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The Florists^ Review 



July 15, 1915. 



ten or twelve years doctors, lawyers, 

 merchants, farmers, or anyone who 

 could raise the price, and some who 

 couldn't, have been planting. Many 

 of those people do not know any more 

 about growing trees right than you or 

 I about an airship. 



"You come out there to buy trees. 

 What do you do? Dig out and hunt up 

 some of those farmers who are no bet- 

 ter posted on the market of trees than 

 we are on what caused the great Euro- 

 pean war. 



"If cherries are worth 15 cents, you 

 offer 10 cents, and get them. If you 

 can 't secure all you want of him, you 

 may come to a legitimate nurseryman. 

 If he won't sell at the farmer's price, 

 you hunt up a shoe dealer or some 

 other cut-rate fellow, buy your needs 

 and go back to your friends and say, 

 ^I bought cherries for 10 cents,' and 

 tell how you did it. Thus by your ac- 

 tions you have encouraged many to en- 

 gage in this business who should never 

 be there, until what they grow aggre- 

 gates many thousands of trees, and you 

 absolutely force the legitimate nursery- 

 men to meet prices which are in many 

 instances below cost of production, and 

 then you wonder why low-priced circu- 

 lars are sent from Dansville. This also 

 compels the retailer who grows his 

 trees to meet the price of the retailer 

 who buys his needs from the fence- 

 corner nurseryman. 



"Dansville is a great factor in the 

 nursery game. There is no place 

 where God permits the sun to shine that 

 grows more or better trees than little 

 Dansville. She goes a long way 

 towards establishing the market price 

 on trees in the United States. Then 

 why in heaven's name do you compel 

 her nurserymen by your actions to 

 quote prices that tend to annihilate 

 the market? 



"Gentlemen, what right has a dry 

 goods man, clothier or dentist to en- 

 gage in our business? If they are de- 

 sirous of helping some young fellow 

 along, let the clothier rent a store 

 next tg his and start him up, or the 

 dentist open an office next to his and 

 start him in business. No, they won't 

 do it. But you people will go there 

 and buy trees grown by such fellows, 

 who are not depending on the product 

 for their livelihood. I want to say to 

 you, we welcome anyone who desires 

 to engage in the business as his busi- 

 ness. 



"I don't speak of this from a selfish 

 motive, but because it is annihilating 

 the business. These men are not mak- 

 ing any money, and it forces legitimate 

 nurserymen to meet their prices and 

 ©end ont low-priced circulars that you 

 fellows detest. You are responsible 

 for it, and no one else. Think it over, 

 gentlemen. " 



Hudson Heights, N. J.— Mc^NIillan & 

 Sons announce that they are going out 

 of the florists' business. 



ROSE PLANTS IfL 



OWN ROOT 



SOO Bon Silene. 2^2 inch $4.00 per 100 



eeo Sweetheart, 2'a inch 4.00 per 100 



500 Canadian Queen, 3 inch 6.00 per 100 



900 Pireflame. 4 inch fi.OO per 100 



MOO Rhea Reid, 2>s inch 5.00 per lOO 



GRAFTED 



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 SOO Killarney Brilliant, 4 inch .... 12.00 per 100 



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 GRANDIFLORA 



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ADIANTUM CROWEANUM 



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ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS 



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