. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 68 The Florists^ Review May 2S, 1922 r-'l-'^^^^ ALL ABOUT MOTHERS' DAY I sgsgsgsasasESgsBsgsasgsgsgsgsgsgsHSEsasasHsasEsgsgsaszsHSEsssEsasgsHsasgsgsasasasgsgsEss^^ SAVING MOTHERS' DAY. Cutting the Carnation Demand. So much has been said regarding the prices of flowers for Mothers' day and regarding the use of the carnatiou for that day that I desire to say something that might help us hold on to Mothers' day as one of the big flower days, since it is feared that the profiteering that is going on in different sections
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 68 The Florists^ Review May 2S, 1922 r-'l-'^^^^ ALL ABOUT MOTHERS' DAY I sgsgsgsasasESgsBsgsasgsgsgsgsgsgsHSEsasasHsasEsgsgsaszsHSEsssEsasgsHsasgsgsasasasgsgsEss^^ SAVING MOTHERS' DAY. Cutting the Carnation Demand. So much has been said regarding the prices of flowers for Mothers' day and regarding the use of the carnatiou for that day that I desire to say something that might help us hold on to Mothers' day as one of the big flower days, since it is feared that the profiteering that is going on in different sections of the country will eventually have the effect of killing this occasion, first iu one sec- tion, then in another, until after a while it will eventually reach this state. As my firm, the Idle Hour Nurseries, grows flowers, I know that we are not put to any extra expense, as we are at Christmas time, to get up a stock that will meet the demand for Mothers' day. We know it does not cost us one cent more to grow a flower that sells for 15 cents the week before and the week after Mothers' day. Then, where do we get the right to run the price up in the night and advertise to the world at large that we are a set of robbers? Gladioli Did It. Last year we sold for Mothers' day about a thousand gladioli at $3 per dozen. This year we decided we should campaign against the use of the carna- tion as the only flower suitable for Mothers' day; so we cut the price of gladioli to $ per dozen, which Is the price we have been charging for carnations, and we disposed of over 10,000 of them. In addition, we pushed plants for all we were worth, and our efforts along that line were most suc- cessful. Carnations were sold at the holiday for $ per dozen, which was the jirice asked the week before and ttie week after Mothers' day. What carna- tions we had left, after picking them over, we relieved of stems and put on our counter in the store Sunday morn- ing along with other short-stemmed flowe
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