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H. E. Holden of the American Nursery Company of 

 New York City, points out the necessity of a good loca- 

 tion for the nursery when he says, *'When properly fol- 

 lowed up, it can be made an enormously paying adjunct 

 to any florist business, providing, of course, it is located 

 well and not Vay back in the sticks' where nobody can 

 find it." 



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Another line of thought is well expressed in what is 

 said by the F. & F. Nurseries of Springfield, N. J., of which 

 the veteran nurseryman, Carl H. Flemer, is proprietor: 

 *'The florist," they say, ''can certainly conduct a landscape 

 department with his own business and make a success 

 of it locally. He must not imagine, however, that this 

 business will be a success if he tries to do it at odd times. 

 He must make a regular department of it with someone 

 at the head to run it for him or who can at least take and 

 execute his orders. By pushing this end of his business 

 and properly preparing for it, he will find there will be 

 nice profit in it if it is conducted right." 



R. M. Wyman of the well-known Framingham (Mass.) 

 Nurseries writes, in part, ''Undoubtedly the nursery busi- 

 ness would be a valuable addition to a florist's business, 

 particularly the retail florist's." 



The requirements for success in this business are 

 summed up by the D. Hill Nursery Company, Dundee, 

 111., when it says, "The florist growers who have suffi- 

 cient room and are located in the residential sections are 

 best qualified to handle nursery stock as a side line." 



Although their viewpoint is that of a nursery company 

 entering the florist business, there is food for thought in 

 the following quotation from the letter of the Elm City 

 Nursery Company of New Haven, Conn.: "It seems to 



