October 31, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



573 



States Express Company. The American Express Com- 

 pany has holdings in the National Express Company of 

 $484,600 out of a total issue of $500,000; in the United 

 States Express Company, $1,000,000 out of a total of $10,- 

 000,000, or just 10 per cent; in the Westcott Express Com- 

 pany $143,600 out of a total of $150,000 preferred stock and 

 $497,650 out of a total of $500,000 of common stock. It 

 also appears that the Southern Express Company owns 

 $70,000 of stock in the United States Express Company, as 

 well as $111,800 of the $12,000,000 in stock issued by the 

 Adams Express Company, and also $118,500 out of the $18,- 

 000,000 of stock issued by the American Express Company. 

 The president of the Adams Express Company, Levi C. 

 Weir, and the president of the American Express Com- 

 pany, James C. Fargo, are directors in the United States 

 Express Company, of which Senator Piatt is president." 



Considering these facts and in the light of recent, 

 experiences in various sections of the country is it not 

 a reasonable proposition that the legislative committee 

 of a trade organization stands second to no other de- 

 partment in importance today? 



llupp of Shiremanstown, Pa., is sending out with his 

 i "irespondence: 



There's only one method of meeting life's test — 

 Just keep on astriving and hope for the best; 

 Don't give up the game and retire in dismay 

 If hammers are thrown when you'd like a bouquet. 



This world would be tiresome, we'd all get the blues, 

 If all the folks in it held just the same views: 

 So finish your work, show the best of your skill — 

 Some folks will not like it, but other folks will. 



If leading an army or building a fence 

 Do all that you can with your own common sense. 

 One word of kind praise in this journey of tears 

 Outweighs in the balance a cart-load of sneers. 



The plants that we're passing as commonplace weeds 

 Oft prove to be just what some sufferer needs. 

 So keep on agoing, don't ever stand still — 

 Some folks will not like you, but other folks will. 



Perseverance 



Opportunity 

 Destiny 



Master of human destinies am I; 

 vs - Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps 



wait; 

 Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate 

 Deserts and seas remote, and passing by 

 Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late 

 I knock unbidden once at every gate. 

 If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before 

 I turn away; it is the hour of fate 

 And those who follow me reach every state 

 Mortals desire, and conquer every foe 

 Save death; while those who doubt or hesitate, 

 Seek me in vain, and uselessly implore; 

 I answer not, and I return no more. 



— John J. Ingalls. 



The "One-Chance" Idea 



You look about and everywhere you're pretty sure to see 

 Some weak-kneed men just plumb knocked out by that 



"one-chance" idee. 

 They missed it at the very start, and all their lives since 



then, 

 They've set around a-tellin' of the things they might have 



been. 



I don't believe an all-round man who wants to travel far 

 Will stay at home for ever 'cause he missed the first 



through-car. 

 It ain't the way real men should do, for 'cordin' to my text, 

 "If one good chance gets by you, why, you ought to grab 



the next." — London Report. 



Do you make a practice of looking over that 

 unique department of Horticulture's advertising 

 section— The Buyers' Directory and Ready Refer- 

 ence Guide? 



There's lots of business done through the 

 medium of those useful pages carefully compiled 

 every week for the convenience of the busy man. 

 Not only are to be found there the offers of those 

 dealers who use that department alone but also 

 those of every advertiser represented in the dis- 

 play advertisements. This weekly tabulation is 

 maintained without cost to our advertisers for 

 their benefit and that of our readers and its ad- 

 vantages are shared by every one whom the 

 paper reaches. Don't fail to peruse it. It is a 

 "clearing house" in which the best firms in the 

 trade are always represented. 



Here are two views of life and its chances. It is not 

 improbable that during the past year of uncertainty and 

 apprehension many a one who reads these lines has been 

 moved to think very seriously on the perplexities of the 

 situation as it presented itself to him individually and 

 to wonder whether, after all, any chance remained for 

 him in the unequal struggle against hard times and bad 

 luck. Forget it all and practice the invincible art of 

 "keeping everlastingly at it." By the time the next 

 issue of Horticulture appears election will be past. 

 No matter who wins there is no reason to doubt that our 

 80,000,000 enterprising and industrious people will 

 continue on their prosperous way. Beyond a doubt the 

 opportunities, ahead are just as good and abundant 

 as they have ever been in the past so get after your 

 share. To the faint-hearted we commend the follow- 

 ing verses which our hustling florist friend, John F. 



How about your employes and friends in the 

 trade whom you wish to remember kindly at the 

 Holidays now approaching? Useful gifts are uni= 

 versally favored. Do you know of anything you 

 can give them at the cost of a dollar that will do 

 them better service the whole year through than 

 a paid subscription to HORTICULTURE? The 

 country is teeming with horticulturists of every 

 persuasion who subscribe to no trade paper. The 

 aggregate circulation of all the trade papers to- 

 gether does not half cover the number entitled to 

 receive them. We give a liberal commission on 

 new names sent in by a subscriber. What do 

 you say ? 



