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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 30. 1919. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



The Market. 



The market was distinctly active last 

 week. There is perhaps no better indi- 

 cator of market conditions than the 

 wholesale house. When stock clears 

 rapidly^ at good prices, it is time to #ay 

 that business is good. The consignments 

 of stock of various cut flowers have been 

 liberal in the last few days and all of 

 this has been moving at the pace every- 

 one likes to see during October days. 

 Chrysanthemums are in full swing now 

 and are steady in price. Roses of good 

 grades are plentiful. This condition al- 

 ways happens in the chrysanthemum 

 season, because people who would pay 

 $6 for two dozen roses take a dozen 

 mums. The cheap-grade roses which are 

 used in funeral work are scarce. Fancy 

 Beauties are short of the demand. Pom- 

 pons are in good demand and sell for 75 

 cents per bunch. A supply of violets 

 is arriving, but there is no active de- 

 mand; nevertheless they sell at good 

 prices. Carnations are short of the de- 

 mand and have advanced to $(5 per hun- 

 dred for average grades. 



Growers and Retailers Meet. 



For the last two years it has been 

 "catch as catch can" among the grow- 

 ers and retailers on the problem of going 

 hand-in-hand up the road to Easy street. 

 Sometimes there was a partial success, 

 but usually it was a typical case of 

 "nothing doing." The growers always 

 felt that the retailers were going to put 

 something over on them. 



It took the F. T. D. convention to 

 start the ball rolling. That roused so 

 many drowsy brains that the meeting of 

 the growers and the retailers at the 

 store of the Wm. F. Kasting Co. Octo- 

 ber 23 astonished the most optimistic. 

 About ninety per cent of all growers and 

 retailers of the city and neighboring 

 towns attended. The speaker was J. F. 

 Ammann, president of the Society of 

 American Florists. In an easy, under- 

 standing way Mr. x\mmann brought to 

 a boiling point the subject which had so 

 often been allowed to cool off even be- 

 fore getting hot. Mr. Ammann discussed 

 the advisability of advertising to kdep 

 the demand beyond the supply and the 

 question as to who would profit most 

 by an unsuppliable demand. At last, 

 when it was asked how many were in 

 favor of creating a liberal local adver- 

 tising fund with provisions for a per- 

 centage to the national fund, there was 

 not a hand that was not quickly raised. 

 The meeting adjourned until October 30, 

 at which time plans were to be presented 

 for the ways and means of going about 

 it. F. P. A. 



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