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HOETICULTURE 



August 17, 1918 



great necessity for a campaign sucli as 

 ours, our Promotion Bureau is satis- 

 fied tliat anyone who does not know of 

 what we are trying to accomplish 

 never sees a letter carrier, and worse 

 still, never reads a trade paper. Why, 

 then, cannot the few hundred dollars 

 required to complete the fund be im- 

 mediately forthcoming? That it will 

 be forthcoming eventually there is no 

 doubt whatever, but we want it now, 

 before the convention, so that the com- 

 mittees can report that our object has 

 been attained. We know of several 

 other industries, many of w^hose ag- 

 gregate investments are not nearly as 

 great as those in our own trade, who 

 have created for a similar purpose far 

 larger funds than the florists are asked 

 to create, and are enjoying the beneflt 

 which they were positive would result. 

 Do you want to have the public 

 believe that flowers in their homes are 

 not essential, or that their purchase 

 for any purpose is an extravagance in 

 war times? Do you want to see the 

 use of your products cut out at func- 

 tions where they have always played 

 a conspicuous part? Do you want to 

 see them denied admission to hospitals 

 and other places where their cheering 

 influence is beyond dispute? Of 

 course, you do not. Then subscribe to 

 this fund, because it will be expended 

 in a country-wide effort to prevent 

 these very conditions, and without this 

 effort the future of our business would 

 be dark indeed. So impressed are 

 some of our subscribers with the value 

 of our work that they are increasing 

 their subscriptions. So why hold back, 

 Mr. Nonsubscriber? The campaign is 

 as much in your interests as in those 

 of anyone else in the trade, and your 

 returns are absolutely sure. 



Aiiiimillv for Four Years— Otto SiDider, 

 St Lnui.'i.'.M"., -flO; .T. W. tloerm. St. Louis. 

 Mn .flO; I<'i-Pil H. Wi'h.T. St. Louis, JIo., 

 Sf'>n- Tlios. C. Can-. St. Loui.s, Mo., $-5; 

 St 'Louis Seed Co, St. Louis. Mo.. .$2^1 ; 

 SuuH.v Slope Seed Fiii-ui, Inili pendence. Mo., 

 .p- Frouiliold's Flower Shop. K;\usa8 City. 

 Mo Sfl'f Chixs. C. TliouLiis, Kansas City. 

 Mo .W; .Toseph Witcl;. St. Louis. .Mo.. 

 .$25; Ell. A. Humfeld, Kausas City. Mo.. 

 •ilO: Ostertau' P.ros.. St. Louis, Mo.. $3; 

 The Blossom Sliop, St. Louis. Mo., $5; Mrs 

 T. L Diemer. St. I,ouis. Mo., .%'i ; Mrs. Ida 

 RrueiiiK. St. Louis. .Mo.. $i;r, ; W. W. 

 Stertziuf.', St. Louis. Mo.. S.T : .Tolin Held. 

 St. Louis, Mo.. .$,5; A. .T. Heutzon. St. Lou's, 

 Mo., .$2.^: Mullanpliv Florists. St. Louis, 

 Mo.. $2."); Albert Seuscer. St, I,ouis Mo., $20; 

 Ttie Roserv. St. Louis. Mo.. $5; Pieper 

 Floral Co., St Louis. Mo., .$.-1; W. J. Wriglit 

 St. Louis. Mo., $5; The ( hicaRO Floral 

 Growers' Association, Chicago, 111., $50; 

 ,T A. Budlons, Chicago, 111., .$50; Kyle & 

 Foerster. Chicago, 111., .$.')0 : .T. A. Peterson, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, $25; A. T, Pyfer & Co., 

 Chicago, 111., $25; Hoorber Bros. Co., 

 Chicago, III.. $25; Percy .Tones, Inc., 

 Chicago, 111.. $25; Zech & Mann, Chicago, 

 111., $25; Erne & Co., Cliicago, 111., .$25; 

 .Tohn Kruchten Co.. Chicago, 111., $25; A. L. 

 Vaughan & Co., Chicago, III.. $25; G. M. 

