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The Horists^ Review 



Mat 6, 1920 



KANSAS OITY, MO. 



The Market. 



Stock moved well last week, but 

 there was a shortening up on some 

 lines. There were hardly enough roses 

 to go around, as they are going off 

 crop. Carnations, which have been so 

 plentiful for some weeks, are a little 

 off, but the growers promise a good 

 cut for Mothers' day. Business has 

 been snappy all the month. Funeral 

 work has fallen off in some of the retail 

 stores, while others report good orders 

 every day for the week. The whole- 

 sale price of carnations for Mothers 

 day is $12 per hundred. They will sell 

 in the retail stores for $2.50 and $3 per 

 dozen. 



Various Notes. 



Samuel Murray is loug on lilies, but 

 they are not going to waste. He had 

 an unusually fine crop at Easter and 

 business has held up so well since that 

 he is working them off without loss. 



One of the wholesale florists sent out 

 a wedding order marked ''Funeral 

 flowers" during the recent railroad 

 strike. "I'd rather miss a funeral 

 than a wedding any time," he said, 

 "and as the chances are the bride did 

 not know how they were marked, it 

 was all right. The florist who ordered 

 them was glad to get them anyway. ' ' 



S. Bryson Ayres sold sweet peas, car- 

 nations and cut spring flowers from his 

 farm at his seed store April 30 for the 

 Chicago Tribune flower fund, which 

 will be used to decorate the graves of 

 American soldiers in France Memorial 

 day. The result was a disappointment, 

 but it is believed to be due to lack of 

 advertising. Mr. Ayres decided on the 

 plan too late to get anything but a 

 local notice in one of the newspapers 

 the evening before and, as he sells cut 

 flowers at retail only on rare occasions, 

 scarcely anyone knew of the offer. To 

 augment the fund, Mr. Ayres will give 

 the day's receipts for flower seeds. The 

 Kansas City Star is cooperating with 

 the Chicago Tribune and will forward 

 subscriptions from here. 



The first advertisement for Mothers' 

 day of the associated florists of the two 

 Kansas Cities appeared in the news- 

 papers May 2. It was a quarter-page 

 advertisement headed with "Say It 



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