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The Florists' Review 



Dbcember 25. 1019. 



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mand for the necessities of life, but just 

 as long as times are good and people 

 have plenty of money they will buy to 

 the limit not only the necessities of life, 

 but everything else that goes to increase 

 their happiness and comfort, including 

 the products of the trees. 



And as long as the present condition 

 prevails there is no reasonable increase 

 in the price of nursery stock that is go- 

 ing to deter people from planting. How- 

 ever, I do not think that we should ap- 

 ply the old rule of charging all the 

 traffic will bear, for by so doing we tend 

 to stimulate the planting of nursery 

 stock and at the same time decrease the 

 demand for stock to a certain extent, 

 thus again changing the balance, so that 

 prices will drop to a point below the 

 cost pf production. 



V 



Labor Cost. 



The matter of cost is getting to be a 

 serious problem, for when we take into 

 consideration the fact that labor con- 

 stitutes the principal expense in the 

 production of a tree and the fact that, 

 not only has labor doubled or trebled in 

 cost, but along with each increase its 

 efficiency has decreased, we are con- 

 fronted with a greater expense than 

 simply the increase in the price of labor. 

 I think it safe to say that the average 

 day's work today is little more than 

 half of what was considered just a good 

 day's work a few years ago. On this 

 basis the labor cost of growing a 

 now is about four times what it 

 then. 



The Brush Pile. 



tree 

 was 



Then we must take into consideration 

 the brush pile, which is ever present in 

 the nursery business. No matter how 

 strong the demand, there are always 

 some varieties that will not sell. They 

 may have been the best sellers last year, 

 or the year before, but no one wants 

 them now. Price cuts no figure. No 

 one will have them at any price and 

 they must go to the brush pile. Then 

 there are the culls, bad roots and dis- 

 eased trees; all go the same way and 

 the' cost of all of these is just the same 

 as for those, we sell, four times what 

 they used to cost. 



All of this must come out of the 

 profits or, in other words, must be added 

 to the cost of the trees sold. Some of 

 us in the past have not taken this fea- 

 ture of the business into consideration, 

 [Concluded on page 118.] 



CINERARIAS 



HALF DWARF 



23<-inch 5c 



3 -inch 10c 



3%-inch 15c 



Aspara|(as Sprengeri, 2-inch, 3c; 

 3-inch, 8c; 4-inch, 12c. 



Asparatfas Elongatus, 2-iDch, lOc; 

 3-iDch, 15c. 



Cash or reference. 



Abby Ave. Greenhouses 



DAYTON, OHIO 



ROSES— 2K-inch 



For January, Februai-y and 

 later delivery. 



N£W VABIETIKS 



Own Root 



100 



PUffrim ( Monttromery ) $40.00 



Crusader (Montgomery) 40.00 



Mrs. John Cook (Cook) 40.00 



Frank W. Dunlop ( Dunlop) 86.00 



Mme. Butterfly (Hill) 85.00 



Cornelia (Soott) 30.00 



Get a copy of our descriptive list of above. 



STANDARD VARIETIES 



Premier $20.00 



Columbia 15.00 



Hadley 15.00 



Hoosler Beauty 15.00 



Mrs. Charles Russell 17.00 



OpheUa, Double White Klllamey, Double Pink Klllamey. 

 Sinsrle White Klllamey. Klllamey BrilUant. Sunburst, 

 Radiance, Maryland. Mrs. Aaron Ward, Richmond . . 15.00 



Kaiserln. Early delivery 12.00 



Baby Rambler 10.00 



Roses will be scarce this season. 



Anyone -wishing grafted stock or early delivery of own 

 early as possible. 



1000 

 $850.00 

 860.00 

 850.00 

 800.00 

 800.00 

 250.00 



$160.00 

 125.00 

 120.00 

 120.00 

 160.00 



120.00 



110.00 



90.00 



Grafted 



100 

 $45.00 

 45.00 

 45.00 

 45.00 

 45.00 

 40.00 



$35.00 

 80.00 



1000 

 $400.00 

 400.00 

 400.00 

 876.00 

 375.00 

 350.00 



$300.00 

 250.00 



80.00 250.00 



We have lots 

 Send for 



of other good things that will 

 our Complete Price l.l8t. 



root should order as 

 interest you. 



C- U« LIGGITy 303 BULLETIN BLDG. Philadelphia^ Pa. 



Cyclamen Seedlings 



Transplanted, ready January and Feb- 

 ruary. Order now. Separate varieties. 



Mammoth Klng^ 

 Crimson King 

 Duke of Fife 

 Princess May 

 Victoria 

 Dark Rose 



$ 7.50 per 100 

 70.00 per 1000 



Salmon St. George'\ 

 Crimson St. George f 

 Brilliant Giganteum > 

 Mrs. Buxton I 



Cherry Ripe / 



$ 9.00 per 100 

 85.00 per 1000 



Our selection of varieties, $6.50 per 100; $60.00 per 1000 



PETER PEARSON 



5732 Gunnison Street, 



Chicago 



Mention The Review wbeu .vou write. 



Ferns! Perns!! Perns!!! 



Nephrolepli Seottll and Teddy Jr., «-lnch 



pots, $9.00 per doz. ; 7-inch pots, $15.00 

 per doz.; 8-lnch poU, $18.00 to $24.00 

 per doz. 



Wilsonli Ferns, 8 plants in a 6-lnch pan. 



very line, $7.20 per doz. 

 Wllsonil Ferns, 4-inch pots, $3.00 per do*. 



Holly Ferns, S-inch pots, $1.50 per doz. 

 Dlab Feme, 2Vi-lnch pota, atrong planta. 

 $6.00 per 100. 



Cash with order. No planta shipped C. O. D. All ablpmenta travel at purchaaar'a 

 risk and we are not responsible for any delay in transit, aa our reaponalblllty ceaaea 

 when delivery la made to expreaa company. 



ASCHMANN BROS. 



SccMd anl Brirtd Stt ind Ring San Are. rBHADELPBIA, FA. 



Aaplenlam Mldna-ATls (Blrd'a Neat Fern), 



4-inch pota, $6.00 and $7.20 per doz. 

 Asparamia Plomoana, 8-lnch pota, $10.00 



per loe. 

 FIcuB Elaatlca, 6-lnch pota, $9.00 and 



$12.00 per doz.; 7-lnch pota, very 



atrong, $1.50 each. 

 Hmrdy lvie>. ." nms. $4.jn per doz.; 



6-lnch pots, $6.00 per doz. 

 Cinerarias, 8- inch pots, for growing on, 



$12.00 per 100. 



JULIUS ROEHR8 CO. 



RUTHERFORD, N. J. 



ORCHIDS, PALMS 

 and plants of every variety 



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I Happy New Year i 



May it bring you Prosperity 



S ROBERT CRAIG CO. 3 

 I 4900 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. | 



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Writ* for pricas and daacriptloa of 



Madam 3 Butterfly 



The Jot. H. Hill Co. 



RICHMOND, IND. 



A. N. PIERSON 



IHOORPORATED 



Gnwen of Plaits, Cnt Fkwers, 

 Pains aid Ferns 



CROMWELL, CONNECTICUT. 



