. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ( »( lolii;!! '_'0, lltL'l The Florists'" Review 27 felt w;iH (•X])rossi>(l hy Miss lli'slcr (ictz in licr resolution of tliaiiks iircscntcd ;it the <-losin}i session, wliich was adopted by a risiiif^ vote. « « * CJoiJperat ion is so iriarked in 'J'oronto tliat even a Ijrewiiif^ eoni])any, in a ([iiar tor-i)ajje advertisement while the florists were there, told them of i\n\ (jualities of its alo and stout, headin}j its nies- sajje, "'Say It with Flowers' and do your toastinfi with O'Keefe'; \o, not tho major's. • * * Much ]ni
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ( »( lolii;!! '_'0, lltL'l The Florists'" Review 27 felt w;iH (•X])rossi>(l hy Miss lli'slcr (ictz in licr resolution of tliaiiks iircscntcd ;it the <-losin}i session, wliich was adopted by a risiiif^ vote. « « * CJoiJperat ion is so iriarked in 'J'oronto tliat even a Ijrewiiif^ eoni])any, in a ([iiar tor-i)ajje advertisement while the florists were there, told them of i\n\ (jualities of its alo and stout, headin}j its nies- sajje, "'Say It with Flowers' and do your toastinfi with O'Keefe'; \o, not tho major's. • * * Much ]nil)li hill is the common sum si)ent for a ^ift in an illustration reproduced on paj^c L'l. GRADING CUT FLOWERS. Most Needed for Roses. The committee on standardization and yradinfj of cut flowers stated, in the ic- port jiresented at Toronto by Max Schlinj; in behalf of himself, \Villi;im F. (lUde and Irwin Hertermann, th:it this (]uestioii is mainly one between re- tailer and ji;rower. It has been taken up by the Society of AMieri<l that roses should be scdd to le- tailers, not by names or numbers, but by inches, according to the length of stem. Frt^m their ]ioint of \iew this methoii is of benctif to grower .and ic taller alike. It yicdds a bettei- i-etuni to the growei, and the retailer knows just what he gets for his money. "(tcneral standardization is impr(di .able if not imi)ossibli','' said the report. '•(Chrysanthemums and ilahlias cannot be Cosmos or ;uiy other su(di outdoor tlowcrs cannot be standard ized any more than the reveren<l gentle man in Westchester countx- could st:ind ardize d;ind(dions Im Mothers" da\. Our Main Item. '"The tlowers uiiirh re]ire^ent live |)er cent of the xnlnrne nf llerists' business, as i(jses ilo, .•:in lie standaiil ized, and not onl\- the grower ;ind the retailer, but also the jniblic, |profits by it. .Approximately fifty |ier i-ent are in the short gr;(des, thirty per cent medium gr
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