 Reburn & Co., Chicago. III.. .$25: Batavia 

 Greeuh<iuse Co., Chicago, 111.. $25; Edward 

 Clodv, Chicago, 111,, .$2.5; E. F. Winterson, 

 Chicago, 111., $25; W. ,T. LaGrotta. Chicago, 

 III., $25; Chas. W. McKellar. Chicago, III., 

 $20; O A. & L. A. Touner. Chicago. III., 

 .$15; Chas. H. Zapfe, Cliicago, 111., $12; 

 Grossbcrg, Tyler, Finiiernian Co., Chicago, 

 111., $10; The .Tackson Flower Shop, 

 Chicago, 111., $10; Archie Siiencer, Chicago, 

 III.. ,$10; Henry Hilmers. Cliicago, 111., $10. 



For One Year— A. L. Randall Co., 

 Chicago, 111.. $100; Geo. Ueinberg, Chicago, 

 111., $25; A. Henderson. Chicago. 111., $25; 

 Nick Dahm, Morton Grove. 111., .$10. 



Total. $1,012.00. Previously reported 

 from all sources, .$42,010.25; Grand total, 

 $4,3,022.25. 



John Young, Secy. 



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Elmer Weaver has moved his bee 

 colony from Ronks, Pa., to the vicinity 

 of Hog Island to take advantage of the 

 bee plant which grows wild in that 

 neighborhood. This day's journey 

 shift not only improves the quality of 

 the honey but .greatly increases the 

 quantity, so there is a double gain. 

 One wonders to think of a bee paradise 

 along that old swamp of a useless Hog 

 Island which is now busy launching a 

 new ship every two days. President 

 Wilson made a great speech at the 

 launching there on the 5th inst. when 

 he used the one word "Wonderful," 

 which is equivalent to saying "Well, 

 I'll be horn-swoggled," the latter being 

 more in the phraseology of a Chester 

 county fanner like Elmer Weaver. 

 And now the bees come to the swamp 

 like Mahomet going to the mountain 

 to improve the shining hour and help 

 win the war in their own sweet way; 

 which moves us to ask who is the fool- 

 ish person that said flowers were non- 

 essential? Was it one of the skirts 

 who paraded Chestnut street in furs 

 while the mercury hovered around a 

 hundred? Our Allies have not stopped 

 growing flowers, and they have sent a 

 far larger proportion of their men to 

 the front than we have — and spent a 

 much greater part of their substance. 

 Let us cut out all that foolish talk 

 about non-essentials and stick to san- 



ity and common sense. .The essentials 

 will take care of themselves. The 

 farmers are raising more wheat, oats 

 and other cereal and root crops just 

 because they are getting better prices. 

 All such things take care of them- 

 selves. George C. Watson. 



FORECAST. 



F.y William Rose lienet in the Century 



Magazine. 

 This will be way of it. 

 You sliall have the say of it. 

 There will be a garden green 

 And a kitelien white and clean. 

 There will be some rooms with chintz 

 And a few well-chosen prints. 

 There will be some chairs as kiud 

 As are verses to the minfl. 

 There will lie whole shelves of books, 

 And a tree for wrens and rooks. 

 And for leaves to wink their warning 

 Through our window in the morning, 

 .\nd the sea somewhere below 

 Whispering soft and sad and slow, 

 And a road for tinkers' carts 

 Traveling from foreign parts. 

 I shall have a pipe to smoke 

 As 1 sir beneath our oak, 

 Aiu\ your lingers will be bus.v 

 With the stitch that makes me dizzy, 

 And the children will be chubby, 

 Jnst as thin — and .iust a.s grubby; 

 For it's hard to keep them tubby 

 If you wish them as they are. 

 And at night we'll see our star — 

 Yes, our own pecnli.ar star — 

 Burning silver in the heavens 

 On a Avorld released from war. 

 Y'es, 1 know that's far, so far; 

 But that will be the way of it. 

 And von shall have the say of it! 



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Wenham, Mass. — Mr. and Mrs. B. 

 Hammond Tracy received their 

 friends on the twenty-fifth anniver- 

 sary of their marriage on Friday, the 

 sixteenth of August at Cedar Acres. 

 We wish them twenty-flve years more 

 of happy life. 



