. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CARNATION MAY. DAY. Raised by E. T. Grave, Richmond, Ind. Rose Pink. THE RETAIL TRADE A CLEAN and well arranged window, with fresh stock well displayed and fre- quently changed, is the best drummer a retailer can have. The Japanese air plant has proved a good seller but the line of talk handed out by some retailers as to its "growing without water," etc., probably deceives only a very few. Designs of fraternal order emblems usually look best when the pattern is of one color and picked out around the edge
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CARNATION MAY. DAY. Raised by E. T. Grave, Richmond, Ind. Rose Pink. THE RETAIL TRADE A CLEAN and well arranged window, with fresh stock well displayed and fre- quently changed, is the best drummer a retailer can have. The Japanese air plant has proved a good seller but the line of talk handed out by some retailers as to its "growing without water," etc., probably deceives only a very few. Designs of fraternal order emblems usually look best when the pattern is of one color and picked out around the edge with another, or white. They are also best shown on easels in a general way. The retailers of Lowell, Mass., are hav- ing a lively time over Sunday closing. We shall probably soon get down to the level of the English borough where a tobacconist, for more years than we care to remember, has come up on Monday, paid his five-shilling fine and laughed in his sleeve at his law-abiding competitors who lose the lucrative Sunday business. Retailers Profit on Cut Flowers. A paper read by O. J. Olson before the Minnesota State Florists' Association at St. Paul. January 19. When I gave Mr. Dysinger the title of the subject which I promised to read tonight, I did so on the spur of the mo- ment, and before I had given it any thought whatever. When I realized what a job I had imposed upon myself, it was too late to change my subject as the notices of our meeting had already been mailed, but having put my foot into it, I will try to give my views of the matter as fully as I can. The retailer's profit in flowers does not convey what I really had in mind to say. What the re- tailer's legitimate profit ought to be, was have bloomed with me the first year from seed sown in the greenhouse late in January pricked off into boxes and trans- planted to nursery rows or beds: C. Carpatica, C. crospitosa, C. rhomboidea and C. elegante; Dianthus plumosus and D. Scoticus have bloomed sparingly and some of
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