. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. J. , ...^, ,.. V 32 The Florists^ Review •..»?'?• '.: ? '-V. ? ?}'???? • ^ - . ? . .ft - - Apeil 22. 1920 ROSES, CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS AND Home-grown Gardenias JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 160 North Wabash Ave. CHICAGO ssai one or two special kinds of work being done and it is almost useless to cut the price on them; no price is low enough to «ffect a clearance. Bulbous stock is on the wane. There are still some fine Dar- wnn tulips from indoors, but most of the bulbous flowers now are narcissi from the south. Nearly e
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. J. , ...^, ,.. V 32 The Florists^ Review •..»?'?• '.: ? '-V. ? ?}'???? • ^ - . ? . .ft - - Apeil 22. 1920 ROSES, CARNATIONS, SWEET PEAS AND Home-grown Gardenias JOSEPH FOERSTER CO. Wholesale Dealers in Cut Flowers 160 North Wabash Ave. CHICAGO ssai one or two special kinds of work being done and it is almost useless to cut the price on them; no price is low enough to «ffect a clearance. Bulbous stock is on the wane. There are still some fine Dar- wnn tulips from indoors, but most of the bulbous flowers now are narcissi from the south. Nearly everyone wishes they would not come to this market, even the retailers saying they are a detriment to the business under ordi- nary spring conditions. There are moderate supplies of eat- tleyas, valley, freesias, snapdragons, callas, stocks, calendulas, poppies and other miscellaneous items. Asparagus is more plentiful, but adiantum is scarce. While conditions have been bad and are not yet good, anyone who compares the business this month with business in the spring glut last year will find it was much worse then. We have progressed. Growers Meet. The Commercial Flower Growers of Chicago met at the Hotel Kandolph Thursday evening. April 15, with Presi- dent Joseph Kohout in the chair and an attendance clearly affected by the bad weather. An interesting talk was given by Gordon B. Fisher on ' * Artificial Ventila- tion and Its Possible Application to Greenhouse*." To illustrate the com- plexities of the whole question of ven- tilation, he told of various problems which the Hg Electric Ventilating Co., of which he is Chicago sales manager, has been called upon to solve, in con- nection with the warming and cooling, the drying and humidifying, of the air in factories to suit particular industrial requirements. He then suggested that a system of ventilation which would keep the temperature, the humidity and the supply of fresh air under strict control, without letting v
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