. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. WHERE SOME OF <»s US ARE LAME ^^W IT IS said that a "knock is as good as a boost," and if the saying is true, there are going to be a good many boosts in this paper. The growth of floriculture in our coun- try during the last twenty years has been phenomenal—I believe unparal- leled in the history of any other busi- ness. For many years the demand as a whole has kept abreast or ahead of the supply. Men all over the country have succeeded—have acquired wealth— through the growing and selling of flow- ers, whose crude and antiquated meth
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. WHERE SOME OF <»s US ARE LAME ^^W IT IS said that a "knock is as good as a boost," and if the saying is true, there are going to be a good many boosts in this paper. The growth of floriculture in our coun- try during the last twenty years has been phenomenal—I believe unparal- leled in the history of any other busi- ness. For many years the demand as a whole has kept abreast or ahead of the supply. Men all over the country have succeeded—have acquired wealth— through the growing and selling of flow- ers, whose crude and antiquated meth- ods of business could only have spelled disaster in any other line. The signs are plain that this condition is not to continue and we must adopt the com- mon-sense methods which are found nec- essary in all other business, or many of us are going to get hurt in the near future. Slipshod Methods. Pel haps the one thing in which more of us are lame than in any other is in «Iipshod methods of bookkeeping. How many keep careful records of receipts and expenditures week by week and month by month, posted up side by side, 60 that we can get a comparison be- tween t^is week and this month and those of last and previous years! And yet there is nothing that calls our at- tention to errors, and also to successes, «o easily and so surely as such a simple table. The trade may be divided into three general classes: 1. The wholesale grower, disposing of practically all his product to other florists, either direct or through com- mission houses. 2. The grower, generally located in the residence districts, the suburbs or in the smaller towns, who grows his own plants and flowers and retails them himself. 3. The city store man, who grows nothing, but buys in the open market the stock necessary to supply his retail trade. We all know the grower with the dirty, sloppy, tumble-down houses. Does he ever succeed f It is hardly worth comment. The man who has not ambi- tion enough to keep h
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