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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_39_1 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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How an Ohio Florist Pulled the Heart Strings. in contact with the cold glass. As the flower store has an unusually moist at- mosphere, its windows are the more lia- ble to be coated with frost, particularly in the coldest weather. Layer after layer of moisture freezes to the pane, so that the lower part sometimes becomes covered with ice on the days when the mercury is registering its minimum for the year. These are just the days when the flo- rist is most desirous of making an at- tractive display, to suggest to those who may see it that they brighten up their homes with flowers and plants. He can afford the least of all storemen to have his windows obscured at this season. Heat in the front of the store does little or no good. In the old days, the burning of gas-jets in the window cleared only a circle within a few inches of the flame. Closed-in Windows. If one could construct a double window it would solve the diflicul- ty. This is formed of two panes of glass, with an air chamber of about one-half inch in thick- ness between—similar in design to the doors of florists' refrigerators. These are said to be ab- solutely frost-proof, but they are expensive if one has large window space. They are, also, bound to become dirty in time, oven if they are as air- tight as can be made. It seems that the closed- in window, that is, the one with the display space shut off by a parti- tion from the rest of the store, is the one that is most easily frosted. The reason for this is obvi- ous. Watering of plants, the presence of vases filled with water, etc., make the atmosphere in the window more moist than that in any other part of the store. If this moisture-laden air is shut off from the rest of the store, steam and frost will surely form on the glass whenever it is much colder than the air.

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