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August 23, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



849 



Two games were rolled, total pins to 



count. Following are the totals: 



l8t— Mrs. F. C. Weber 3J6 



2nd— Mr«. P. J. Hauswlrth 272 



3rd— Mrs. G. K. Scott 270 



4th— Mrs. Theo. MlUer 264 



5th— Mrs. C. W. McKeUar 256 



6th— Mrs. L. Kill :....243 



7th— Mrs. F. H. Melnbardt ..242 



8th— Mrs. Geo. Asmus 233 



9th— Mre. Whitman 220 



10th— Mrs. Relmels 220 



11th— Mrs. C. E. Crltchell ; 210 



12th— Mies T. Melnhardt 200 



Mrs. Herr 198 



Mrs. Kreltllng 196 



Mrs. E. Wlnterson 195 



Mrs. Enggren 190 



Mrs. Breltmeyer 179 



Mrs. Donaldson 173 



Mrs. Kastlng 159 



Mrs. RasmuBsen 158 



Mrs. L. Vaugban 157 



Mrs. Beatty 154 



Mrs. O'BrleB 151 



Mrs. M. Melnhardt 149 



Mrs. WlUlus 146 



Mrs. Krueger 134 



Mrs. L. Wtnterson 131 



Mrs. Pollworth 121 



Individual Bowliog. 



In the individual fontest but two 

 games were rolled, total pins to count. 

 There were five prizes and these went 

 to those making the five highest scores 

 in the list below: 



1st 2d T'l 



J. J. Beneke 168 202 370 



J. R. Stevens 191 169 360 



W. Mansfield 155 179 334 



T. H. Holton 162 155 317 



C. C. Pollworth 136 178 314 



A. Rasmussen 138 172 310 



W. Bllllngsley 160 149 309 



J. W. Rodgers 124 175 299 



P. J. Hauswlrth 134 152 286 



C. A. Kuehn 150 134 284 



L. Kirch 117 165 282 



A. Currie 139 142 281 



John Zech 146 132 278 



L. H. Wlnterson VII 141 268 



L. Henderson 129 139 268 



C. W. McKellar 126 135 261 



A. Banmer 112 145 257 



C. E. Crltchell 127 125 252 



J. J. Fuchs 131 118 249 



J. A. Shaw 118 126 244 



G . A. Kuhl 94 145 239 



A. F. Longreii 125 106 2.31 



F. Jacobs 102 101 203 



HAIL ASSOQATION. 



The Florists ' Hail Association held 

 its annual meeting at Dayton, O., on 

 Wednesday, August 22. The report of 

 Secretary John G. Esler showed a total 

 insurance in force equal to protection for 

 25,056,546 square feet of glass. The 

 treasurer 's report showed receipts for 

 the year, $18,744.50 ; expenses, $2,559.65 ; 

 sixty-eight losses paid, $4,612.51 ; re- 

 serve fund, $16,109.92; emergency fund, 

 $12,440.57. The association has now 

 paid 1,019 losses, amounting to $101,000. 



The following directors were elected: 

 Elmer D. Smith, Jos. Heacock, F. E. 

 Dorner. The directors elected officers, 

 as follows: President, E. G. Hill; 

 vice-president, H. H. Bitter; secretary, 

 John G. Esler; treasurer, A. M. Herr. 

 The investment of the reserve fund was 

 left to the oflScers, as a finance commit- 

 tee. A resolution was adopted impos- 

 ing a ten per cent advance on risks on 

 which three losses have been paid in five 

 years. If Secretary Esler lives to June 1 

 he will have served the society for 

 twenty years. 



Decatur, III. — The city park coin 

 missioners have let the contract for a 

 custodian 's residence and new green- 

 house, to be built at Fairmount park at 

 a cost of $2,000. 



New Orleans, La. — The Metairie 

 Ridge Nursery Co. will by the middle of 

 September open a retail store on one of 

 the most prominent streets in the heart 

 of the city. The company is not spar- 

 ing effort to make this the most up-to- 

 date establishment in the city. 



RETAILING CUT FLOWEBS. 



BY W. V. aUDE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



[Read before the Society of American Flo- 

 rists, at Dayton, O., August 22, 1906.] 



Being requested to read a paper and 

 lead a discussion on "Recent Improve- 

 ments in Retailers' Methods of Offering 

 Flowers for Sale," I do so reluctantly. 

 Personally, I should much prefer the dis- 

 cussion to reading a paper. However, I 

 know no better way to open this subject 

 than to give you my own personal experi- 

 ence of the last twenty years in the re- 

 tail florist 's business at the national cap- 

 ital, where we think we have some up-to- 

 date flower stores. 



An Agie of Progress. 



There is probably no business or pro- 

 fession that has seen a greater change 

 in the last decade than the retail flo- 

 rist 's, or has made greater strides. I 

 am sure that no class of men have 

 worked harder or longer hours than the 

 florists. 



Right here I want to say we too often 

 hear the cry, ' ' Things are not as they 

 used to be." This expression is too 

 commonly used by a great many people 

 engaged in the retail florist's business. 

 * ' Things are not as they used to be, ' ' 

 is not true in the sense it is given, while 

 I do not doubt it is absolutely a fact 

 in a great many cases, among the men 

 who make that remark, because they 

 have the same old fogy methods and 

 manner of doing business used years 

 ago. The wide-awake florist, with the 

 proper push, has gone ahead and adopted 

 new and modern methods, with the in- 

 evitable result that he makes more money 

 with less work. The old-timer has been 

 left with his old-fashioned ideas, little 

 or no progress, long hours and small 

 pay, while the progressive man has rea- 



son to thank the powers that be that 

 things are not as they used to be. 



Old Methods versus New. 



Sending flowers in old shoe boxes and 

 hat boxes, delivering funeral designs in 

 a farm wagon, taking a man in his 

 greenhouse togs to a fashionable home 

 to carry plants and decorate, tying 

 bunches with narrow, cheap ribbon, cut 

 swallow-tailed, sending bridal bouquets 

 wrapped in paper, telling a patron the 

 flowers he wants are out-of-date because 

 they ar^ not in stock — these methods 

 have passed away. 



I have been in flower shops whet a 

 customer would leave an order for a 

 wedding, birthday, or funeral, and ex- 

 plicitly state the time he wanted the 

 flowers delivered, and in many cases, to 

 my personal knowledge, the flowers were 

 sent after the occasion was over, so that 

 the sentimental effect was entirely lost, 

 the occasion to use the flowers forever 

 gone. The result invariably is that the 

 next time the customer in question wants 

 to buy flowers he tries some place where 

 he has reason to expect that his pur- 

 chase will be delivered when and where 

 he wants it, and in up-to-date condition. 



"Again, the old-fashioned way of deliv- 

 ering flowers, wrapped in any old piece 

 of paper and delivered by some ragged, 

 dirty messenger, is not conducive to 

 bringing the retail florist's business up 

 to the plane of the modem, up-to-date 

 requirements which it so juBtly deserves. 

 The method of tying flowers ''Ifei tooth- 

 picks with wires without any foliage, 

 which was so popular years ago, has 

 been almost* entirely eliminated, and a 

 more natural system is nowjiemanded by 

 the average buying community. So much 

 for the old methods. 



The present up-to-date method fol- 



Horace M« Frank. 



(Secretary Dayton Florists' Club and Superintendent Trade Exhibition.) 



