. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. rr. cv^. " . 'r»^- " -m^X^Y" »Trr«c"^> k^.^y^^p, T-rvrr'-wc*': ?' >^/tr^ "ff7T^*5?rw7*'^i IF' > ^^rT ^^^^T -;i '«,"?. V I-*" - «/^ - ?^, '^'r- Apbil 29, 1920 The Florists' Review 21 M syi HELPING HORTICULTURE >(ii/s>rtr^«Air/s>nir*>rtri«virirs\ir)«vir/SY(rrs>rtr/svir)^Mr^r/avirfS\i. OUR trades or professions are directly interested in ornamental horticulture. The business of the florist is to produce or grow plants and flowers and to use them, especially the latter, in artistic arrange- men
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. rr. cv^. " . 'r»^- " -m^X^Y" »Trr«c"^> k^.^y^^p, T-rvrr'-wc*': ?' >^/tr^ "ff7T^*5?rw7*'^i IF' > ^^rT ^^^^T -;i '«,"?. V I-*" - «/^ - ?^, '^'r- Apbil 29, 1920 The Florists' Review 21 M syi HELPING HORTICULTURE >(ii/s>rtr^«Air/s>nir*>rtri«virirs\ir)«vir/SY(rrs>rtr/svir)^Mr^r/avirfS\i. OUR trades or professions are directly interested in ornamental horticulture. The business of the florist is to produce or grow plants and flowers and to use them, especially the latter, in artistic arrange- ments for various pur- poses; his chief work may be described as the forcing of flowering plants. The nurseryman is also inter- ested in the production of plants, but particularly plants for the decoration of the yard, estate, park or avenue. It is the business of the landscape gar- dener or landscape architect, which- ever you choose to call him, to paint living pictures, using for his material the plants grown for his use by the nursei^man and florist. The gardener's forte is mainly to care for plants and to carry out the ideas of the landscape architect. The landscape architect and the gardener differ from the members of the first two groups by not being venders of the plants they grow. One may become proficient in any of these trades or professions either by the apprentice method or by means of a college training. I am omitting men- tion of the vocational school, since it has not become so important in Amer- ica as in Europe. The apprentice usually starts out at an early age to receive his training by direct contact with his VMrk or, in other words, by means of manual labor. His first work is usually = washing pots, p u 11 i n ]? weeds, wheeling soil or some similar occupation. He continues at his labor from day to day, absorbing what he may, but mainly doing as he is told without being given any explana- tion. If he is "faithful in his work, he is too tired at th
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