. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. esors beingactively engaged, with five employes, inthe ruiining of the firm. They occupy commodious quarters at88 Wabash avenue. Bassett & Washburn ?30 per hundred; chrysanthemums, $3to f5 per hundred; callas, 820 to ¥25;carnations, .¥2 to $4, a note calling GraceWilder a fancy anditspricetliereby goingup to $5 perhundred. Chrysanthemumson November 23, 1891, brought Sfl to$3; fancies, .^5 to $10. Mr. Kenuicott has been a member ofthe (hicago Florists Club, the Horticul-tural S
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. esors beingactively engaged, with five employes, inthe ruiining of the firm. They occupy commodious quarters at88 Wabash avenue. Bassett & Washburn ?30 per hundred; chrysanthemums, $3to f5 per hundred; callas, 820 to ¥25;carnations, .¥2 to $4, a note calling GraceWilder a fancy anditspricetliereby goingup to $5 perhundred. Chrysanthemumson November 23, 1891, brought Sfl to$3; fancies, .^5 to $10. Mr. Kenuicott has been a member ofthe (hicago Florists Club, the Horticul-tural Society and the S. A. F. since theirinception. Last year, at the AmericanCarnation Societys meeting in Chicago,many cnrnationists will recollect the in-teresting paper he read, which containedmuch good advice to growers and ship-pers of the divine flower. Edgar Sanders. New York Florists Club, The I-lorists Club met Monday even-ing, December 12. President Plumboccupied the chair, and a large attend-ance was present. Mr. OMaru, for theLegislative Committee, reported prog-ress. He stated that he had secured an. FLINT KENNICOTT. and A. G. Prince & Co., have also theirwholesale places of business in the samebuilding. To use Mr. Kennicotts own words:To get started we had to go aroundwith a basket to the retail men with theflowers we had for sale, depending atfirst on the cut from The Grove; butit was not long before growers began tosend us in their stock on commission, thefirst to do so being C. W. Northrup, ofLaGrange, and Henry Hansen, of RoseHill. In later years when large stocks offlowers have been grown around thiscity, to say nothing of the often big ship-ments from outside sources, the quanti-ties sometimes handed by this firm areenormous. Speaking of numbers, bywhich a shipper is known, the numberstands to-day at 116. It proved quite interesting to gothrough a scrap book kept by Mr. Ken-nicott containing price lists and reportson the conditions of trade. In January,188J, to
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