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]nauy advantages over those who are comiDelled to make the best of what 

 they have. He will be able to see where others make mistakes; it is for 

 him to do better. He can study out for himself the many economic and 

 scientific principles involved in selecting site, soil, and structure that a 

 man with less experience would never think of, and yet absolutely neces- 

 sary to know if he intends to keep up with the procession. 



I fancy I hear some one ridicule the idea of putting up expensive 

 houses and paying high-priced specialists in times like these. 1 may 

 be visionary, but unless I greatly mistake the signs of the times every- 

 thing points in this direction. 



It is with flowers as with wheat or peaches — some men are more 

 adapted to growing them than to selling them. The qualifications 

 necessary to success in either are so different that they have no particular 

 relation to each other. It is seldom that we find the two qualities com- 

 bined in one person. 



Just whether it pays growers of flowers to carry the stock of decorative 

 and bedding plants is another question for them to decide. It is of itself 

 a distinct feature of the business that the wholesale flower-grower of the 

 future may well shrink from entering — especially if he is situated any 

 distance from a city. It requires an equipment in the shape of show 

 houses, with expensive decorative plants, and a supply of labor that a man 

 of limited means can not affoid to have. It is for each one of us to find 

 for himself what he is adapted to, what his sympathies and possibilities 

 are, and when once decided let him do that one thing well. Each man 

 has a place in the world, and he usually finds his level, as do the waters 

 of the sea. The florists of the future should take fresh hope. The dark 

 cloud has commenced to show a silver lining, and I fear not that they 

 will adjust themselves to circumstances, and will continue to extend their 

 work and influence among an appreciative public. 



