. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ? " " '" " ?" ?' "' " '"= A paper entitled "Floral Suggestions to Out- of-town Flower Lovers," read at the annual meet- ing of the Nebraska State Florists' Society, at Lincoln, January 19, 1915. can, for we know the handling of flow- ers is not a success when mail sacks are thrown around as they are. We do not guarantee the arrival of flow- ers on time by parcel post, as it is quite uncertain. For these two rea- sons we suggest making shipment by express when possible. Of course, local rural routes
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ? " " '" " ?" ?' "' " '"= A paper entitled "Floral Suggestions to Out- of-town Flower Lovers," read at the annual meet- ing of the Nebraska State Florists' Society, at Lincoln, January 19, 1915. can, for we know the handling of flow- ers is not a success when mail sacks are thrown around as they are. We do not guarantee the arrival of flow- ers on time by parcel post, as it is quite uncertain. For these two rea- sons we suggest making shipment by express when possible. Of course, local rural routes are all right for cut flower shipment, as the mail for these is not sacked. Small Profits in Plants. As to working off the surplus in pot- ted plants during the spring months, we have not paid as much attention to that end of the business of late as we did in former years. We have had con-. Ed. WilUams, the Mao who put the Grand In Grand bland. siderable experience with this line, and think it better if it can bo eliminated. Of course^ we solicit out-of-town shipments of potted plants and have a nice trade in them, but we do not work it as extensively^ as for- merly. In the early days we used to keep two or three teams out from May 1 until the end of June, but the ex- pense is too great to allow a good mar- gin of profit in disposing of them in that manner now. We tried to get an agent for plants in every town in our territory, but it is hard to find the right person. Our agents for cut flowers do not, as a rule, care to deal in plants. We get good results, how- ever, by asking them to refer to us some one who they think would like to handle plants for us. During the last few years we have picked out the leading papers in our territory and placed in them advertise- ments calling attention to our agents and stating that we carry a full line of house and garden plants, on which we should be pleased to submit prices. For this purpose we have printed in pamphlet form a price-list o
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