Septembku 16, 1920 



The Florists' Review 



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FOREIGN SECTION 



C. ENGELMANN 



Member American Florists' Telegraph Delivery 



Association. 



Life Member S. A. F. 



Member American Carnation Society. 



Member New York Florists' Oob. 



Orders for England, Scotland and 



Ireland taken care of by 



C. ENOELMANN. Florist. Saffron 



Walden. Essex. ENGLAND. 



Cables: E:nfl[elmann, Saflronwalden(2 words only) 



Orders for the French Riviera and 



Monte Carlo taken care of by 



C. ENGELMANN. Etablissement Hor- 



ticole "Carnation," Saint- Laurent-du- 



Var, near Nice. FRANCE. 



CaUca: Carnation. Saint-Laorent-dn-Var 



(2 words only) 



Liverpool, England 



DINGLEYS, Ltd., Florists 

 SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND 



WM. ARTINDALE & SON 



FLORISTS SEEDSMEN NURSERYMEN 



Manchester, England 



DINGLEYS, Ltd., Florists 



SCOTLAND ORDERS NOW TO 



LEIGHTON, Florist, GLASGOW 



Scotland's Only Member F. T. D. 



in becoming great. These methods can 

 be best gained by close and systematic 

 organization. 



In these days we hear of a florists' 

 labor union in Washington that is part 

 of the American Federation of Labor. 

 A walk-out in all of the greenhouses of 

 the country is not a remote possibility, 

 for labor unions grow quickly. 



These are only a few of the needs to 

 be met by this new organization. Have 

 we any organization that is now coping 

 with themt If we have I am not 

 familiar with it. 



Forestalling Gluts. 



Let us look at the mission of the or- 

 ganization. Part of it is to regulate 

 production. For instance, as I am writ- 

 ing this we are ^\iai passing through a 

 gladiolus glut; the finest kind of stock 

 is being sold at a price that hardly pays 

 for the handling of it, to say nothing 

 of the cost of production. But, you will 

 say, how is organization going to remedy 

 this? Well, your business has now 

 reached a stage where, in the large 

 flower centers, a permanent secretary 

 for the local growers ' organization 

 should be kept, whose business it would 

 be to know approximately what each 

 of the members was going to grow dur- 

 ing a given season and in this way esti- 

 mate the production of a special line of 

 stock, comparing this estimate with the 

 previous season 's market. In this way 

 an immense amount of waste could be 

 eliminated. But I can hear some saying 

 that the writer is a dreamer and asking 

 what flower center could afford to pay 

 a secretary permanently to do such 

 work. I reply that one man cannot fill 



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Happily Some Of Us 



Like The Aspen 

 Will Never Grow Up 



By mall this morning came a letter from a friend In Colorado 

 enclosing a delightful little bit of printed matter entitled: 

 "The Aspen Will Never Grow Up," by Bnos A. Mills. 

 It la so full of charm, and withal a moral, that it would be 

 pure selfishness on my part not to share it with you. 



So here it is: 



"The bare-legged Quaking Aspen, with its restless, childlike 



ways, is a little tree that is good to know. Look for it with 



bare-legged children, playing along a brook, or knee-deep 



among wild Howers. Alone, it seems lonely and trembling, as 



though just a little afraid in this big, strange world. But 



generally a number of aspens play together. Their leaves 



are ever shaking and Jumping in the sunshine, or whispering. 



and listening to secrets in the moonlight. One autumn day 



I came upon a circle of merry little aspens who were using a 



grand old pine for a Maypole to dance around. Kach little 



aspen wore its gayest colors. 



"Some were in gowns of new-made cloth of gold. 



"For an instant their golden leaves were still; they had 



paused to glance at me; then they romped merrily on, and 



the old pine stood still in the sunlight. 



"The aspen's Joyous activity, dancing out of one thing into 



another, expresses the bounding, boundless hopefulness of 



youth. 



"Never is it serious. 



"The aspen will never grow up!" 



All of which kind of makes a fellow think that mayhap some 

 of us grow old a long time before we are old. 

 What a thing it is to keep the crispness, and optimism of 

 youth, tempered Just a bit by the wisdom that should come 

 with years! 



Flowers being the symbols of youth and happiness, sort of 

 reckon we can sell more flowers if, like the aspen, we never 

 really grow up. 



New York's 

 Favorite Flower Shop 



Fifth. Avenue at 58th Street 



the position of secretary alone; he will 

 need a staff of assistants. 



There is another point to be con- 

 sidered, and that is cooperative buying. 

 For instance, at the organization re- 

 cently of one of these locals, which the 

 writer attended, this question was gone 

 into; space will only permit me to cite 

 one instance, automobile tires. It was 

 demonstrated by correspondence with 



one of the most reliable tire factoriM 

 in the country that $10 could be saved 

 on a single tire; this means $40 on a 

 set. In other words, with such an or- 

 ganization in existence, the companies 

 would be obliged to solicit but one 

 central buying agency instead of the 

 individuals that make up its member- 

 ship. When we think of coal, fertilizer, 

 hose, insecticides, glazing materials and 



