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THE FLORISTS MANUAL. 



Presentation Basket of Mme. Chatenay Roses 



throughout the land that .would be to 

 rent for some other class of business. 

 It is not likely to go so suddenly out 

 of fashion, but it will change; and the 

 change has already come with many peo 

 ple. A large number of citizens recently 

 banded themselves together in Cleveland 

 and in my city and perhaps others, to 

 protect themselves against The enor 

 mous and extravagant expense of fu 

 nerals, the outlay and display made at 

 the funeral of .the dead often leaving 

 the survivors in hopeless debt. 



Carriages and flowers of course come 

 in for a good part of these worthy peo 

 ple s condemnation. There is no doubt 

 that the expense of many funerals is 

 out of all proportion to the means of the 

 family; it is ridiculous and almost crim 

 inal to see such ostentation, and we 

 often suffer from it. An instance oc 

 curred the other day. Forty dollars 

 worth of flowers were ordered and de 

 livered, and a month or so afterwards 

 the collector was told by the poor widow 

 that, The children had gone too far in 

 ordering,&quot; and added that her husband 

 had led a double life, having a wife in 

 St. Louis as well as here in Buffalo, 

 and instead of having $10,000 life in 

 surance, as she supposed, he had none, 

 and she was penniless. And there are 

 lots of such cases. 



In those times of distress and excite 

 ment people are often careless about 

 expenses. You can t very well ask for 

 payment before the articles are delivered 

 and it s hard-hearted to send an order 

 C. O. D. or to call around the next day 

 with your bill. Looking at it in a busi 

 ness way, without sympathy, when you 

 know the family is quite poor, persuade 

 them that very little is necessary. When 



Table Center-piece of Violets and Roses. 



