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HOKTICULTUKB 



May 16, 1914 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Scare heads in the Saturday Eve- 

 ning papers had it that Mothers' Day 

 had been spoiled because the com- 

 mission men had manipulated the 

 price of flowers to such an extent that 

 many thousands were unable to pay 

 the reverent tribute. This sad tale 

 probably emanated from some retailer 

 and the cub reporter took it all as 

 gospel and now the commission man 

 is "the goat.' 



There is considerable meat and nov- 

 elty in a little brochure issued from 

 Michell's, edited by the advertising 

 manager, E. M. Pettit, entitled "Grow." 

 The chapter on salesmanship is espe- 

 cially good. An example is given of 

 how a first-class salesman goes about it. 

 While everyone cannot attain such per- 

 fection at once, it is good to have a 

 star to aim at. and maybe the time 

 might come when the little wagon 

 would be securely hitched to that star. 

 Aim high and "Grow." 



John C. Gracey, chairman of the 

 Florists' Club Outing Committee an- 

 nounces that he has appointed the fol- 

 lowing as the rest of his committee; 

 Arthur Niessen, (treasurer), Pred 

 Michell, Jr., Fred Copperwait, John 

 Kuen, Adolph Farenwald, Charles E. 

 Meehan. The affair will take place on 

 June 10, in Schuetzen Park on the Old 

 York Road and can be reached by trol- 

 ley or by the Reading {Tabor Station.) 

 There will be a fine program and the 

 enthusiasm is already beginning to 

 bubble. 



Fine as were Mr. Tuthill's remarks on 

 the "spark plug" at the last meeting 

 of the Florists' Club, he is on the 

 wrong track when he endorses "let 

 the grower do it." That is, let the 

 growers get together like the master 

 builders and assess themselves for a 

 boost to the business in general. 

 Can't be done in the flower business. 

 Too varied. Too complicated. Too 

 unorganized. A close guild like the 

 brickmakers might do something as 

 they all make bricks and little else. 

 All the retailers are much in favor of 

 the idea. They seem to feel that they 

 would get a lot of advertising they 

 would not have to pay for and they 

 would exact all the extra profit from 

 the public and they think they are 

 quite able to deal with the grower 

 should he have the temerity to ask 

 any more for his product. Adver- 

 tising is a personal or corporation or 

 trust proposition. The latter does not 

 apply to the flower business and never 

 will. So this idea of co-operative ad- 

 vertising for everybody in general 

 and let the "easy marks" pay the bill 

 is "chasing a rainbow." 



A correspondent asks "did your P. 

 C. ever hear of a profession being 

 successfully unionized." Sure! Lots of 

 them. What is a Bar Association but 

 a union? He also persists in repeat- 

 ing that the P. C.'s notion of educat- 

 ing the employer from his $50. a 

 month standard to at least a mini- 

 mum of $100. is a fallacy. In other 

 words, it is impossible to educate the 

 employer that $50. is far too low for 

 an experienced gardener who has 

 served his apprenticeship and is 

 thoroughly qualified. Why, even a 

 common laborer can get $2.50 and $3 a 

 day and a bricklayer can get 62i^c. an 

 hour. As for my knowledge of the 



gardeners' society I am a member of 

 it and I never understood before that 

 there was anything in it that was se- 

 cret, or anything that the members in 

 general "knew very little about." 

 Come, come Mr. Ebel. Have another 

 think! The transformation in the 

 past few years which you have seen 

 in the gardening business is largely, 

 I suspect, what Mrs. Mary Baker G. 

 Eddy would have called "a condition 

 of mind" on your part and not on the 

 part of the business. Because you 

 have had a complete transformation 

 of your views during the few years 

 that you have been among us does 

 not make a transformation of the 

 trade by any means. You "imagine 

 a vain thing." 



This is not written to get back at 

 Mr. Ebel. Far be it from me to have 

 any such feeling. I speak with every 

 courtesy towards Mr. Ebel who is a 

 gentlemen and scholar. The object 

 I have in discussing the thing is to 

 thresh the matter out in a friendly 

 way and see if we can't find some 

 way of reaching that $100 minimum. 



Visitors: — Adolphus Gude and Wil- 

 liam F. Gude, Washington, D. C; H. 

 L. Holmes, Harrisburg, Pa.; M. Boks, 

 Ghent, Belgium; J. F. Shader, Dor- 

 raucetown. Pa.; E. Howard Smith, 

 rancetown, Pa.; E. Howard Smith, Ha- 

 zleton. Pa.; Chas. L. Schmidt and Miss 

 Elsie Schmidt, Harrisburg, Pa.; W. R. 

 Thoms, Atlantic City, N. J.; James 

 Brown, Coatesville, Pa.; W. C. Lang- 

 bridge, Albany, N. Y.; W. Maschmann, 

 Hamburg. Germany, 



WASHINGTON NOTES. 



Gude Bros. Company last week ex- 

 hibited some yellow dahlias which 

 proved to be quite a novelty. Although 

 attracting considerable attention, they 

 were not in any demand. 



According to an announcement made 

 by officials of the Brookland Citizens' 

 Association, the third annual rose 

 show to be given by that and associ- 

 ated organizations will be one of the 

 largest affairs' of the kind ever held 

 in this city. Dr. Walter Van Fleet, 

 rosarian of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture; George W. Hess, superintendent 

 of the Botanic Gardens, and Mrs. Ed- 

 win F. Sweet, have been selected as 

 judges and the show will be held on 

 May 26 and 27. 



Considerable interest is being mani- 

 fested in the coming annual shad bake 

 of the Washington Board of Trade in 

 which many of the florists are among 

 the most prominent members. The 

 outing is to be held at a nearby resort 

 and the day is to be enlivened with 

 many athletic contests to the winners 

 of which substantial prizes are to be 

 awarded. Among the contributing flor- 

 ists are Fred H. Kramer and Gude 

 Bros. Co., each of whom have donated 

 a $5 box of cut flowers, J. H. Small 

 & Sons will give a $5 palm, and 0. A. 

 C. Oehmler, a $3 box of cut flowers. 



St. Louis — Quite a lot of damage 

 was done around here by the wind, 

 hail and rain storm of Tuesday, May 

 5. Those who suffered loss of glass 

 were John Held. Schray & Sons, 

 Meier Bros., Chas. Beyer and Frank 

 J. Fillmore. The heaviest loss fell 

 upon John Held, who lost in all 300 

 lights of glass. The heavy wind and 

 lightning caused some damage to 

 trees in parks in the south end. 



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