Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese dish, by the way, is likely to be better than a Western-style choice, judging by the sorry fare offered at places such as the Golden Flower Hotel in Xi'an, the Jinjiang Guest House in Chengdu and the somewhat macabre copy of the Parisian Maxim's in Peking. Even Chinese breakfasts of rice porridge, pickles, pork and dumplings surpass their Western counterparts, although there were excellent room-service breakfasts at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing and the luxurious White Swan Hotel in Canton...
...track, a substantial number of the citizenry can be found impatiently poring over seed catalogs. Nurserymen understand this, and have long since calculated that the darker the day, the more riotous the color of their offerings, the bigger the sale. But it was not until some years ago that flower shows began to move out ahead of the gardening season, nosing their exhibition dates ever closer to the shank of winter. Improvements on the technique of "forcing," or confusing plants into forgetting the clock, hastened the shift in opening dates. Now it is standard procedure to mount a floral production...
...Easter is too fickle for business," Robert Montgomery was saying one morning earlier this year on the floor of the venerable Philadelphia Flower Show. In years gone by, Montgomery explained, Easter struck the public as the proper time to plant, or at least to start thinking about it, and the nurseries went along. Easter proved a vexing starting gun for the nurserymen though -- people like Montgomery -- and it is easy to see why: one year Easter appears in March; another, it slips across the border into April. How, then, do you kick off a seasonal trade when the calendar plays...
...fool not to be in this show," said Montgomery, of Robert W. Montgomery Landscape Nursery, Chester Springs, Pa. "If your advertising budget is just 5%, it should all go into the Philadelphia Flower Show. It's the ringing of the bell in the Philadelphia market. It says spring is here. And it's a fixed date." It was the second week in March...
...people came to smell the roses. Montgomery, whose 13-acre concern has a $4.6 million annual billing, said $900,000 of it comes from contacts made at the flower show. He was one of 53 major exhibitors. Their flora took up six acres under the roof of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Montgomery is as good as anyone at giving a primer on the mercantile side of the matter...