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Januaky 9, 1908. 



TTie Weekly Florists' Review* 



THE BALTIMORE EXCHANGE. 



One of the most successful of the many 

 efforts made by growers to place the mar- 

 keting of their product on a cooperative 

 ba43is is that made by the growers in the 

 vicinity of Baltimore. It was in 1890 

 that the Baltimore Florists' Exchange 

 was incorporated and it has therefore 

 entered upon its eighteenth year, which 

 places it among the most venerable of 

 these florists' organizations. 



Business was begun on Liberty street, 

 Baltimore, in a small basement, which 

 later was abandoned for a location across 

 the way, where a street floor was avail- 

 able. For a time the market was located 

 on Park avenue and later, when larger 

 quarters again were in need, the exchange 

 was removed to Eutaw street. After the 

 several removals, when greater facilities 



tains a storage vault 20x33 and there is 

 a cool room of half this size on the main 

 floor for cut flowers. 



The officers of the corporation are: 

 President, E. A. Seidewitz; vice-presi- 

 dent, F. C. Bauer ; treasurer, W. G. Lehr ; 

 secretary, C. E. Akehurst ; directors, I. H. 

 Moss, William Feast, J. M. Eider; man- 

 ager, John J. Perry. 



Nearly all these officials are well known 

 to the trade, the president of the corpora- 

 tion having been mayor of Annapolis, 

 Md., where his greenhouses and nursery 

 are located. He has a retail flower store 

 at 323 North Charles street in Baltimore, 

 and is in addition one of Baltimore's 

 enthusiastic bowlers, so he is identified 

 with practically every branch of trade 

 activity. Manager Perry, upon whom 

 much of the success of the exchange 



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John J. Perry. 



once more became necessary the manage- 

 ment concluded that the best thing to do 

 was to erect a suitable building and one 

 which should anticipate the needs of the 

 future. The plan finally bore fruit last 

 year in the erection of the building shown 

 in the pictures on pages 8 and 9, which 

 was put up at a cost of $30,000. It is 

 paid for and the corporation on a divi- 

 dend basis. 



While the btisiness has grown steadily 

 throughout the life of the exchange, the 

 increase in the last few years was par- 

 ticularly rapid and since occupying its 

 new building a still greater increase has 

 been noted. A large number of both 

 growers and retailers in the Baltimore 

 district are stockholders and in addition 

 to providing ample facilities for handling 

 the business in cut flowers, plants and 

 supplies, a hall was provided for the use 

 of the Baltimore Gardeners ' and Florists ' 

 Club in the second story. The pictures 

 show the salesroom. The basement con- 



depends, has devoted all his time to its 

 interests for many years, and is capable 

 of holding up his end in any company of 

 wholesalers. 



THRIPS ON BEDDING PLANTS. 



Please advise me as to the best rem- 

 edy for thrips on bedding plants, what 

 to use to get rid of them and how to use 

 it. My house is 18x100 feet. F. T. 



Fumigation with tobacco smoke is the 

 sovereign remedy for thrips. If they 

 have secured a good foothold on your 

 plants I would advise fumigating on al- 

 ternate days for a week, not giving too 

 strong doses. This should clean the pests 

 out pretty well, but it will be necessary 

 to give fumigations once a week or you 

 will soon be in trouble again. Diluted 

 tobacco extracts used through a force 

 pump are effective and in the case of a 

 batch of badly affected plants it may be 



well to adopt this remedy. Fir tree oil, 

 seal oil and whale oil soap may all be 

 used for the same purpose. Clear water 

 from the hose applied through a spray 

 nozzle is also one of the best preventives 

 of thrips. Attend to the fumigations, 

 ply the hose freely among your plants 

 during favorable weather and avoid a 

 dry atmosphere and thrips will soon 

 cease troubling you. C. W. 



COMPETITION, FAIR AND FOUL. 



[A paper by S. S. Skldelsky, of PhUadelphla, 

 read before the Philadelphia Florists' Clab Janu- 

 ary 7, 1908.] 



Competition, it is claimed, is the life 

 of trade, and so perhaps it is, providing, 

 of course, that the "live and let live" 

 principle is not lost sight of. 



It is an axiomatic ^ruth, and we are 

 beginning to realize it, to some extent at 

 least, that success in its broader sense 

 hinges not upon the failure of others but 

 upon the general welfare and prosperity 

 of the community. 



The idea that one man's failure con- 

 stitutes another man's success, or vice 

 versa, as we have been led to believe by 

 those whose vision is circumscribed by 

 the ramifications of their pocketbooks, 

 has long since been relegated, in theory 

 at least, to the rubbish heap of similar 

 fallacies, having no foundation in fact. 

 The infamous financier, for example, 

 who attempted to corner the gold mar- 

 ket and succeeded in plunging the coun- 

 try into a panic, was no more of a suc- 

 cess in life than the savage in the jun- 

 gle who strangles his antagonist in order 

 to possess himself of a few brass trin- 

 kets. Both are dismal failures, notwith- 

 standing the apparent ascendency of 

 might over right. 



The progressive business man of today 

 is inclined to take a broader and more 

 rational view of business conditions and 

 business opportunities. It begins to 

 dawn upon him that the fundamental 

 principle underlying the success of any 

 enterprise, great or small, must first of 

 all be sound in itself, else no enterprise 

 can possibly endure. 



Power of Public Opinion. 



Go where one may and look where 

 we choose, the signs of the times point 

 clearly to a general awakening of public 

 conscience, to a general revival of that 

 spirit of justice which, since times im- 

 memorial and throughout the whole range 

 of history, both ancient and modern, was 

 never known to fail in its struggle for 

 a worthy cause. 



The Standard Oil Co., well-nigh a king- 

 dom and a law unto itself ; the tobacco 

 trust, the beef trust, and many another 

 corporation of questionable repute, whose 

 colossal fortunes were amassed at the 

 expense of an indifferent and patient 

 people, and who defied public opinion 

 and strangled competition by means that 

 were foul and methods that were adverse 

 to the public welfare — all these are called 

 to account at last. Their day of reck- 

 oning seems to have come. A mighty 

 avalanche of public opprobrium, which 

 has been gathering momentum for some 

 time, bids fair to sweep down and hurl 

 itself upon the heads of the malefactors 

 with a force that will be crushing in its 

 effect. "Fair play" and "a square 

 deal ' ' seem to be the cry of the hour. 



We seem to realize at last that the 

 "corrupt man of business," to quote 

 President Boosevelt, "is as great a foe 

 to the country as the corrupt politician. ' ' 

 We hear it also from the pulpit, at the 



