HIGH PRICES FOR FLOWERS
DEMAND IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, October 19. Flower pricey have reached a record in Sydney, some varieties selling at more than 500 per cent, higher than be fore the war. 4 The keenest buyers are servicemen, particularly Americans, who, in the company of a girl, cannot resist a flower-shop or stall. It is common to see orchid sprays costing a guinea worn by a young office or factory girl Although they cannot compete with Americans on the same lavish scale, Australian servicemen are also “saying it with flojvers.” Self-conscious but dogged, tough looking “Diggers”,crowd into trams and trains guarding bunches of flowers which they are taking to their girl friends. Some of the wholesale'prices being obtained for flowers are;—sweet peas, 18s to 24s d dozen bunches (normal price. 6s to 9s): snapdragons, £ 1 to £ 1 15s a dozen bunches (normal price. 6s to 9s); poppies, 10s to 15s a 1000 (normal October price. ss). Some retail shops are charging Is a bloom for roses and 5s fora spray .of twa roses and a little fern.. ~ . \
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24092, 30 October 1943, Page 2
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