Chapter II 



WHAT OTHER NURSERYMEN ADVISE 



IT may be interesting as well as instructive for the 

 person who is contemplating the establishment of a 

 nursery to know what the leaders in the nursery field 

 think of the small nursery conducted as an adjunct to the 

 florist business. As many years ago as 1906 the late Wil- 

 liam Scott, in his '^Manual/' urged florists to take up 

 nursery work, if only in a small way. And today the 

 optimistic Fritz Bahr keeps hammering away at the same 

 idea in his Week's Work Department of The Florists 

 Exchange and Horticultural Trade World, 



In quoting the nurserymen who have written to the 

 author on the subject of nursery work it may be well to 

 divide the quotations into logical groups, rather than 

 to quote the letters as a whole. The first chapter of this 

 book was the discussion of the advisability of running 

 a small nursery, and on this subject Jackson & Perkins, 

 Newark, N. Y. — among the greatest of the wholesale 

 nurserymen — write, ''We have always thought that local 

 florists were neglecting very profitable fields in not giving 

 more attention to the nursery business.'' 



''The introduction of nursery sales into the florist's 

 business is a great hobby of mine," we are told by Theo. 

 V . Borst of the American Forestry Company, Boston. 

 "What I am recommending is already being done with 

 considerable success and I look to a great enlargement of 

 business for the florists . . . from this source." 



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