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The Florists^ Review 



March 9. 1922 



Yes, that's Mr. Moss himself by that stone pillar. 

 Wish we had a "close up" of him to show jou. 



How Moss Keeps the Moss 

 Off the Mossbacks 



If you know Moss I don't need to tell you 

 how he does it. 



But if you are not so fortunate, then what 

 he tells will interest you. 



"Thirty years ago I was working for the 

 otlier fellow, but all the time I was work- 

 ing for him, I was working for myself. 

 Working for myself, by doing my work 

 just the best I knew how. Everv once in 

 a while my boss would even find me work- 

 ing overtime. 



I'inding that he was not offended. I 

 started in mornings earlier than we had 

 agreed upon. 



Then one night when my old corn cob had 

 gone out, I says to myself, says 1 : Ike, 

 you're a mossback if you are going to be 

 content to stay on and on. working for the 

 iither fellow, when you are the fellow to 

 work for. 



.So I went to Dad and told him I wanted 

 to build a great big greenhouse in his yard 

 — a lean-to 15x50. 



For some unknown reason he said, 'Go to 

 it, Ike, wish vou luck.' 



Now, I never believed much in luck. 

 Some folks fall into 'soft things' as they 

 call them, but I call such chaps unlucky. 

 The lucky fellow is the one who has found 

 out that accomplishment of his own is one 

 of the biggest things in life. 

 My recipe for accomplishment is hard 

 work and keep on the job. 

 Starting with that little lean-to house, we 

 now have quite a flock of them to kind of 

 keep us from jazzing too much. 

 This curved-eave one across the drive is 

 not a greenhouse at all, but just a big glass 

 show-case which folks see into going by, 

 and go into when they stop. 

 See those two entrances to make it con- 

 venient for them? 



Fine house that. It's a Hitchings'. The 

 first on my place. But let me tell you. it 

 won't be my last. As Postum says : 

 'There's a Reason.' " 



To which let us add our sincere apprecia- 

 tion to you, Mr. Moss, for the privilege of 

 building for such a straight thinking, suc- 

 cess-making man as yourself. 



Philadelphia 

 133 South 12th St. 



HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY, ELIZABETH, N. J. 



New York, 101 Park Avenue 



Boston-9 

 294 Washington St. 



