OOTOBEB 28, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



33 



Chrysanthemums ! 



Yellow, White and Pink, $1.00 to $3.0O per doz. 



Liiaiserin, extra fine flowers, from plants three to eight years old. Beauties, Killarney, White 



Killarney, Carnot, Richmond and Perle. 



Try buying direct of the grower 



\HBBICAH BKAUTUEB Per doi. 



Extra long 98.00 to 14.00 



Sdincbes 2.60 



24 incbsi •••.... 2.00 



Ulnctaea 1.60 



12 Inches 1.00 



Hy Maryland, Kali«rln, Carnot, 

 White Killarney, Rhea Reld Per 100 



Extra lonff and select $8.00 



eoodlenntaa $5.00 to 6.00 



Hediam lengtbi 4 00 



Staortitemg 8.00 



PRICE LIST 



Killarney, Bride, Ferle and Blohmond 



Per 100 



Extra lonK $6.00 to $8.00 



Goodlenctba 600 



Medium lenKthB. 4.00 



SbortBtems 8.00 



Chryaanthemnms. 



per doz.. $1.00 to $3.00 



Carnation* 



Red. 0. P. Bassett 5.00to 600 



Pink and TTbite S.OOto 6.00 



I.Uy oC the VaUey SOOto 4.00 



Per 100 



Aaparasna apraya $2.00 to $8.00 



Aaparacna atrlnsa, ea., 50c-60c 



Sprenserl 2.00 



Smllax...per doi., $1.50 to $2.00 



Adlantnm 1,00 



Oalax, bronze.... per 1000, $1.26 



Galax, Kreen " 1.26 



Fema, new crop.. " 1.60 



O. p. BASSETT 



-The Best Red Carnation* 



Large^ strongs field plants 



per 100, $J2,00 



BASSETT & WASHBURN 



"•SSWSinA. Offln and Stan, TSWabnh Ave, CHICAGO 



the average yoiing man, in many things, 

 is ahead of his father. Therefore they 

 lose all regard or reverence for the teach- 

 ings or experiences of their elders. Why, 

 forsooth, should they feel such reverence, 

 when in the daily papers and conversa- 

 tion generally they hear about the great 

 things done and discovered today, of 

 which yesterday knew nothing? This 

 mal<es the average young man look up to 

 wh.'it tomorrow will actually produce, 

 ratlier than gain knowledge from the 

 past. 



And I do not know but some of our 

 leaders in the business have discouraged 

 our young men from paying any atten- 

 tion to the customs and ways of doing 

 thii.jrg in olden times and other countries. 

 I 'ell remember my first year in this 

 CO u try, when I got hold of what was 

 considered the standard authority on how 

 to ilo things here, Peter Henderson's 

 "'Tind Book of Floriculture," I came 

 'ic. ss a statement which sort of dum- 

 ded me and made me think what I 

 been through in the old country was 

 '0 use here. He made great fun of. 

 belittled the practice of the old 

 'try gardeners of using drainage in 

 • for plants. He stated that even the 

 'St tyro, the youngest boy on the 

 <?, would look with disgust bordering 

 contempt at the practice, and it was 

 invariable custom among them, as 

 ""^n as any pot plants were unpacked 

 alter receiving them from Europe, to 

 knock them out of the pots and dump 

 ;j;vay any drainage material in the pots. 

 ''•is statement he rectified to some ex- 

 ^f'lt in a later edition of the book, ac- 

 •oiowledging his mistake, he having found 



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out by later experience that the practice 

 was not to be altogether condemned. 



Lack of Proper Training. 



I think the main trouble is, our help 

 does not get the proper training. No 

 one has the time to devote to the pur- 

 ,pose or the facilities for this, and the 

 young man of today does not have the 

 time or inclination. He wants to start 

 right in and make money at once; and 

 can you blame him when he sees some of 

 his friends in other branches of industry, 

 where machinery has a prominent place, 

 make perhaps double the wages he does 

 from the beginning f 



I admit the inducements for a young 

 man to go into training and spend 

 years to learn how to do things in our 

 profession are not very brilliant, as the 

 compensation is, even at the best, rather 

 slim compared with that in other business. 



Here, again, I find the same trouble; 

 the great inventions of power machines 

 have doubled or trebled man's earning 

 power in most industries, while in ours 

 a man is not earning — that is, he is not 

 producing — much more in a given time 

 than he did forty or fifty years ago. 

 Still, I would advise any one who has 

 any idea about making a living out of 

 this sort of work, for goodness' sake, 

 don't be satisfied to be one of the many 

 who seem to think that is all there is to 

 it. If you look upon the work as a 

 drudgery, at which you must spend so 

 many hours a day, because you must live, 

 give it up at once. Anything else is 

 better; you can earn more money and 

 have a better time outside the greenhouse. 



The man who does not feel attracted 

 or interested enough in the work to try 

 to do his best, has no business in it. He 



will only make a dismal failure of it and 

 himself. The business in itself is trying, 

 wearing and full of disappointments even 

 at its best; so that if a person can Bee 

 no other attraction about it, if he has 

 never felt the fascination there is in it, 

 or gets no enjoyment out of seeing a 

 plant or a house of plants grow and 

 develop into a thing of beauty; if, in 

 short, he simply wishes to make so much 

 money out of it, it is not worth his while 

 to spend any time trying to master any 

 of the many details. 



The Difference in Men. 



Though perhaps many of the green- 

 house employees are underpaid, still per- 

 haps most of them are paid all they are 

 worth to their employer. But if anyone 

 strives to do his best, and is honest 

 enough to always feel willing to give full 

 value for money received, there is always 

 a demand for that man's service. Men 

 who are only worth from $10 to $12 a 

 week to their employer are not scarce, 

 but men who are worth $25 or more are 

 exceedingly scarce; and I cannot under- 

 stand why, where ability and knowledge 

 are so quickly appreciated and remarked, 

 young men can be satisfied to remain in 

 the low stage of advancement. 



I remember well a place in Sweden 

 where I spent four years in company 

 with about twenty more fellows of about 

 my age. While there were no particu- 

 lar inducements in the way of an advance 

 in wages, as these were practically the 

 same under all conditions, being fixed in 

 advance as so much each year, still there 

 was competition among us; each one 

 tried to excel in something over his fel- 

 low, more for the sake of gaining the 

 respect of his comrades than for anything 



