The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-22
PEOPLE WHO BUY FLOWERS.
How the Florists Know What Their
Customers Want.

Queer customers" / should say so. We
have numbers of them"
This is the way prominent florist ex-
pressed himself yesterday. The flower sea-
son is all the time. OF course at certain
seasons of the year there is a greater de-
| lnand for flowers than at others, but the
trade continues from one years end to the
| other. ltis eating to be an immense bust
ness, and 1t increases as the people become
better educated in their love for flowers.
The florist have splendid opportunity for
character study.
1--WE have all sorts of customers" said
one of them yesterday. 1--WE have as
many gray-headed men as golden haired
youths on our list Of customers. They all
love flowers. | have great respect for
my customers, because | have always been
of the opinion that there is something good
about people who love flowers. l remem-
Der young man in this city who was con-
sidered reprobate, and generally l have
little sympathy for them. He was almost
gone morally, but | remember my feelings
toward him, when he became unable to buy
flowers. He would come in every morning
aud watch the flowers for hours at a time,
and occasionally, as he brushed the sweet
shrub against his face, he brushed away a
tear. firmly believe that he never went
out of that door without having made new
resolutions, but he was too weak to keep
them"
''Do we have trouble with any of our cug-
tomers!"
Sometimes Now and then a young
man will enter the greenhouse a living,
walking treatise on botany, and imagines
that what he don't know about flowers is
yet undiscovered and If the florist attempts
to straighten his brain about any particu-
lar flower, he laughs deridingly at him
and sauIters out, saying to himself that
Savannah needs a good florist. We
have tried so long to please that kind of
customers without the least sign of success
that we have concluded to drop them from
our list. We feel most troubled when a
man enters, casting his eye about over
every flower, as if he were in the wrong
place. Generally he is in the wrong place,
because he does not know what he wants,
and nine times out of ten after looking over
the whole lot and pricing them all, he goes
away without buying a single flower
Queer customers, they. If the florist is left
to select the flowers, they will be well
SCI selected ,.u and all the flowers will
for which they are bought Oftentimes,
people who are not well posted in the
flower business, ask for wedding flowers,
that would be more appropriate for burial
wreaths, and Uice rerSd. Young men who
want to make their best girl present OF a
pretty bouquet, never tell the f1orlSt what
they want with the flowers. They walk in
as unconcernedly as if they had strolled into
the green house through mistake, and after
looking at several flowers they decide to do
what they came in to do. They say gen
orally in a desultory manner, You
may fix me up a right nice bon
quet, since | have put you to a little
trouble to show me the flowers | know
at once the significance Of the remark,
and fix him up a bouquet tina fairly makes
his eyes sparkle. l always tell him as l
hand over the box that it will be nice for
the center table We are onto them, tut
it has never entered their heads that any
body understands their maneuvering but
themselves. Young ladies are generally
easy to please. They know what they vent,
and if they ever want a bouquet for their
sweetheart, they bring one of their friends
along to do the selecting, and thsy do the
criticising. This is the florists means of
knowing what they mean, and he just goes
along fixing them up a pretty box of flowers
for their fellow