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The Florists'' Review 



Februauy 2, 1922 



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

 "*""■" from other florists for local delivery on the usual basis. 



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City 



Let your orders 

 go to an up-to-date 

 establishment where 

 modern facilities 

 insure excellent 

 service, and whose 

 prestige is a guarsm- 

 tee of quality and 

 complete satisfac- 

 tion. 



Member 

 F. T. D. 



Eleventh and McGee Streets 



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Frank C. Baker, of 0. F. Raker & 

 Son, rtiia, X. Y., had just rt'turncil 

 from attciuliiip; tlic carnation meeting; 

 at Hartford, Conn., wliithcr he w.as ac- 

 coniitanifd liy Iiis son, Charles, who also 

 f;ik('H an a(ti\(' intfrcst in the Imsincss. 

 ''Wiiat impressed nie most,'' observed 

 Mr. Maker, ''was tiie \niity of |iiir|iose, 

 the determination to carry tlie whole 

 thiiifj out successfully. It was done. 

 From an exhibitor's standjioint the 

 moetinf; was most broad; for instance, 

 A. .T.'iblonsky, of Olivette, Mo., won 

 purcdy on merit. 11 is exhibit was su- 

 jierb ;nid, as the show w.'is lield in the 

 stronfiludd of the c;irnation, this siiifile 

 instance speaks volumes. It w;is the 

 l)est meetiiijj I hav<' ever .attended. "' 

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T'lioiie rin^s. '•Hello, Barney, what 

 does the thermometer re<iister out at 

 Lancaster.'" "Ten degrees below 

 zero," replies Barnev Mvers to W. .1. 

 Palmer, of W. J. Palilier & Son, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. "Guess I'll st;iy in town," said 

 Mr. Pahncr. This is the first time this 

 winter that Mr. Palmer li;id missed com- 

 infj out and, as lie is a worker, the force 

 missed him. Tlie pretty saintpaulia is 

 a good seJler, one of the few re.ally 

 good blue flowering ])l;nits. H\;icinths 



and tulips from prepared bulbs are fine. 

 "They pay us best," said Mr. Myers. 

 He reports that his son, I^eo Myers, is 

 making good at the place of B. F. Mvers, 

 Dansville, X. Y. 



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"Spring, beautiful spring," exclaimed 

 W. A. Adams, of Anderson's Flower 

 Store, Buffalo, X. Y., when putting the 

 finishing touches to a window that fairly 

 beamed on a zero morning and, doubt- 

 less, gave the thousands who daily pas's 

 by a toiudi of the vern.'il. The piece 

 d(^ resistance was ;i window fr;imed 

 in daffodils, the center being full of 

 blooming plants in baskets. 



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"X'othing ventured, nothing gained," 

 observed Dan.-i K. Ilerron, Olean, X. Y., 

 referring to his latest investment. The 

 oil baron was enthroned in his chair in 

 the Masonic temple and related with 

 earnestness and gratitude his escape 

 from wliat might have been a tragic 

 death, and all in the interests of oil. It 

 liappened thus: The oil expert was re- 

 turning to the field in Texas by way of 

 Cleveland in the car and company of 

 Mr. Ilerron. At Erie their Jordan was 

 struck in the rear by a Fr.'inklin and our 

 esteemed friend received the brunt of 



the blow, which, in his own language, 

 nearly sent him "over the river." His 

 escape was miraculous. While listening 

 to the story, we were assured, in confi- 

 dence, that, although the oil game is 

 immen.sely fascinating, the profession of 

 Adam is to be preferred, and it was in- 

 cidentally mentioned that the son, For- 

 rest Herron, is doing splendidly as man- 

 ager of the Ilerron Greenhouses. 



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Manuel Oppenheim, Olean, N. Y., com- 

 menting upon the fine quality of stock 

 noted in the icebox, remarked that "to 

 be a retailer and a stockholder in a 

 wholesale concern did not always work 

 out satisfactorily. ' ' Business up to date 

 has been good. 



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"Were it not for funeral work, there 

 would be little life in the business," 

 observed C. E. Gunton, of Red Rock 

 Rosery, Bradford, Pa., adding that while 

 crops of roses and carnations were a 

 trifle off, there was ample for present 

 needs. 



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"Our jpcople are not educated up to 

 the st.andard of irresistibility or indis- 

 pensability regarding flowers," ob- 

 served William Graham, of Bradford, 

 Pa., referring to the fact of some in- 

 quiries made in our presence and no pur- 

 chases. ' ' You note how price kills sales, 

 and yet we cannot afford to sell for 

 less. " 



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"The fact that we have renewed the 

 lease of our store for ten vears should 

 be evidence of our satisfactory experi- 



