. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ECHOES WINTEB'S FAREWELL. The sketch on this page illustrates just how a good many florists felt when the snow descended Easter morning. H. C. Pfeiflfer, of the Mount Saint Mary's Greenhouses, just opposite that ocmetery in Kansas City, Mo., in send- ing it, facetiously explains, *' This is re- produced from, a photograph taken in the cemetery Easter morning. The boy was attempting to deliver an Easter lily to This was one of over 200 orders we had to place on graves Sun- day morning. The boy quit!" HEBE'S REAL CO-OPERATION. When a co
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ECHOES WINTEB'S FAREWELL. The sketch on this page illustrates just how a good many florists felt when the snow descended Easter morning. H. C. Pfeiflfer, of the Mount Saint Mary's Greenhouses, just opposite that ocmetery in Kansas City, Mo., in send- ing it, facetiously explains, *' This is re- produced from, a photograph taken in the cemetery Easter morning. The boy was attempting to deliver an Easter lily to This was one of over 200 orders we had to place on graves Sun- day morning. The boy quit!" HEBE'S REAL CO-OPERATION. When a cooperative advertisement is placed in the Minneapolis newspapers the cooperation is not only on the part of the florists, as was testified by an article in the Minneapolis Journal, Easter Sunday. Before Easter an ad- vertisement of sixteen inches four col- umns wide was published, using the same copy which the St. Louis florists used in their advertisement reproduced in The Eeview of April 1. On Easter the Journal, on the first page of its city life section, devoted four columns, thir- teen and a half inches long, to a story and a large picture about flowers and the Easter floral display. The article could not have been more pleasing or helpful to the florists had they written it themselves. Th^ illustration, which occupied al- most three-quarters of the space, was of a corner of a florist's shop, showing many offerings in plants, cut flowers and fancy baskets. The story told of the largest display of flowers that had ever been seen in Minneapolis, of the love of flowers growing from the war and the increased 'Icmand for them, stating that contact ^ith the Fp«nch had taught young America to appreciate flowers. Miss €ocile James, a saleslady in one of the stores, told how prospective flower buy- ers were treated on their entrance into ? he store and how they were helped in ?hoir choice. The article said the in- 'Tpasod popularity of flowers would •'ffect the life of the nati
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