. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. no man can tell. A few fortunate flo- rists have been able to run their places exactly as usual, but the majority have suf- fered more or less, prin- cipally because of labor shortage, although se- vere weather last win- ter, fuel restriction or- ders by the government, the cessation of plant im- ports, transportation dif- ficulties and the high cost of many necessary supplies all have influenced the production of stock for Christmas. On the whole it does not seem that production has been reduced so much as demand has increased. There was a tempora
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. no man can tell. A few fortunate flo- rists have been able to run their places exactly as usual, but the majority have suf- fered more or less, prin- cipally because of labor shortage, although se- vere weather last win- ter, fuel restriction or- ders by the government, the cessation of plant im- ports, transportation dif- ficulties and the high cost of many necessary supplies all have influenced the production of stock for Christmas. On the whole it does not seem that production has been reduced so much as demand has increased. There was a temporary shortage of stock last win- ter, but as soon as milder weather camQ market conditions returned to some- ing approximating normal. There was enough stock to meet the needs of a summer business in many places rather better than usual and autumn was marked by no uncommon circumstance until the wave of influenza brought a rush of funeral work which swept the country bare of flowers. Since then everything has been selling clean and there has been a call for more. Peace brought a boom and Thanksgiving a v 0 1 u m e of sales seem- ingly limit- ed only by the possibil- ity of get- ting flowers and not at all affected by the rising prices, while the whole- sale markets continued to stiffen and advance as chrysanthe - mums went out and early Christmas buy- ers made their appearance. The production of Christmas plants never has equalled the trade's ability to sell them, but it has been large enough in recent years to affect the value of cut flowers, the prices of which, at wholesale, are governed absolutely by the ages old law of supply and de- mand. This year, however, flowering plants are, if anything, less plentiful than cut flowers and they exercise no influence at all on the values of other articles. Foliage plants also are in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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