. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. IIKKE aio varying ilogrecs of up-to-dateness, just as there may be many degrees in tlie theological idea of perfection. A store in a little outlying town, in the farthest backwoods of Nowhere, might be a lead- er in its own community, a marvel of advancement ami positively up-to-the-minute as judged by local standards and local re- f)uirements; yet it might lie ridiculed as antediluvian in a fashionable, ontcr- jtrising metropolis. And between tlie two extremes, the backwoods store at one end of the scale and the metropoli- tan store at the other e
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. IIKKE aio varying ilogrecs of up-to-dateness, just as there may be many degrees in tlie theological idea of perfection. A store in a little outlying town, in the farthest backwoods of Nowhere, might be a lead- er in its own community, a marvel of advancement ami positively up-to-the-minute as judged by local standards and local re- f)uirements; yet it might lie ridiculed as antediluvian in a fashionable, ontcr- jtrising metropolis. And between tlie two extremes, the backwoods store at one end of the scale and the metropoli- tan store at the other end, there would be nunieroua degrees of up-to-dateness. One of Boston's Best Stores. But the city now under lonsideiation is Boston, the Hub of the T'ni\(^ise. tlic ^Todern Athens. And the store to wliicli attention is invited is the new estab- lishment of Penn the Florist, tlie acme of beauty ami modernity even for Bos- ton. Further argument to demonsti'atc the absolute, un(|nalified frequently in The Eeview and is now partly made ^?isible to the readers by means of illustra- tions. The l^enii stoie woubl not be strii'tly mO(1(M'ii, however, if its r- tioTially 'lelicate, and extremely susc(>pt iide to injury from nncdii- genial atmospheric con ditions. it wouhl be cv pccted that the Peiins would start a kecTi, de- tect i\'e1ii<e searcli for the best in refrigera- tion and wonlil not be satisfied till t h e i ?? search was fully vv- warded. They searclied and llicv seem lo ])0 satisfied. 7f tlic Pt'iins ]ia\ dis co^?cry. Alany of tlie more critical florists, perhaps, think they sec serious defects in the ordinary, old- lasliioned systems of refrigeration. Some of them may consider the time- lionored unsanitary, excessively damp, costly in wear and tear, generally annoying and otherwise unsuitable for their purpose, or they may object to the ammonia fumes of later forms of re- I'rigeratiou, l)ut they may sec no way of escape from present ills without dan- ger of &
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