. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. lay of chrysanthe-mum plants. Begonia Gloire de Lor-rain°i, cyclamens, etc. He claims hisopening day was very satisfactory. Thestore was crowded from morning tillnight, as he had advertised it extensive-ly during the previous month or sixweeks, placing a card in every box offlowers sent out, so that everybody waslooking forward to the opening day. He A Nebraskan on Chlcaffo Concerns. Having arrived home in good order Iam sending a few notes on things of in-terest seen in and around Chicago. Firstof all must come the Poehlmann f


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. lay of chrysanthe-mum plants. Begonia Gloire de Lor-rain°i, cyclamens, etc. He claims hisopening day was very satisfactory. Thestore was crowded from morning tillnight, as he had advertised it extensive-ly during the previous month or sixweeks, placing a card in every box offlowers sent out, so that everybody waslooking forward to the opening day. He A Nebraskan on Chlcaffo Concerns. Having arrived home in good order Iam sending a few notes on things of in-terest seen in and around Chicago. Firstof all must come the Poehlmann fine plant at Morton Grove, is the most up to date place I haveever seen and all the stock grown thereis in fine cultural condition. CarnationVictory as grown here is a grand thingand I also noted a njnk sport of roseMme. Chatenay that should prove ofgreat value on account of its pure pinkcolor. A bench of Merry Christmaschrysanthemums will be in fine shape forthe holidays. The next place I visited was Vau-ghans greenhouses at Western Springs,. CARNATION ^A HITE PERFECTION, NOVEMBERAt Chicago Carnation , Joliet, 111. 1, 19:6. tgo6. The American Florist. 993 really has one of the nicest stores onthe street. It is in a new block justcompleted, and his new store standswhere his old store used to be. He hasvery handsome fixtures and his arrange-ment is very complete. He has a fullcellar and a palm room in the rear,which is partitioned off with glass sothat the heat can be kept in. Platte. Business Pointers for the Retail Trade. Paper read by W. C. Hall, Montreal,at the convention at the Canadian Hor-ticultural Association, at Guelph, Au-gust 39-30, 1906. Most of the items that I am obligedto set down as pointers are really, asyou will notice, merely things that weought to do more carefully, or, per-haps, that we entirely neglect to do, inthe furthering of our interests in theretail trade. Writers of other papers,in telling you how to grow good stockfor our business, in


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