158 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



Fig. 53. A WREATH OF HEMLOCK AND PINE CONES. There is always 

 a demand for the unusual. That is why some of your patrons will ap- 

 preciate an arrangement like this around Christmas time 



it be? One can hardly imagine a single instance where flowers 

 in some shape or another would be out of place if tendered as a gift; 

 in fact, if greater efforts were made on the part of the florist to 

 advertise sufficiently, many more could be made to think of and 

 choose flowers in preference to other things. 



In other words, the Christmas business is exactly what you 

 make it. You can have your patrons satisfied with twelve fifteen- 

 cent grocery store wreaths, or you can educate them to demand 

 fewer wreaths but better ones. 



You can handle a lot of plants and sell them as they are with 

 but little profit, considering what they cost you; or you can use 

 these plants in inexpensive baskets with a little ribbon and double 

 your output. You may not be able to sell a lot of so-called everyday 

 stock but if you use taste in basket arrangements and display 

 it properly you will get well paid for it. 



