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The Rorists' Review 



FlBBOABT 19. 1920 



TTie Sign of Qudity SWEET PEAS, 



SINGLE and 

 DOUBLE 



VIOLETS 



Jonquils Tulips Freesias 



Valley Orchids 



Calendulas Pansies Pussy Willow 



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NEW CROP GALAX 



BBONZ B-OBKKM 



Mexican Ivy 



Asparagus Sprengeri 



Asparagus Plumosus 



Huckleberry Ferns 



Diyarf Baby BoxMrood 



Salal Woodwardia 



Deer Tongue Ferns 



FANCY ROSES 



Premier, Columbia, Russell, Ophelia, Hearst, 

 Sunburst, Pink and White Killarney 



FANCY CARNATIONS 



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OUR MOTTO: "Nothing is too much troubtm to pUtum a cuatommr " 

 164 N. Wabash Ave, L. D. Phone, Central 3373 CHICAGO 



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SPRING FLOWERS 



ROSES and CARNATIONS 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CXD. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



of roses or carnations and not so high 

 as the December and January prices of 

 cattleyas, but perhaps the prices of these 

 flowers have been so long maintained 

 they no longer seem out of line. 



In this connection it is interesting to 

 note that, while the forcers of bulbs are 

 doing well, their receipts are not all sub- 

 jeet to the income tax. For instance, 

 take the experience of Sam Pearce, 

 known as among the most successful of 

 bulb forcers. Mr. Pearce does not fur- 

 nish these facts, or speak of the matter 

 at all, but they are well known to many. 

 In the first place, this grower invested 

 $30,000 in bulbs four months or more 

 before he cut a flower. How many re- 

 tailers would have been willing to com- 

 mit themselves to that extent under the 



conditions which prevailed last summer 

 and autumn f The quarantine which 

 took effect last summer shuts out bulbs 

 of Iris tingitana, which the retailers 

 have found extremely useful in recent 

 years. So Mr. Pearce took a chance; 

 just before the quarantine went into 

 effect he brought in $1,400 worth of 

 these bulky bulbs. He gave them space 

 and the best of care for seven months 

 and then he gave them up— he did not 

 cut a dozen flowers. Nor did he cut a 

 flower from any one of 20,000 Yellow 

 Prince tulips. Many of the Paper 

 Whites were blind, the first batch of 

 jonquils ditto. On the other items the 

 loss has run from ten to fifteen per cent. 

 If this has been the experience of one 

 of the most successful forcers, what has 



happened with growers less well 

 equipped or skillful! Is their reward 

 out of proportion to their risk even in 

 this season of unexpectedly strong de- 

 mand f 



Bents and Benters. 



As an example of what is happening 

 in the wholesale cut flower district, the 

 concerns which have space on the sec* 

 ond floor of the Atlas block with leases 

 expiring May 1 have been notified that 

 renewals will be made at rentals which 

 approximate $1.30 per square foot. This 

 is an advance of from forty to seventy 

 per cent. There are eighteen trade con- 

 cerns in this building. Of these twelve 

 are on the second floor, three in the 

 basement and three on the street floor. 



