Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_35_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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The Period Style of Flower Store Arrangement as Exemplified in a New Buffalo Shop. storeroom to show to a customer and he had it over his shoulder the way Pat carries iiis hod! and Miss Bellanca, which makes the tout (Misenil)le sound like a triple alliance. FROST ON SHOW WINDOWS. The Review receives frequent re- quests for information how to prevent fiteam and frost from forming on the glass in store windows. If any reader knows some simple, practical means that can be employed by florists, please send it in for publication. THE ART NOUVEAU. The furniture and fixture men have gone clean daft on the "period" craze— we cannot buy a bed to sleep in, much less fit up a store, without having them load us up with a lot of talk about Louis Seize, the Renaissance, and a lot of other "punctuation" stuff. We don't know what they are talking about, but the funny part of it is they usually get away with it and if we don't sleep we work in the surrounding^s of Louis XIV or the Colonial ))eriod. Odd how many Colonial Flower Shops have bloomed the last year or two—it's close to one a week—and most of them are right neat stores, too. Take the one shown in the accompanying illustration —it's Colonial in name and colonial in style, and it certainly looks all right. Everything is in keeping, from the cor- ner posts on the icebox to the hand- made rag rugs on the floor. Anybody entering such a store would expect to pay for art as well as flowers. This Colonial Flower Shop was opened October 10, at the corner of Delaware avenue and Chippewa street, in Buffalo, N. Y. The proprietors are A. Kowaski KNOBLE PREDICTS A BOOM. The Cleveland Press is publishing a series of statements regarding business conditions and prospects by the retail merchants of the city. Second in the series was one from H. P. Knoble, retail florist—"High Pressure" Knoble they translate the initials in Cleveland. This is it: "I predict that business conditions in 1915 will be better than ever before, for many reasons. On the rise of the tide of prosperity every business insti- tution has a tendency to overproduce or overpurchase, until the surplus ac- cumulation is so great that a continu- ation would ultimately spell utter ruin or bankruptcy. When a halt is called, we have what is generally known as hard times or business depressions. These lasting over a period sufficiently long to consume the surplus created, at the ebb of the period of depression business men realize that it is time to wake ujt, resume activities and l)e pre- pared for the orders that are bound to come, from the mere f/ielf, that every- thing has been consumedj*during this stage of inactivity. .;*■ . , "Adding to the nohnial demand, which will come from ^5i'ery source, there will be the influx of trade from the European countries, now busily engaged in deadly warfare. It must also be taken into consideration that many things heretofore imported will, on account of the present law of aeces- sity, be manufactured in thts country. These items collectively would repre- sent an enormous industry individually. ' * Citing only these two reasons, I presume to predict that, starting im- mediately, this country will enter upon an era of prosperity such as it has never known before. I cannot help but feel that these periods of depres- sion and prosperity follow each other naturally, just as night follows day, rest follows labor, vegetation becomes dormant in winter and active in sum- mer. "Those who will take advantage of the many opportunities offered through the great medium, publicity, will surely reap their just reward." CAROLINA CONCERN'S STORE. That the florists south of Mason and Dixon's line are not behind their north- ern fellow tradesmen as regards the up-to-date appearance of their stores and those marks of enterprise that in- dicate the presence of the hustling busi- ness man is instanced by the view of the shop of Scholtz the Florist, Inc., of Charlotte, N. C, given on page 14. This store, at 306 North Tryon street, has all of the modern conveniences, and, under the guidance of Manager E. P. Scholtz, is doing a thriving business. The conservatory in the re?,r, shown at the left of the illustration, is a most useful adjunct for showing plants, a constant supply of which is on hand, from the greenhouses of Manager Scholtz's brother, W. T. Scholtz, pro- Itrietor of the Charlotte Floral Co. J. I. McCallum is secretary of the company, and F. W. Miller, a graduate of the fa- mous establishment of Gude Bros. Co., at Washington, B. C, is artist, and de-

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