. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OiCN UETTCR^y^ READEn6 WEDDINQ FLOWERS AT Eeferring to the article in last week's issue of The Review, "Bride's Bouquet on Casket," we wish to say that about two years ago we furnished a bride's bouquet of white roses and valley, with shower, two bridesmaids' bouquets of pink roses and also a large plateau basket of pinic roses such as would have been used for the table center for a wedding breakfast. This was for the funeral of a girl who was soon to have been married. The pros- pective husband insisted on using the same flower
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OiCN UETTCR^y^ READEn6 WEDDINQ FLOWERS AT Eeferring to the article in last week's issue of The Review, "Bride's Bouquet on Casket," we wish to say that about two years ago we furnished a bride's bouquet of white roses and valley, with shower, two bridesmaids' bouquets of pink roses and also a large plateau basket of pinic roses such as would have been used for the table center for a wedding breakfast. This was for the funeral of a girl who was soon to have been married. The pros- pective husband insisted on using the same flowers as would have been used at the wedding, only four or five days distant. The bride's bouquet was placed at the head of the casket a*nd the maids' bouquets at the foot, while the basket was placed in the center.' H, E. Wilson. PUSH THE ROSE. We have just read the article in The Review for May 13, "Quality Counts Before Price," written by George Rye, of Port Smith, and we might add al- most the same story to his in the past. We, however, placed our orders in such a way that we escaped to a great ex- tent this year the same experience he has evidently had. We realize that there are not enough carnations to fill the Mothers' day demand and so push other flowers, roses especially, and find that the results are more than satisfac- tory. We get better roses than carna- tions and the people will "eat them up" here at $ per dozen. If more florists would do the same thing there would be less complaint about the qual- ity of the carnation stock being poor, and there is just cause for the com- plaint. We had one shipment of 400 flowers bought at top price that upon arrival were not worth the box they were packed in. Fortunately, we di- vided our orders up in 400 lots and scattered them over a number of sources of supply, figuring that in that way the shipments would not all be bad. The result was that while last year we had lots of Mr. Rye's trouble, this year out
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