. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jS3S. The American Flortst. 565. M\t\iN \H IVAt CKTVLt^l^ WOViSi OV VKR, \NV^, UMVAtM^S ViT\Ck H 'N . work. My own leESon was learned in a pretty hard school, but it has always been my policy to give a subordinate all the "rope" coasibtent with proper dis- cipline. The New York meeting will be a good opportunity for private and com- mercial florists to give one or more of their employes a pleasant and profitable vacation at what is probably the most convenient season of the whole year. I have not express
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jS3S. The American Flortst. 565. M\t\iN \H IVAt CKTVLt^l^ WOViSi OV VKR, \NV^, UMVAtM^S ViT\Ck H 'N . work. My own leESon was learned in a pretty hard school, but it has always been my policy to give a subordinate all the "rope" coasibtent with proper dis- cipline. The New York meeting will be a good opportunity for private and com- mercial florists to give one or more of their employes a pleasant and profitable vacation at what is probably the most convenient season of the whole year. I have not expressed myself as fully or as freely on this subject as I would like to do, but I am a strong advocate of the proverb quoted above and would be glad to see an annual vacation fir young gar- deners the rale in every establishment throughout the country. A member of one of the "learned pro- fessions," whose leisure moments are spent in horticultural pursuits, has been telling me a piece of his experience which it may not be amiss to repeat here. The gentleman's hobby is growing vio- lets, and he has been so successful that last season he found himself with a con- siderable quantity of good flowers wasting on his hands. Naturally desiring to realize something from his labors he called on a Baltimore city florist with a view to disposing of his surplus flowers. The florist told him that violets were " worth absolutely nothing," but before leaving the store the gentleman observed a customer pay 50 cents for a very small bunch of those same worthless violets. The inconsistency of the whole affair struck my neighbor very forcibly, and he has been wondering ever since why the florist should charge a good retail price for flowers that were worth nothing at wholesale. The truth is a good many florists look on it as their duty to sup- press an amateur the moment he displays any inclination to market his produc- tions. They regard him as a positive grievance, a person whose
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