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Title: Canadian grocer July-December 1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e the floral display was compre-hensive and excellent in point of qual-ity, it did not seem to be so large asin former years. Chrysanthemiims, theseasonable flower, of course, held theplace of honor by numbers, with rosesand carnations a good second, wnd thevarious other varieties in lesser pro-fusion. One of the most attractive features ofthis department every year is the dis-play of florally-decorated dinner tables. the floral display was the built-up parti-tions between the various sections of theexhibition, which were built up withpalms, ferns and potted plants to makea very effective screen. The rustic ideawas carried out to the full in the ex-hibition, even the cleverly-devised chan-deliers being inverted cedar trees filledwith incandescent lamps, and the stonerailings were cedar limbs fresh fromthe woods. Fine Showing of Apples. From a practical standpoint perhapsthe most valuable feature of the wholeexhibition is the display of apples forexport, packed in boxes and barrels. It
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ONTARIO HORTICULTURAL EXHIBI TION—A View of the Floral Section. most altogether downstairs. The moveto the St. Lawrence Arena has provenitself a successful one, so far as theexhibition was concerned. Here the dis-plays were all on one floor, allowing ofa. much more satisfactory arrangementand giving a much better general cfiect.While the floral display is not vl somuch interest to grocers as the fruit, tothose who have a flower department itwould be of considerable help. Ihe ac-companying engraving gives an excel-lent idea of this department, and also This year the space on an aisle just in-side the doorway, was given up to this,and though the tables were not put intill the middle of the week, they provedvery interesting, and many a housewife,and possibly some grocer-florists, gotsome hints on dainty arrangement. The special sections showing presen-tation baskets, bouquets for special pur-poses and funeral designs, were onlyfairly well represented in numbers,though everything shown

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