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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NOVEMBER 16, 1899. 



AT THE HUB. 



A visit to Boston is always inter- 

 esting. Memories of that tea episode 

 some years ago, before the "Liberty" 

 rose was known and when American 

 liberty itself was young— the monu- 

 ment on Mr. Bunker's "Hill," the 

 "Common," and the narrow winding 

 streets, the parks, the wonderfully ex- 

 pensive subway, the old elms, the 

 beautiful suburbs and the many dis- 

 tinguished horticulturists of national 

 fame one meets here, all combine to 

 make one wish his duties or privi- 

 leges would bring him hither once a 

 month instead of once a year. 



Best of all from our standpoint, it 

 was the week of the "Flower Show," 

 and for once I saw something of an 

 eastern exhibition and had the oppor- 

 tunity to compare it with your efforts 

 in the western metropolis. "With fear 

 and trembling" I must assert that you 

 "take the cake." The two last mum 

 shows I have seen in Chicago over- 

 shadow the efforts of this learned cen- 

 ter by a large majority. You may 

 not have larger mums but you do 

 things on a larger scale. 



With a conservative and proverbial 

 pride these Hubbites have used the 

 same old building for the past hundred 

 years — more or less — for this Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society was 

 born over 70 years ago! 



And their modest building, in the 

 very center of this sinuous city has 

 grown in value until now it is held at 

 $800,000, and will soon be sold, for 

 already the land has been bought and 

 nearly a quarter of a million dollars 

 paid for it, and on this site in the 

 "Back Bay" section and close to the 

 great public library will be built in 

 1900 the finest and most complete hor- 

 ticultural building in the yorld. Land 

 and building together will absorb half 

 a million dollars, and then there will 

 be a comfortable surplus! 

 [Continued page 628.] 



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