November 20, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



673 



CHICAGO 



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THE STREET FAKIR IN PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 

 Editor of Horticulture: 



Your editorial in issue of November 

 ISth, calling attention to tlie over- 

 whelming vote of tlie Florists' Club of 

 Philadelphia, that the street man pro- 

 vides the only practical outlet for the 

 surplus stock of the grower and whole- 

 saler under present conditions, is mis- 

 leading. In the cut flower business as 

 in any other industry self interest is 

 the dominating force in every large 

 community. The growers and the com- 

 mission men outnumber tlie retail flor- 

 ists three to one. which is about the 

 percentage of the representation found 

 in the Florists' Clubs. At the meeting 

 referred to, about one-third of the 

 membership, or some 75 members, a 

 very good attendance as meetings go. 

 were present. Not over twelve retail- 

 ers were in evidence and when a vote 

 was called after the discussion, it was 

 this small representation against the 

 growers and wholesale men who made 

 up the balance of the assembly. Of 

 course, the vote was almost unanimous 

 in favor of the street vendor because 

 of the self-interest which so closely 

 identifies his business with theirs. The 

 fact that vending of any kind is for- 

 bidden by law on any of the principal 

 business streets on which it would pay 

 the fakir to operate, and that if by any 

 legal process the way could be opened, 

 it would also permit all street men in 

 other lines, does not concern these 

 gentlemen. They have flowers to sell. 

 They want a broader market and like 

 the man in the crowd they push ahead 

 not caring whose toes they tread on. 

 This question of the fakir will never 

 down. It was a live issue twenty-five 

 years ago. Today should the street 

 men have to retire it would in some 

 localities prove disastrous, causing 

 great financial loss. Many successful 

 retail men have risen from the ranks 

 of the street men. So that storekeep- 

 ing with all its attending expense 

 must have been found more profitable. 



So. Mr. Editor, this action while it 

 may seem to have been the almost 

 unanimous opinion of all the interests 

 of the trade, was but the expression of 

 the men who grow and those who 

 handle the flowers for them, prompted 

 by their self interests in striving for 

 a larger market, whether it interfered 

 with the regular channels being of 

 little or no concern to them. 



Philadelphia. RonERT Kift. 



"The Telegraph Florist" 



Member of Flori*ts' Telegraph Delivery 



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