The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . kes thedifference between success and failure. The young man observed that under such a sys-tem of rotation in the display and sale of goods,according to their season, as pursued in the depart-ment stores, compared with the efforts to constantlysell the same class of things, in and out of season,and the continuous employment of a force of trainedseedsmen, the department store has great advan-tages over the seed merchant; that the departmentstore did not need trained seedsmen, d
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . kes thedifference between success and failure. The young man observed that under such a sys-tem of rotation in the display and sale of goods,according to their season, as pursued in the depart-ment stores, compared with the efforts to constantlysell the same class of things, in and out of season,and the continuous employment of a force of trainedseedsmen, the department store has great advan-tages over the seed merchant; that the departmentstore did not need trained seedsmen, did not attemptto pick up the odds and ends drifting to a seed storethroughout the slack season of eight or nine months,but just went for the cream of the business, andgot it, leaving to the regular seedsman the skimmilk and worry. The old man expressed a desire to know wherethe department stores obtained their supplies ofseeds, and asked if they bought from the whole-sale seedsman over in a neighboring great city, towhich the young man laughed a merry ha ha. say-ing no department store bought from wholesale seed. PoiusettiaB for Christmas. Grower Hale, Orange, houses; that was a system long ago exploded; thatthey purchased direct from the farmer producers,both in America and Europe; that they paid cashfor the goods purchased, ordering large quantities,and got their supplies at an exceedingly low price;that their purchases were so immense the departmentstores dominated the producers. He said the depart-ment .stores now did the bulk of the seed businessof the United States, and that they proposed, erelong, to do it all. Even now, he said, there isa scheme on foot for all the department stores ofthe country to unite into one vast merger, the for-mation of a stockholding corporation to control thesupplies of merchandise of every sort, mind you, notseed alone, but everything, for the benefit of allconcerned in the combine, so that in time they willfreeze out every individual st
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