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The Florists^ Review 



Jdnk 1. 1922 



RANDALL 



WILL HAVE 



A Very Large Supply 



OF ALL KINDS OF 



Flowers for June 



Push the selling — you can depend on 

 Randall for all the flowers you need 



See opposite page for Current Prices 



A. L. Randall Company 



180 N. Wabash Avenue CHICAGO 



CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



ORDER FROM 



St. Louis Wholesale Cut Flower Co. 



1406-1408 Pine Street St. Louis, Missouri 



mit much profit. The small neif^hbor- 

 bood stores figure seven to ten per cent 

 of their sales for rent. They do, most 

 of them, from $10,000 to $2.1,000 per 

 year gross business, with a few doing 

 $30,000 to $50,000, rarely more, and the 

 small capital required to start such a 

 place makes it seem probable that new 

 stores of this kind will be opened as 



rapidly as there is business to support 

 them. An interesting point is that 

 where such a store is opened by a man 

 of experience in the trade, as an em- 

 ployee, success almost always follows, 

 whereas such an undertaking by some- 

 one outside the trade, who expects to 

 hire expert help he needs, rarely proves 

 permanent. Numerous druggists, con- 



fectioners, tobacconists, etc., have found 

 this is a field of no value to those not 

 able and willing to work at it. 



Freight and Coal. 



Chicago growers are pleased with the 

 announcement of a reduction in freight 

 rates. The freight on smokeless coals 

 from the Pocahontas and New River 



