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The Florists' Review 



Sbptkmbbr 9, 1920 ' 



Big Buyers 



Little Buyers 



MANY 

 ROSES 



MORE 

 ROSES 



MOST 

 ROSES 



-AN 



INNOVATION- 

 SUNSET- SUNRISE 



OUT OF TOWN 

 DELIVERY SERVICE 



THE 

 GROWERS' OWN 



YOUR PROTECTION 



More reasons to buy them here than to buy them 

 elsewhere. 



We provide so many retail florists with their entire 

 supply the year around, because our daily receipts of 

 Roses (by the thousands), makes this possible. Our 

 ideals of wholesaling cooperate with the Retailer — 

 You can rely upon 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



174 N. Wabash Ave, 

 CHICAGO 



"THB PRINCIPAL LOCATION IN THE MARKET" 



H. B. KENNICOTT. Pres. 



J. E. POLLWORTU. Sec'y and Mgr. 



SELECT ROSES 



and all other Seasonable Flowers for particular buyers. 



JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. 



Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 



160 North Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



schoolbooks for the children, it is neces- 

 sary to obtain an average of about 12 

 cents for the flowers. Consequently ice- 

 boxes are full of lilies, Micawber-like, 

 waitinp; for something to turn up. Ru- 

 brums are about out of the market. 



There are only two scarce flowers, 

 valley and cattleyas. 



Tritoraas, sign of approaching au- 

 tumn, have come. 



Galax is extremely scarce. 



Growers Seeking Stability. 



Chimerical as it may seem to many, 



there are some growers who believe it is 

 possible to stabilize the market by es- 

 tablishing maximum and minimum 

 prices. The discussion of this subject 

 will be a special order for the meeting 

 of the Commercial Cut Flower Growers' 

 Association at the Randolph hotel on 

 tlio evening of September 16. 



The suggestion of fixing maximum 

 prices i.s, of course, only camouflage; 

 no grower talks of fixing prices except 

 when the market is low and the only 

 real desire for ever stopping an upward 

 swing is on part of the retailers, who 



aver that it is difficult nowadays for one 

 of them to net ten per cent on his year's 

 sales. 



Various Notes. 



August was unusually cool, the menu 

 temperature being 2 degrees below 

 last year. There was seventy-two ptf 

 cent of the possible amount of sun- 

 shine, although the rainfall was nearly 

 three times as great as in August, 191!'- 



In a retail window Liatris spicata i^ 

 labeled "Skyrockets, $1.25 per dozen." 

 It goes well in baskets, but has little 



