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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 11, 1920 



FANCY FERNS 



$3.50 per 1000 



Fineat stock in the eonntrj 



$3.50 par 1000 



Subject to Chance Without Notice. 



Green Leucothoe, 100. $1.00. 1000 $ 7.50 



Wild Smilaz, 60-poand oases, $6.00; 25-pound oases 4.00 



Blagnolia Leaves, green and bronze, per carton IJSO 



Galax Leaves, green and bronze, per case of 10,000 10.00 



GREEN SHEET MOSS, very fine for basket work, trimming 



pots, etc., per bag, 16 lbs. to the bag 2.00 



Sphagnvm Moss, per bale 2 JSO 



FULL SUPPLY CUT FLOWERS AT ALL TIMES 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER EXCHANGE, 264-266 Randolph St., Detroit, Ich. 



a good many of their customers have 

 flowers at cost to keep them going. 



Sidney Hoffman suggested that whole- 

 salers and retailers get together and 

 start a publicity campaign right away to 

 let the public know that flowers are 

 more reasonable in price. W. H. Elliott 

 said that his experience had been that, 

 in times of glut, the wholesalers were 

 the real distributors. He did not see 

 why the retailers should be allowed to 

 buy at the same favored price as the 

 wholesalers. The growers received more 

 from the wholesalers than the retailers. 

 The grower had by far the greatest 

 amount of invested capital. He sug- 

 gested that, to stop the present-day 

 practice of salesmen making up floral de- 

 signs to sell at retail in the wholesale 

 markets, the retailers do so and allow a 

 reasonable discount on orders. The re- 

 tailers, in his estimation, made their 

 money too easily. 



H. H. Bartsch said that plants were 

 uniform in price and did not vary like 

 cut flowers; you never could tell custom- 

 ers what flowers would cost for even a 

 short period. W. C. Stickel considered 

 the retailer to be the legitimate channel 

 through which the grower's flowers could 

 be disposed of. Further remarks were 

 made by J. Frank Edgar, A. I. Parker 

 and others. It was urged by several 

 speakers that now was the time, when 

 flowers were abundant and cheap, to give 

 the fact wide newspaper publicity. A 

 subscription was started on the spot and 

 the money received, together with what 

 was added a day later by those who had 

 not attended the meeting, was used to 

 pay for bold, striking, advertisements in 

 the leading Boston dailies March 5. 



Professor J. F. De Chant, vice-presi- 

 dent of the Sheldon Business College, the 

 speaker of the evening, made a short 

 address on ' ' Cooperation. ' ' As the hour 

 was late when he commenced, it was sug- 

 gested by him that he come again at the 

 April meeting and the audience unani- 

 mously agreed to this. A handsome vase 

 of snapdragons graced the president's 

 table. 



Boston Horticultural Club. 



The Horticultural Club, at its meeting 

 in Young's hotel March 3, was favored 

 by an illustrated lecture on orchids by 

 George I 'Anson, Beverly Farms, Mass. 

 Fine vases of William Sim's rose-pink 

 seedling carnation, Romeo, graced the 

 tables. An appeal was made for seeds, 



SMILAX SMILAX SMILAX 



NEW CROP NOW READY 

 Orders filled promptly on short notice. $3.00 per case 



PERPETUATED MOSS $3.50 per bag 



NATURAL MOSS 1.75 per bag 



WIRE. WRITE, PHONE 



E. A. BEAVEN, Evergreen, Ala. 



cuttings or plants by the Horticultural 

 Society of the North of France and it 



met with liberal response. J. K. M. !'• 

 Farquhar stated that Secretary of Agri- 



