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The Florists^ Review 



Bbptiubib 8. 1921 



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season. Prices average low, but there 

 are asters so good they sell by the 

 dozen, like mums. 



Carnations are more plentiful, but the 

 quality, under the heat, has not been 

 good enough to make them safe to 

 ship. There are a few chrysanthemums, 

 some locally grown and some from Cali- 

 fornia, but the principal sale for them 

 thus far is for show-window purposes. 

 Sweet peas have arrived, but the 

 weather still is too hot for them. 



September has brought a run of wed- 

 dings and the call for valley has been 

 excellent. The supply has been ade- 

 quate. Only a few lilies have been 

 offered and it is not likely there will be 

 many for a good while. Orchids have 

 ceased to be a factor. 



The market was open half of Labot 

 day, some of the houses, indeed, having 

 enough shipping orders to keep them 

 busy until mid-afternoon. 



August Business. 



Taking August by and large, it must 

 be classed as a not bad month. Be- 

 ports, as always, depend on the point 

 of view, but the commission houses, 

 where things average up, say their sales 

 were slightly ahead of those of a year 

 ago. Most of them say they handled 

 considerably more stock to make the 

 same or slightly better total, from which 

 it is deduced that the demand for flow- 

 ers still increases and that an active 

 market may be expected when cool 

 weather comes. Many out-of-town cus- 

 tomers who never did so before are 

 reported as having been buying all sum- 

 mer, in spite of the unusual heat, or 

 perhaps because of it. 



Au£^t Weather. 



The Weather Bureau reports a con- 

 tinuance of abnormally high tempera- 

 tures during August, the twelfth suc- 

 cessive month of unusual warmth. The 

 last week of August was especially hot. 

 The mean temperature was 72.8 degrees, 

 or 1.6 degrees above normal. There 

 was 4.92 inches of well distributed rain- 

 fall, or more than double the normal 

 amount. But there was seventy-one per 

 cent of the possible sunshine, against 

 sixty-nine per cent as the average. 



California - Chrysantliemuins. 



The through refrigerator express has 

 been bringing chrysanthemums from 

 the coast, where the season is about six 

 weeks earlier than at Chicago. The 

 San Francisco growers have built up 

 a big business, shipping large quantities 

 of mums to buyers all over the western 

 half of the continent. They have sent 

 Chicago customers excellent Chrysolora, 

 big, well finished blooms that were 

 cheap at the 20 cents at which they 

 were billed. But the express charged 

 was 16 cents and P. & D. was 2 cents, 

 making the cost $38 per hundred, on a 

 typical shipment. As there always is 

 some waste, the cost is at least as high 

 as similar blooms cost in this market 

 when in season here. 



Collections Need Attention. 



It is the general report among the 

 wholesalers that collections have be- 

 come extremely slow, some of the houses 

 going so far as to say they never were 

 slower than at present. The consensus 

 is that large numbers of retailers have 

 failed to use due caution in extending 

 credit to the public and, now that 

 money is circulating less freely, are 

 without organized collection methods, 

 their capital being tied up in slow ac- 



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