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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



23 



The Genista and the Italian Potter/ Make a Splendid Combination. 



out delay. Any of them will send an 

 assortment, one or more pieces of each 

 kind, and you are taking no chances if 

 you simply put a limit on the size or 

 price you are to pay. 



Making up the Plants. 



One of the advantages of plant ar- 

 rangements is that stock can be made up 

 in advance; you do not have to put off 

 planting up your baskets and boxes until 

 the last moment, as in the case of cut 

 flowers. You can make up a lot of these 

 arrangements and make sales from this 

 stock, putting away each customer's se- 

 lection, tagged for delivery, or if space 

 IS lacking in the store and more room is 

 available in the work-tooms or under 

 glass, you can use the samples merely 

 for taking orders and can make up the 

 stock specially as the orders are taken. 

 Probably the better way is to set aside 



each customer's actual purchase and re- 

 place it with another article for sale. 



Delivery is Important. 



After you have made all arrangements 

 for stock, for supplies and for the tak- 

 ing and filling of orders, there yet re- 

 mains the essential matter of delivery. 

 Where a week's business is to be deliv- 

 ered in one morning, it does not pay to 

 leave anything to chance. Better plan 

 the delivery just a little more carefully 

 than you plan anything else. 



There is no time where room is so 

 valuable as at a holiday season, and there 

 is no time during a holiday rush when 

 room is so useful as when the hour for 

 delivery is approaching. Set aside a 

 space for the orders which can be de- 

 livered Saturday afternoon, and another 

 for those which must be delivered Easter 

 morning. Then subdivide these spaces 

 into routes. 



Did you ever go into the shipping de- 

 partment of a big express oflScet If you 

 have, you may have noted that partitions 

 have been built, like stalls, or the floor 

 has been marked off in squares, or some 

 other arrangement has been made for a 

 special place to put the packages to go 

 on each train. When train-time comes 

 everybody about the place knows jnst 

 what there is to go on it. If you adopt 

 some similar scheme, each wagon will 

 have everything that it should take, and 

 nothing that some other wagon should 

 have. 



If you have an empty greenhouse, you 

 can divide up the bench space for this 

 purpose. Put a sign on one bench 

 "South," and on another, "North." 

 Make as many such divisions of your ter- 

 ritory as is necessary to handle your 

 business. Then, as each order is put up, 

 it is placed at once in the space set 

 apart for that route, and when all the 



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