. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. <^ 24 The Florists' Review Apbil 22. 1016. else, and the demand for them is good. Snapdragons and gladioli of superior grade are in fair supply. Although many of the violet jrrowers stopped shipping with the passing of Easter, last week's receipts piled up in most unwelcome fashion. The public preferred sweet peas, according to the retailers, who therefore refused even to make an offer for more than small quantities of violets. Wholesalers had dozens of unopened boxes on hand at closing time April 17, Saturday. Unfortunately, there has been a su
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. <^ 24 The Florists' Review Apbil 22. 1016. else, and the demand for them is good. Snapdragons and gladioli of superior grade are in fair supply. Although many of the violet jrrowers stopped shipping with the passing of Easter, last week's receipts piled up in most unwelcome fashion. The public preferred sweet peas, according to the retailers, who therefore refused even to make an offer for more than small quantities of violets. Wholesalers had dozens of unopened boxes on hand at closing time April 17, Saturday. Unfortunately, there has been a suc- cession of extremely warm days for this time of the year, and this, as a matter of course, forced more stock onto an already crowded market. On the other hand, the supply of potted plants in the hands or the retailers, that did as much as any one thing to kill the demand for cut flowers last week, is practically exhausted. In ad- dition to this, the great numbers of blooming plants sold to the flower buy- ing public have mostly lived their al- lotted life and been thrown out, so that the people are beginning to turn their attention to spring flowers. The effect of this is becoming perceptible to the retailers, who report a gradually increasing demand for corsages and dinner decorations. Thus, demand is slowly feeling its way towards the normal. Wholesalers Expanding. Papers were signed April 20 whereby Kyle & Foerster take the lease of the street floor store in the Atlas block, 160 North Wabash avenue, occupied in part by H. C. Eowe, and at the same time acquire the basement space below formerly occupied by the J. B. Deamud Co. The move is,principally to secure additional space, as it gives about dou- ble the floor area now in use, but it also affords possibly the best location in the wholesale cut flower district as it is today. Kyle & Foerster expect to get into their new quarters about May 15. A number of changes will be neces- sary in the stairways, entrances, et
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