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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1913 



CROWDS 



C.A Book for Individuals 



By GERALD STANLEY LEE 



Author of "Inspired Millionaires", etc. 



IN "CROWDS" Mr. Lee starts off with the idea that the basis of 

 success in the modern business man turns on his power of touching 



the imaginations of "Crowds." He then proceeds to tell how busi- 

 ness men are doing it. No man who is interested in salesmanship can 

 afford to be without " Crowds " — and no man who is interested in the 

 way big business is going in this country. 



There is nothing bookish about Mr. Lee. His volume is full of shops 

 and people, and is written largely in scenes. One almost forgets it's a 

 book. It is so like a play. It is like going down a kind of Street of 

 Thought. So many things happen to one while one is reading, and one 

 meets so many people — Mr. Carnegie, Mr. Morgan and many unnamed 

 powers in business. 



Some of the Chapter Headings 



Crowds and Machines 



Where Are We Going? 



The Crowd Scare 



The Machine Scare 



The Strike — an Invention for Making 

 Crowds Think 



The Crowdman — an Invention for Mak- 

 ing Crowds See 



The Imagination of Crowds 



The Crowd's Imagination About the 



Future 

 The Crowd's Imagination About People 

 Doing As One Would Wish One Had 



Done in 20 years 

 The Prospects of the Liar 

 The Prospects of the Bully 

 Goodness or Honesty as a Crowd 



Process 



Net $1.35 



Thoughts on Being Improved by Other 

 People 



Touching the Imaginations of Crowds 



The Stupendous, the Unusual, the Monot- 

 onous 



The Successful 



The Necks of the Wicked 



Is It Wrong for Good People to be Suc- 

 cessful? 



Doubleday, Page & Company 



Garden City New York 



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found the best receptacle for holding peonies in the 

 cellar, awaiting their development, to be tall, earth- 

 enware, florists' vases, to be bought at any pottery. 

 These are far better than pails, because they support 

 the stems and the blossoms do not need to touch 

 each other. 



HOW TO PACK THE FLOWERS 



Flat pasteboard boxes, 3 inches deep, and about 

 16 by 20 inches long and broad, have to be bought 

 or begged or stolen. Also a quire or so of white 

 tissue paper and plenty of pins. Then begins the 

 fun. Take a bloom, cut the stem 8 to 10 inches 

 long, and strip off the lower leaves. This robs the 

 spray of all its grace, but the rules of the show 

 call for single blooms, not sprays or stems; and 

 this method, as we have often proved, best enables 

 us to carry the blooms without injury. 



Then take the bloom in your hand, and draw up 

 the soft, loose, spreading petals as nearly as you can 

 into the position they occupied when the flower was 

 a bud. Even when the flat outer guard petals have 

 spread quite back against the stem, you can, by a 

 little care, restore them to their former upright over- 

 lapping position. And it is the only way to carry 

 the flowers without creasing the petals. 



Meanwhile, you will have cut your tissue paper 

 into strips two inches or so wide and about a foot 

 long. With the flower held in your hand (squeezed 

 as nearly as possible into the likeness of its bud 

 form), wind a strip of the tissue close about it 

 several times and pin it lightly to hold it on. You 

 will soon learn the trick, and learn too how many 

 blooms packed in this rather tight fashion, and then 

 laid in layers in both directions in your flat boxes, 

 can be carried easily and far more safely than if 

 laid in loosely. We carried our 150 blooms to the 

 show in Ithaca this past year, in eight boxes of the 

 size I have described. Tied into bundles of four 

 these were not too much for even a woman to carry 

 easily. 



Of course you can put slats over your pasteboard 

 boxes and send them by express, but if you really 

 savor the sport you will go yourself to carry them; 

 for letting them out of your hands means just the 

 risk that you won't take if you mean to give your 

 flowers their best chance to win. If you can take 

 them by motor, happier you; but I can say from 

 experience that neither long train nor trolley ride 

 offers any difficulty, provided the boxes are handled 

 with gentleness by their owner. 



Arrived at your destination, you probably have 

 a hot night in a hotel ahead of you. The blooms 

 have to be placed in water, and the best thing one 

 can generally manage on short notice is the hiring 

 of a number of pails, keeping them if possible in 

 the cellar, or if that is not a purchasable privilege, 

 in a bath room over night. Let the stems down into 

 the water, keeping their wrappings on the blooms 

 just as they are; don't let the wrappings get touched 

 with water, however, or a brown spot on the petals 

 in the morning will prove your carelessness. Aside 

 from this, the closer you can pack the flower stems 

 into a pail the better, for the wrapped blooms will 

 support each other and prevent contact with the 

 fatal water. 



Some of the blooms, in order to make out your 

 " 25 kinds," or your "at least six flesh-colored varie- 

 ties," you may have had to bring in undeveloped 

 condition; in one or two cases, tight buds, perhaps. 

 Take these out of their papers, and set them in the 

 warmest spot you can find — a shelf near a kitchen 

 stove, a table under a hot kerosene lamp, in the 

 morning a window ledge to catch all the morning 

 sun. You will be amazed how much difference you 

 can make, with warm forcing like this, on the most 

 unpromising looking buds. 



I remember the discouragement with which I 

 went to my first show with fourteen half developed 

 blooms — all that a cold season had accorded me 

 by the time set for the exhibition. All were small, 

 and two of them looked utterly hopeless, yet I had 

 to use them in order to make my exhibit sufficiently 

 large to show at all. The night before the show I 

 spent at the house of a friend, and remember grate- 

 fully with what sympathetic excitement, on the 

 morning of the exhibition, her cook hung with me 

 over those two buds placed on a shelf in the kitchen 

 near the range and in the sun, while they slowly 

 opened out layer after layer. When you win 

 after an experience like that, it isn't with the callous 



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