NOVBMBBB 3, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



71 



le^eqpfr UcIivci yHBepeHPSHae 



The floriats whose cards appear on the pages carrying this head, are prepared to fill orders 

 ""-— from other florists for local delivery on the usual basis. 



BRIDGEPORT ^ 



CONNECTICUT i 

 Certainly! 



John Reck & bon 



F. T. D. Member 



terrible world war, a great colonel, of 

 the Walter Keed hospital, told me that 

 flowers did more good at that great hos- 

 pital than any doctor of medicine could 

 ever hope to do and that he could not 

 run a hospital without flowers. He 

 asked me if I could not help him se- 

 cure flowers and plants for each of the 

 twenty-seven different wards. In less 

 than twenty-four hours I had a plant 

 placed in each ward and many suitable 

 plants in the assembly hall, where all 

 the patients congregated. The effect 

 was instantaneous and amazing. It was 

 noticed that patients who were in the 

 depths of despair visibly brightened; 

 that the shell-shocked victims, who had 

 no bodily injury but that most pathetic 

 of all, a mental unbalance, felt the in- 

 fluence of the flowers as soon as their 

 eyes rested upon them; that many pa- 

 tients, who had not been able to hear 

 music, to read, or to take pleasure in 

 any recreation, found, in the flowers 

 themselves, a happiness and a restful- 

 ness they had been unable to meet any- 

 where else. Doctors, nurses and patients 

 all sent expressions of gratitude to us. 

 The idea spread like wildfire in those 

 dark days of melancholy. Many camps 

 throughout the United States, hearing 

 of the amazing effect upon the patients, 

 asked for flowers and, whenever asked 

 for, I am informed the florists were 

 quick to respond, giving thousands of 

 flowers. Many rose bushes are now 

 beautifying the grounds and buildings 

 of these camps. At Camp Meigs, Wash- 

 iifgton, D. C, three months after the 

 gift of the rose bushes, the soldiers had 

 the most beautiful gardens imaginable, 

 jielping to make the camp life of the 

 hoys more cheerful and raising the 

 morale, as a sense of beauty alwavs ele- 

 vates ideals and principles. 



Essential to the Nation. 



I must not pass by the events of the 

 recent world war without speaking of 

 pn episode which took place in Wash- 

 ington when flowers were about to be 

 classed as non-essentials. The word 

 went out that the allocation of coal 

 Should be made to none of the non- 

 essential industries and immediatelv the 

 government, through its agencies, at- 

 tempted to draw the line between essen- 

 tials and non-essentials. The announce- 

 ment was made that the florists' busi- 

 ness was non-essential. An emphasis 

 n^'^fl^ "Pon this announcement caused 

 the florists throughout the countrv to 

 View the situation with great alarm. 



"S^fdi^^^ 



Members 



of the 



P. T. D. 



Members 



of the 



F. T. D. 



GUDE BROSXa 



FLORISTS 

 i2i4-rST.N.W, 



WASHlNOTON.biJ. 



ORDERS IN OR AROUND 



Washington, D. C. 



MEMBER F. T. D. 



GEO. C. SHAFFER 



900 Fourteenth Street 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Louise Flower Shop 



Connecticut Ave. at N St, N. W. 



Miss Louise W. Daugherty, • • Proprietress 



Phones— Franklin 3579, 3»U, 3a»2 



Member Florists' Telegraph Delivery 



HARTFORD 



CONNECTICUT 



Welch's Flower Shop 



197 Trumbull Street 

 A. W. Welch Mrs. £. M. Welch 



BRISTOL, R. I. 



SAMUEL KINDER & BRO. 



EST. 

 1895 



HARTFORD,- CONN. 



Cieenhouse* 

 Benton Sl 



Ordoi 



Stoics: 

 741 Main St 

 364 Asylum St 



t r. T. ft 

 I (ar aB pwta ai Coainctiml 



Hartford, Conn. 



J. ALBERT BRODRIB 

 Store, 639 Main Street 



Deliveries to New Britain, Meridcn, Middletown, 



Manchester, Rockville, FarminKton, Willimantic 

 Meml>er Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association 



Hartforcl, Conn. 



180 Asylum Street 



Member 

 F. T. D. 



MANCHESTER, N. H. 



H. C. STACHE. 



L. D. Phone 



1261 -R. 



