. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE v»( -^- ^^llUiu»;;*-*<j||||||||||iiiiumi • ????• ? irff MEMORIAL DAY and i^ THE FLORISTS With Memorial day only forty days after Easter, and with Mothers' day in the interval, this is a record season for the 'irade. And of the three special flower days in less than six weeks, the one now at hand, with many florists, is the most important because it brings the most T is obvious why Memorial day has been slow to de- velop in the south: It had its origin in a gen- eral order of John A. Logan, then commander- in-chief of the G. A. E., is
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE v»( -^- ^^llUiu»;;*-*<j||||||||||iiiiumi • ????• ? irff MEMORIAL DAY and i^ THE FLORISTS With Memorial day only forty days after Easter, and with Mothers' day in the interval, this is a record season for the 'irade. And of the three special flower days in less than six weeks, the one now at hand, with many florists, is the most important because it brings the most T is obvious why Memorial day has been slow to de- velop in the south: It had its origin in a gen- eral order of John A. Logan, then commander- in-chief of the G. A. E., issued May 5, 1868, desig- nating May 30 of that year "for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country in the late rebellion," and expressing the "hope that it will be kept up from year to ; But why should a lead- ing Cleveland florist have said, a week or two ago, *' Memorial day never meant much in my store"? It was significant, though, that he added: "We intend to try to develop ; There are many places, particularly in New England but including large sec- tions of the middle west, where Memo- rial day has become the big day of the florists' year; not so large, perhaps, as Christ- mas and Easter in the money total of sales, but exceeding either of those days in the quantity of stock sold and the num- ber of individual sales. That it is otherwise else- where is due only to the failure of the florists there to take advantage of their opportunity. Everybody's Day. r Of course the flags and stacked muskets still are the window symbols of Memorial day, but if anyone looks upon it as principally an old sol- diers ' observance he must have paid little at- tention to what the pub- lic does that day. In recent years, as the ranks of the veterans thinned, the general pub- lic began to observe the day in the same way, by carrying flowers to the cemeteries. There st
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