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The Florists^ Review 



AnoDST 12, 1920 



RUSSELL COLUMBIA PREMIER MILADY HEARST OPHELIA SUNBURST 



Excellent Summer Roses 



KILLARNEY 



WHITE KILLARNEY 



RICHMOND 



NESBIT 



BRUNNER 



In Large Supply 



Fine Quality in All Leading Varieties 



A riP|l|l|}£l White, Pink, Purple, Lavender, Red. A £|»|1|1|%^ 



#m ^ I M m^ ^ Use them now that Carnations are at the #m ^ I M 1^ ^ 

 Am,^ K MmiK\^J end of their season. Can supply fine quality. Xm^J A ^^JLml^ 



GLADIOLI-A 1 Onality- -Large Howering Spikes-GLADIOLI 



Easter Lilies, Coreopsis, Snapdragons, Sweet Peas, Daisies, Valley, 



Larkspur, Bachelor's Buttons, Feverfew, Candytuft, Calendula, Gypsophila 



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



I! yoo want {ood stock and good treatment, buy of Chicago^i most npto-date and best-located Wholesale Cut flower House 



J.R.BCDLONG CO. 



QUALITY 



SPE/WKS 



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 



10- SHIPPING ORDERS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION 



PRICES 



AS 

 LOW 

 AS 

 OTHERS 



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tinues to consume large quantities. The 

 quality is excellent. Anyone who is in 

 position to use a quantity of roses can 

 do business now. The principal varie- 

 ties are Colunfbia, Premier and Russell, 

 There are scAcely any Beauties. Ophe- 

 lia is in moderate supply. Butterfly is 

 beginning to be received in quantity. 



tiamations are practically out of the 

 market. Valley is almost the only item 

 on which it is not possible to fill all 

 orders. Easter lilies are received more 

 rapidly than called for. Album and ru- 

 brum lilies are offered in considerable 

 quantity. The few sweet peas offered 

 usually are poor. 



The abundance of other flowers has 

 disappointed the dealers in peonies, who 

 put large quantities in storage in June. 

 They foresaw no more than a irormal 

 summer supply of garden flowers and 

 expected a steady demand for peonies 

 as long as the stock would keep. "With- 

 out agreement, they held the prices on 

 the basis of a demand which would 



eventually clean up all the available 

 supply. But the abundance of garden 

 flowers offered at low pricee has reduced 

 the demand for peonies. There still are 

 a good many thousands of dozens in the 

 cold storage warehouse. After two 

 months there, not much can be said for 

 the average quality, though some of thfe 

 stock still is surprisingly good. Consid- 

 erable quantities already have been 

 dumped and many others will be thrown 

 out within the next few days, a total 

 loss, rather than pay another month's 

 storage charges on them. 



Kohout's View. 

 Problems tueed by the grower were 

 stated in the following terms by Joseph 

 Kohout iu a letter sent out to growers 

 last week regarding matters to come 

 up at the growers' meeting in Cleve- 

 land August 19: 



IT IS WORSE THAN EVER^-OR BETTER 



THAN EVER— JUST AS YOU TAKE 



IT. 



If you have your coal on band you can rest 



easy abont the coming winter — but If you only 



expect It, you arc not so sure about It. How- 

 eyer, any way you figure It, the price of coal 

 must be paid for in advance, and the money 

 must be returned to you from the- sales returns 

 by your wholesaler — can your wholesaler do It? 

 Will the demand continue to pay the high cos. 

 of growing? 



It takes Just so 'Vtich money to run your 

 greenhouses — and a vro6t to keep a bank account 

 — but you don't know whether the carnation 

 blooms will bring a B-cent average price for a 

 season, or the rose a 10-cent average price. 



Your wholesale market has no bottom to it 

 when prices go down, but there is a limit to 

 how high you can go — to stabilize the market, 

 for higher average returns, is an issue to be 

 settled. 



For the season ahead of us, to continue to 

 get our share of the money, if you have any 

 suggestions to offer me, for your committee to 

 lay before the national growers' convention, 

 write or phone me within the next week or 

 so. 



Your troubles are our problems — your success 

 our endeavors. 



Chicago to Cleveland. 



T. E. Waters, president,- F. Lauten- 

 schlager, secretary, and Guy French, 

 state vice-president of the S. A. F., are 

 busy working up Chicago's representa- 

 tion at Cleveland. A large attendance is 

 expected. Numbers will go individually, 



