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The Florists' Review 



July S. 1917. 



FANCY FERNS 



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Imported green and bronze Magnolia Baskets, tl.50; 6 baskets, each 1.26 



Oalax Leaves, green and bronze, per case of 10,000 10.00 



Oreen Leucothoe Sprays, extra fine, per 100, tl.OO; per 1000 7.60 



Oreen Sheet Moss, very fine for basket work, trimming pots, etc., per bag.. 2.00 

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liable lean-to of those days; yet there 

 was plenty of work for each child to do. 



When Hayes Was President. 



In those days the only place where 

 one could dispose of one's product was 

 the markets, and here the stall of Eob- 

 ert Paterson was open throughout the 

 year. After the spring rush with plants, 

 one of the children would go out every 

 market day with the cheaper funeral de- 

 signs, and at Christmas with immor- 

 telles, wreathing and the like. The 

 efforts of the six children, coupled with 

 the practical knowledge of the father, 

 soon began to tell, and in 1878 a store 

 was procured at 221 West Madison 

 street, part of the site of which now is 

 occupied by the present store; and 

 Mary Paterson, now Mrs. Mary John- 

 ston, after a year's training in the 

 store of Kobert J. Halliday, was in- 

 stalled as its manager. She was then 

 16 years of age, and has been at the 

 helm ever since. She has seen the 

 business grow under her careful man- 

 agement from the little store that each 

 day disposed of the output of her fa- 

 ther's greenhouses to what was de- 

 scribed last winter by one of the Sun- 

 day papers as "one of the most fash- 

 ionable and prosperous florists' busi- 

 nesses in the city." The newspaper 

 writer described the phenomenal suc- 

 cess of the business, and ascribed this 

 success to the personality of its pro- 

 prietor — "Everyone isn't born with 

 the clever fingers and the seeing eye, 

 and everyone is not born with the ca- 

 pacity for hard, unremitting labor. ' ' 



"There's a Reason." 



Mary Johnston possesses the "clever 

 fingers and the seeing eye,*^' and there 

 is no one who knows better than the 

 writer that there is not a qualification a 

 florist should possess that is not nat- 

 ural with her. Her business, through 

 its many years of association with some 

 of Baltimore 's best families, has be- 



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Double Gypsophilas, bunch 50c 



Local Carnations l^c to 2c 



Easter Lilies 6c to 8c 



Roses, assorted 3c to 10c 



Ferns. 1000 $2.50 



Asparagus, bunch 50c 



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come an institution on which the cus- 

 tomers depend; that is, if visited by 

 death, Mary Johnston is sent for — no 

 employee will do — and is asked to take 

 charge of everything. 



A thing she is featuring with great 

 success at funerals of old customers, 

 when there are quantities of flowers, is 

 to remove the tributes from the house 

 to the cemetery with her own men and 

 vans, and in this way keep the under- 

 taker from piling them on top of one 

 another. 



Her son, Eobert, has finished his edu- 

 cation, and with his father, W. J. John- 

 ston, looks after the decorating, of 

 which there is much. It is often the lot 



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10 Bales 11.00 



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of Mary Johnston, in the families of 

 some of her older patrons, that her 



