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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Decemdek ai. l'J03. 



the old crowns anU had not been rooted 

 in sand at all, as should have been the 

 case. ' ' 



The first year's expense, including 

 material for a house 20x60, -sras $130, 

 and the receipts $260. The next season 

 $410 was spent and $640 received. The 

 third year $250 was the outgo, no addi- 

 tions being made to the glass, and the 

 income was $1,220. The fourth year a 

 new house was built and expenditures 

 were $430, with receipts of $2,700. All 

 the work of building, etc., was per- 

 formed by the partners to the yenture. 

 Tlio sash bars, etc., came from a western 

 firm, for ' ' we found we could get the 

 material and have it shipped a thousand 

 miles cheaper than it could be made for 

 us by local dealers. ' ' 

 ' ''the article shows that in the second 

 year, with average commercial stock, 

 916 plants of Marie Louise gave 21,215 

 flowers, or an average of slightly more 

 than twenty-three to the plant. At the 

 same time 1,895 plants of Lady Camp- 

 bell gave 97,485 flowers, or more than 

 fifty-one per plant. But the most inter- 

 esting feature to the trade grower is 

 the success which attended the use of 

 sand-rooted cuttings taken from care- 

 fully selected plants. The best 200 

 plants were marked with a wire stake to 

 which a shipping tag was attached for 

 recording the cut. With the use of this 



tobacco killed aphis, but brought on 

 spot. Cyanide gas was found the best 

 tumigant after its use was thoroughly 

 understood. But perhaps Messrs. Gal- 

 loway and Dorsett did not lack in the 

 foresight and attention to little things, 

 which they say is at the bottom of most 

 failures in violet growing. 



To the mind of the average trade 

 reader one sentence in Mr. Galloway's 

 very interesting article fails of the 

 proper emphasis. It is this: 



' ' Thomas Devoy & Sons are pioneers 

 in the business and have gone on suc- 

 cessfully from year to year, althougli 

 others about them have succeeded for a 

 while and failed." (The italics are 

 ours.) 



' ' Succeeded for a while and failed. ' ' 

 There's the rub. Far better were it if 

 failure came in the beginning, when 

 the place is small, the loss light and 

 youth and ambition remain to seek suc- 

 cess on some road where the end is not 

 almost certain discouragement. 



FREDERIC W. TAYLOR. 



The chief of the departments of agri- 

 culture and horticulture at the St. Louis 

 World's Fair was born in Nebraska in 

 I860, and, though widely traveled and 

 having spent two and a half years in 

 the Pan-American Exposition in Buf- 

 falo, is essentially and always a typical 



Frederic W. Taylor. 



(iuperiQtendent of Agriculture and Horticulture. St. Loui8 Exposition ) 



stock and a very small increase in the 

 number of plants the returns were prac- 

 tically doubled. The next year cuttings 

 were taken from no plants which did not 

 give at least seventy-five flowers, and 

 thei'e was a still further increase in crop. 

 This is a point worth the thought of 

 every grower. 



Mr. Galloway does not seem to have 

 enjoyed more than a mild experience 

 with the many ills which ruin other 

 growers ' crops almost in a day. He 

 says he found red spider to be controlled 

 by the hose. Heavy fumigation with 



western man, with the energy and push 

 which that term implies. His father, 

 William Taylor, was a well-known nur- 

 seryman in western Iowa, and almost 

 immediately upon reaching his majority 

 the son embarked in the business for 

 himself, at the same time managing a 

 large stock farm. In 1887 ilr. Taylor 

 was, without any knowledge on his part 

 that he was being considered, oflfered the 

 professorship of horticulture at the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska. This position he 

 accepted and held for several years, at 

 the same time carrying the organization 



and management of the farmers' insti- 

 tutes of the state and of the extension of 

 the university. 



At the Chicago World's Fair Mr. Tay- 

 lor had charge of the Nebraska horticul- 

 tural exhibit, which the chief of the de- 

 partment wrote to him was not, in his 

 opinion, excelled by any exhibit there 

 when the amount of funds available was 

 considered. A year before the Trans- 

 Mississippi Exposition opened in Omaha 

 in 1898 Mr. Taylor was appointed super- 

 intendent of agriculture and horticul- 

 ture. It is doubtful whether as good a 

 purely agricultural exhibit has ever been 

 made in tliis country. Mr. Taylor in- 

 sisted upon the use of the agricultural 

 products, grains, grasses, etc., in the in- 

 stallation, to the exclusion, so far as 

 possible, of mere showy furniture and 

 carpentry work. The result was aston- 

 ishing and most satisfactory, a.<! showing 

 the fine results easily obtained by the 

 artistic use of the materials mentioned. 



At the Pan-American Exposition Mr. 

 Taylor was the first exposition man se- 

 cured. The committee on concessions 

 requested his appointment, and he was 

 placed in charge of that department 

 nearly two years before the opening day. 

 When the director-general was appoint- 

 ed he desired to place in Mr. Taylor's 

 charge agriculture, horticulture, forestry 

 and live stock, but the concessions com- 

 mittee was not willing to release him 

 from their department. So a compro- 

 mise was effected, under which he be- 

 came director of concessions and super- 

 intendent of horticulture, forestry and 

 foods and their accessories. The expo- 

 sition sent Mr. Taylor to Paris to gain 

 some desired information, and he has 

 made several visits to Europe and Mex- 

 ico, 



In spite of the fact that the exposi- 

 tion was a failure financially, Mr. Tay- 

 lor's acute business ability is well illus- 

 trated by the fact that the concessions 

 produced at least fifteen per cent more 

 money to the exposition iu proportion to 

 the paid attendance than did the same 

 department in Cliicago, uliich held tlie 

 previous record. The horticultural ex- 

 hibit was one of the pronounced suc- 

 cesses of the exposition, and was largely 

 due to the foresight exercised by the 

 superintendent in selecting his lieuten- 

 ants and arranging for the splendid plant 

 exhibit outside, for the cold storage of 

 fruit of the previous year's crop, that 

 the exhibit might be full and complete 

 during the entire period of the exposi- 

 tion. 



At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 will be presented by far the greatest op- 

 portunity of the world 's history to make 

 a magnificent display of the products of 

 the soil, and Mr. Taylor is enthusiastic 

 in the belief that as the possibilities be- 

 come apparent those wlio iiuist be depend- 

 ed upon to do tlie greater part of it will 

 not only rise to the occasion, but in 

 every way surpass an3'thing ever done in 

 the history of expositions. The success 

 of the horticultural department is be- 

 yond question, all the leading firms hav- 

 ing already applied for space and a 

 great quantity of outdoor exhibits being 

 already in the ground, with everything 

 adding to the number. 



Fort Madison. Ia. — On the night of 

 Doccmber 21 fire destroyed Carl Boll 's 

 carnation house and badly damaged the 

 ros'; liouse, destroying much stock. The 

 loss is estimated at $2,500 aiul no insur- 

 ance. 



