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The Florists' Review 



NOVBMBBR 21, 1918. 



Greenhouse Heating 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. The greenhouse heating 

 equipment advertised in this paper is, we 

 believe, the best for the trade to buy, and 

 each article the best in the special field 

 of its adaptation. 



THE PRICE OF COAL. 



Should Be Reduced. 



When the United States Fuel Ad- 

 ministration took hold of the coal situa- 

 tion some fifteen months ago and estab- 

 lished the prices that the mine operator 

 could charge for the coal and the job- 

 ber and retailer could take as their 

 profits, it undoubtedly kept the price 

 within more reasonable limits than 

 would have been the case had the law 

 of supply and demand been allowed to 

 operate without hindrance. Last winter 

 the price of coal was fixed, but there 

 vras such a shortage that few industries 

 other than those engaged in essential 

 vrar work could get the fuel they needed. 



Then began the campaign of conserva- 

 tion. Dr. Garfield, the Fuel Adminis- 

 trator, set out to educate people to use 

 coal economically. Many enterprises, 

 among them the florists', were put on 

 short rations of fuel and were told that 

 in order to prevent a fuel famine this 

 winter worse than that of a year ago, 

 these limitations of consumption were 

 necessary. The result has been that 

 the ending of the war has found the 

 country with an adequate supply of 

 fuel, if not an oversupply. 



This situation has brought about a 

 demand for the reduction of the prices 

 fixed by the Fuel Administration, At 

 the time these prices were made it was 

 claimed by The Eeview and many other 

 trade publications that they were out 

 of proportion to the increased cost of 

 production on which they were sup- 

 posed to be based. The following edi- 

 torial from a Boston newspaper shows 

 how the general press is beginning to 

 look at it: 



"No Famine, but Famine Prices." 



"It has come to be taken as a 

 matter of course that when commodi- 

 ties grow scarce prices shall go up, even 

 when the articles in question have been 

 bought far below the ruling quotations. 

 The war has been made an excuse for 

 cries of scarcity, and cries of scarcity 

 have been made an excuse for war 

 prices. 



"Dr. Garfield, a while ago, told the 

 people of the United States repeatedly 

 that they were face to face with a coal 

 famine. His assistants notified those in 

 certain localities that so short was to 

 be the supply of coal that the lighting 

 of fires for warming houses might have 

 to be postponed until December 1. The 

 price of coal was advanced to emphasize 

 the gravity of the situation. It is now 

 only the first part of November; those 

 who could pay the price for coal have, 

 as a rule, got supplies in their bins; 

 the home fires have been burning, off 

 and on, for several weeks; there is more 

 coal in sight than the nation can use 

 next winter, but there has been no lower- 

 ing of the price. 



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