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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_6 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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TT:^- it ^V JUNE 7, 1900. The Weekly Florists' Review^ 39
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^ Moss Pinks at Egandale, Chicago. mit an ax gonceeled in his pack bock- et, waiding for a chance to soak you ins "Gernick." Nit! Not in a dousand years woult dot haff anyding to do mit de pedder- ment off de blssness. I woult much radder haft dealings mit a man who dit not haff much lofe for me dan one who dit. For den I woult watch him so he couldn't soak me, but when dis broderly lofe bissness goes into effect "pass auf" or you'll get it where de chigen gets de ax. Bissness is biss- ness and lofe is lofe, and when you mix de two togedder you shpoil de soup. No, in my obinion dot hass notings mit it to do, so we must dry to hatch oud some scheme to make dings pedder. De redail florits is a bik fool. H3 i > gondinually hatching out some fo 1 idees to shpoil his bissness. Look at d^ leading redail florits off today. What does he run, a flower store or a mil- linery shop? Dere are some florits in Chicago who garry more rippons und odder millinery in stock dan a half dutzend millinery stores put togedder. "Why do dey do dis? Is it nece^si y for a florits to garry a shtock oft rip- pons und odder gew-jaws to peautify a bunch off flowers? Chust dink off it, rippons to make flowers look pedder. Do de milliners figure dat way? No, sir, dey figure on flowers to make rip- pons look nice. What haff we got Asparagus Spren- geri und plumosus, adiantum und odder green shtuff for? Ain'd dey nicer dan rippons on a bunch or a basket when used in gonnection mit a few shmall flowers? Why should we put two dollars' wort off rippon on a bunch of roses when we could put flfty cents' wort of greens und shmall flowers on it und get de same amound off money for it? Maype its broderly lofe off d3 florits for de gustomer, maype not. I dink its foolishness. Use more green shtuff und less millinery. Green shtuff costs less und looks* pedder. Moral: A well bleased gustomer und fewer millinery pills makes a man's ledger look pedder at de end off de month. Und annodder ding wile we are on de subject off de redailer's foolishness. See wat dey are doing now mit dat shtuff called crepe baber. Dere was a time long ago when a florits could sell a jardiniere or two in a year at least. Now "nix kom heraus," as de saying is. A man will puy a blant for a dol- lar or two und instead off selling h!m a jardiniere for a gouple dollars, de florits drims de pot mit crepe bapsr und odder millinery for nix. More foolishness, und de sooner we shtop it de pedder for us. De florits must be a schemer in order to pe sugsessfull. But for heafen's sake when you hatch out a new scheme, see dat you get de long end off it. We are not in dis bissness for our hoald, nor for lofe off our fellow men. It is well und goot for some beople to preach broderly lofe und odder dings to adwance de flower bissness, but in de end it's de allmighty dollar we are afder und we must dink off somedings dat will pe off penefit to us as well as de gustomer. Well, so long. FRITZ BLUMBNSCHNEIDER. THE WATER HYAQNTH. While in northern ponds the water hyacinth (Eichhornea crassipes) is a valued ornamental aquatic plant, it has become an exceedingly trouble- some weed in the water courses of the south, seriously impeding navigation by completely blockading quiet streams. A bill has now been introduced in congi*ess by a southern member asking for an appropriation for testing means of destroying it. Why not move a few acres to the north? We could use them to advan- tage here. A floating group of the water hyacinth is a most admirable feature of any pond. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. On May 31st, 1900, after all flnancal obligations and other difllculties had been duly satisfied, the old firm of Bertermann Bros. (John and Wm. G.) again took full charge of the business of the Bertermann Floral Co. All cur- •rent accounts therefore will be duly honored by Bertermann Bros. W. PEORIA, ILL„—Work has been be- gun on Mr. J. C. Murray's three new houses. Two will be 25x100 each and one 15x61.

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