. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. mmmm Ct\iceLqo '•LSr»;««176 liMiclx^aA Ave. 'Gladioli, Roses and Carnations also all other Cut Flowers in season at extremely reasonable prices. Give us your order. All *- Colors \»»Titlnn Th* R»t1»w wh^n Tnn wr1t# had enough so that they were able to fill all their own orders and still have considerable quantities to sell to other M'holesalers. Ou the whole, the quality of the stock was fair. The bulk of the carnations were solil at $40 and $50 per thousand, but there were a good many tickets written at $6 per hundred. Of roses there was an abunda
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. mmmm Ct\iceLqo '•LSr»;««176 liMiclx^aA Ave. 'Gladioli, Roses and Carnations also all other Cut Flowers in season at extremely reasonable prices. Give us your order. All *- Colors \»»Titlnn Th* R»t1»w wh^n Tnn wr1t# had enough so that they were able to fill all their own orders and still have considerable quantities to sell to other M'holesalers. Ou the whole, the quality of the stock was fair. The bulk of the carnations were solil at $40 and $50 per thousand, but there were a good many tickets written at $6 per hundred. Of roses there was an abundance in the shorter lengths, but a scarcity of the long, fancy grade. Also, Killarney was much more plentiful than White Killarney, as the growers last spring cut down on tlieir plantings of white roses. Early in the week the color of Killarney was decidedly off, but by Saturday it had become quite good. Killarney Queen was the best pink rose, decidedly. Sunburst brought more money, length for length, than any other rose, though Milady sold excel- lently. Mrs. Russell, Rhea Reid, Hill- ingdon and Shawyer are not offered in quantity and cleared well. "Ward was in demand for corsage work and Rich- mond, which was in good crop with one or two growers, moved better than had been expected. Beauties were not a large factor. Two or three houses had moderate supplies of good quality and did a nice business because others either were not in crop or still are cutting poor quality. As often happens, the Easter lily • situation turned out the reverse of what had been expected. Wholesalers had anticipated too many short lilies, and pushed them, with the result that the stock offered April If averaged fair length. There was enough. Some houses were short, but they could buy, and prices at the close were reasonable, for Saturday afternoon one grower was telephoning wholesalers offering them any part of 25,000 lilies still in the greenhouses, stating that his regular wholesaler
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