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October 20, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



103 



Let's See the Game 



The football season is on. Most florists only consider football a 

 good excuse for selling Mums. The big, sturdy, fuzzy headed fel- 

 lows look just like the players themselves. They are the appro- 

 priate thing to wear, sure enough. We ought to push them. They 

 are just as necessary to the success of the day as the yell leader, the 

 waving pennants and the pretty girls. 



But the biggest thing in the game to me is the display of "class 

 spirit." That thing that makes the player forget self, and, for the 

 honor of his university, drives him to the uttermost limit of human 

 strength and endurance, makes him forget mud, and cold, and wet, 

 and pain, and, perchance, after he has given all, we see him carried 

 weeping from the field because he has no more to give. 



We feel that way sometimes about the flower business. We, too, 

 would win a big victory if we forgot self and played for the good of 

 the class. It hurts the chances of the team when one player drops 

 out. One misplay may lose the game — an order forgotten, a train 

 missed, stale flowers delivered, a box badly packed, an article mis- 

 represented — all poor plays ; they weaken the team. What you do 

 in Maine matters to the man in Missouri. We are trying hard to 

 play the game here in California. We are watching things mighty 

 close this season, our growing and grading, our packing and pric- 

 ing. Our Mums and Roses and Cyclamens are sure the line- 

 bucking kind. 



Let's all play the game this year. Don't let's leave any weak spots 

 in our line, and don't forget to send your check to Mr. John Young 

 in New York City. He is advertising our game for us. 



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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



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