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The Florists' Review 



Januahy 1, 1920. 



Start the New Year Right 



In 1920 have your customers "Say It" v ^^ 



With Budlong^s Flowers 



The Kind That Are Bound To Give Satisfaction 



ROSES 



In good supply, all leading varieties. Russell, Columbia, Premier, MQady, 



Hearst, Ophelia, Sunburst, Wefland, Killarney, Richmond, Double White Killarney, 



besides Nesbit and Brunner, the Miniature Roses. 



With the Mum season brought to a close, same finds us with a fine crop of Roses, also 

 Caroations, hence are in A-L condition to look after your wants. Send us your orders. 



CARNATIONS: Red, White, Deep Pink and Light Pink 



Valley, Violets, Sweet Peas, Paper Whites, Yellow Narcissi, Stevia, Calendula, 

 Pansies, Migrnonette, and all other seasonable Cut Flowers, including Greens' of all kinds. 



If you want good stock and good treatment, boy of Cliicag»*s most up-to-date and best-located Wholesale Cut Flower House 



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[ Anything and everything in seasonable Cut Flowers and Greens. 



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WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND GREENS 



Roses, Valley and Carnations our Specialties 



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quirements, but the shortage had been 

 anticipated, with the result that buyers 

 did not or^er them in the usual quanti- 

 ties and nonsuch pinch reuulted as might 

 have been 'expected from the fact that 

 some of the largest growers cut lesf" 

 than one-third of a normal Christmas 

 crop. Prices were rather uneven, sales 

 being made at all the way from 10 cents 

 to 20 cents, with 25 cents for Laddie. 

 About the only complaints which have 

 come since Christmas have had to do 

 with sleepy carnations. 



Of the other items, comparatively 

 small supplies were available. There 

 was the usual quantity of poinsettias 

 and, because of the scarcity of other 

 stock, they sold better thau they or- 

 dinarily do. There were few violets 

 and few sweet peas. A curiosity of the 

 market was that Paper Whites sold 

 higher on Christmas eve than at any 

 other time; they are the last flower to 

 sell at Christmas. Quite the contraiy, 



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Khicagp III. 



30 EAST RANDOLPH STREET 



valley, which has been scarce, could not 

 be cleaned up, even with concessions 

 in the price. The reason probably lies 

 in the fact that the supply has been so 

 small the buyers had planned to get 

 along without valley. Stevia, calen- 



dulas, snaps and the insignificant quan- 

 tities of other flowers in the market all 

 sold well. 



Taking it by and large, it was the 

 best Christmas Chicago ever has seen, 

 both wholesale and retail. The best 



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