. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. The Sunny Side of Present Day Memorial Days As a kid, did you hate Memorial Day ? Next to the first day of school in the fall, I sure did have a grudge against that day. It seemed so doggone silly to be dolled all up in one's Sun- day clothes, and carrying a bunch of peonies or something or other, gather at the school house and then parade up the dusty streets to the graveyard. As if there weren't Sunday afternoons enough to visit graveyards, without wasting the best part of a perfectly good holiday that a fellow could use to so much better advanta
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. The Sunny Side of Present Day Memorial Days As a kid, did you hate Memorial Day ? Next to the first day of school in the fall, I sure did have a grudge against that day. It seemed so doggone silly to be dolled all up in one's Sun- day clothes, and carrying a bunch of peonies or something or other, gather at the school house and then parade up the dusty streets to the graveyard. As if there weren't Sunday afternoons enough to visit graveyards, without wasting the best part of a perfectly good holiday that a fellow could use to so much better advantage going fishing. Happily for all of us these days—Memorial Day is quite as much in memory of the living as the dead. Which to my notion is quite as it should be. Sending flower messages to gladden the day for the living was about fifty per cent of our business last year. Knowing which fact, doesn't it look as if we florists are asleep, not to do more to increase that end of the business more? Sometimes I think most of us know 'most anything but how to sell more flowers. If only we had a few more Pochelons to poke us in the ribs. we would all be sending twice the F. T. D. orders to each other. Which statement may or may not hold a sugtrestion. Nevfr York's Favorite Flower Shop. Ftfth Avenue at S8th Street ago, when Menelik sent the Crown Prince of Abyssinia to visit Washing- ton. One of his body servants met so many well dressed men with a white carnation in their buttonholes that he also, in passing a flower shop, thought he would wear one. His coat somehow didn't have any buttonhole, but Mr. African was not much in doubt where to put his carnation. He remembered his split ears where he used to wear bangles while at home, and the carna- tion went in. It was too small—not the split in the ear, but the carnation. The florist had to imt in four, so that they would not fall out again. The florist asked $1, which the Abyssinian will- ingly Please note that these images a
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