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The Florists^ Review 



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- Apeil 22. 1920 



ROSES, CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS 



AND 



Home-grown Gardenias 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



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one or two special kinds of work being 

 done and it is almost useless to cut the 

 price on them; no price is low enough to 

 «ffect a clearance. Bulbous stock is on 

 the wane. There are still some fine Dar- 

 wnn tulips from indoors, but most of the 

 bulbous flowers now are narcissi from 

 the south. Nearly everyone wishes 

 they would not come to this market, 

 even the retailers saying they are a 

 detriment to the business under ordi- 

 nary spring conditions. 



There are moderate supplies of eat- 

 tleyas, valley, freesias, snapdragons, 

 callas, stocks, calendulas, poppies and 

 other miscellaneous items. Asparagus 

 is more plentiful, but adiantum is 

 scarce. 



While conditions have been bad and 

 are not yet good, anyone who compares 

 the business this month with business in 

 the spring glut last year will find it was 

 much worse then. We have progressed. 



Growers Meet. 



The Commercial Flower Growers of 

 Chicago met at the Hotel Kandolph 

 Thursday evening. April 15, with Presi- 

 dent Joseph Kohout in the chair and an 

 attendance clearly affected by the bad 

 weather. 



An interesting talk was given by 

 Gordon B. Fisher on ' * Artificial Ventila- 

 tion and Its Possible Application to 

 Greenhouse*." To illustrate the com- 

 plexities of the whole question of ven- 

 tilation, he told of various problems 

 which the Hg Electric Ventilating Co., 

 of which he is Chicago sales manager, 

 has been called upon to solve, in con- 

 nection with the warming and cooling, 

 the drying and humidifying, of the air 

 in factories to suit particular industrial 

 requirements. He then suggested that 

 a system of ventilation which would 

 keep the temperature, the humidity and 

 the supply of fresh air under strict 

 control, without letting valuable warm 

 air out through the ventilators at the 

 top of the greenhouses, should save coal 

 and might easily be the means of in- 

 creasing production. The whole matter, 

 he said, was |n its first stage and it 

 would be impossible to make definite as- 

 sertions until actual tests had been made 

 by the installation of a ventilating sys- 

 tem in a suitable greenhouse. The sen- 

 timent of the meeting seemed to be 





IN 

 CHICAGO 



Don't let Department Stores 

 use Cut Flowers to advertise 

 their business — 



Advertise YOUR Business. 



Play on this market to your advan- 

 tage in Buying Here. 



YOUR 



PratoctiM 



Kennicott Bros. Co. 



174 North Wab<uhtAff*num 



CHICAGO 



Heaviest In Ros«» 

 and Carnations 



with all 



other «ea»onable 



Cat Flower* 



right 



"IN THE PLACE" 



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