. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. WHOLESALE GROWERS AND FLORISTS 745 Buckingham Place, Mention The BcTlew when yon write. CHICAGO, ILL. with the principle enunciated, that wholesale trade lists should go only to bona fide nurserymen. I am not in ac- cord with the methods proposed for gathering tlie information as to who are entitled to trade lists, but this is a dif- ferent question. What I started out to say is that I am in hearty sympathy W'ith this reform, which is not new, but which has occupied a place on every pro- gram, both state, district and national, for the last twenty-
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. WHOLESALE GROWERS AND FLORISTS 745 Buckingham Place, Mention The BcTlew when yon write. CHICAGO, ILL. with the principle enunciated, that wholesale trade lists should go only to bona fide nurserymen. I am not in ac- cord with the methods proposed for gathering tlie information as to who are entitled to trade lists, but this is a dif- ferent question. What I started out to say is that I am in hearty sympathy W'ith this reform, which is not new, but which has occupied a place on every pro- gram, both state, district and national, for the last twenty-five years, and I am definitely sure that ninety per cent of our wholesale friends would not know- ingly send wholesale lists to any person not entitled to them. Is it not probable that such irregularities can be corrected within the association as it at present exists? The wholesale nurseryman would not run through one season with- out his best customer, the retailer, and I take it that whatever policies are pur- sued by the few, and which work a hardship or loss on the retailer, will be heartily condemned by one and all alike. Whatever is necessary to make our present organization more useful in serving tlie interests of all, that let us do, but let that be done in union. The present is perhaps the most critical pe- riod in the whole life of the nursery business. Beset on all sides by unfair legislation, each state vying with every other state in the enactment of laws which are proving an onerous burden, entails a fight for our very existence. Many of our leading nurserymen are giving up the fight because of pecuniary losses and are turning their attention to other lines of business, and many more of us would follow their example, perhaps, if we knew how to effect the change without ruin. In such a time it behooves us to stand squarely behind our chosen officers, fur- nishing them the sinews of war and urg- ing them on to victory. I am not in sympathy with further organizatio
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