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The Florists' Review 



'JOCTOBKB 19, 1916. 



NURSERY STOCK for Florists' Trade 



FRUIT TREES. ORNAMENTAL TREES. SHRUBS, SMALL FRUITS. ROSES, CLEMATIS. PHLOX. PEONIES, HERBACEOUS 

 PERENNIALS. AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII, CALIFORNIA PRIVET, BARBERRY THUNBERGII 



Writ* tor our wholesale trade list 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 'ooo acres 



70 YEARS 



6SNXVA. NSW TORK 



Mention The Revle'w when yon write. 



hard to catch up. As the season ad- 

 vances, the stock develops, new work 

 continually comes crowding along and 

 soon the stock suffers for want of at- 

 tention and the yield is curtailed. "We 

 find this short-help condition especially 

 prevalent among beginners. They seem 

 to think that they can be grower, sales- 

 man, designer and delivery boy all in 

 one. Consequently, when there is a 

 funeral in the town, the growing stock 

 goes without watering untU afternoon 

 or evening, and the cuttings — well, they 

 are shaded if they are not forgotten in 

 the rush. Hence, in a season's run, the 

 losses would easily pay for a good extra 

 man. Some of these gluttons for work 

 imagine that they can even stay up 

 the greater ^art of each night and do 

 the firing, though they thus render 

 themselves unfit to attend to their busi- 

 ness properly, and unable to accom- 

 plish a man's share of the day's work. 

 While on the question of help, it 

 might not be amiss to say a word on 

 the question of pay. Many employers 

 seem to think that the less they can 

 get a man to work for, the more money 

 they are saving for themselves — a mis- 

 taken idea, of course. Other, more 

 progressive employers have come to a 

 realization that the more wages a man 

 can make himself worth, the more 

 profitable he is to his employer, and 

 the best incentive is to let your men 

 understand that their wages will be 

 increased in proportion to their service. 

 Once let an employee get the impres- 

 sion that he can progress no farther in 

 your establishment, and you have killed 

 his ambition to render you more valu- 

 able service. 



Fuel and Fumigation. 



Why do so many of us put off start- 

 ing the fires under the boilers until 

 everything has had several good chills? 

 Often the effects are seen for several 

 weeks after. 



There are still some growers who 

 persist in fumigating their houses with 

 tobacco smoke, produced by burning 

 the stems, just because they can be had 

 for little or nothing. Some even pre- 

 tend to believe this method to be more 

 effective than the modern methods of 

 spraying or fumigating. Most of you 

 will be able to recall many a case of 

 burnt tips on the mums, or a batch of 

 ruined spiraeas, to say nothing of the 

 heavy crop of aphis and thrips, which 

 grew while you were unable to smoke 

 for one reason or another at the proper 

 time. Tobacco smoke produces the 

 same effects on plants now that it did 

 in those days and that method of fumi- 

 gating is one of the shining examples 

 of false economy. 



Profit and Loss on Novelties. 



How about letting the other fellow 

 try out all the novelties! How many 

 growers there are who pride themselves 

 on their exceeding wisdom in letting 

 the other fellow get stung on the new 



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HOLLANDIA NURSERIES 



BOSKOOP, HOLLAND 



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from the choicest collection either in this country or abroad. Stock 

 guaranteed true to name, of good size and thrifty. Prices reasonable. 



CataloBne 



CHERRY HILL NURSERIES, West Newbury, Mass. 



(T. C. THT7RLOW'8 SONS, Inc.) 



Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



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