September 21, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



303 



WAR TIME BANQUETS. 

 There is no place at this time of 

 war economy for unnecessary conven- 

 tion entertainment, for elaborate ban- 

 quets, or for the family and salesmen's 

 junkets. Conventions should be all 

 business, real business, participated 

 in solely by those representatives of 

 member firms having the power to 

 decide and act, with all extraneous 

 side lights or high lights eliminated. 

 If entertainment is 'sought, it is al- 

 ways in the power .of the individual 

 attendant upon such gatherings to se- 

 cure the variety of pleasure he pre- 

 fers, but there is no necessity for — 

 and, in fact, there is a distinct reason 

 why there should be no — elaborate 

 banquets, with large expenditures for 

 many varieties of food and the accom- 

 panying beverages. This was proved 

 conclusively at conventions of large 

 associations held last fall, when many 

 of the usual prewar banquet concomi- 

 tants were omitted without loss. 



In response to a recent inquiry con- 

 cerning banquets the Food Adminis- 

 tration stated; 



"The Food Administration wants 

 the American people to eat wisely and 

 well and without waste. Our people 

 ought to eat in such a way as to main- 

 tain their strength and efficiency and 

 with due regard always to the demands 

 on our food resources in winning the 

 war. 



"To most Americans that means 

 three good meals a day. So far as 

 food alone is concerned, it makes no 

 difference whether one of these meals 

 is called a banquet instead of a din- 

 ner, so long as it does not transgress 

 any of the requirements that ioyal 

 Americans shou'.d keep in mind 



"If in order to be a banquet it 

 must be a fourth and unnecessary 

 meal, or must include foods that 

 Americans ought to be conserving to 

 meet war needs, or must be wasteful 

 of food, then it is bad. But it ;s not 

 necessarily bad merely because it 

 affords an occasion for members of a 

 convention or others to gather at a 

 pleasant meal. Many banquets have 

 been made the means of attractively 

 and effectively presenting the gospel 

 of food conservation. 



"The Food Administration has an- 

 t)roved many menus for large dinners 

 of marked simplicity, which invari- 

 ably have been well received." 



If there must be "b?.nquets" at the 

 fall conventions, why not tl;e "con- 

 servation banquet," with a patriotic 

 menti?— Wai- Administration Bulletin. 



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VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Cincinnati — Mr. and Mrs. G. A. 

 Beckmann and Jos. R. Goldman, Mid- 

 dletown, O.; Jos. Hill, Richmond, Ind. 



Boston— J. Otto Thilow, of H. A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia: R. Vincent, Jr., 

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NEWS NOTES. 

 Westerly, R. I. — George L.. Stillman 

 made a clean sweep in the show of 

 dahlias at the annual Kingston Fair 

 last week. 



Scranton, Pa. — T. J. Nolan, repre- 

 senting the King Construction Com- 

 pany of North Tonawanda, N. Y., for 

 many years in this section has taken 

 the position of traveling representa- 

 tive of the Burlington Willow Ware 

 Co. The business of greenhouse build- 

 ing is at a standstill for the present. 



Palo Alto, Calif.— W. E. Eglington 

 will shortly leave here for Canada, he 

 having joined the Canadian military 

 forces. Up to the present time Mr. 

 Eglington has had under his care the 

 original collection of Philippine or- 

 chids exhibited at the Panama Pacific 

 Exposition. These orchids were there 

 awarded the Grand Prize. At the 

 close of the exposition the collection 

 was purchased by Mr. Herbert Fleish- 

 hacker, the San Francisco banker, 

 and installed at his country estate, 

 "Oakholm," Atherton, Cal. Since that 

 time the collection has been greatly 

 enlarged and contains many rare va- 

 rieties of orchids. Mrs. Herbert 

 Fleishhacker is a keen orchid con- 

 noisseur and her devotion and appre- 

 ciation of these rare flowers has done 

 much to increase general interest in 



orchid growing throughout California 

 and her zeal has been ably seconded 

 by Mr. Eglington. 



Syracuse, N. Y.— The new green- 

 house, in connection with the Joseph 

 Slocum College of Agriculture, is 

 rapidly nearing completion on the 

 University campus at the rear of the 

 Agricultural college. The new build- 

 ing, constructed of brick and steel, is 

 35 X 120 feet, and will cost in the neigh- 

 borhood of $15,000. This amount was 

 given by Mrs. Russell Sage, who gave 

 the new agricultural college building 

 named after her father. The new 

 building, which is for the use of the 

 agricultural students, is perhaps one 

 of the best equipped of modern green- 

 houses. The heating of the building 

 and of the hot beds will be done by the 

 university central heating plant. The 

 upper, glass covered portion consists 

 of a high central section surround- 

 ed by a lower section. In the base- 

 ment are four rooms, which will be 

 used for growing mushrooms, propaga- 

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