June 14, 1913 



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the former on "Growing Roses Under 

 Glass," and the latter on "Growing 

 Hardy Roses." 



Theo Miller's old stand at Delmar 

 and Euclid avenues has been taken up 

 by his brother-in-law. John Borem, 

 who was in the landscape gardening 

 business. Mr. Miller will confine his 

 business to his new store at Delmar 

 and Hamilton avenues. 



The St. Louis County Plant and 

 Flower Growers' Association held a 

 meeting on June 4th and Installed of- 

 ficers, and a lot of new names were 

 added to the membership. A Publicity 

 Committee was appointed to act with 

 the local Florist Club committee. 



F. M. Robinson, the new secretary 

 and manager of the Coliseum, reports 

 that the management will offer not 

 less than $8 000 or $10,000 in pre- 

 miums for a Flower Show for this fall: 

 the show to be managed by the Coli- 

 seum Company with the co-operation 

 of the St. Louis Florist Club. Mr. 

 Robinson says his plans for a Flower 

 Show are very elaborate and that the 

 expense for the week would be around 

 $25,000. He will be present at the 

 Florist Club meeting this week and 

 will lay his plans before the members. 

 and that it is up to them to say if 

 St. Louis will have the largest Flower 

 Show in this country this year or not. 

 Secretary Beneke, of the Florist Club, 

 says that he has had a talk with Mr. 

 Robinson and that everything looks 

 good to him and that the show will be 

 held. 



Visitors — Fred Lautenschlager, Chi- 

 cago, and Martin Reukauf, of H. Bay- 

 ersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



It is announced that the wholesale 

 and retail florists intend to shut down 

 for a half day on the 19th inst. In or- 

 der to give their employees a chance 

 to attend the annual picnic of the Flor- 

 ists' Club at Washington Park on the 

 Delaware. 



W. McRae Thompson and Caspar 

 Penuocli were judges at the Lans- 

 downe Flower Show heli on the 7th 

 inst. This show was held in the large 

 hall of the 20th Century Club and was 

 well attended. The Natural History 

 Club of the borough were sponsors for 

 the affair which proved a splendid 

 success. These local shows are use- 

 ful things and fine for the business in 

 general. All florists ought to support 

 them — but keeiJ in the background. 



By keeping in the background we 

 mean: help and suggest in every way 

 possible in time and money but give 

 the amateurs all the credit. That 



spirit properly followed eliminates the 

 suspicion that a florist does it only for 

 money. A florist can always show 

 public spirit by keeping in the back- 

 ground at a local flower show and yet 

 be the power behind the throne. 



livery community, large or small, 

 ought to have its horticultural society 

 and hold flower shows. Every florist 

 in such community should help — but 

 keep his own name out of it. The re- 

 ward of the florist comes indirectly. 

 Put all your most prominent citizens 

 into the glory chairs. We are not 

 "Aristotle on government" at this 

 minute but of the wisdom of the fore- 

 going propositions we are thoroughly 

 convinced. 



Visitors: W. O. Smith, Carlisle,. 

 Pa.; Wallace R. Pierson, Cromwell, 

 Conn.; Mr. Ratclyffe. Richmond, Va.; 

 H. L. Roberts, Luther Burbank Co., 

 Sacramento, Calif.; Chas. Loechner, 

 Loeschner & Co., N. Y. City. 



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