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llic Florists^ Review 



March 11, 1920 



INCREASED SUPPLY Abated lower PRICES 



ROSES 



CARNATIONS 



Fine quality in all leading varieties. Russell, Columbia, Premier, Milady, 



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



besides Nesbit and Brunner, the Miniature Roses. 



CARNATIONS: Red, White, Deep Pink Md Light Pink 



Easter Lilies Rubrum Lilies, Tulips, Hyacinths, Purity Freesia, Rainbow Freesia, Violets, 



Sweet Peas, Daisies, Paper Whites, Calendula, Cyclamen Blooms, Callas, Pansies, 



Mignonette, and all other seasonable Cut Flowers, including Greens of all kinds. 



Jonquils 

 Tulips 

 Darwin Tulips 



In Good Supply 



You will find these ready 

 sellers at this season. 



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J.a.BDOL©NG CO. 



QUALITY 



SPEAKS 



LOUDER 



THAN 



PRICES 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND GREENS 



Roses, Valley and Carnations our Specialties 



184-186 North Wabash Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



WK ARC CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY 



SHIPPINQ ORDERS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION 



PRICES 



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OTHERS 



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ditions it was inevitable that the market 

 should be greatly unsettled. There were, 

 however, two or three saving factors. 

 The new advertising campaign was put 

 into action March 9 and unquestionably 

 helped a rapidly reviving city retail 

 trade. The retailers all have been do- 

 ing a good business and the moderate 

 price at which they have been able to 

 obtain flowers has encouraged them to 

 greater effort. Then the weather has 

 been cold — winter's last kick, we hope — 

 ajid it has held back production. At the 

 same time there has befen an ocean of 

 flowers; no scarcity anywhere in the list. 

 Prices havg varied widely and there have 



been accumulations it was impossible 

 to move, because sales to department 

 stores and other cheap local buyers have 

 become suddenly unpopular. 



Sweet peas have come in heavily, the 

 days having been clear if cold. Much of 

 the stock is short in stem and strictly 

 fancy peas still sell well in spite of the 

 oversupply. Roses, too, are much more 

 abundant, and so are carnations, vio- 

 lets, valley, tulips, Darwins, jonquils and 

 nearly everything else. The possible ex- 

 ceptions are cattleya^ and freesias, the 

 former being between crops and the lat- 

 ter drawing toward the end of their sea- 

 son. Lilies are seen in some quantity. 



the early birds of the Easter crop. They 

 are not in special request, as the call for 

 funeral work has subsided to something 

 like normal. The same condition affects 

 the sale of callas. Except for the short- 

 stemmed sweet peas, most of the stock 

 on the market is of excellent quality and 

 there is every incentive to push the busi- 

 ness. 



Asparagus is the only shortage among 

 greens. The Florida growers have had 

 their own troubles of late. March 2 

 there was a sharp frost, which will put 

 some of them out of business for from 

 one to six weeks. Also, there have been 

 express embargoes, with the result that 



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