. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The American Florist. 983 think about getting paid for tlio amount of work pertormod or llio manner in wliicli it is pcrfoniuHl, but simply sells so mucli of liis time for a certain sum. And tliere wo arc at a disadvantage because we have no machine to run the man, compelling him to turn out so much work every hour the machine is working. A young fellow whom I discharged for being lazy, sometime afterwards came back and returned me $1 which I had overpaid him. This shows tlaat while he was too honest to acce
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The American Florist. 983 think about getting paid for tlio amount of work pertormod or llio manner in wliicli it is pcrfoniuHl, but simply sells so mucli of liis time for a certain sum. And tliere wo arc at a disadvantage because we have no machine to run the man, compelling him to turn out so much work every hour the machine is working. A young fellow whom I discharged for being lazy, sometime afterwards came back and returned me $1 which I had overpaid him. This shows tlaat while he was too honest to accept pay for any more hours of time than he had actually given me, yet he did not con- sider it any dishonesty to waste as much as possible of his time for which I was paying him. WHAT OF THE FUTURE. I sometimes wonder what is going to become of our business in the fu- ture. Where are the young men who are willing to give up their time and learn this business for the small in- ducements there are in it? For we must admit it, the pay is miserable when we consider what is wanted. In the first place, a young man expecting to malie a living out of this business must possess not only a strong, robust physical condition, but he must be sound mentally; he must have brains and be prepared to exercise, use and develop them. Parents who liave boys of whom they despair ever making anything, sometimes send them to a gardener to bring up, and in some in- stances they succeed. Still there is as mucli intelligence and good judg- ment required in this business as any- where else, though there are other trades where the physical labor may be considered liarder and more severe. The greenhouse is by no means a play- ground, nor is the work light or easy or the conditions the most pleasant, though it seems so to many who are not familiar with it. Though I do not consider greenhouse work a drudg- ery, the average help does so consider it. A large percentage seem to be constantly trying to invent some
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