. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE STANDARD FLOWER POT. [By J. O. WhiUdin.] Rumors of a movement on hand to liave the standard flower pots changed from the present standard shapes adopted at the convention of the So- ciety of American Florists at Boston, Mass., August 21, 1890, have reached the ears of the pottery trade, and their immediate rfeply is, "Standardize the ; Our product was stand- ardized in 1890. Eumor has it that some few retailers object to the pres- ent style of standard rimmed pots and they suggest a return to the smaller rim, similar in de
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. THE STANDARD FLOWER POT. [By J. O. WhiUdin.] Rumors of a movement on hand to liave the standard flower pots changed from the present standard shapes adopted at the convention of the So- ciety of American Florists at Boston, Mass., August 21, 1890, have reached the ears of the pottery trade, and their immediate rfeply is, "Standardize the ; Our product was stand- ardized in 1890. Eumor has it that some few retailers object to the pres- ent style of standard rimmed pots and they suggest a return to the smaller rim, similar in design to the old-style hand-made pots of uncertain dimension, simply because one or more of their cus- tomers may have a pet jardiniere in which they find it hard or impossible to insert a standard rimmed pot with- out the rim showing. The jardiniere makers are continually at work designing and making new pat- terns in regular and odd shapes in lim- ited quantities, which are soon discard- ed, and they seemingly pay little at- tention to the size of the opening in its relation to the depth of the vessel, Avhile a few thoughts directed to that end would clear up at once any objec- tion to the use of standard flower pots as made at present. The potteries, to keep up with the newest design of jardi- nieres, would have to be continually (hanging the size and shape of their pots to correspond to the changing de- signs of jardinieres, and there would soon be no use for the standard shapes, as there would be none made. Advantages of Present Standard. To return to the old style would not remove the objections of the retailers, but the same difficulty would occur, as the old-style pot was proportionally thicker at the top and possibly thicker around the rim than the present pot with rim, and would still bind before leaching the bottom of the jardinieres. In olden days, long before the adop- tion of the present standard pots, the pottery salesman would sell pots to one florist for .'j-inc
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