Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-10-31
HIGH PRICED FLOWERS.
Large Sums Paid i'm this City "a
Florists.

LIBERAL INVESTMENTS MADE By DESIGNING YOUNG
AEN-THE FASHIONS IN FLowERS-THE GOOD
TASTE OF WASHINGTON LADIES, ETC.
"IS there much money In flowers? Well, yes;
there's some. when you've got the right kind OF peo-
pie 10 deal WITH sud prominent florist TO a STAR
reporter lounging in his establishment the other
DAY.
ayes. this rose"-and he held up sckly bud
Rewered on a toothpck-''iS worth from fifty cents
70 a dollar in seIS0n-1
"Those jacques worth a dollar and half, and
sometimes they bring as high as three dollars
piece: but they must be fresh ard have long stems
Talking about prices have gotten as high as $40
Tor bunch OF hlacS just big enough to carry in the
hand; and single spray Will sell for $3.50 in the
winter
YOUNG MEN WHO WISH TO WIN RICH WIVES
"HEO do You find wiling to give such prices?n
asEcfl IHE STAR.
"Oh, there are lots Of fashionable people with
plenty OF money who Will have flowers all the time
and In the winter when they are scarce Will pay
almost any price for them They don't care for
money: they Just order what they want and.pay
for them. Whatever the price may be. Then there
Is the young man Who is trying to marry fortune
tie VIII 70 To almost any extent 10 please when he
Thinks he has struck the hight party. When he
meets d young lady and is assured that she has
large annuity. the thing he does IS TO send her
nowcrs-no matter how late the season He viii
spnnd his Last cent for them and trust to his wit
10 make IL a roOi investment"
~ dollar and-a-htl1 for That bud, miss" ito a
customer. w
"Why. last season there was q Young lady here
rom the west. he continued 10 The reporter "Who
had the reputation or being very wealthy and
used to send her Two or three OF the handsOnest
bouquets | could get NJ every evening Young
men would come here and order flowers to be sent
u Mss , aud pay from sl5 To :-tpfor them each
trying To Guido the other. one evening sent her
= bunch Of Vlolets that cost the donor ~"
FLOWERS AT FASHI0SABIE WEDDINGS
"Big prices are paid for tlOwers at fashionable
weddings and germans. continued the forest .'The
f1Ti decorations fGr senator Tab0r's Wedding cost
30. one piece costing alto The flowers used at The
wedding ~ senator Cameron daughter last winter
cost between $40 and 800, ana there were 800
Soth al nearly every german given by the Bache-
lors Club
'swEET vI0LETs'
''NloIetS. LEtcS and nearly all kinds of roses he
continued, piercing dropping rose with wire and
twisting Ii up To primucsS-,.vioiets ulacs and
ros,S are In high favor, the ross, pirticularly All
the Old time roses are coming into fashion again
under rev Names The hybrid roses the jacques
and TIN, Glory de PdriS-all much worn now-are
but the cabbage and the hundred-leaf roses OF a
huntired years ago Ladies III selecting flowers to
lar 10 get the tat that viii best become their
or complexion. The brIInetteS get bright flowers of
very decided cOl0rS while their 1airer sisters seek
delicate tntS. NiOlrtS and neS-of-the-vailey are
generally popular with them. The ladies OF Wash
1ngtOA have excellent taste as regards flowers
They know q good article when they see it, and
they discover perfectOHS and beauties that gen
orally secrets Possessed only by experienced florists
You can fool them in The guilty OF flower. They
would not have these buds done mp with wire and
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