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Briggs Cage has the atmosphere of a florist's greenhouse. The sun comes in through a glass roof and mixes with the rising dust so that breathing becomes a very difficult chore. Oddly enough one man who spends a lot of time in the cage isn't even worried about breathing. Some sport they're playing there with bats and balls is enough to keep him fully occupied...
Eight pieces of fire equipment roared up to Kuppersmith's Florist Shop on Brattle Street last night to put out a fire which started in the fuse box. As the crowd of approximately 300 applauded politely the firemen put out the conflagration within ten minutes...
...Dible. This blossom boom has been planted and cultivated chiefly by a fast-growing company called Flowers of Hawaii. Founded by Hawaii's Territorial Senator William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...
...stores to sell the flowers for as little as 25?. There are 21 orchid bars in the U.S. now; the newest one will open this week in Richmond, Va. While low prices have killed the vanda for the retail flower trade, Dible thinks that giveaway orchids are helping florists nevertheless, by making people who have seldom gone into florist shops more flower-conscious. Said one orchidman: "Why, eight out of ten women have never had an orchid. They all want...
...Everybody's kicking--even the shop-owners," said another. "When we take a fare to the florist or the Trust Company, they want us to wait for them. If we do, we get tagged...