May 31, 1913 



HORTICULTUBE 



845 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



There are some commission men 

 who are satisfied with their local mar- 

 ket, and who never advertise for out- 

 of-town trade. To such this pithy say- 

 ing from one of our enterprising, wide- 

 awake advertisers is worth preserv- 

 ing: 



"It's mnch easier to deliver a box of 

 flowers to the express company than to 

 send it up to Kensington by boy or auto, 

 five miles away." 



The speaker at the next meeting of 

 the Florists' Club will be S. S. Skidel- 

 sky. His subject, "Are We Giving 

 Each Other a Fair Deal?" Mr. Skldel- 

 sky is a thinker and a man of experi- 

 ence and we are looking forward to 

 an illuminating and interesting dis- 

 course. "Fair and square" is a tough 

 subject. It all depends on the point 

 of view. Mr. Skidelsky as an umpire 

 may find himself absolutely right, and 

 yet not popular with the fans. We 

 trust he will take his courage in his 

 hands, spit on them, and say: "I'd 

 rather be right than president." 



An interesting and comparatively 

 new department at the National Farm 

 School is the nursery under the direc- 

 tion of Prof. Fancourt, Professor of 

 Horticulture. It has not been many 

 months since this department was 

 started, but it is now quite extensive. 

 The nursery covers a number of acres 

 on the side of the railroad opposite 

 the main building and is laid out very 

 attractively. Plans for further extend- 

 ing the nursery are now being worked 

 by Prof. Fancourt. There is a wide 

 drive through the plot across which is 

 built a large concrete arch and just 

 before this is reached is a large me- 

 morial circle of conifers. 



An old grower says of when he 

 was a young grower: — "First I sent 

 my stuff to a commission house for a 

 couple of years. Then I got dissatis- 

 fied and sent them to another commis- 

 sion house for another year or two. 

 That one was worse. Then I decided 

 to carry my stuff in myself and do 

 my own selling. That proved worse 

 still. So I finally went back to my 

 original commission house a sadder 

 and a wiser man, and I have never had 

 any cause to complain since. I'd 

 learned my lesson." Good for him! 

 But we have an awful lot of growers 

 even older than the grower referred 

 to that haven't learned their lesson 

 yet. 



Visitors: J. J. Styer, Concordville, 

 Pa.; E. H. Beers, Reading, Pa. 



A large insurance company which is 

 soon to erect a handsome office build- 

 ing at Sixth and Walnut streets will 

 leave on one side a space some 30 feet 

 wide and 220 feet deep, which will be 

 laid out as a garden, thus helping fur- 

 ther to beautify a very attractive 

 neighborhood, while at the same time 

 giving light to the building and guard- 

 ing it from fire. It would be pleasant 

 to see more large corporations show- 

 ing such public spirit. Two savings 

 banks on Walnut street have such gar- 

 dens, whose grass, trees and flowers 

 are a most welcome relief from the 

 surrounding desert of stone, brick and 

 asphalt. There is a return from beau- 

 ty as well as from real estate, and it 

 is gratifying to see that there is a 



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