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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



ble to apply a small quantity ]■< 

 benching, working it in deeply, or, le-i- 

 tcr still, sprinkled on a laye) ot 



iMin when filling the bench as 

 in\ notes of June 11. 

 I'nui 



,- besl to have no needless fer- 



soil, anil cspi-riall- . ' I ■ ■ ■ 1 1 1 



during the time the efforts of 



towards 



idaptin ■ ni I ir 



, ,., , iall; '• ' i' dealing 



imp: of distut I 



n hen liftii g i ' ""■■<' i i"; "' 



- in getting restored to perfeel 

 root action, as the constant aim should 

 <,„. ,,, m:i i 11 1 :i i ii ilir proper balance be- 



I supply and plant requii 



:it all times. 



With this end in view ami your knowl- 

 edge of soil constituents when prepared, 

 housing, size anil health of plants 

 and conditions generally, you "ill I"' 

 able to decide when and what course to 

 pursue. Our plan is to apply when the 



ration for the 

 rtilizing quali 

 or two subse 



,- them within 



quent wati 



reach of tl 



Of cours 



if your so 



orde 



ool needed 

 S a similar 



it may serve an end of like nature. 



There is a great difference in the value 

 of the various brands of bone meal or 



Gi 



S. OSBORX. 



MR. CARMODY'S HUMOR. 

 1m my attempt to recall some of the 

 features nf the late convention I failed 



to mention Mr. Belzebub Carmody's st 



amusing address. I know that won't 

 trouble my friend in the least, but there 

 was one remark I take exception to. 



,|.|, 



say tha 

 edotes, 



hearer enjoyed 

 and the large, 

 - that amuse- 



i ■ a i the i m .- 1 1 1 1 1 

 is propel am" 



ii mine than the write 



attentive audience pro 



men! and met rimenl ai 



i r % are looking for. Tl 



natural ; we do lots of hard thinking and 



working at home. V\ e do not assembli 



a a 01 niy to discuss the transit o 



Venus, or woman suffrage, or the propa 



gation of the gospel in foreign parts. 



A feature like the address from Posei 

 Count's was most welcome. Mr. Carmod} 



always good story tellers, and good story 

 tellers are by no means always wits. 

 What I take issue with is \ii. Carmodj 's 

 statement (of course, borrowed) that it 



takes a s U igi.al operation to get a joke 

 into an Englishman. If he had said a 

 Scotchman he would not have been so 

 far wrone. There is a dry humor about 



oki 



there is a much more diversifii 

 character in the Scot than in tl 

 man, so we won't enlarge on 



merely say that we k I seve 



men who km-ely enjoj a Juki 1 

 and it takes no trepanning ol 

 iums to let it in. 



The} sai the French are wit 

 less so, but unless we unders 

 the original it ea I be a 



pure wit. And "Pat" cares tittle whethei 

 the laugh is on him or the other fellow, 

 so long as he can give a ready, quick- 

 witted reply. But besl of all l' like the 



It certainly did not come from 

 landers, who settled New York. 

 accuses them of being witty. 

 so numerous and prominent n 

 been coming here only for the ] 

 vears. There were, a few seatte 



1.,-fo 



isiiing long before that, so n net e 

 get I he foundation of our w il .' ' 

 realize that tin-re is a prolific and 



Members of St Louis Florists' Club at fc. Winters' Place, Kirkwood, Mo., July 9, 1903. 

 (Photo by Mia H. G. Bernlner.) 



held of character in this 

 day, from which to draw 

 story and joke. The i ii f 

 negro, the lately emani 



all. 



native, shrewd, sharp wit, and il came 

 from New England and it was carried to 

 the shores of New England by old 1 3n ■■ 

 lishmeii from the land that produced 

 Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Charles Lamb, 

 Sidney Smith. Thaikeiy. the immortal 

 Dickons and thousands more of witty 

 men. Read Jerome K. Jerome's little 



I k. "Three .Men in the Boat, not to 



inriiiii.n the dog." and see, Mr. Car- 

 mody, it you will say again what you 

 said at Milwaukee. Even if your origi- 

 nal \.it and jokes do deal largely with 

 Skepticism of the infernal regions, brim- 

 stone and sulphur, I love to listen to 

 vou. W. S. 



SUBSTITUTES FOR COAL. 



Their Compirative Efficiency in Use. 



;ton, n. c. 



.ph. 



of 



where it n-presents the 

 Hi. uis of dollars capital 

 n of an army of people. 

 a scarcity of fuel tt is 

 ible for the management of the mill or 

 jrv to suspend operations, draw fires 

 water from the l.oilers. and close down 

 an indefinite period without particular 

 except in the delai 

 so with the grower i 



og orders. 



if greenhouse prod 

 lack of fuel for a 

 e hour in excessively cold weather 



result in the loss of his entire stock. 



fact places the florist in a much more 

 •nl position during a fuel famine than 

 lis neighbors, the manufacturers. 



is an old saving thai "history repeals 

 '," and the past has shown that differ 

 s occasionally arise between capital and 

 ■ and these invariably result in a short- 

 rf some of their products. There is no 

 t but that there is plenty of fuel in 



country to last for generations, but 

 re has stored it many miles from where 



Las contrived to use it. and emergen- 

 must be provided for. For general use 

 ost localities, and under ordinary con- 

 ns, there is no fuel that will compare 



cal, either in price or results, 

 the time and space allotted I will 

 avor to point out some of the methods 

 ■ebv a temporary shortage of coal may 

 ridged over, together with descriptions 

 pc. ial appliances used In conn 



Coal, the Standard. 



As coal is the principal sourc 



production of artificial heal, and 



as It remains the prim Ipal - -.i' 



naturally adopt it lis the standard 

 to measure all other fuels In m 



re will 

 winch 

 r then 



that we ma 

 ..I' the 



