Show Florists Off Season This week writes finis on our season sea-son remarked a Philadelphia florist one afternoon Inst week as ho watched the shipment of a stack of boxes to a wellknown college town Commencement Commence-ment days do not doze the schools and colleges only but our season When they ore over we know It IB time to cut down our store force and turn our attention at-tention to preparing for next seasons trade Outsiders probably 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 t Philadel-phia shipped 66000 buds In a single day when commencements were coming fast and thick Today his rosebuds arc doubtless in a state of chaos being replanted re-planted In preparation for next winters social season Between commencement week and the revival of Society In the fall there Is little or nothing doing In the city shops You will notice that the tone of window decorations changes little being be-ing displayed save fernlike greenery and the prevailing wild flowers of the month which by the way command us high a price now as their cultivated cousins do In the winter Funeral orders or-ders there will be of course and occasionally occa-sionally when some very smart hostess entertains elaborately at her out of toWn place we shall have larger orders but for the next two months the florists interests are with the grower who Is studying out novelties In sizes and colorings col-orings of popular flowers Philadelphia Philadel-phia Ledger |