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Rows led nil other cut flow
cis in the .stale in wholesale
value last year, aceoiiliiv; to
the Penns' Iv.mia Ciop R'poll
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The PCRS gave this hienk
down of wholesale tallies of
cut flowers giown in the state
in 1969:
Roses, $6 7 million: carna
tions, 's3 million; standard
chrysanthemums, $1734 mil
lion; pompon mums $1 7 mil
lion, gladioli, $99,000
Pennsylvania, the PCRS said,
was second in the nation in the
production of roses (topped
only by California), third in
carnations and pompon mums
and fourth in standard mums
Groin Supplies Steady
National stocks of the four
feed grains (corn, oats, barley
and sorghum) on April 1, 1970,
totaled 116.5 million tons
slightly more than the 116 0
million tons a year earlier In
creases in oats and barley more
than offset declines in corn and
sorghums, according to the
USDA Crop Reporting Boaid
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British antique dealers tend
to cluster together, more than
do then Amencan counter
paits One of their favorite
methods is to get together as a
group, rent a big empty stoie
room, and divide it up into in
numerable little stalls and
booths open every day. Each
booth is owned and operated in
dependently by a separate deal
er. Though this is done in
America too, we do it mostly on
an occasional basis, renting
booth space at regular weekly
flea markets or irregular, heavi
ly promoted antique shows
Much of the reason for this is
that most British antique deal
ers take their business quite
seriously and are m it as a way
to make a living Perhaps 75%
of the antiques dealers in the
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United States are pait time
dealers deuving their primal y
incomes from other sources
like school teaching, working in
government iobs, practicing a
piofession while the wife oper
ates a little antique shop on the
side porch
With many American anti
quedealeis it is more of a
hobby than a serious business
venture Not so the British, al
most all of the hundreds of an
tique shop owners I know over
there are in the business full
time
In London especially, theie
must be at least Unity of these
cooperative antique marts. And,
though most of the marts open
Monday thiough Saturday from
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. May 9.1970
I examine a stoneware water crock labelled “Atkins
Patent Filter” at the Antique Supermarket on Barrett
Street in London. Looking on are Rita Smith, John Jen
kins and Esmee Kirkland, all dealers at the mart.
10 A M to 6 PM, the indivi
dual stall holdeis tend to come
and go as they wish
“We woik together,” Esmee
Kirkland, who has a stall at the
Antique Supei market, told me
“If I want to go out buying I’ll
lust tell John or Steve Ropei 01
Rita or one of the othei dealers
to tend my booth If they make
a sale while I’m away I pay
them a small percentage com
mission. They do the same if I
tend their booth ”
And that brings up another
point of difference between us
and them, they maik the price
on everything In all the hun
dreds of shops I visited I can’t
lemember ever picking up an
item and finding it unmarked 1
must admit, I liked that
Among the other excellent
and exciting antique marts are
The Chelsea Antique Maiket,
Kings road, The Antique Hy- A repiesentative of the Lan
permarket, veiy fine quality caster City fire department will
antiques on Kensington, High show a movie on fires and speak
Street, The Kensington Market, on statistics and general fire
across the street, a real wild safety
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place mixed up with ciazy hip
py type displays and antiques.
I’d guess about 150 stalls on
two floois, gieat fun and good
foi gifts as well as antiques if
you want something different
to take.back home The London
antique marts aie all musts for
antiquing because they offer a
wide vanety and most things
aie in fine ouginal 01 icstoied
condition
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