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The Florists' Review ' 



Sbptbmbkb 80, 1920 



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THE 

 GROWERSr OWN 



YOUR PROTECTION 



High Cost of Growing 



CUT FLOWERS 



has nothing to do with 

 the way they are sold — 



GET THEM AT MARKET PRICES ; 



H. B. KENNICOTT. Pres. 



J. E. POLLWORTH Sec'y and M«r. 



KENNICOTT BROS, CO. 



174 N. WaboBh Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



THE PRINCIPAL LOCATION IN THE MARKET" 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Cariiatibhs, Roses 



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Our Prices Never Are Higher than Others Ask for an Equally Good Grade of Stock. 



F rNE a ft OMPANY 



30 E. Randolph St 



WHOUUALB FLORUTB 



LD.PlMMRuMpli6578 



CHICAGO 



gala program and it is therefore 

 planned to hold a brief business meet- 

 ing promptly at 8:00 p. m. 



September Business. . 



It was a September far different from 

 last year, There were many more flow- 

 ers of all kinds, outdoor and indoor. 

 There was no frost; indeed, September 

 was warmer than August. It was the 

 penultimate month before the presiden- 

 tial election, a traditional quadrennial 

 disturber of business. It was the period 

 m which Other markets entered a period 



of readjustment, with falling prices and 

 growing unemployment. It was the dull- 

 est September since 1914 with many 

 lines of business, which makes it re- 

 markable that most of the wholesale cut 

 flower and supply houses managed to 

 roll up sales slightly in excess of a year 

 ago. Average prices, of course, were 

 low, the gain being made on volume. As 

 one wholesaler put it, September was a 

 big month, but an unsatisfactory one. 



Cornering tlie Chiffon Market. 



Max Ringier did not appear at his 



place with A. L. Vaughan & Co., Mon- 

 day, September 13, and shortly there- 

 after Mr. Vaughan learned, he says, that 

 a local dealer in florists' supplies had 

 delivered to Ringier, billing Vaughan 

 & Co., a quantity of chiffon the purchase 

 of which Mr. Vaughan had not author- 

 ized. Investigation resulted, Mr. 

 Vaughan states, in the discovery that 

 six dealers had made similar deliveries, 

 all of chiffon, either just before or just 

 after Ringier left his post, none of the 

 total of several hundred pieces having 

 reached Vaughan & Co. The disposition 



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