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The Florists' Review 



April 15, 1920 



ROSES, CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS 



AND 



Home-grown Gardenias 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



strikes, but there was considerable im- 

 provement last week in the situation in 

 Chicago. For a day or two the company- 

 abandoned the market, because of the 

 switchmen's walkout, but during the 

 latter part of the week full service was 

 given for shipments going out on the 

 B. & O., Panhandle, C. B. & Q., St. Paul 

 and Alton, except that there was a com. 

 plete embargo agfainst St. Louis, East 

 St. Louis, Kansas City and Buffalo, 

 where the conditions were worse than 

 here. No pickups were made for points 

 on the New York Central, Bock Island, 

 Nickel Plate, L C, Michigan Central, 

 Big Four or Northwestern, but ship- 

 ments of "funeral flowers" were ac- 

 cepted if taken to the stations. It was 

 no longer necessary to fee the station 

 men. 



This week conditions in Chicago are 

 still further improved, the express com- 

 pany is giving a little better service 

 each day, but there is a lengthening 

 list of eastern points for which ship- 

 ments are not accepted. The express 

 clerks' strike in Chicago has ceased to 

 be much of a factor, the present trouble 

 arising from the railroad employees' 

 strikes. 



Among the wholesalers the idea is 

 fast gaining ground that conditions ap- 

 proach the intolerable and that some- 

 thing of serious character is likely to 

 happen soon. 



What Coal Will Cost. 



The growers have a problem before 

 them in the continual rise in the cost 

 of fuel. N. J. Wietor says that if he 

 ever had any question that Pocahontas 

 is the cheapest coal for a florist to use, 

 every doubt was dispelled during the 

 war, while all Pocahontas was diverted 

 from this district. Not so many years 

 ago Pocahontas mine-run cost the grow- 

 ers $1 per ton at the mine mouth. Last 

 season it was $3. Recently it has been 

 $4, with the prospect of a further rise 

 to $4.50 as the result of recent miners* 

 wage adjustment. And then there is 

 the matter of freight. It used to seem 

 high at $1.65 per ton to Rogers Park, 

 but government operation of the rail- 

 roads brought the present rate to $2.70 

 per ton, with the almost certainty that 

 before September freights will be ad- 

 vanced anywhere from twenty-five to 



IN 

 CHICAGO 



A $10 or a $1000 Order 



For Cut|Flowers receives the same consid- 

 eration and thorough handHng to meet the 

 requirement of the "UNSEEN BUYER" as 

 only the Great Central Market is most 

 capable of giving. 



Our sphere of usefulness to the retail florist 

 is reflected in the things our policy of 

 Commission Wholesaling stands for, and 

 the advantages our large supply of Cut 

 Flowers has to give. 



Established reciprocal relations with a 

 customer places the responsibilities of 

 handling all orders "RIGHT UP TO US.* 



YOUR 



PratediM:i 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



174 North WaboMh Avenum 



CHICAGO 



Heaviest in Roses 

 and Carnations 



with all 



other seasonable 



Cut Flowers 



right 



"IN THE PLACE" 



