. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ",*??«"'',' v.'f"It' !'^"T'^T "^ • ?• Tri*'",' y. ?«. Ma¥ 4, 1922 The Florists' Review. Bronze Dahlias Were Used on Pews and Blue Larkspurs Between Distant Flowers, for Wedding. and laymen, flowers are and always will be an inspiration. Hitch to a Star. In closing, I remember a little incident from my childhood. I was only a little tot, when late one afternoon I wandered away. An old man, who was my first teacher, found me a mile distant from the house, in the fields. He asked me, "Where did you think of go
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ",*??«"'',' v.'f"It' !'^"T'^T "^ • ?• Tri*'",' y. ?«. Ma¥ 4, 1922 The Florists' Review. Bronze Dahlias Were Used on Pews and Blue Larkspurs Between Distant Flowers, for Wedding. and laymen, flowers are and always will be an inspiration. Hitch to a Star. In closing, I remember a little incident from my childhood. I was only a little tot, when late one afternoon I wandered away. An old man, who was my first teacher, found me a mile distant from the house, in the fields. He asked me, "Where did you think of going?" And I showed him a big red ball, the de- scending sun, on the horizon. He said, '' That's right. Always try to catch up with the sun, and never give ; I cannot help comparing that admonition with our object. The farther we go in our work, the higher our aims in our art, the greater our accomplishments. The more effort we florists make, the more art, the more knowledge we put in our work, that much more beauty, more har- mony and more love it will mean to the world. COAL FREIGHT MAY GO DOWN. The freight on the florist's coal next season will be lower than it was this year if an expected decision is handed down by the interstate commerce com- mission. The rate reductions are ex- pected to include a ten per cent cut in the freight rate on coal, the continua- tion as a permanent feature of the ten per cent cut made in the rate of agri- cultural products and a similar reduc- tion in rates on certain building ma- terials. The cut in coal rates will save con- sumers approximately $110,000,000, ac- cording to estimates made by operating officials figuring up on an annual move- ment of about 450,000,000 tons of coal in the United States. The saving will average about 25 cents per ton. The voluntary reduction in rates on agri- cultural products made by the railroads last December is expected to be con- tiBacd despite possible objections from carriers in the nort
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