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APBiL 1, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



27 



This Hamper Haft a Hand-Painted Cover. 



money, still those people who really have 

 money enough to purchase Beauties are 

 careful, conservative people (that is why 

 they have money), who think it no dis- 

 grace to inquire into the price of an 

 article. The clerk who waited upon our 

 friend thought him rather reckless and, 

 when the check for more than the cost 

 of the flowers was offered, held his at- 

 tention until detectives arrived, and it 

 took but a little questioning to convince 

 them that something was not right. He 

 was later identified by several other local 

 florists as a recent customer of theirs, 

 and one whom they regretted very much 

 having met. Well! The jury found him 

 guilty as charged. 



Other Ways of Working It. 



It should be the rule in every flower 

 store not to cash checks for any stranger. 

 When the amount of the check is the 

 same as the amount of the purchase, the 

 latter being ordered for later delivery, 

 you run little risk — but don 't give change 

 for checks unless you know the customer. 

 ■It is not enough that you have other or- 

 ders for the same funeral — recently in 

 a California city a prominent citizen 

 Qied and it was surprising how many 



flowers were sent, many from people the 

 family did not know, but whose checks, 

 each calling for a little cash change, sub- 

 sequently came back to the florists, who 

 lost both money and flowers and whose 

 only profit was experience. In an east- 

 ern city a stranger ordered a different 

 kind of flowers, to be sent with his card 

 to the belle of the town — a real live one 

 — no weeps in this at all, nothing but 

 joy — until the checks proved to be just 

 as bad as in the other case. Each one 

 used a little local color, a sort of sugar 

 coating, to make his story easy to swal- 

 low, that is all. 



Never Return Cash Change. 



It is mainly when some cash, even a 

 small sum, is wanted in change, that you 

 must be extremely careful. Men or 

 women who endeavor to earn their living 

 by this means are usually after the cash. 



When you entrap one of these fellows, 

 prosecute him, by all means, even though 

 you may nof like the idea of having to 

 appear in court. If yoij fail to prose- 

 cute these wrong-doers yoli are doing not 

 only yourself but the public at large an 

 injustice. Hugo Schroeter. 



CUT OUT THB QGAHS. 



One of the daily papers at Omaha is 

 trying to interest the retail florists there 

 in the use of its classified columns as a 

 means of reaching the local buyers. To 

 help the florists the following was pub- 

 lished as a display advertisement in an- 

 other part of the paper: 



' ' Flowers — no they 're not expensive. 

 Cut out two or three cigars today and to- 

 morrow put the price of them into flow- 

 ers, take them home, and you will have 

 made the little girl's mother mighty 

 happy. 



It's worth your trouble to look over our want 

 ad page and see what is offered under the 

 heading of 'Florists.' 



A few flowers will let them know that 

 you really do think of them. Try it, or 

 do you think the shock will be too 

 great ? ' ' 



As coming from someone not in the 

 flower business, that's good talk for the 

 florists — wonder what the cigar advertis- 

 ers think of it? 



TirxEDO Park, N. Y. — B. Power, for- 

 merly of Madison, N. J., has taken a po- 

 sition as gardener for Eben Richards, of 

 this place. 



