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The Florists^ Review 



JuNB 1. 1922 . ' 



LD. PHONES {SrJ^=T,Jl 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS 



30 E. Randolph St., 



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CHICAGO 



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ROSES 



CARNATIONS 



PEONIES 



VALLEY 



PEAS 



and all Flowers in season at Chicago Market Prices 



\)infr (lay. there was a considerable 

 ainouut of sliipjiiii}; May 2!> and the lo- 

 cal buyers eanie into the market in 

 force tiiat day. The city stores liad not 

 placed many order.s in advanc^e, count- 

 ing that the market would, be abun- 

 dantly supplied. Had tliey been seek- 

 intj (juality yjoods their calculations 

 would have been astray, but Memorial 

 day calls for (juantity rather than ipial- 

 ity. The regular city tr;ule was fixed 

 up in good shape May 29. It was pos- 

 sible to meet any buyer's ideas regard- 

 ing reasonable prices. Heavy as the 

 business was, the market was not clean 

 on the evening of May 29 and on the 

 morning of Memorial d.ay the hucksters 

 hail their inning. The flowers they 

 bought would not hav(> been s.atisfac- 

 tory in any first-class flower store, but 

 it represented a considerable (pi.-intity 

 of stock. These buyers practically 

 cleaned the market, but they made their 

 own prices. 



Tlie Course of Expansion. 



That the retail trade in flowers in 

 Chicago is increasing steadily and rather 

 rapidlj' no one doubts, but ask almost 

 any established retailer and he will tell 

 you his sales fluctuate little from year 

 to year. How, then, is the increase 

 made? The answer is found in the 

 large number of new stores that have 

 been 0])ened, not in the downtown cen- 

 ter, but in outlying business sections. 

 During and .pist after the war this 

 growth was arrested and the estab- 

 lished stores profited greatly thereby, 

 but in the last two years the number of 

 new stores opened has exceeded any- 

 thing in the previous history of the 

 tr.nde. Check up on almost any of the 



PEONIES FOR JUNE WEDDINGS 

 AND SCHOOL CLOSINGS 



FINE PEONIES.... $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 per 100 

 SPECIAL FANCY PEONIES $8.00 per 100 



We offer High Gntde Locally Grown Peonies — the result of years of concen- 

 trated effort for a auoerior grade. Ready tc ship in any color or quantity. 



Roses 



Carnations 



Miscellaneous 



CUT FLOWERS 

 and GREENS 



Tonn 



30 East Randolph St., CHICAGO 



L. D. Phone: Central 6284 



newer outlying theater neighborhoods 

 and one or two new flower stores will 

 bo found close by. At the same time 

 that this outlet for flowers has broad- 

 ened so markedly, there has been no 

 important new store opened in the loop. 

 Indeed, the disposition is to leave the 

 loop, where rents are too high to per- I 



CUT FLOWERS 



PEONIES, Pink, White and Red, 

 $4.00 per 100. Cash or C. 0. D. 



CHAS. F. UECKE 



NEW LONDON, WIS. 



