieces to make up. 



Frank Windier, of the Windier 

 Wholesale Floral Co., says his concern 

 had quite a big run on fancy valley last 

 week, indicating numerous weddings. 



H. G. Berning says best quality stock 

 is cleaning up daily. 



Henry Johann, Gust. Grossart, H. 

 Emunds, Ed Denker, F, Vennemann, 

 W. E. Ogler, M. T. Widener, J. F. Am- 



Every Retailer Needs 

 This Book. 



It is the 



Album 



of 



Designs 



To be used in taking orders for Fu- 

 neral Designs, Wedding Decorations 

 and Bouquets, Commencement Flow- 

 ers, Table Decorations and all cut 

 flower work where it is not practica- 

 ble to show the customer the finished 

 article as it will be when ready for 

 use. With this Albimi you can show 

 all the standard designs and many new and heretofore unpublished pieces. 



96 pages, nearly 300 deslims and decorations, beautifully printed on heavy glazed 

 paper, handsomely bound in a cover that will stand wear. 



No restrictions on its sale. 



PER COPY 

 POSTPAID 



$6.00 PER DOZEN BY EXPRESS 



[You should equip your undertaker and other selling agents with this helpful book.] 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



Publishers of 



508 S. Dearborn Street, j'^^gJ'KKIs^MylguAL { ChicaiTO, III. 



I THE ALBUM OF designs) '*'*»'*'**6^» 



(Caxton BIdg.) 



mann, C. E. De Wever, John Connon, W. 

 J. Pilcher, John Steinecker, W. J. Ed- 

 wards and Wm. Winter, suburban 

 florists, were callers during the week. 



Visitors: J. J. Karins, representing 

 Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia; H. G. 

 Slack, representing Peters & Reed, 

 Zanesville, O.; J. E, Jones, of the 

 Advance Co., Richmond, Ind., on his 

 way to Oklahoma to visit his parents. 



J. J. B. 



SPBINGFIEIiD, IVIASS. 



The Market. 



The weather has become cold and 

 brisk — real November weather, which 

 makes business much better than it has 

 been for some time. There have been 

 a few social functions which have 

 added their quota to the trade of the 

 last two weeks. 



