The near future will seo the in auguration of The British Flower Shop" near Brewer's comer, signed to obviate the necessity of purchasing flowers from German of Chinese shops, and at the sam time to benefit war funds by the profits so made. The situation present with regard to flowers it that the sale of good productions of the florist's art is in German hands and it has been rightly felt that it is not fitting that those confections of flowers which play 50 conspicuous part in many social functions should be only obtainable from an enemy source.
To do away with this necessity number of prominent residents of both sexes have formed something in the nature of a company for the purpose of running a British shop, having subscribed necessary capital. Practically all the fevers used by the shop will be giveo, while arrangement whereby glass facil ing flowers out of season will be supplied. Orders will be taken for baskets, bouquets, wreaths snd every form of floral design, monthly contracts for buttonholes will be taken, and the demand for supplier of plants in pots will also be met.
The directors of the undertaking are Messrs. C. W. Wrightson, Ayscough. W. H. Barham, H. Har-bury, and D. McNeill, while the committee will be as follows:
Ayscough, Mrs, Wrightson, Hanbury and Mrs. Peebles, the Ist two named acting as secretaries. Mrs. Green has been appointed manageress.
The work of carrying out the a cessary alterations is already under way and the shop is expected to be opened very soon. The emblem chosen for the shop is a red rote, round the stalk of which runs scroll bearing the motto "Ut the Chinese name for the be "Fu Hui," the charac ters being those which convey tht meaning "fragrant all-pervadiar benevolence."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.