November 20, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



713 



XXXX HOLLY 



$5.00 PER CASE 



Laurel Wreaths, $2.50 per dozen and up. Laurel Festooning, 6 cents a yard. Boxwood Wreaths, 

 S6.00 to $18.00 per dozen. Bush Laurel, 500. Princess Pine Festooning, $6.00 per 100 yards, 

 made all round. Leucothoe Sprays, $7 50 per io,ooo; $1,00 per 1000. Dagger and Fancy 

 Ferns, $1.25 per 1000. New Crop Qalax, Bronze, ?i.5o per 1000. Green, Ji.oo per 1000. 



CUT BOXWOOD SPRAYS 



$16.00 PER 100 POUNDS 

 A Full Line of Florists' Supplies. All Kinds of Insecticides. 



Seasonable Cut Flowers 



Chrysanthemums and Carnations, in all Standard Varieties. Roses— Beauties, Richmonds 



jriarylands. The Two Killarneys, Brides and Bridesmaids, Lilies, Orchids, Gardenias, 



j^Lily of the Valley, Violets, Adiantum, Asparagus. 



Henry M. Robinson Co., Boston, Mass. 



15 Province Street and 9 Chapman Place. 



Telephones— Main 2617-2618. Fort Hill 25290. 

 ALL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY, PROPERLY AND TO YOUR SATISFACTION. 



presented to the proper committee and. 

 If it is found correct, paid from the 

 gaurantee fund, thus consuming the 

 membership fee of the delinquent 

 member and severing his connection 

 with the association. 



In case the account is a disputed 

 one it should be provided that the 

 debtor may pay to the arbitration 

 committee the amount claimed and 

 await its decision as to what amount 

 is justly due; in such a case his mem- 

 bership would not be affected. It 

 should be provided that the guarantee 

 of the association would not hold good 

 except when the non-payment of ac- 

 counts was promptly reported. Other- 

 wise a florist might be badly delin- 

 quent in a number of places at the 

 same time and the association know 

 nothing about it until some creditor 

 became alarmed and then the hills 

 would pour in from all directions. 



The secretary of the retail section 

 should be the secretary of the S. A. 

 F. and the membership fee and dues 

 of the section should include the fees 

 and dues of the parent society, so 

 that members would only have to 

 make payments to one person and con- 

 fusion would thus be avoided. The 

 membership fee of the section should 

 also include the price of the tele- 

 graph code book of the association. 

 By buying in quantity, the cost of the 

 code book could be very materially 

 reduced. While the matter of deliveries 

 seems the most vital single question 

 to be taken up there are countless 

 •questions which could be handled ai 

 the annual conventions and which 

 would make the sessions interesting 

 and profitable. Everyone of us should 

 be interested in the best ways of at- 



tending to the details of the business. 



What method do you use in keep- 

 ing track of credits and guarding 

 against dead beats? 



At times of rush how do you handle 

 your orders and how do you prevent 

 confusion in handling cards to go with 

 orders? 



V/hat do you pay your clerks? What 

 methods have you found effective to 

 awaken their interest and insure thuir 

 loyalty? Do you know where I can 

 find a good man for my store? Do 

 you believe it pays a retail florist to 

 advertise and what methods are the 

 most effective? 



I will venture to say that there are 

 few of you who have not had these 

 questions asked of you. Get together 

 every summer, gentlemen, and discuss 

 them. They will not be settled. Such 

 questions are always alive and un- 

 answered, but it will be a dull man 

 who will not derive some benefit from 

 talking such things over with other 

 men in his line of work. If tailors 

 and milliners can meet and co-operate 

 in turning the attention of the public 

 toward certain materials and certain 

 styles, why may not the florist make 

 his influence felt in support of his 

 ideas of the beautiful and the artistic? 



ELBERON HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This society held a meeting on Nov. 

 15th. The new officers took their 

 places for the ioming year: Peter Mur- 

 ray, president; Wm. Seymour, vice- 

 president, Reginald Corey, secretary; 

 Peter Ewen, treasurer; Alex. Fleming, 

 recording secretary. Anthony Bauer 

 made a report on the chrysanthemum 



show held in Long Branch. He said 

 it had been a great success from every 

 standpoint, especially from a financial 

 point. The competition for points for 

 the year ended at the last meeting, 

 Peter Ewen, first, gets the Rickards 

 Bros", cup; Wm. Seymour the Society 

 cup; Frank Logan, the Seawarty cup 

 and James Kennedy the Ewen medal. 

 For summer exhibits for members hav- 

 ing no greenhouses, A. Grieb got the 

 first prize. 



ALEX. FLEMING, Rec. Sec. 



The recent show in Lenox, Mass., is 

 reported to have been very success- 

 ful financially. 



WANTED 



Every FLORIST 



AND 



Every GARDENER 



in every town of every state in the Union 



ti- use 



Aphine 



Make it your 



"BUY" WORD 



SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR 



George E. Talmadge 



Madison, N, J. 



