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30 



The Florists^ Review 



September 9, 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 



White, Pink, Purple, Lavender, Red M G^nTPDCL 



Can supply fine quality /^C9 M E^IC^S 



ASTERS 



CARNATIONS ""v^Z-^Sl^i^"' New Crop 



GLADIOLI- -A 1 Quality -Large Flowering Spikes -GLADIOLI 



Easter LOies, Valley, Feverfew, Candytuft, Calendula, Gypsophila 



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



I! yon want {ood stock and good treatment, bny of Chicago'i most np-to-date and best-located Wholesale Cut Flower House 



J.H.BDOLONG CO. 



QUALITY 



SPEAKS 



LOUDER 



THAN 



PRICES 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND GREENS 



Roses, Valley and Carnations our Specialties 



184-186 North Wabash Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



WE ARE CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY 



SHIPPING ORDERS GIVEN CAREFUL ATTENTION -^Ml 



PRICES 



AS 



LOW 



AS 

 OTHERS 



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cause their doings are of greatest im- 

 portance to greenhouse operators. The 

 sup])ly of roses is large, but it would 

 not be unwieldy were it not for the huge 

 quantities of outdoor flowers in com- 

 petition. Quality considered, prices 

 never were lower at tliis date, for most 

 of the roses are excellent. Columbia is 

 averaging particularly jioorly. Every 

 mother's son who grows roses for this 

 market appears to have staked his bread 

 and butter on this variety, with the re- 

 sult that today it is the easiest rose to 

 buy and the hardest rose to sell. But 

 there are plenty of Ophelia and Sun- 

 burst, too. Russell and Premier clean 

 up first. There are not many red roses 

 and only a few Beauties. 



To give an idea of the gladiolus situ- 

 ation, one grower, not primarily pro- 

 ducing bulbs, sent in 28,000 spikes in 

 one day last week. The bulb growers 

 are shipping the flowers in barrels by 

 the wagon load. The best varieties, 

 carefully handled, bring sometimes as 



7ann 



Wholesale 

 Cot Flowers 

 and Supplies 



much as 6 cents in small lots, but the 

 bulk of the receipts are sold at half or 

 less and the waste is large. 



Asters, too, are abundant, but doing 

 a little better. The quality is, in many 



ways, the best the market has seen in 

 several years. 



Giganteum lilies are a problem. Tc 

 get back the growers' investment, let 

 alone something with which to buy 



