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The Florists^ Review 



Junk 5, 1919. 



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CARNATIONS are in good supply, with prices reasona 



VALLEY for your June Weddings. PEONIES, 50c, 60c and 75c per do 



1717 O NIC We have plenty of good ferns to offer, $6.00 

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Leucothoe, 75c per 100; $6.00 per 1000. Ga'ax, 25c per 100; $2.00 per 1000. 



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Snapdragons, Pansies, Mignonette and all other Seasonable Stock. 



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Mention The Review wbeo you write. 



May month record were much ahead of 

 recent years. It was because of better 

 prices. While th»re were not nearly so 

 many peonies' as is usual at Memorial 

 day, the prices obtained went a long 

 way toward making up the difference. 

 Peonies were sold at all kinds of prices, 

 but not much good stock was sold be- 

 low 8 cents and from that up to 15 cents, 

 with an occasional small lot of fancy 

 stock bringing $2 per dozen. The price 

 of carnations also was much better than 

 in recent years. There was a lot of 

 poor stock which had accumulated ear- 

 lier in the week and which was sold off, 

 principally to out-of-town department 

 stores, at $30 per thousand. It was 

 probably the most expensive stock that 

 left the market, though most of the 

 sales were at $8 to $10 per hundred. 

 More of the shorter grades of roses 

 could have been used, but there were 

 enough of the fancy grades and it was 

 necessary to shade the prices to clean 

 up. The public does not care to pay 

 $6 or $7 per dozen for roses to take 

 to the cemeteries. Sweet peas gave the 

 wholesalers more trouble than anything 



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Mention Th« Barlew wbrii von writ*. 



else. The sweet pea is not a cemetery 

 flower and the stock offered in most 

 cases was the end of the winter crop, 

 short in stem, soft in flower and hard 

 to sell at anything like the prices that 

 have been prevailing all this spring. 



The weather probably never was bet- 

 ter for Memorial day, but nevertheless 

 there were numerous complaints; they 

 always come at this season Not un- 



naturally, a good many of them came 

 from south and southwest. It is a com- 

 mon experience to have a heat wave 

 strike the Memorial day shipping, but 

 this year it held off until most of the 

 orders were out. Most of the com- 

 plaints had to do with carnations. 



Ferns are scarce; the new crop is 

 too soft and buyers will not take them 

 if they can get storage ferns. 



