. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. *9'3- The Amer/can Flok/s t. 883 gregate, are large coal consumers, ;,n,l to have our expenses tor freight reduced is only proper economy. The same way with the express companies. \\, are continually overcharged on those lines. The redress can led through by the S. A. V. for us some ago against the express com- panies was a short-lived victory, as the express companies, inside of a pear, were, In must places, back to their old rates, or nearly so, as the s. A. F. did 11? >t have the necessary means t" foll
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. *9'3- The Amer/can Flok/s t. 883 gregate, are large coal consumers, ;,n,l to have our expenses tor freight reduced is only proper economy. The same way with the express companies. \\, are continually overcharged on those lines. The redress can led through by the S. A. V. for us some ago against the express com- panies was a short-lived victory, as the express companies, inside of a pear, were, In must places, back to their old rates, or nearly so, as the s. A. F. did 11? >t have the necessary means t" follow up our success against them. told us here oi \ enlng I ha I « e are ail iu the same boat, and he is right, Or, iu other words, we have all the same Interest floriculture is our boat ii doesn't matter If a cui flower or a plant grower, retailer or c Ission man, our aim Is to advance this boat with as little friction or damage as possible, as bj iliis time it has grown in very large proportions; In fact, so large are its proportions that it is often rubbing Its sides or running into the mud. We are today In the same fix with our boat, Floriculture, as the lirsi great steamboat was. the Great. DAIRYING HELPS FLORICULTURE. Cowshed at Joseph Heacock's Farm. Roelofs, Pa. The daily press goes on unchallenged when it comes out and tells the Bower-buying public that prices for Easter, or other holidays, on roses and other (lowers, are going to be very high, and that only millionaires can afford them. Such nonsense. There is where a press bureau should take hold. Or, the agitation against flow- ers at funerals. You all know that our business is hurt by such wrong statements, and our central press bureau would be the best and the only place to fight against it. The education when and how to use dow- n's is a problem for this bureau. Skill- fully written articles, such as have - .11 appearing in some of the Phila- delphia papers, will educate the pub- lic and make them ashamed to wear
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