New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-03

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FLOWERS IN NEW YORK.
A Complicated Buslaess-A Pretty Little
Romance.
''The flower business is rather GU
rious one, and little more complicat-
ed than one would at first suppose, .
said an old florist, as he deity twined
spray of smilax in and around
bunch of roses, so that lines of delicate
green separated the rich colors.
'.How sop
''Why in keeping stock on hand
which will crafty variety of tastes.
It is easy enough to have an abundance
! of the fashionable flowers, even though
the fashion seems to change in flowers
just as it does in dress. The fashion,
| able flowers are used, of course, in re-
captions, lunches where each lady has
a bouquet placed at her plate, and in
| funerals. But when you come to indi-
yidual tastes, when ladies want flowers
TO harmonic with their dresses, or
with their china, and when people want
their favorite flowers which perhaps
have gone out of fashion, why, you can
| never tell what kind of a flower is
going to be asked for and that s where
the complication comes in. Some peo-
pie wear flowers simply because its
fashionable. Others love some particu-
lar kind of flower, and want it whether
they wear it or not. Then, if you
haven't got the flower, they get dis
pleased, and when they have big re-
ception they go to some other florist;
so, you see, we have to watch the
private tastes of our customers. These
buds here were all the rage two years
ago, and, although they are all out of
| the fashion now, we have to keep q
stock on hand for certain customers,
who call for them every day almost
.'How do ordinary baskets of flowers
sell?''
'.Oh, from IS to 1926. Sometimes
they run much higher. We sent ono
out not long ago which cost $3.50. You
can have no idea how the custom of
sending flowers has grown. All the
young people buy them when they can
afford it, and just now the wealthy
young men are beginning to pour in
and get flowers to send to their young
lady friends who have just gotten in
from the summer resorts. Whenever
young man takes young lady to
party or to the theater q nice bouquet
IS one of the necessary accessories.
Flowers go ahead of all other gifts in
winning q woman's heart. and every
young gallant knows that
why so?''
"Wel, nearly all women love
flowers, and there is something so deli
cate, so much unsaid yet suggested in
flowers that the simple gift Of one is
always appreciated by woman--not
to speak of the different sentiments
that are associated with different kinds
of flowers. It is very interesting to
note how differently people regard
flowers. Why, I can tell almost the
moment a woman enters whether she Is
fond of them. Women who love
flowers always have sweet faces, soft
ways and gentle dispositions. One of
that kind rarely asks for the fashion
able flowers because it is fashionable
She loves flowers for their own sake,
and consequently she is almost sure to
| call for her favOrites, whether in fash
ion or not. The woman who cares for
flowers simply because they are FASH
iopable, is generally one of the cold,
naughty, airy kind. She will look
around critically, seize some flower and
pull it out of the bunch, sometimes
breaking off leaf or catching one of
its thorns in another rose and tearing
the petals. That's the difference, you
see. The other lady handles them with
gentle caressing touch, almost as if
they were human.
':Did you know that the ladies use
flowers for perfumery? In France it is
very common, and it is getting quite
usual in America. They take bunch
of violets and place them in the bosom
of the dress. No manufactured per-
fume can come up to the odor of the
flowers, you know. Every morning,
rain or shine, an old doctor comes in
here, gets a bunch of violets, nnbuttons
his vest, places them next his heart,
and walks out, often wonder II he
does it for the perfume. guess it is
case of sentiment, however.
THE florist sees plenty of pretty lit
tie r0mances. Very often . young
man has flowers sent to certain house
in this city every morning; then there
comes big order, the marriage, you
know,-and then they dwindle down;
he comes less and less often, until
finally he ceases altogether. The old
tale, you know. Last spring I used to
notice a couple going BY here, a fine
manly young fellow and girl pretty
and dainty, with lovely brown hair
and dark blue eyes. They didn't know
each other, but when the young man
went to business the girl was sure to
be somewhere around where she could
SEQ him. She lived right round the
corner, and she used to come in here
and pretend to be examining the flowers
as he passed. Then she would look up
and watch him as he went down the
street. One day as he went by she
looked up and said to me: %, what q
funny hat, and then carelessly, as she
began picking among the flowers, i
wonder who he tsp came very near
laughing, for the previous day the
young fellow had been to ask me who
she was, and had sent her some
flowers. About week afterward she
came in with q friend, and i heard her
telling the friend how somebody had
been sending her flowers every morn
ing, and she did wish she could find out
who it was. Well, the best part of it
all came afterward. One morning he
came in as usual, and the gardener took
him back into the conservatory.
While he was there the girl entered and
stood near the counter looking toward
the window. Il Presently he returned,
and as he started for the door briskly,
he said: 'tWell, send those flowers, as
usual, up to "a street." Neither
knew the other was near, and, hearing
the number of her house mentioned,
she turned around, and they met face
to face. Well, I never saw such an
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