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HOBTICULTUKE 



April 26, 1913 



cost price by the superintendent of the 

 S. A. F. exhibits. 



Please get busy and help us to make 

 the exhibition garden of the S. A. F. a 

 great success. 



Even at this date several growers 

 have taken space to assist in making 

 this outdoor exhibition the succe-ss it 

 deserves to be. 



National Trial Ground for Roses. 



President Farquhar has appointed 

 W. F. Gude, F. R. Pierson and Wal- 

 lace R. Pierson a committee to repre- 

 sent the S. A. F. in the proposal to es- 

 tablish a national trial ground for 

 roses at Washington, by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and 

 do what they think best to further the 

 project either in the name of the S. 

 A. P. or in conjuncion with any other 

 societies that may be interested. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



.John Bauscher, Freeport. 111., offers 

 for registration the following plant: 



Name — American Beauty Geranium. 

 (Zonal Pelargonium.) 



Description — American Beauty Ger- 

 anium originated in a novelty collec- 

 tion. It is a vigorous grower. Stocky 

 in growth; has a more bushy habit 

 than others. Its foliage is of a green 

 with a brown zone in leaf, leaf slight- 

 ly corrugated; it grows about 12 to 1.5 

 inches high. The form of the flower 

 is similar to that of S. A. Nutt, differ- 

 ing in color, which is that of an Amer- 

 ican Beauty rose. 



John Yoltxg. Sec. 



March 10, 1913. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



The above society gained sixteen 

 new members at National Flower 

 Show, from states, as follows: New 

 York, 7; Massachusetts, 3; Kansas, 2; 

 Washington, D. C, 1; Connecticut, 1; 

 Pennsylvania, 1: Maine, 1. Thanks 

 are given all working S. A. F. ladles. 

 Mrs. Chas. H. M.^y.n'ARD. Sec. 



Omitted from last week's report of 

 awards in Trade Exhibit Sections; a 

 certificate of merit to Coldwell Lawn 

 Mower Co., Newburgh, N. Y., for Im- 

 proved Lawn Mower. 



A NEW FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The Kirkwood. Mo., florists got to- 

 gether the past week, the occasion be- 

 ing a two days' visit of Ant. Zvo^anek 

 of Lompoc, Cal., the sweet pea spec- 

 ialist. H. Gross and .loe Hauser. a 

 committee of the Kirkwood florists, 

 took the gentleman in charge and 

 made all the rounds of interest. On 

 Saturday a meeting was called at the 

 Eleven Mile House and hear a lecture 

 on sweet peas by Mr. Zvolanek and 45 

 florists responded. Fred Ude, Jr., as 

 presiding officer, introduced Mr. Zvol- 

 anek. The lecture took up an hour 

 and the party was then invited to a 

 fine lunch, after which Mr. Tide intro- 

 duced Frank Vennemann to act as 

 temporary chairman and John Connon 

 as temporary secretary, and this was 

 the first step to organize the St. Louii 

 County Florist Club. A meeting is 

 called for Thursday, April 24, at the 

 same hall, to complete organization. 



oiw§]Alior<i]y J . 



Saturday, April 26, is Arl)or Day in 

 Massachusetts this year. 



Minneapolis, the seat of this year's 

 convention of the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists, is essentially a manufacturing 

 city. It ranks fourteenth among all 

 the industrial centers of the country. 

 Its manufacturers have an annual pro- 

 duction representing in value $548 for 

 every man, woman and child in the 

 city. The development of manufactur- 

 ing in Minneapolis, however, has not 

 been accomplished at the expense of 

 its natural beauties. On the other 

 hand, the wealth of scenery with 

 which nature so generously endowed 

 the city has been preserved and has 

 exerted a beneficial effect upon the up- 

 building of the manufacturing busi- 

 ness. There are no "sweat shops" or 

 slums in the city. Its manufacturing 

 establishments are models of modern 

 construction, with plenty of light and 

 air. 



The first industry to engage Min- 

 neapolis was the reduction of the 

 great pine forest of the State to lum- 

 ber. The Fall of St. Anthony with 

 their tremendous energy were har- 

 nessed and made to turn the saws. 

 With the settlement of the fertile coun- 

 try surrounding the city and its plant- 

 ing to grain the falls were made to 

 revolve the millstones, which turned 

 the grain into flour and meal. 



