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The Weekly FIorists^Review♦ 



Dbcbmbeb 15, 1910. 



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[OR the convenience of our customers we have made arrangements 

 to handle all orders on short notice, and will be open day and 

 night until December 24th. We have three telephones; two Bell, Walnut 

 2277 and Walnut 2278, and one Keystone, Race 1682. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



1189 Arch Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Banstead street December 15. The new 

 quarters will enable Mr. Beid to handle 

 his increasing business with greater 

 facility; the same amount of effort will 

 secure results in less time. 



Edward Beid opened for business 

 March 4, 1894, in the basement of the 

 corner at Sixteenth and Banstead 

 streets, moving to 1526 Banstead street 

 in October of the following year, where 

 he has remained until now, in quarters 

 that were especially prepared for him. 

 Mr. Beid was a pioneer in an important 

 feature in the wholesaling of cut flow- 

 ers. He believed that the plan then in 

 vogue of pooling the products of the 

 growers of the same variety of flower 

 and then dividing the returns among 

 them was unfair because it gave the 

 best returns to the grower who produced 

 the most flowers rather than to the 

 grower who produced the finest flowers. 

 To quote Mr. Beid's own words: 

 "Labor is cheap, but brains come 

 high. ' ' He commenced the now prevail- 

 ing plan of crediting each grower with 

 what he actually produced in each 

 grade, instead of pooling the whole. 

 This plan encourages effort to secure 

 quality. 



It may not be generally known that 

 Mr. Beid's intimate knowledge of the 

 growing of cut flowers is derived from 

 nine years' work with Charles F. Price, 

 one of the early rose growers of Lans- 

 downe. Pa. Mr. Beid was the first 

 grower to see the value of wire stakes 

 which have now been adopted every- 

 where, in place of the then popular 

 bamboo stake. 



A Steady Advance. 



Two paragraphs that have appeared 

 recently in this column, under the head 

 of "Various Notes," are specially in- 

 teresting and may prove instructive to 

 those young men who are wondering 

 whether there is a chance for them as 

 florists. These paragraphs both re- 

 ferred to Stephen Mortensen, of South- 

 ampton. The first chronicled his return 

 and that of Mrs. Mortensen from a 

 short trip to Europe; the second, his 

 possession of a Buick motor car. 



It is not so very long ago that 

 Stephen Mortensen came to Philadel- 

 phia from the west. He was a hard 

 worker, with muscle and brain, thor- 

 oughly in love with his profession, and, 

 most important of all, he understood the 

 value of money as few of us under- 

 stand it. When the time came that he 

 had saved enough money to start in 

 business for himself, Mr. Mortensen laid 

 and carried out his plans with pru- 

 dence and foresight. He selected his 

 ground, built his houses and chose his 

 commission merchants so well that he 

 has never had cause to regret or to 



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Shipping Tags, Etc^ 



on your packages with. . . • 



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 THICK, STICKY PASTE. 



1 lb. Instanter + 9 lbs. odd water does the work. 



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BiNNEY & SMITH CO., 83 Fulton SL, NEW YORK, li Y. 



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KUSIK-ECKHARDT COMPANY 



WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS ind SDITLIES 



Manufacturers of Florists* Wire Desig^ns 

 HOLLT AND GREEN 



214-16 Norfli FiHIi Street, 



MINNEAPOLIS, MINN* 



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