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HORTICULTURE 



March 12, 1910 



accomplished, can we estimate the 

 true value of the experiment station 

 to the florist? 



It is the duty of the florists individ- 

 ually and collectively within the state, 

 to support in every legitimate way the 

 worlc of their experiment station. The 

 chief reason for this is the fact that it 

 is you, the florists of Illinois, who 

 have secured the appropriations and 

 who are really responsible for the 

 worii undertaken. Most of you know, 

 but there are many apparently who do 

 not know, that there is a state law 

 which says that the experimental 

 work in floriculture undertaken by the 

 University shall be along lines agreed 

 to by the director of the experiment 

 station and a committee of live, 

 known as the floricultural advisory 

 committee. This committee is ap- 

 pointed by the State Florists' Associa- 

 tion. It is a committee of your own 

 selection. 



It is, therefore, understood that this 

 body of people selects five of its most 

 progressive and representative men, 

 who shall give to the work their best 

 thought and energy. Not only that, 

 but these five men, being the repre- 

 sentatives of the florists at large 

 through their state organization, 

 bring the mature and ripened judg- 

 ment of all the best florists within the 

 state to the meetings with the Uni- 

 versity oflicials. It is here at these 

 meetings between the advisory com- 

 mittee and the station officials, where 

 the plans are matured after the most 

 careful deliberation. I recall with a 

 keen sense of satisfaction the wisdom 

 and foresight which was brought to 

 bear on the work by the five men 

 with whom we have met from your 

 Association during the past two or 

 three years, and I assure you, gentle- 

 men of the convention, that if the 

 work has been faulty, or if this insti- 

 tution has not accomplished all you 

 have expected of it, it is not because 

 of neglect on the part of any of these, 

 our associates in the work. Hour by 

 hour through many a long day, and 

 well into the wee hours of the night, 

 have the members of this floricultural 

 advisory committee deliberated with 

 us, seeking ways and means looking 

 toward the best development of the 

 work. I repeat, therefore, that what 

 has been done has been your work. 



The work has not only been planned 

 but pushed forward for you and by 

 you through this superb co-operation, 

 which means so much in the way of 

 public service. In the largest and best, 

 sense the entire University is your 

 University, but the floricultural work 

 in the College and in the Experiment 

 Station is in a peculiar sense your 

 own. You, through your representa- 

 tives on this committee, have made the 

 plans; we here are your servants striv- 

 ing in every way within our power to 

 carry them out. It is, therefore, your 

 duty as florists, to make your wishes 

 known and to co-operate with us 

 through your splendid organization. If 

 you have problems on which you want 

 help, remember that this floricultural 

 plant which we have built belongs to 

 you. It does not belong to me or my 

 associates and we exhort you to make 

 the equipment and the possibilities 

 which lie within it serve your purposes 

 In the best possible way. It is your 

 further duty as florists to make your 

 therefore, as florists to make your 



A PORTLAND (ME.) FLORIST STORE. 



The accompanying illustration gives 

 a good view of the new store of E. J. 

 Harmon Co. of Portland, Me. De- 

 scription other than what is so well 

 shown in the picture is hardly neces- 

 sary. It is a credit to Portland and 

 to Mr. Harmon and his manager. 



Miss Hayes, both of whom appear in 

 the photograph. The store is located 

 on Congress street, the main business 

 thoroughfare of Portland. A fine 

 patronage has been gradually built 

 up from small beginnings, until now 

 E. J. Harmon Co. are the leading 

 florists of the city. 



wants known not only to us, but to 

 your senators and representatives to 

 the end that when those people meet 

 at Springfield to decide on the very 

 best way to dispose of the $20,000,000 

 of state appropriation, that the florists, 

 who are heavy tax-payers, will not be 

 forgotten. So, let me again remind 

 you that you have a serious duty, a 

 constant and ever present duty toward 

 this, your newly developed child at the 

 State University. This youngster will 

 need not only to be fed and clothed, 

 but it needs some brothers and sisters. 

 We have an excellent range of houses, 

 but these must be devoted for a long 

 term of years to the special problems 

 for which they are now being used. If 

 we are to do your work in the largest 

 and best way we must have rose 

 houses, chrysanthemum houses, violet 

 houses, orchid and palm houses. What 

 we have done thus far is but a begin- 

 ning. We must go forward until there 

 is here on the Campus of your Univer- 

 sity an equipment for Floriculture 

 which will mean as much to this indus- 

 try as does some of our other equip- 

 ment to the other industries of the 

 state. If, when this is all done. It 

 should chance to be that we have not 

 succeeded in adding one jot or tittle 

 to the sum total of floricultural knowl- 

 edge, the effort will have been worth 

 while and the money will have been 

 wisely spent because by it and through 

 it there will have been developed in 

 the hearts and minds of these three or 

 four thousand students a love for and 

 appreciation of flowers, the importance 

 of which can only be appreciated by 

 you men who spend your lives in this — 

 the noblest profession or calling of 

 mankind. Will we do our full duty; 

 can we be made to see the glorious 

 opportunity? 



A "WIRELESS" FROM COLLEGE 

 POINT, N. Y. 



Roses, roses and roses are in greater 

 number than ever at the big Schultheis 

 establishment, full of bud and all ready 

 to sparkle for the Easter buyer. Among 

 1 he sensational sellers is the pretty 

 dwarf growing Mrs. Cutbush. Mr. 

 Schultheis endorses all that other ob- 

 servant growers have had to say about 

 this variety. The flowers are of the 

 daintiest pink and the buds being 

 much darker give a peculiarly lively 

 effect. Flower of Fairfield, the Ever- 

 blooming Crimson Rambler, is another 

 sood seller, and the demand for it for 

 all purposes is bound to increase 

 amazingly as soon as the growers and 

 the public become familiar with its 

 characteristic of flowering on every 

 young growth. Lady Gay, Hiawatha, 

 Tausendschon, Star Flowered Rambler, 

 Wedding Bells, Dorothy Perkins and 

 Crimson Rambler are here in long 

 ranks of balloon shaped, standard and 

 bush form, and it is to be noticed that 

 low, symmetrical bushes prevail and 

 the very large specimens so plentiful 

 in past years are no more in evidence, 

 liesides the Mrs. Cutbush, already re- 

 ferred to, there are among the dwarf 

 growing sorts Baby Rambler, Pink 

 Baby Rambler, Baby Dorothy and 

 Apple Blossom. Mr. Schultheis objects 

 to the last named, sweet as it is, be- 

 cause of the propensity to shed its 

 petals soon after opening. 



Azaleas are studded with buds ready 

 to break, double flowering peaches, 

 genistas, lilacs, ericas, acacias, boro- 

 nias, hydrangeas, bulb pans and last, 

 but most important of all, the lilies, 

 are all in good time for the early Eas- 

 ier, and are certainly a cheerful propo- 

 sition after a tough winter full of more 

 than the usual amount of anxiety. 



