March 15, 1913 



HOETICULTUJiE 



383 



Minneapolis is busily engaged pre- 

 paring her gala attire which she will 

 don on the eventful day, August 19th. 

 when the American Florists and Or- 

 namental Horticulturists arrive. Sys- 

 tematic arrangements are being made 

 under the directions of efficient local 

 committees which have been formed 

 to take charge of the details and the 

 able co-operation of the Minneapolis 

 Civic and Commerce Association, the 

 chief civic and commercial body of 

 the city. 



Minneapolis has long been known 

 as a great convention city, due to its 

 unique distinction of being a commer- 

 cial center and a scenic wonder. Xo 

 other city in the United States can 

 boast a volume of wholesale trade 

 equal to that of Minneapolis and still 

 possess the abundance of natural 

 beauties enjoyed by this metropolis 

 of the great American Northwest. 



The old Indian legend has made fa- 

 mous the laughing waters of Minne- 

 haha which still glide stealthily away 

 through fairy glens to wind its way 

 parallel for a distance of three miles 

 with a broad continuous boulevard 

 with an extent of .50 miles. A delightful 

 drive is promised those persons at- 

 tending the fiorists' sessions. Tourist 

 busses, automobiles, etc., are always 

 available for sightseers who wish to 

 take the boulevard trip, skirting the 

 shores of four of the famous in-town 

 lakes continuing to Jlinnehaha Falls, 

 thence along the shores of the beauti- 

 ful Mississippi Gorge to the campus of 

 the famous University of Minnesota. 



Four interurban car lines connect 

 Minneapolis with St. Paul, which with 

 Minneapolis forms the Twin Cities 

 with a population of six hundred 

 thousand. These car lines take the 

 visitors to Fort Snelling. the historic 

 army post, to the State Capitol, to the 

 famed Como Park and to the Minne- 

 sota State Fair grounds, home of the 

 greatest state fair in the world. 



Minneapolis also has interurban 

 car lines which extend to various 

 points on the shores of Lake Minne- 

 tonka. which with its one hundred 

 miles of irregular shore line, islands, 

 magnificent hotels for the special ac- 

 commodations of the summer tourists 

 makes it the most picturesque lake in 

 America. 



A little more than sixty years ago 

 the site of ilinneapolis was an Indian 

 reservation. Today, the United States 

 Census Bureau estimates its popula- 

 tion at .319.271. The growth of the 

 city has been one of the marvels of 

 the age. Its development was due to 

 its natural advantages. The great 

 water power furnished by the St. An- 

 thony Falls of the Mississippi River 

 made it a manufacturing center. Its 

 pre-eminence as a wholesale market 

 was due to its location in the gateway 

 to the vast agricultuial and forestry 

 regions tributary to it. It was a grain 

 and lumber center at the start. Its 

 extensive dealings in these commodi- 



ties naturally made it a convenient 

 place for other business and it has 

 grown into a city of diversified manu- 

 factures with a tremendous jobbing 

 trade. 



Hotels of other years have been 

 enlarged and improved generally, 

 while five splendid new hostelries 

 costing about five million dollars have 

 been erected in the past five years. 

 One of these new hotels cost more to 

 build and equip in proportion to its 

 size than any other hotel in the 

 United States. 



The grain and flour trade still rep- 

 resents the chief single business of 

 Minneapolis. The city receives over 

 200.000,000 bushels of wheat annually 

 and her mills produce more than 17,- 

 000,000 barrels of flour. "Purity" has 

 always been the motto of the manu- 

 facturers and wholesalers of Minne- 

 apolis and due to their strict adher- 

 ance to the principle of honest qual- 

 ity, the millers of this city have at- 

 tained the position they now hold as 

 first in the whole world in the pro- 

 duction of flour. So it is small won- 

 der that Minneapolis is known the 

 world over as a "Flower-Flour City." 

 The former will be self-evident when 

 the visitors view our vacant lot gar- 

 dens, hanging gardens, parks, etc., 

 which will be in splendid condition 

 when the florists will be the city's 

 guests. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



As no objection has been filed, pul) 

 lie notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of the new geraniums Dr. 

 Richard Behrend, Jack London, Julius 

 Eberius, Dr. Lincoln Cothran, Judge 

 Lindsey, Fresno, H. Plath. Anna Ebe- 

 rius, Palo Alto. Fire Ball, Los Altos. 

 Florence Metzner. Mrs. Edward Stock, 

 La Paloma, Tamalpais, J. Stitt Wilson. 

 Ramona. Fire King. Sacramento, Luisa 

 Tetrazzini, Mt. Shasta, Rosea, Taco- 

 ma, Hawaii, Mary Garden, Mayor 

 Ralph, Governor Johnson, Gifford 

 Pinchot, Gertrude Atherton, Richard 

 Diener, Mt. Hamilton, Alviso, Sunny- 

 vale, Snow Bird, Gilroy, Tivoli, White 

 Beauty, Billie Burke, Fritzie Scheff, by 

 Richard Diener & Co.. Mountain View, 

 Cal., becomes complete. 



As no objection has been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the reg- 

 istration of the new orchid Cypripe- 

 dium Harrisianum Laura Mitchell Kim- 

 ball by Mrs. William S. Kimball, be- 

 comes complete. 



As no objection has been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the reg- 

 istration of the new Sweet Peas, 

 Ogata, Skyair, Vera, Cardinal, Golden 

 West, Orange, Nora and Norma, by 

 Anton Zvoianek becomes complete. 

 John Young, Sec'y. 



March Sth, 1913. 



Make your entry of 



SIX ROSES 



at the next 

 International Flower 



SHOW 



to be held in New York 

 April 5-12 



and win the 



Fifty Dollar Silver Cap 



offered by 



MOORE, HENIZ & NASH 



For Conditions, see the 

 Schedule of Prizes. 



"PUBLICITY" IN BRITAIN. 



"A Glut in the Market" — Not a very- 

 elegant term, but one frequently used 

 to indicate an over supply of stock. 

 Growers are railed at for overloading 

 the markets, and the surplus goes to 

 the hawkers. We commend to the no- 

 tice of every grower, salesman and 

 florist, the paper which we publish to- 

 day, "The Florist and His Market," 

 by Wallace R. Pierson. Although 

 penned for the American trade, three- 

 fourths of it is applicable to British 

 conditions. Could a publicity scheme 

 on somewhat similar lines be en- 

 gineered here? As in America, the 

 producing end has been going too 

 quick for the selling end, and a pub- 

 licity campaign in every town and 

 county to create a market would sure- 

 ly prove helpful. Growers What do you 

 say? — Horticultural Trade Journal, 

 London. 



The Annual Spring Exhibition of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety is on this week, opening on Fri- 

 day, March 14 and closing Sunday 

 night, March 16. It promises to be a 

 magnificent display. 



