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The Florists' Review 



March 18, 1020 



EASTER LILIES 



OF A-1 



QUALITY 



Place your orders early and secure the lowest market prices 



Fancy Butterfly Sweet Peas 



5.00, $i.00 and $5.00 per 100. Common Sweet Peas, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 per 100 



ROSES 



HEAVY 

 SUPPLY 



CARNATIONS 



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



Hearst, Ophelia, Sunburst, Weiland, Killamey, Richmond, Double White Killamey, 



besides Nesbit and Brunner, the Miniature Roses. 



CARNATIONS: Red, White, Deep Pink and Light Pink 



Easter Lilies Rubrum Lilies, Callas, Tulips, Hyacinths, Purity Freesia, 



Violets, Sweet Peas, Daisies, Calendula, Pansies, Lupines, Mi^rnonette 



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



Tulips, Jonquils, $ In Good Supply 



Darwin Tulips I 



You will find these ready 

 sellers at this season. 



If yoQ want {ood ittck and gaod treatment, boy of Ckicago*s mait npto-date and bestlecated Wholesale Cvt Htwer Hoise 



J.A.BDDLONG CO. 



QUALITY 



SPEAKS 



LOUDER 



THAN 



PRICES 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND GREENS 



Roses, Valley and Carnations our Specialties 

 184-186 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



WK ARK CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY 



SHIPPING ORDERS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION 



PRICES 



AS 



LOW 



AS 



OTHERS 



Wtartis 



tMch witk ■arfcct oMiAkM ud wbcs ■ toUac takes place yo« caa rehr apaa aricnscat as receiviacsadi bcacfMi. 



running to large sums. It is impossible 

 to sell all the flowers locally, and it is 

 impossible to do business with the quan- 

 tity buyers out of town. The result is 

 a wide spread in prices; the stock that 

 is shipped with much effort is being 

 billed out at reasonable figures and the 

 city buyers are paying moderate prices 

 for their regular purchases, but the sur- 

 plus is so large that it cannot all be 

 moved through trade channels at any 

 price whatever. The only possible out- 

 let would be through department stores, 

 but everybody in the trade seems in- 

 clined to profit by last year's lesson and 

 throw stojck away rather than have it 



cheapened in the eyes of the public by 

 such ridiculous sales as occurred in last 

 spring's glut. The result is that most 

 of the wholesalers now report sales run- 

 ning behind those of last year. It is the 

 first time since early November that the 

 daily sales reports have not been show- 

 ing good gains. 



There is no use particularizing as to 

 stock under these conditions. There is 

 an abundance of everything in the way 

 of cut riowers. The quality of the stock 

 is excellent. There is nothing to be 

 desired except an opportunity to do 

 business, such as is denied the trade by 

 the express officials and employees. 



for 

 in- 



curiously, however, a lot of the strikers 

 are now at work handling mail in the 

 emergency force of the parcel post ilC' 

 ]iartment. 



One of the notable increases in the 

 supply is of Easter lilies. These "ire 

 the precocious flowers, too early 

 Easter. Otherwise the principal 

 crease is in the supply of sweet poas, 

 which have come into full crop under 

 the influence of better weather. 



Greens are scarce. The frost in 

 Florida has shut off some of the ship- 

 ments of asparagus and the express 

 embargo has made the shipments of 

 eastern ferns and of California greons 