Long before the forests had dimin- 

 ished perceptibly and marked the 

 waning of the lumber industry Min- 

 neapolis had provided itself with 

 other manufacturing plants to take 

 the place of the saw mills. A variety of 

 industries began to surround the falls 

 and to make use of the power gener- 

 ated by them. The manufacturers 

 have multiplied and their products 

 have increased until now nearly every- 

 thing within the range of necessity 

 and a large number of so-called luxu- 

 ries are produced by Minneapolis 

 manufacturers, and their products find 

 their way into the remotest parts of 

 the world. Flour blazed the path for 

 the other manufactured articles and 

 it remains the chief product of Min- 

 neapolis. The brands of its great 

 milling companies are known iu near- 

 ly every household in the civilized 

 world. Linseed products, textiles, 

 machinery and a long list of other 

 manufactured wares are sharing the 

 prominence gained by the city's flour 

 in the markets of the globe. 



Visitors to Minneapolis find St. An- 

 thony Falls and the grain mills which 

 line both banks of the river at that 

 point one of the interesting "Things 

 to See." The mills have a combined 

 capacity of 84,000 barrels of flour per 

 day. "The largest flour mill in the 

 world stands among this group of 

 grain producers. Minneapolis has the 

 largest grain elevators and they give 

 a distinctiveness to the city's sky line 

 no matter in what direction the vis- 

 itor looks. 



Only a few blocks from the milling 

 district are the Chamber of Commerce 

 and the Flour and Corn Exchange 



buildings. It is in the Chamber of 

 Commerce that the tremendous ton- 

 nage of grain used in producing the 

 city's flour is bartered. More cash 

 wheat is sold in the Chamber of Com- 

 merce than in any place in the world. 

 The Falls of St. Anthony have been 

 affectionately nicknamed "The Cradle 

 of Minneapolis." It was to them that 

 this great manufacturing city owed its 

 existence. 



PHILADELPHIA— MINNEAPOLIS. 



The second meeting of the transpor- 

 ation committee of the Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia was held in the office 

 of the secretary on the 22nd inst, 

 when it was decided to recommend 

 the following program to the club at 

 its next meeting, May 6: 



Lake Route — Leave Philadelphia 

 Monday, Aug. 11, 8.25 P. M., Penna. 

 R. R. to Buffalo. Leave Buffalo 2 P. 

 M. Tuesday, 12th, first call Erie, 7 P. 

 M.; leave Erie 11 P. M. Arrive Cleve- 

 land 7 A. M., 13th; leave 12 noon. Ar- 

 rive Detroit 8 P. M.; leave 10 A. M., 

 14th. Arrive Mackinac Island 8 A. M., 

 15th; leave 10 A. M. Arrive Sault. Ste 

 Marie 5 P. M.; leave 7 P. M. Arrive 

 MarquetteS A. M., 16th; leave 9 A. M. 

 Arrive Portage Lake 4 P. M.; leave 6 

 P. M. Arrive DuUith 7 A. M., Sunday, 

 17th; leave 1.55 P. M., Northern Pac. 

 R. R. Arrive Minneapolis 7.30 P. M. 

 One-way fare, Philadelphia to Minne- 

 apolis, by the foregoing route, $48, 

 which includes stateroom and meals 

 on steamer. Pullman to Buffalo extra; 

 lower $2, upper $1.60. 



All Rail Route— Philadelphia to Chi- 

 cago, Penna. R. R. Leave Philadel- 

 phia Sunday, Aug. 17th. 10.35 A. M. 

 Use mileage or buy straight to Pitts- 

 burgh, thereby saving $_'. Arrive Chi- 

 cago Monday, ISth, S A. M. The Chi- 

 cago contingent will leave at 6.15 

 P. M., Monday. Chicago & Great 

 Western, and the general feeling at 

 this writing is that we ought to go 

 on the Chicago special — although some 

 favor the Rock Island route which 

 leaves at 4 P. M. Pare one way $26.40. 

 Pullman Philadelphia to Chicago; 

 $4.50 lower, $3.60 upper. Chicago to 

 Minneapolis, $2 lower, $1.60 upper. 



Members going on either of the fore- 

 going routes are requested to commu- 

 nicate at once with the chairman of 

 the transportation committee, John 

 Westcott, Horticultural Hall, Broad 

 and Locust streets, Philadelphia. 

 Jno. Westcott, 

 George C. Watso>-, 

 Edward Rem, 



Committee. 



FIRE. 



Keokuk, Iowa— The fire at the store 

 of the Gate City Seed Company, Main 

 street, on April 11, damaged stock to 

 the extent of $10,000, fully insured. 

 The loss to the building is estimated 

 at $2000. 



