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The Florists* Rcviev^ 



OCTOBKB 18, 1921 



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The flortef whose cards appear on the pages carrying this head, are prepared to fill o rders 

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PRESIDENT 



BREI I MEYER'S 



ADDRESS 



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program is full of good topics unci 

 food for thought is furnished in plenty 

 by the F. T. D. 



Florists' Thinking Department. 



At times your officers are criticized 

 for not getting up a program long 

 ahead of our annual meeting. Dou't 

 you know that F. T. D. works fast and, 

 if a program were made too far ahead, 

 it would be out of date by the time the 

 meeting is ont Furthermore, are we 

 not all well enough trained by our pro- 

 fession to be prepared and ready to 

 act on the spur of the moment? 



All our topics are of great importance 

 and I could spend a great deal of time 

 on each and every one, but I would 

 rather express myself at the time when 

 these different points are brought up. 



My recommendations of our last 

 year 's meeting will be brought up by the 

 men who have gone into the various 

 problems and will be ready to discuss 

 them on the floor with you. 



In spite of all the hard knocks that 

 business life of this world had to stand 

 for in this last year, as well as in the 

 years during the world war, your organ- 

 ization has weathered every storm with- 

 out any setback. It kept right on going 

 and bettering conditions in our profes- 

 sion, so that we have every reason to 

 be thankful, to appreciate what has 

 been done for us, to have more faith and 

 greater faith in the future than ever 

 before and to learn to take care of 

 things day by day — as they are and 

 not as we like them to be. Learn to be 

 happy and content. Pleasantness, cour- 

 tesy and smiles have sold more flowers 

 than anything else. 



Boards, Staffs, Equipment. 



Many thanks to the cooperation, 

 helpfulness, willingness and wisdom of 

 our board of directors, all of which the 

 board members are ever ready to give 

 to our F. T. D. work! It seems wrong 

 to ever let them get away from our 

 board and I do hope that we shall some 

 day establish a directors' reserve corps, 

 which will enable your president and 

 board of directors to call on any former 

 directors to attend some of our board 

 meetings for wise counsel. 



Being so closely associated and my 

 constant visits at F. T. D. headquarters 

 gives me a chance to dwell just for a 

 moment on the work as it is carried on 

 and a great deal of this work is perhaps 

 never appreciated or really valued by 

 some of our members, but we have there 

 for your service all the files, maps of 

 states, list of florists in the United 

 .States and Canada not yet enlisted in 

 the F. T. D. There are lists of florists 



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GUDE BROS.Ca 



FLORISTS 



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TO OUR BROTHER FLORISTS: 



FLOWERS AND CO-OPERATION 



Let us learn from the flowers the lesson of co-operation. A single 

 flower, growing alone, makes no great show. Many flowers, grow- 

 ing in harmony, will transfigure even a desert. 



Member F. T. D. 



14th and H Su.. N. W. 



Washington, D. C. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Louise Flower Shop 



Connecticut Avo. at N St, N. W. 



Miss Louise W. DaiiRherty, - - Proprietress 



Phones— Franklin 3579, 3841, 3842 



Member Florists' Telegraph Delivery 



in all countries and constant corres- 

 pondence with the florists of the world. 

 Many of you would be amazed and it 

 will not be long when your F. T. D. 

 office will have five or six different de- 



ORDERS IN OR AROUND 



Washington, D. C. 



MEMBER F. T. D. 



GEO. C. SHAFFER 



900 Fourteenth Street 



partments at your constant disposal. 

 Your clearing house records have been 

 of greatest help to many a member. 



Your Canadian Check Exchange has 

 become valuable and has cemented the 



