. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. JAMDABT 16, 1910. The Florists' Review 13. House of the Aaemone-flo^irerecl ChrTsanthetnum* Sunshfne^ Grown by the Disbudding Process. good friends on Wabash avenue realize that they cannot agitate this matter too soon. But I am afraid from the replies I have received that it is a ease of "Sufficient unto the day is the evil ; As they have no surplus stock to dispose of at present, they are not making much of an effort to have this state of things rectified. Your freight traffic is just as unsatis- factory as your express service,
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. JAMDABT 16, 1910. The Florists' Review 13. House of the Aaemone-flo^irerecl ChrTsanthetnum* Sunshfne^ Grown by the Disbudding Process. good friends on Wabash avenue realize that they cannot agitate this matter too soon. But I am afraid from the replies I have received that it is a ease of "Sufficient unto the day is the evil ; As they have no surplus stock to dispose of at present, they are not making much of an effort to have this state of things rectified. Your freight traffic is just as unsatis- factory as your express service, since your government took over your rail- roads. I have some cases of Paper Whites and Romans from France that passed New York October 23, and there is still no trace of them, and I do not now expect to receive them. My ship- ment from France the year previous passed through New York in September, 1917, and the delivering company here had the effrontery to offer me one of the cases in April, 1918. As far as I can see, there is only one remedy, namely, to insist on imports coming via England and Montreal, the way my Dutch bulbs arrived. Of course, if you people cannot get your express service made as efficient as it used to be under private ownership, we shall have to do the best we can among our- selves in Canada and cut out buying in the United States altogether. Your telegraph service is just about as bad. Recently we got an F. T. D. order for a funeral offering from Boston, Mass. The telegram was delivered the following day, when the funeral was on its way to the cemetery. And in con- nection with the F. T. D., I would like to say, our American brother florists seem to like to put it over us once in a while, sending local checks in payment of their bills, on which we have to pay exchange, and deducting the prepaid ex- press charges from the accounts, when we ship flowers to outside points for them. These are only small items of 25 cents or perhaps 35 cents or 40 cents, but
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