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Deqembkh 19, 1918. 



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THE HOUSE OF MERIT 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



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PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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enee of spirit in our city buyers that 

 past experience fully justifies. These 

 buyers know that they are depended 

 upon to support the market when it is 

 too late to ship plants and cut flowers 

 out of town for a holiday. They have 

 got in the habit of taking chances on 

 getting their stock at the last minute. 

 Now, however, conditions are conpletely 

 changed. There is not enough stock to 

 go around. The late buyer, whether he 

 be in town or out of town, suffers. He 

 stands a poor chance of getting what he 

 wants. It must be said in justice to 

 these buyers that they have shown them- 

 selves to be good sports. Time and 

 again during the last three months these 

 buyers have been caught, but they rare- 

 ly whimper. There is no complaining, 

 no rag-chewing, as the boys say, just a 

 calm, quiet determination to lose no 

 more business where brains and fore- 

 sight will prevent it. 



Hustling. 



One of those delightful stories of suc- 

 cessful business hustling was told at the 

 store of H. Bayersdorfer & Co. last 

 week. Here it is, in Mr. Bayersdorfer 's 

 own words: "We received word that 

 our immortelles were on the water. 

 They had been lying at Marseilles since 

 last July, not a steamer having sailed 

 with general merchandise from that 

 port in six months. We cabled to learn 

 the name of the steamer. We got an 

 answer and also learned that part of 

 the cargo for the Pennsylvania Salt Co. 

 would be discharged at this company's 

 wharf here before the steamer un- 

 loaded the balance of its cargo in New 

 York. Here was our chance. We knew 

 that if the immortelles went around to 

 New York they would reach us too late 

 for Christmas. We made special ar- 



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I We regret that, owing to the scarcity of flowers, it will 



I be impossible for us to supply other than our regular custo- 

 I mers during the holidays. We are sorry we cannot do better, 

 I but conditions will not warrant our accepting new business at 

 I this time, much as we would like to do so. 



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rangements, hired two trucks, had them 

 waiting at the wharf away down on the 

 neck early in the morning of Friday, 

 December 13, and that evening had 

 ninety of the 101 cases of immortelles 

 here in our warehouse. The other eleven 

 cases could not be found. They prob- 

 ably were in the ship's hold and not be- 

 tween hatches, where the ninety, being 

 light, were stored. The government in- 

 spectors went over them the next day. 

 Now they are going out. ' ' 



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No one is better able to forecast the 

 season than John P. Habermehl, of J. J. 

 Habermehl's Sons, who operate three 

 handsome flower shops and a range of 

 glass in this city. Mr. Habermehl, who 

 is in close touch with the business^and 



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social life here, kindly gave his views 

 on coming events in his firm's shop in 

 the BellevOe-Stratford hotel a few days 

 ago. "I think it will be a good season, 

 but I do not think that there will be 

 many large affairs. The charity ball is 

 the only large ball yet ojl our books. 

 You know the girls camiot have the 

 balls just by themselves; the boya m«(|t 

 be home to mftkd them sil<!ee»8litl» tai 

 the boys are nOt home yet. Things are 

 undoubtedly commencing again. The 

 Union League has ordered its Christmas 

 decorations, which were omitted last 

 year. The Manufacturers' Club will 

 resume its monthly entertainments for 

 the wives and daughters of the mem- 

 bers, next month, which were suspended 

 during the war. The decorations for 

 these monthly affairs are not large, but 



