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The Florists^ Review 



Jhn* 1. 1922 



You Will Gain by Sending all Orders to 



ZECH & MANN 



Wholesale Cut Flowers 



30 East Randolph Street 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



We offer you plenty of 



Cut Flow^ers 



in all varieties 



At Market Prices 



If there still is a train that will reach you in time, phone us 

 your order and we will rush your order off. Call Central 3283 



Specially Strong on Roses, Carnations, Peonies, 



Valley, Daisies, Greens 



OUR FLOWERS ARE SECOND TO NONE 



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fields considerably exceeds the cost of 

 the coal and the reduction of ten per 

 cent in freight will make quite a mate- 

 rial saving for many of the local grow- 

 ers. Tlie ])resent freight rate from the 

 West Virginia fields to Chicago is $3.58 

 per ton. After July 1 there will be a 

 saving of 3').S cents. The present 

 freight rate from the southern Illinois 

 fields is $2.17 per ton. After July 1 

 there will be a reduction of 21.7 cents. 

 The freight rate from Sullivan county, 

 Indiana, at present is $1.88 per ton. 

 From the western Kentucky fields it is 

 $2.40 per ton and from the eastern Ken- 

 tucky district it is $3.43 per ton. 



The coal trade is beginning to urge 

 the purchase and immediate delivery of 

 fuel for next autumn, basing the rec- 

 ommendation on the improbability of 

 an early settlement of the miners' 



strike. Not many ' florists, however, 

 take these, recommendations seriously, 

 lielieving they are prompted by the 

 considerable stocks now in dealers' 

 hands and by the present extremely 

 slow movement. Most florists have 

 enough coal on hand to carry them 

 some distance into the nutunin. 



The Fair Price List. 



The city's high cost of living "ex- 

 pert," whose chief occupation seems to 

 be to depress the business of small re- 

 tail stores, issued a "fair price list" 

 of flowers for Memorial day, hjs first 

 undertaking along this line having been 

 for Mothers' day. He gave the retail 

 florists a little better chance this time 

 than he did before. The price list pub- 

 lished in the daily papers was as fol- 

 lows: 



Mi'iiilxTs of tlio Allied Klurists' Association 

 liavi' aerci'd to tho followint; price acliediilea foi- 

 ytay 2St and 30, Mr. Pool<» said: IVonies, $1 to 

 Ji; a dozpn, dopcndiriK on size; carnations, 75 

 cents to $1.50 a dozen: sweet peas, 50 cents to 

 7.") cents for a Inincli of twenty five lilooms: 

 daisies, 40 cents to M cents j dozen; rosi's. $1.50 

 to $i; a dozen; lilies of <}>•■ v;illey. *1 to $l!75 

 a dozen. 



Fair prices for rx't'ed i>lanis are ^jiven ;is fol- 

 lows: {;eraniiims. 15 to 2."> •ents for .l-inch to 

 I inch plants: licRonias, 1.". to 20 cents for plants 

 of I lie same size: French hyilranKeas, 50 cents to 

 .*J, (lependinc on the size of plants and blooms. 



Various Notes. 



There is one order in town for Sat- 

 urday, June 3, calling for 30,000 carna- 

 tions. 



The A. L. Eandall Co. has completed 

 the purchase of a 7-acre tract along" 

 the St. Paul tracks about a mile north 

 of the well known Lyon & Healy fac- 

 tory and a half-mile north of the new 



