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The Florists^ Review 



January 2, 1919. 



much as can be handled in good shape. 

 The help question will be the most 

 serious one, perhaps, though this may 

 be better than we think by the time 

 the season opens. We do not think, 

 however, that the price of help and the 

 cost of handling our goods in general 

 will be materially less and, considering 

 th3 lively demand as reported in other 

 sections, the nurserymen should be wise 

 enough now to ask a good price for their 

 goods, a price that will enable them to 

 give good service and good stock to our 

 customers. That is what we are striv- 

 ing for, even at the expense of the 

 volume of our output." 



THE FRUIT TREE SITUATION. 



"Fall sales have been satisfactory 

 as a whole and orders are coming along 

 even at this late date," says W. C. 

 Reed, proprietor of the Vincennes Nurs- 

 eries, Vincenncs, Ind. "We are still 

 shipping. The demand for cherry and 

 peach has been heavy and we have 

 turned down more orders for the latter 

 than we have filled, especially in light 

 grades. We still have, however, a fair 

 assortment of first-grade stock, and 

 extra-heavy 11/16-inch stock and up. 

 Out of a planting of 450,000 stocks of 

 No. 1 Montinorency and Richmond, 

 there are only a limited number left. 

 Year-old cherry has been in fair de- 

 mand. The 1 -year-old stock we have 

 not been digging, preferring to hold it 

 for another season. 



"Apple trees have been in good de- 

 mand and our sales at retail show a 

 marked increase over a year ago. Spring 

 deliveries will take about all the apple 

 trees in the leading commercial sorts 

 there are. Japanese plums are entirely 

 out of the market; also American, with 

 only a moderate supply of European 

 stock for spring. Kioffer pears are 

 scarce and other varieties only in mod- 

 erate sujiply, with a fair demand. 



"From present indications we think 

 there will be the greatest shortage of 

 fruit trees we have seen in many years 

 before the spring season is over. 



"Ornamentals are in good demand 

 and sales are steadily increasing. 



"Prices are likely to remain firm 

 for the next year or two and on some 

 items will advance. It will pay nursery- 

 men to care well for their stock and 

 produce the best, instead of trying to 

 increase plantings. Give good quality 

 and ask good ^jrices." 



SMALL FRUITS SCARCE. 



* ' Our business up to this time has been 

 satisfactory; our wholesale business has 

 been good, and we have found a lively 

 demand for fruit trees of all kinds, with 

 the exception, possibly, of standard pear 

 and cherry; everything else is moving 

 well," says Roy M. Spcrry, secretary 

 of the Greening Nursery Co., Monroe, 

 Mich. 



"There is a great scarcity of small 

 fruits of all kinds, they being almost 

 inipossil)le to secure at any price. We 

 have found our retail business about 

 oil a par with last year, but business 

 for spring delivery so far is better than 

 last year. We should say that should 

 the epidemic of influenza abate so that 

 agents may be able to get in a normal 

 amount of work, the prospects for spring 

 business are good." 



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