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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 24. 1921. 



You Will Make Money on the 

 — Flowers You Get Here — 



PLENTY OF ALL KINDS OF FLOWERS 



ALL THE TIME. 



F rne ^ Company 



30 E. Randolph St. 



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CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



peas, Majestic, Fordhook Rose, Blue Jacket, 

 Rose Queen, Albatross and Bluebird, by Henry 

 Wehrman, Maywood.; 



Well grown flowers of Sweet Pea Annette, a 

 warm cerise color, particularly under artiflclnl 

 light, shown by George J. Ball, Glen EUyn. 

 ■warded certificate of merit, also Barly Ilur- 

 mony, an extra large, light lavender sweet 

 pea, awarded special mention, and vases of 

 Columbia and True Blue. 



Well grown sweet peas. Improved Snowstorm, 

 Princess, Glorious a id Bluebird, by G. Swenson, 

 Elmhurst, awarded honorable mention. 



Vase of well thrown white orchid-flowering 

 sweet peas, by ^rnst Weiss, Elmhurst. 



Tase of annual lupinus of his own strain, 

 especially well grown at this early date, by 

 A. B. Hunt & Co., Evanston; vase of attractive 

 blue daisy and vase of yellow and white daisies 

 of bis own strain, highly recommended. 



Well grown stock of Asparagus Sprengeri, by 

 Henry D. Neve, Des Plaines. 



The chief matter of business was the 

 passing of a resolution giving the sup- 

 port of the growers of the association 

 to the wholesalers in the latters' col- 

 lection, from the buyers in the Chicago 

 market, of one per cent on all sales of 

 their flowers. This proposal was 

 warmly debated. H. V. Swenson, sec- 

 retary of the Allied Florists' Associa- 

 tion, was present and outlined the plan 

 proposed for making the assessment 

 upon growers and retailers cover all 

 transactions in this market. The 

 wholesalers, upon obtaining the assent 

 of all of their number to the plan, would 

 give bond of $1,000 each, to be for- 

 feited upon proof of laxity or absence 

 of uniformity in collections. Since 

 practically all growers are contributing, 

 it is proposed to extend the assessment 

 of one per cent to all retailers who buy 

 here, as a service, or advertising, 

 charge. A petition in Mr. Swenson 's 

 hands showed the names of seventy- 

 five retailers, some of them not before 

 members of the Allied Florists' Asso- 

 ciation, who are desirous of making 

 such assessment uniform on all buyers 

 of cut flowers, including street venders 

 and department stores. 



R. J. Windier suggested that the 

 growors petition the authorities at 

 Washington to add Holland bulbs to 

 the list of those items now prohibited 

 imiiortation. Bulbous stock, he said, 

 has not proved profitable to the grow- 

 ers of it in the last two years, it is 

 resjionsihle for spring gluts and it com- 

 ]>ett's witli American-jiroduced flowers 

 to the detriment of the latter. He be- 

 lieveil that the present administration 

 would consider such action as in line 



Do You Know 



a retail florist can most intelligently buy Cut 

 Flowers through the use of our MARKET LETTERS 

 by having direct connections with just what is in 

 the market "IN and OUT" of season ? 



With such direct information a retail florist knows 

 whether the market is "ON CROP or OFF CROP," 

 whether the demand for any one particular variety 

 of flower is on the "SHORT SIDE" of the market 

 or whether it is in heavy supply. 



Since it is a part of your business 

 to know the quality of every 

 flower you buy and its market 

 value, you then know what the 

 cut flowers are going to cost you 

 at the time your order is written. 



Old in Years 



Young in Ideas 



H. B. KENNIOOTT, Pres. 



J. E. POLLWORTH, Secy, and Mgr. 



Our original and exclusive sales 

 system for the OUT-OF-TOWN 

 buyer is upsetting all precedent 

 in getting NEW BUSINESS. 



For the retail florist "buying 

 Cut Flowers is as safe as the 

 growing of them." 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



"Principal location in the market" 

 174 N. Wabash Ave. 



CHICAGO 



with its general tariff policy and that 

 the arguments w^hich the growers might 

 use effectively to gain their point were 

 numerous. Peter Pearson confirmed 



Mr. Windier 's statements regarding 

 the unprofitableness of bulbous stock 

 and announced his own determination 

 to largely reduce his plantings another 



