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The Florists' Review 



Apbil 1, 1920 



EASTER LILIES "'5S»utv 



Send us your orders and secure the lowest market prices 



Fancy Butterfly Sweet Peas 



$3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 per 100. Common Sweet Peas, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 per 100 



ROSES 



HEAVY 

 SUPPLY 



CARNATIONS 



Fine quality in all leading varieties. RusseD, Columbia, Premier, Milady, 



Hearst, Ophelia, Sunburst, WeOand, Killamey, Richmond, Double White KiUarney, 



besides Nesbit and Brunner, the Miniature Roses. 



CARNATIONS: Red, White, Deep Pink and Light Pink 



Easter Lilies, Rubrum Lilies, Callas, Tulips, Hyacinths, Purity Freesia, 



Violets, Sweet Peas, Daisies, Calendula, Pansies, Lupines, Mifi^nonette 



and all other seasonable Cut Flowers, including Greens of all kinds. 



Tulips, Jonquils, ^ In Good Supply 



Darwin Tulips \ you win find these ready 



Ten Weeks StOcks( sellers at this season. 



If yon^want good stock and good treatment, bny of Ckicago*! moit up-to-date and best-located Wkolesale Cut Flower House 



J.A.BUDLONG CO. 



QUALITY 



SPEAKS 



LOUDER 



THAN 



PRICES 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND GREENS 



Roses, Valley and Carnations our Specialties 



184-186 North Wabash Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



WE ARE CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY 

 SHIPPING ORDERS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION -^t 



PRICES 



AS 



LOW 



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OTHERS 



Wc are m coMtaat toadi witk mrket coadition iid whei ■ dediie takes fiuct yoa as rdy ipoo orders seat ms receiviig SKh beaefits. 



ing to the greenhouses and intimating 

 that the flowers would bring as much 

 that day as those same flowers would 

 at a later date. 



This report is written on the eve of 

 the great Easter rush. During the last 

 days of last week and during the first 

 part of the present week orders have 

 been pouring into the market in tre- 

 mendous volume. It is impossible 

 March 30 to say how the total compares 

 with other years or with the available 

 supply of stock, but it looks as though 

 there' will be as much business as can 

 conveniently be handled. One of the 

 best indications of this is that the city 



buyers have become anxious to place 

 orders, for everything except lilies. In 

 a general way the situation may be 

 sized up like this: There have proved 

 to be more lilies than were expected 

 and the buyers have taken hold less 

 freely than it was thought they would, 

 the price appearing to have been a de- 

 terrent. The result is that there is no 

 longer any thought of a shortage of 

 lilies. There will be enough to go 

 around. How closely they will clean up 

 at the quoted prices depends on how 

 the rest of the market acts. If there 

 proves to be a shortage of other flowers 

 the lilies will sell, and sell well. Other- 



wise, something unpleasant may happen. 

 There seems little probability of an 

 oversupply of roses; these look to be 

 the shortest item in the list, especially 

 by comparison with the demand. Car- 

 nations are in heavy crop and of fine 

 quality, but not being ordered in suffi- 

 cient quantities to indicate a shortage; 

 it looks as though the carnation orders 

 will be filled in full. There are oceans 

 of sweet peas and the salability depends 

 on the quality. .Bulbous stock is not 

 plentiful. There are moderate supplies 

 of jonquils of the better varieties. Early 

 tulips are nearly gone and only a few 

 growers are shipping Darwins. There 



