. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 30 E. Randolph Street OR Bros. CHICAGO, ILL Price List Subject to change without notice PREMIER Per 100 Special $ Medium Select Short RUSSELL Special Medium Select Short CARNATIONS COLUMBIA, BUTTERFLY Per loo Special $ Medium Select Short SUNBURST Special Medium Select Short ROSES—our selection, $ per 100 Long fancy Ward and Rosette $ per 100 White and Light Pink per 100 ..$ per 1000 .. .50 per bunch .. .50 per bunch CALLAS, $3,00 per doz. | g
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 30 E. Randolph Street OR Bros. CHICAGO, ILL Price List Subject to change without notice PREMIER Per 100 Special $ Medium Select Short RUSSELL Special Medium Select Short CARNATIONS COLUMBIA, BUTTERFLY Per loo Special $ Medium Select Short SUNBURST Special Medium Select Short ROSES—our selection, $ per 100 Long fancy Ward and Rosette $ per 100 White and Light Pink per 100 ..$ per 1000 .. .50 per bunch .. .50 per bunch CALLAS, $3,00 per doz. | greens|iS« ^A^ FLOWERS "at their best" h^ From Grower Direct ^^ ¥fEIUIND-KBCH Cql «r^t. FI0WER CROIVERS CHICAGO corsage bouquets in one taxi. Each cab was accompanied by a delivery boj-. Will They Never Learn? Nearly every wholesale house, it seems, had one or two growers who saved up most of the week's cut of white carnations and sent them to market December 23. It seems remark- able that the same thing happens year after year. Nobody wants white car- nations at Christmas and tliey can be sold at Christmas prices only by making each retailer take a few witli the colorccl ones. When a wholesaler lias principal- ly white, lie is distinctly out of luck, as the buyers go elsewhere and leave them on his hands, to be sold for cheap funeral work after the lioliday. Growers who might have obtained 6 to 8 cents for their white carnations by sending them in as fast as ready to cut, held them till December 23 and only a few could be sold before Christmas; they were sold this week at 2 to 3 cents. But it was the same last Christmas and, no doubt, will be the same next Christmas. Various Notes. There was another increase in tele- graph delivery orders again this Christ- mas. Both in and out, the principal stores handled more of this class of business than ever before, as the public is gradually becoming acquainted with the service. At 11 o'clock December 24 the em- ployees of
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