Practical Floriculture; a Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists' Plants, for the Amateur And Professional Florist
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CHAPTER XXXVIII. HOW TO BECOME A FLORIST. I am often asked the question if it is necessary in order to become a florist to enter some large establishment for a few years, or whether it is possible to learn from reading only. I reply. If it can be afforded, it will be best by all means to serve at least two years in 228 PRACTICAL FLOEICULTURE. some well-conducted establishment — one that has been long enough established to have made the business a suc- cess, for the best index of ability in any ...business is suc- cess. I have said, if it can be aiforded, as for the first two years, unless a youth prove himself unusually smart, he will not likely receive more than enough to pay his board, for he is simply an apprentice under instructions, who has come with the design of leaving when he has acquired a knowledge of the trade, and just at the time that he begins to be of use to his employe^-. But to those to whom it would be inconvenient to place themselves thus under instructions, a knowledge of the business could be unquestionably obtained from books, particularly if actual practice were followed conjointly with the reading.
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