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VOL. VI AUGUST 24, 1907 NO. 8 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— F. H. Traendly, President-Elect 

 Society of American Florists 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNA- 

 MENTAL HORTICULTURISTS 

 The President's Address— W. W. Castle, Portrait. . 245 



Harry Bunyard. Sergeant-at-Arms, Portrait 246 



Robert Craig. Edwin Lonsdale, John Burton, 



Portraits 247 



Secretary's Report 248 



Treasurer's Report — The President's Reception — 

 Wednesday's Session — Bedding Plants, Where and 



How to Use Them, Alois Frey 249 



Next Year at Niagara Falls— The Trip to River- 

 ton — Thursday's Session — Horticulture in the 



Public Schools. E. V. Hallock 251 



Horticultural Education, J. K. M. L. Farquhar 252 



The Exhibition 253 



NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 FRANCE — C. Harman Payne 255 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 255 



SMALL FRUIT AND FIELD CROP OUTLOOK IN 

 NEW YORK— H. R. Peachey 256 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SHOW— Thomas Bunyard 261 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Association o£ Park Superintendents — 

 New Orleans Horticultural Society — Greenwich 

 Gardeners' Society — American Apple Growers' 

 Congress — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 262 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 263 



Florists' Hail Association of America 272 



Lenox Horticultural Society — Association of Amer- 

 ican Cemetery Superintendents — Club and Society 

 Notes 273 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo. Indianapolis, Philadelphia. Wash- 

 ington 265 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal 255 



Movements of Gardeners 256 



Catalogues Received 256 



Obituary 261 



Incorporated 265 



Business Changes 265 



News Notes 205, 273 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 274 



ULTURE 



August 24, 1907 



Our New York contemporary fails to see 



"Own your any merit in otir suggestion that the flor- 



home." ists' clubs and other local horticultural 



bodies should try to secure and own per- 

 manent meeting places and finds nothing in the history 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society to encour- 

 age such a course. The arguments advanced by our 

 contemporary are noticeable particularly for their pessi- 

 mistic flavor and after reading them one cannot but 

 congratulate the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 on the fact that in the days of its modest beginnings it 

 was not hampered in its enterprise and foresight by 

 such influences. The Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society has been a po-wer for good in many ways not the 

 least of which is the excellent example it has set for 

 other organizations to follow in their financial policy. 

 The suggestion that such a course is not practicable for 

 a florists' club because of the presumed limited resources 

 of the members thereof is too infantile to deserve serious 

 notice. No business man needs to be told how to pro- 

 ceed to secure gTOund and have a building erected 

 thereon on ea=y terms of payment. If the New York 

 Florists' Club, for instance, had done something of this 

 kind, with a reasonable foresight as to land values, say 

 ten years ago, there can be but one conclusion as to 

 what the outcome would have been. 



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