. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Max 6. 1015. The Florists'Review 19 provided to absorb this increased stock at paying prices. We will, no doubt, experience other heavy gluts of stock in the market when the weather again turns warm and these large surpluses of stock will have to be moved. The selling of roses and carnations to the department stores at from $5 to $7 per thousand cannot be considered profitable to either the grower or the store man. This method of doing busi- ness at such low prices is, in my esti- mation, harmful to the trade. To sell these flowers at $5 per thousa
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Max 6. 1015. The Florists'Review 19 provided to absorb this increased stock at paying prices. We will, no doubt, experience other heavy gluts of stock in the market when the weather again turns warm and these large surpluses of stock will have to be moved. The selling of roses and carnations to the department stores at from $5 to $7 per thousand cannot be considered profitable to either the grower or the store man. This method of doing busi- ness at such low prices is, in my esti- mation, harmful to the trade. To sell these flowers at $5 per thousand does not pay the cost of handling them, let alone anything for the growing end of the line. One method of coping with these se- vere gluts of flowers during hot weather is for the growers to carefully sort their roses and carnations when being cut, discarding all stock that is weak or short-stemmed, only sending to market the better grades of what is being cut. This will cut off at least twenty-five per cent and will help some to reduce the surplus. Our own firm tried this plan last month and was sur- prised to find our sales averaged a little better on the whole when the cut of stock averaged a higher grade, though less in quantity. It also was easier handling the stock. The writer thinks that an expression of opinion from others in the trade might result in general benefit to us all. C. L. Washburn. CHICAGOAN3 AT CHBISTENING. How Peter Reinberg, with his gilded shovel, removed the last dirt from the concrete road at Niles, and how Miss Virginia Poehlmann splashed the bottle of champagne on the road, on her Rus- sian boots and on the surrounding spec- tators, is graphically shown in the ac- companying illustrations. The occasion was the dedication of the new concrete road at Niles, which Miss Poehlmann christened Milwaukee avenue, April 22. Mr. Reinberg performed his task as part of the pleasures of the president of the county board; Miss Poehlmann acted as daughter of the
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