The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-19
FLORISTS OFF SEASON.
College Commencements Practically End Business for the Summer.

College Conmencements Practically
 End Business for the Summer.
 This week writes 'finis' on our sea- son" remarked a Philadelphia florist one afternoon last week, as he watched the shipment of stack of boxes to a well known college town. Commencement days do not close the schools and col leges only. but our season. When they are over we know it is time to cut down our store force and turn attention to preparing for next seasons trade.
 Outsiders never realize what the commencement season means to the floral trade, Just to give you an idea of how the sweet girl graduate is showered with roses, a famous grower of the queen of flowers, near Philadelphia, shipped 55,o00 buds in a single day when commencements were coming thick and fast. To-day his rosebuds are doubtless | in a state of chaos, being replaced in preparation for next winters social season. ...
 Between commencement week and revival of society in the fall there is lit- tie or nothing doing in the city shops. You will notice that the tone of window decorations changes, little being dis played save fernlike greenery, and the prevailing wild flower of the month, which by the way, command as high a price now as their cultivatel cousins do in winter. Funeral orders there will be, of course, and occasionally when some very smart hostess entertains elaborate ly at her out of town place we shall have larger orders but for the next two months the florist interests are with the grower who is studying novelties in sizes and coloring of popular fiowers."-- SWIMMING POWER OF A HORSE. | My friend, MT. w. A propounds a conundrum as to the swimming powers of horse, bringing up the question whether or not a horse can swim and carry man on it's back. He says: 'When I was in Mississippi had some thing sprung on me in regard to which Forest and Stream ought to be able to give me some help. A gentlemen start ed 1t at the Bobo place, bringing up the argument whether or not horse could swim with a man on it's back. He said that no horse, or at least none that he had ever seen, could swim with a rider l on it's back, and that he had seen it tried on a wager at Meridian, Mississip- pi fourteen different horses from Elivery stables being tried, and not one of them being able to keep above water, horse swan all right. He also said that any man who had a horse could swifn and carry man could make a, big lot of money by making a trip to Meridian. I was not we'll enough posted to 20 into the argument very far, but have sure- I ly been on horse when I thought he was swimming with me, although I am willing to admit there may be two sides to the question" Later MT. Powel wrote again regarding his interesting question: T have been getting more information in regard to the swimming power of a horse, and am going to take horse to Mississippi one of these days and break that town of Meridian, where they say horse can't swim with a rider" sS%@
 I think MT. Powel will be able to break the town all right, if they are willing to back their judgment as above enunciated. I presume great many men have been in swimming depth oi water on horseback and have noticed that if they get low and we'll back the
 horse can get along. Of course, it is
 much better to slip off of the horse, take
 the down stream side of him, and hold
 on to the saddle horn or to his mane
 Indians sometimes hold on to the tail oi the swimming horse. Of course, the
 more of the mans body there is sub.
 merged, the easier it will be for the
 horse to swim, It is not proper, but 2 possible, thing for a swimming horse tt
 carry man who may fairly be said tt be upon his back.--Forest and Stream