May 10, 100(5. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1785 



we want to be treated if employed or 

 employers — an ideal way, if you please. 

 To the employee the question of com- 

 pensation appeals first. It means his liv- 

 ing, his comfort, and that of his family. 

 He wants as much as he earns. He has 

 a right to it. His skill should be paid 

 for according to its degree. He wants 

 a stated number of hours for work, or 

 some understanding with his employer 

 that reduces extra unpaid-for labor to a 

 minimum. He wants what skill he has 

 and uses paid for at its honest value. 

 He desires that his technical knowledge 

 return to him its full value, exactly the 

 same as his employer wants the full 

 value for goods he sells. 



The employee from this standpoint 

 naturally expects to be under the control 

 of some one who oversees his work. The 

 temperament of this man counts for 

 much in the ease with which work is 

 done. A calm, strong, tactful, man will 

 carry his men along with him, willing 

 to do their work well and with little 

 wasted time. On the other hand, the 

 irritable employer wastes more or less 

 time getting his temper cooled down 

 to working temperature, while his men 

 lose time in receiving instructions and 

 have lost the spirit of efficient work. 



The careful removal of cause for irri- 

 tation outside of the personality of the 

 employer is desirable. Good tools in 

 good condition give more satisfactory 

 results because of the satisfied feeling 

 of using a machine that works well. 

 Furthermore a man does not want to 

 shoulder unjust blame so easily thrust 

 down on his shoulders. He should be 

 willing to stand reasonable criticism, but 

 not that responsibility which should rest 

 on the employer. 



Tn a general way, we have considered 

 some of the things the employee does 

 not want. The employer, of course, 

 wants his just reward for his labor, cap- 

 ital and skill. He in his turn is entitled 

 to pay for his labor like the workman. 

 He is entitled to a return from his cap- 

 ital because it is saved labor changed 

 into forms which can be used to pay for 

 the labor of saving it, and for its use 

 in furnishing employment to others not 

 easily found without its help. He is 

 entitled to a return from his business 

 ability, or we may say skill, the same 

 as the laborer wants pay for his. 



The difficulty seems to be in reach- 

 ing a just division of the product of 

 the employer and employed combined. 

 It is not the purpose of this paper to 

 suggest any method of division. It has 

 rather been to show that such compli- 

 cated relations as exist between capital 

 and labor in the employer and the em- 

 ployee require a well developed moral 

 fiber to deal justly with each other. 

 * ' An honest man is the noblest work of 

 God," is a phrase known to everyone. 

 True, the employer must be honest with 

 his men but may a man not be generally 

 considered honest and yet not arrive at 

 an absolutely square deal? By that I 

 mean that he may not consider the finan- 

 cial needs of his employees in as liberal 

 a spirit as he does his own. Every man 

 has a right to some pleasure, some oppor- 

 tunity to improve his understanding and 

 some m6ans of allowing his children an 

 education. It seems that the employer 

 would ' do well to further these ends. 

 Such a course would probably decrease 

 his profits but he should be able to find 

 a very satisfactory return from such a 

 decrease where judiciously used thus for 

 the good of society. 



Charles Albert Traendly. 



While financial considerations must, 

 from the relations of the employer and 

 the employee, be of especial importance, 

 the qualities of mind not so intimately 

 connected with the financial relations 

 must prove equally helpful to both 

 parties. Interest of a mutual kind by 

 the employer for the employee would 

 have a powerful influence toward making 

 pleasanter and better worth living the 

 life of each. 



So the man must not only be honest 

 but trusted by his men. No cause for 

 misunderstanding must be allowed to 

 creep in and destroy mutual confidence. 

 A hearty fellow feeling which cements 

 the individual efforts of the employed 

 and the employer into one efficient pro- 

 ductive whole; a unit where no waste 

 occurs through the arbitrarily used 

 power of the employer. Someone has 

 said, "I expect to pass through this 

 life but once. If therefore there is any 

 kindness I can show or any good I can 

 do to any fellow being let me do it now. 

 Let me not defer or neglect it, for I 

 shall not pass this way again." A man 

 with an honest purpose to be success- 

 ful, and holding such sentiments as these 

 quoted,^ to be used to their practical 

 limit, should make an ideal employer. 

 Such a man would realize that he was a 

 powerful force for good government. 

 He would realize his power to make 

 superfluous certain prohibitory laws gov- 

 erning employment of labor. He would 

 be a man of ideals. "Ideals are the only 

 source of growth." He might, in fact, 

 be called the ideal citizen, the man, the 

 pronu)ter of industrial efficiency, social 

 and moral progress. 



THE ASPIDISTRA. 



I suppose the__aspidistra takes an easy 

 first as the favorite house plant. It can 

 be grown even under hard unfavorable 

 conditions, but well does it repay careful 

 cultivation. For compost, nothing suits 

 it better than good, fresh, yellow loam, 

 to which has been added a little leaf- 

 mold and the same quantity of sharp 

 sand, the whole freshly mixed. If the 

 plant requires dividing the roots must be 



carefully disentangled, and it is very im- 

 portant that they be not too deeply 

 buried. These are subjects that shoukl 

 not be over-potted. I have just meas- 

 ured my uest plant. It spreads out to a 

 space of four feet from side to side. The 

 larger leaves are over two teet four 

 inches from the soil to the tip of the 

 leaf. There are thirty- two leaves in all, 

 and the whole is in an 8-inch pot. — Gar- 

 dening World. 



THE YOUNGEST WHOLESALER. 



Charles Albert Traendly, the youngest 

 wholesaler in New York and probably in 

 the country, was born July 17, 1905. He 

 is the son of Frank H. Traendly, of the 

 firm of Traendly & Schenck, and is now 

 legally a member of the firm, with an 

 actual interest in the business. Mrs. 

 Albert Small is the child's godmother 

 and Charles Schenck the godfather, hence 

 Charles Albert and the early launching 

 of the boat on the tempestuous sea of 

 New York business life. Mr. Schenck 

 gave him an interest in the business in 

 recognition of the honor of naming him. • 

 This is certainly the young man's cen- 

 tury and Dr. Osier's limit seems to be 

 bearing fruit. The wholesale section of 

 floricultural New York is full of young 

 blood but this one takes the cake. Mr. 

 Traendly has not said it is a third in- 

 terest or a half interest, but it is an 

 actual fact that the boy is " It. " 



J. Austin Sha^v. 



TROPAEOLEUMS. 



Tropseoleum speciosum, or the flame 

 nasturtium, is the despair of many grow- 

 ers, as only here and there can it be seen 

 in good condition, though everyone wants 

 to grow it. Pot roots planted deeply in 

 cool soil, in positions where the roots 

 may be kept shaded and cool while the 

 top growth can feel the sun, give the best 

 chance of success, Tropseoleum tube- 

 rosum is an excellent and quick growing 

 plant for covering unsightly walls or 

 other objects. A sandy soil is conducive 

 to flowering, and I have found it to do 

 best on an eastern aspect. — Gardeners' 

 Magazine. 



