. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE CLERKS' PROBLEMS. Some people eomo to buy and some , iiie to look. Some t'ome to look when they tliink ; '.(-y come to buy, and some come to > IV when thev think they come to Some people like to buy flowers them- - Ives, and some i>eople like to have I'.wei's sold to them. Some desii'O immeiliate attention and ;;i away if they don't get it, and some |.refer no attention and <ro away if they .ill iret it. Some will lea\e the store disap- because the salesman d to look o\er the stock unattended. Verily, verily, retailing


. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE CLERKS' PROBLEMS. Some people eomo to buy and some , iiie to look. Some t'ome to look when they tliink ; '.(-y come to buy, and some come to > IV when thev think they come to Some people like to buy flowers them- - Ives, and some i>eople like to have I'.wei's sold to them. Some desii'O immeiliate attention and ;;i away if they don't get it, and some |.refer no attention and <ro away if they .ill iret it. Some will lea\e the store disap- because the salesman d to look o\er the stock unattended. Verily, verily, retailing is not one vuunil of ]deasure. and sizing up the customer is some guesswork. SHO-WERED 'WREATHS. In the discussion which has been go- ing on with regard to the appropriate- ness of certain forms of designs for \aiious uses, it has Ikhmi suggested that it would be better not to use for fu- ni'ials the styles of ariangement em- ]iloyed for other purposes. .Some com- nicnters have suggesti^d that the asso- 'iation of certain flowers with funerals has been disadvantageous to those flow- ers, and they have expressed the fear that employing styles of designing that ate used for social afl'airs will ojierate a^/ainst tludr jiopularity if seen too iMU(di at funerals. However, many who liax'e useil shower effects on funeral 'iesigns have found them increasingly popular. The accompanying illustration is rejiroiluced from a jihotograph of a ^liowcred wreath sent by Mrs. .7. P. Iler/og, (,'adillac. ^lihe (loes not speak of any de- crease in the call for shower boucpiets iiecause of h(>r having showered her iiineral wreaths. THE USE OF AUTUMN FOLIAGE. First Aid to the Decorator. The glories of autumn foliage <an be M'preciated fully only wiien uorivaleil '?y floweis. K'ich and gorgeous they ire as a backgrouml for flowers, but nscious and magnificent as the central ittraction, brought out by a setting of -'reen or developed with as much care IS is given to flowers by a thoughtful les


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