. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 245. A WELL FLO^VERED SPECIMEN OF CATTLEYA MOSSIjE. two of them. But by far the greatest variation of the price of the plants comes from the quality of the goods bought, and the ability of the col- lector. Two collectors may be work- ing close by each other, and one of them is paying half the price the other is paying for the same plants, and the assertion, that at times the fellow who pays the lower price gets the best plants, sounds like a yarn. In the first place, if two collectors w
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. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 245. A WELL FLO^VERED SPECIMEN OF CATTLEYA MOSSIjE. two of them. But by far the greatest variation of the price of the plants comes from the quality of the goods bought, and the ability of the col- lector. Two collectors may be work- ing close by each other, and one of them is paying half the price the other is paying for the same plants, and the assertion, that at times the fellow who pays the lower price gets the best plants, sounds like a yarn. In the first place, if two collectors work in the same district, and one of them gets the cheap plants, the man who pays more gets the pick. In the second place, a collector may be buy- ing rubbish at a high price, while the other fellow discovers a new district and picks and chooses, for half or one- third of what the other is paying. So, in orchids, it is not the price paid at the markets that makes quality, but the ability of the collectors. How can it then be possible to fix a market price for orchids? The firm that employs its own collectors risks its money, as there are many enemies of orchids. The firms that buy from dealers risk nothing. They pay if the plants reach them in good condition, and therefore, have to pay a much higher price for them. This explains why plants of the same variety, on the same steamer, are invoiced at different values. One firm collects them, the other buys them, naturally, they pay different prices. Now there is another question. If the firms l^iat buy their plants from dealers invoice them at the standard value, apparently they are beating Uncle Sam, but if they would invoice the plants at the price they pay f. o. b. at the port of shipment, they would be undersold by the firms that have their own collectors, or by the col- lectors themselves. Again, the collec- tors sell their plants at a much higher price than what they .ire invoiced at. If he sells f. o. b. Colombian, Bra- zili