February 18, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



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over this country men with brains and 

 "executive capacity have been engaged 

 iu the florists' business for years, yet 

 Jiave accumulated but a small propor- 

 tion of the wealth which has gone 

 through their fingers and which might 

 liave been theirs had they been more 

 <'areful of the apparently insignificant 

 things which are going unheeded from 

 day to day in their stores and green- 

 liouses. 



The odds and ends in cut flowers can 

 l)e utilized in many ways, instead of 

 being thrown on the floor and finally 

 into the rubbish box. Carnations, roses, 

 <itc., which are broken by accident in 

 the stock room, should be saved and put 

 Into the refrigerator, for use in design 

 ■ind corsage work by the store force 

 at their earliest convenience. If the 

 stems are carefully and neatly mended 

 there can be no objection^ on the part of 

 the purchaser, for these flowers are not 

 intended to be put into water and nat- 

 urally they would not be expected to 

 bring the same price as perfect flowers. 

 There is a big field here for the in- 

 genious designer in originating designs 

 that will utilize the short-stemmed and 

 broken heads of flowers which frequent- 

 ly are cast aside as waste. 



Special sales can be held, to turn into 

 cash any stock which is not perfectly 

 fresh, but which can be disposed of at 

 a lower price, instead of being charged 

 up to the loss account. 



A Daily Inventory. 



An inventory of stock each evening 

 is a great asset. The manager should 

 look over the orders for the following 

 <lay and then order what is needed from 

 the wholesaler, allowing a reasonable 

 surplus stock for the day's business. It 

 is well, too, to stop ordering the things 

 which do not sell and to increase the 

 supply of goods for which there is a 

 demand, also introducing novelties and 

 the season's varieties as they appear 

 in turn in the wholesale market. 



The flower-buying game has been 

 likened to a gambler's lot; neverthe- 

 less, a conservative and rational buyer 

 is sure to strike a happy medium, which 

 will be profitable. Then, with our 

 wholesale houses within easy access, 

 emergencies can be met and a large sup- 

 ply of almost anything will be availa- 

 ble at short notice. 



To be overgenerous is a pernicious 

 habit. Giving fourteen or fifteen flow- 

 ers to a patron when he is paying for 

 one dozen only may be really generous, 

 but it is decidedly unprofitable. If one 

 is not careful, this habit of giving too 

 much for value received will run into 

 dollars. This is also true of the giving 

 of too large a quantity of asparagus 

 and other greens with flowers. At the 

 end of the month these unprofitable 

 deals will have grown to amazing pro- 

 portions. E. C. A. 



PAPWORTH nOHTS EAILROAD. 



Harry Papworth has been adding to 

 the gaiety of life in New Orleans by 

 the resistance he has made to the efforts 

 of the Orleans-Kenner Electric railway 

 to acquire a right of way through the 

 grounds of the Metairie Ridge Nursery 

 Co., "cutting off my front steps," as 

 Mr. Papworth puts it. Mr. Papworth 

 has resorted to every legal device to 

 block the road, and the various appear- 

 ances in court have attracted a great 

 deal of newspaper attention. It devel- 

 oped that Mr. Papworth, president of 



Standing Wreath of Rosest Lilies and Violets. 



the conij)any, asked $94,334 for the 

 .'iO-foot right of way. In the suit Mr. 

 Papworth itemized his damages thus: 

 Strip of land, $29,334; ornamental 

 trees on it, $30,000; residence, $15,000; 

 depreciation in value to rest of tract, 

 $20,000. Thereupon the attorney for 

 the railroad dug out of the parish 

 records the following figures, which 

 were introduced as evidence: Assess- 

 ment value of the land, $10,000; im- 

 provements, including the residence and 

 trees, $300. 



"Mr. Papworth 's residence," the at- 

 torney said, "was built in 1913. Ac- 

 cording to the terms of the contract 

 with the builder, which is recorded in 

 the mortgage ofiice, the residence cost 

 $4,750 to build. Mr, Papworth asks us 

 to pay $15,000, not ^or the residence, 

 but as damages because we propose to 

 lay tracks about forty feet away 

 from it. He asks $30,000 for the orna- 

 mental trees, though by his own sworn 

 statement to the assessor, the trees and 

 that $15,000 house of his are worth just 

 $300. He asks $29,334 for the one and 



one-third acres the Kenner road seeks 

 to expropriate, or about 100 times the 

 assessed value of the strip." 



The jury, February 4, placed a valua- 

 tion of $300 on the right of way and 

 awarded damages of $450, a total of 

 $750. An appeal was taken. It is sug- 

 gested, however, that one of the pen- 

 alties to be paid for the fun Mr. Pap- 

 worth has had with the railroad will 

 be a boost in his assessment for taxa- 

 tion. 



WREATH OF ROSES AND LHJES. 



One of the handsomest pieces at the 

 recent funeral of Adolph Asch, a promi- 

 nent member of the Indianapolis police 

 force, was that sent by the police de- 

 partment of that city. It was made 

 by C. H. Bookedis, the Claypool Hotnl 

 Florist. The completed piece, which is 

 shown in the illustration on this page, 

 was more than five feet high. The 

 wreath was composed of pink roses, 

 Easter lilies and violets. The base was 

 of American Beauty roses. 



