Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Sending Flowers by Telegraph. [ARTICLE]

Sending Flowers by Telegraph.

A novel and very remarkable industry has recently been started in New York. It is intended for the convenience of persons who have friends in other cities in this country or abroad to whom they may desire to pay polite attentions. Suppose that a lady of your acquaintance is at present in Vienna and you wish to send her a bouquet. It is very easily managed. You drop into a certain florist’s on Broadway and pick out flowers suitable for your posy. Within two hours the bouquet you have selected is delivered to the intended recipient. The florist has an agent or correspondent in Vienna to whom he cables the order, stating the number of flowers of each kind, etc., and the name of the giver is written on a card and attached to the bunch of blossoms before it is conveyed to the address indicated. It is the same with other cities in Europe and America. If your lady love is in San Francisco you can send her a bunch of violets or a bouquet of roses by wire, as it were, within a few minutes.