. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 398 The American Florist. Sept /^, nized i>y growers, although some of them still send all kinds to the whole- salers and expect the same results as the man who sends good stock. It is often said by retailers that the price of flowers is so much higher than it used to be, but do they take into con- sideration that the quality is just as much better? A wholesaler cannot sell the fine long-stemmed stock of today at the price of lO years ago for short- stemmed stock and please his growers. In this connection I wan
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 398 The American Florist. Sept /^, nized i>y growers, although some of them still send all kinds to the whole- salers and expect the same results as the man who sends good stock. It is often said by retailers that the price of flowers is so much higher than it used to be, but do they take into con- sideration that the quality is just as much better? A wholesaler cannot sell the fine long-stemmed stock of today at the price of lO years ago for short- stemmed stock and please his growers. In this connection I want to say that the wholesaler is accused unjustly many times of raising prices unnecessarily; do his accusers ever stop to think that the law of supply and demand does more to control prices than any wholesaler or combination of wholesalers? One trouble with a great many of the whole-. Fig. 1 —Blighted Chrysanthemum Leaf. saler's civstomers is that they want to be both buyer and seller. I might also sav a word in this connection about the retailer who takes advantage of a fall- ing market by not dropping his prices, but that would not be pertinent to the subject perhaps. I said, in speaking of the growers, that a wholesaler could not do business unless he has the stock to do it with, nor could he do business if he had no customers to w-hom to sell. I do not believe the retailers are using the whole- saler to the same advantage in our city as is done in some other big cities. The wholesaler has a large stock of flowers on hand usually early in the morning. Now, it seems to me, if the retailers were to come or send their buyer to market, they would do much better for themselves than by ordering some of this or some of that, several times dur- ing the da\'. Think of the variety he would have to select from. And then, too, he would oftentimes be able to pick uo lots of certain stock at better figures than if he bought only a small quantity. The wholesaler, in selling a big quan- t
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